Exhibition
Richard McGuire. Then and There, Here and Now
The American illustrator, designer and musician Richard McGuire (*1957) has created a cult book with the graphic novel "Here", published in 2014, which depicts the development of our planet in a
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The American illustrator, designer and musician Richard McGuire (*1957) created a cult book with the graphic novel "Here", published in 2014, which shakes up the development of our planet in one small place and is currently being made into a film by director Robert Zemeckis starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. "Here" is an ode to life that is characterized by a simplified aesthetic and a minimalist formal language: Set in an anonymous living room, "Here" lets us travel through billions of years as if in a time machine - from the appearance of life on earth, past the moment in which the house and its living room stand, and into the future. The basis for the 300-page graphic novel was a short story that the artist published back in 1989 in the comic magazine "RAW" by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly. In 2016, "Hier" was awarded the Fauve d'or, the highest French award for graphic novels.
In a career spanning over 40 years, McGuire has experimented across all artistic disciplines. The Cartoonmuseum Basel is bringing together the wide-ranging work of this multidisciplinary artist for the first time in a major retrospective. It shows his beginnings as a street artist in New York in the 1980s and his time as bassist for the pioneering post-punk band "Liquid Liquid", for which he created an iconic bass line. His work ranges from illustrations and covers for "The New Yorker", children's books and toys to drawings he contributed to the animated film "Peur(s) du noir" and originals for "Here" as well as a current, as yet unnamed graphic novel that will fuse visual art and music.
Media talk: Thursday: 6.6.2024, 11 a.m.
Vernissage: Friday, 7.6.2024, 6.30 pm
Curator: Anette Gehrig
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
In a career spanning over 40 years, McGuire has experimented across all artistic disciplines. The Cartoonmuseum Basel is bringing together the wide-ranging work of this multidisciplinary artist for the first time in a major retrospective. It shows his beginnings as a street artist in New York in the 1980s and his time as bassist for the pioneering post-punk band "Liquid Liquid", for which he created an iconic bass line. His work ranges from illustrations and covers for "The New Yorker", children's books and toys to drawings he contributed to the animated film "Peur(s) du noir" and originals for "Here" as well as a current, as yet unnamed graphic novel that will fuse visual art and music.
Media talk: Thursday: 6.6.2024, 11 a.m.
Vernissage: Friday, 7.6.2024, 6.30 pm
Curator: Anette Gehrig
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.