inbox hybridization (in love)

November, 2015
INBOX HYBRIDIZATION (IN LOVE)
Enki Bilal Art Exhibition
© Enki Bilal
■SCHEDULE:
January 15, Friday – February 14, Sunday, 2016
12:00-20:00 Open daily / Free admission
■VENUE:
CHANEL NEXUS HALL
CHANEL Ginza Bldg. 4F, 5-3 Ginza, 3-Chome, Chuo-ku Tokyo
■PRESS PREVIEW:
January 14, Thursday, 2016 15:00-17:00
Please contact us at [email protected] by Fri. Jan. 6th if you would like to join.
Interview requests could also be contacted to this email address.
■CONTACT:
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CHANEL NEXUS HALL 5-3, GINZA 3-CHOME, CHUO-KU, TOKYO 104-0061
Enki Bilal is a leading visual creator in the world of Francophone comics, Bande
dessinée. From the middle of the 1970s he started publishing SF coupled with
intense visual representations, and had a large impact and effect not only on
cartoonists throughout the world, but also in the film world. His unique “Bilal” view
of the world, represented by refined stories and a magnificent artistic skill, is not
confined to comics strips and continues to be a driving force in the art world,
expanding his scope to films, theater, pictures and paintings. This exhibition
displays his “INBOX” installation, which was on view at the Venice Biennale in
2015, as well as a number of pictures drawn especially for the occasion by Bilal,
hosted for the first time in Japan.
Enki Bilal
Born in 1951 to a Bosnian father and a Czech mother in Belgrade, in what was
formerly known as Yugoslavia. His family moved to Paris when he was 10. In 1972,
he made his debut as Bande dessinée creator. His collaborations with Bande
dessinée author Pierre Christin, “The Black Order Brigades” (1979) and “The
Hunting Party” (1983), received high praise and number of prizes, his unique view
of the world fusing SF-type visuals and political themes on the front lines. Besides
unveiling successive masterpieces including “The Nikopol Trilogy” and “The Beast
Trilogy”, he has also been active as a film director. Lately, aside from holding an
exhibition entitled “Oxymore” in New York, Beijing and Berlin, he displayed “The
Ghost of the Louvre” in the Seven Fireplaces exhibition room at the Museum.
© Enki Bilal
© Vanessa Franklin
Enki Bilal
1951 Birth of Enki Bilal in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1960 Arrival in Paris.
1972 Began his career as a cartoonist in the news pages of the magazine Pilote. First story: Le Bol maudit.
1975 La Croisière des oubliés. First album from a scenario by Pierre Christin.
1979 Exterminator 17. Scenario Jean-Pierre Dionnet.
1979 The Black Order Brigades. Screenplay by Pierre Christin.
1980 The Carnival of Immortals.
1982 Die Mauer Berlin. Portfolio, preface and afterword by Bruno Ganz Andrzej Zulawski.
1983 The Hunting Party. Screenplay by Pierre Christin.
1986 The Woman Trap.
1987 Off Play. Text by Patrick Cauvin.
1989 First film, Bunker Palace Hôtel, with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Maria Schneider, Roger Dumas.
Screenplay by Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin.
1990 Set and costumes for 1990 O.P.A. Mia, contemporary opera by Denis Levaillant. Avignon Festival.
1990 "Transit"exhibit. Galerie Escale, Paris.
1990-1991 Set and costumes for the ballet Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev,
choreography by Angelin Preljocaj. Lyon Opera.
1991 Exhibit "Bulle Opera" at the Grande Halle de la Villette.
1992 Exhibit "Transit" at the Grande Arche de la Defense.
1992 Equator Cold, last part of The Nikopol Trilogy.
1994 Exhibit "Sang Bleu". Galerie Christian Desbois, Paris. 41 drawings on tracing paper and 10 acrylic paintings.
1997 Tykho Moon, the second feature film, with Julie Delpy, Marie Laforet, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Screenplay by Enki Bilal and Dan Franck.
1998 The Dormant Beast. Beginning of a new cycle.
1998-1999 Exhibit "Visioni di fine millennio". Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan.
1999 Un Siècle d’amour. Text by Dan Franck.
2000 "Magma" exhibit. Museum Prince of Aragon Pignatelli Cortes, Naples.
2000 Le Sarcophage. Text by Pierre Christin.
2001 Exhibition "Enkibilalandeuxmilleun" at the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris.
Exhibits in Sarajevo, Belgrade and Liege.
2001-2002 Exhibit "Hyperion - L’instrument du temps" at the Musée international del’horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
2002 Exhibit "Enkibilalenescale". Musée d’art Thomas Henry, Cherbourg-Octeville.
2003 Exhibit "Enkibilalinbarcelona". Maeght Gallery, Barcelona.
2003 32 Decembre.
2003 Exhibit "32 Decembre". Galerie Christian Desbois, Paris. 32 originals.
2004 Immortal (ad vitam), third feature film, with Linda Hardy, Thomas Kretschmann, Charlotte Rampling, Yann Collette.
2005-2006 Exhibit "Enkibilalinindia" in New Delhi and Calcutta.
2006 Exhibit "Bilal - Le Creusot 2 minutes d’arrêt." L’Arc - Scène nationale, Le Creusot.
2006 Rendez-vous à Paris.
2006 Exhibit " Rendez-vous à Paris." Galerie Christian Desbois, Paris. 30 originals.
2007 Four? The last part of the Monster Tetralogy.
2007 Exhibit "The cycle of Monster" at the Étonnants Voyageurs de Saint-Malo festival, 60 originals from the four albums.
2007 Auction at Artcurial. 32 original works.
2007 Exhibit "Enki Bilal." Gallery Agnès b., Paris.
2009 Animal’z. Beginning of a new trilogy.
2009 Exhibit "Animal'z" at Artcurial. Auction of 350 original drawings for the album.
2010 Direction and decorations of Suspection, a play by Fabienne Renault,
with Evelyne Bouix and the voice of Jean-Louis Trintignant. Théâtre du Rond-Point.
2011 Julia & Roem.
2011 Ciels d’orage. Book of interviews with Christophe Ono-dit-Biot.
2012 Exhibit "Oxymore". New York, Beijing, Berlin and Paris. Auction at Artcurial. 15 paintings.
2012-2013 Exhibit " Les Fantômes du Louvre" at the Louvre Museum, salle des Sept-Cheminées.
23 boards, drawing and painting printed from photos printed on canvas.
2013-2014 Exhibition "Mécanhumanimal" at the Musée des Arts et Métiers.
2014 La Couleur de l’air last part of the Coup de sang trilogy.
2015 Exhibition "Inbox". Installation at the Giorgio Cini Foundation during the 56th Contemporary Art Biennale of Venice.