FROM 31 MAY TO 28 JULY 2024 - AND IN CONNECTION WITH THE LYON BD FESTIVAL FROM 7 TO 9 JUNE - DESIGNED LITERATURE IS ON STAGE IN LYON
Six years after the incredible success of the exhibition “Hugo Pratt – Lignes d’horizons” at the Musée des Confluences, Corto Maltese returns to Lyon, with two exhibitions: the exhibition “Hugo Pratt, the heritage, the artwork and the biography ” is added the one dedicated to the original tables of the stories created by Juan Díaz Canales and Rubén Pellejero, exceptional performers of guided tours.
Organised in partnership with the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, the Italian Cultural Institute of Lyon and Cong SA, the exhibition is one of the flagship events of the Lyon International Comics Festival and will be open from 31 May until 28 July 2024 at the Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs.
Free entrance
Tuesday to Sunday
from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
‘HUGO PRATT, THE HERITAGE, THE ARTWORK, THE BIOGRAPHY’, IN LYON THE SIXTH STAGE OF THE PROJECT PROMOTED BY THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN COLLABORATION WITH CONG SA
After Pula (Croatia), Valona (Albania), Oslo (Norway), Québec City (Canada) and Athens (Greece), the travelling exhibition dedicated to Hugo Pratt, chosen as a symbol of Italian language and culture in the world, arrives in Lyon.
As the Italian newspaper ‘La Repubblica’ writes: ‘Choosing Corto Maltese as the representative of Italian culture in the world is an important way to keep alive not only the character, but the symbolic value he conveys, the anarchic and libertarian spirit, the rejection of dictatorships and fascism, the telling of stories coming from the native populations that globalisation has made a minority or caused to disappear. Principles that are a strong link with the younger generations.’
Juan Díaz Canales and Rubén Pellejero, the authors of the new Corto Maltese, will be present during the Lyon BD Festival to guide visitors through the new pages of adventure
Alongside the exhibition itinerary imagined by Patrizia Zanotti to immerse visitors in a parallel between the life of Hugo Pratt and the stories of Corto Maltese, also at the Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs there will be an exhibition of the original plates by Rubén Pellejero, who together with script-writer Juan Díaz Canales has taken up the Corto Maltese stories with four new episodes, and a fifth on the way.
But that’s not all: the authors will also be exceptional museum guides (Sunday 9 June at 11.00 a.m., by appointment only) who will accompany visitors to tell the history, genesis and future of the original plates on display.
Corto Maltese, the new course of adventure
On 1 October 2015, the thirtieth adventure of Corto Maltese, the first not signed by Hugo Pratt, will be published simultaneously in Italy, France and Spain.
The story is titled Under the Midnight Sun, and is scripted by Juan Diaz Canales, former writer of the acclaimed noir series Blacksad, and drawn by Rubén Pellejero, co-creator with Jorge Zentner of Dieter Lumpen, an adventurer born in the 1980s and in his own way inspired by Pratt’s anti-hero.
Other seas to be sailed, old friends to be found and new companions to meet, but the spirit of Corto is always there, in a challenge of sharp jokes, rescues to be made, treasures to be discovered.
That first story was followed by three more, and a fifth is on the way. Today, the authors will return to talk about those first experiences, which changed the history of so many readers.