ROTLAND DREADFULS VOL.2 NO.1 BY MARC BRUNIER-MESTAS
The ROTLAND DREADFULS series is an homage to the cheaply-produced 19th century English pamphlets known as "Penny Dreadfuls"— so named because the original cost was one penny and they contained stories considered shocking and sensational. The first issue of the second volume, Red Swan presents a textless woodcut fairytale by master French printmaker Marc Brunier-Mestas, that is by turns erotic, horrific and absurd. For ADULTS ONLY.
Marc Brunier Mestas’ works demonstrate a visual rhythm and an explosion of iconographic density. Influenced by Roland Topor and Robert Crumb, Brunier-Mestas is a leader of the alternative French printmaking movement. His imagery is often the fruit of improbable hybridization, steeped in the traditions of Durer, Bosch, Goya, and Renaissance paintings of the apocalypse. He is also published by United Dead Artists (Achères, France), the Le Dernier Cri silkscreen Workshop in Marseille, and by Marie Laure Dagoit in the publishing house Derriere la Salle de Bain. Marc had a retrospective exhibition at the Roger Guillot Museum of Clermont-Ferrand in 2009, and was a guest artist at the Contemporary Arts Center of Istre in 2010.
16 pages | black ink on tan paper | stapled | 2015