Kanako Tayu, untitled, 2011. Photo: Claudine Garcia, Atelier de numérisation – Ville de Lausanne. Collection artist, Shiraoi

Historical epics, chronicles of everyday life, real or imagined personal trauma…: Off-Comics zooms in on a unique history of comics, where words and images come together in works that flout convention. Heroes such as Tintin, Captain America or Tex Willer pop up in personal fantasy worlds and new protagonists are brought to life. The works in the exhibition have been created outside the traditional art circuit or distribution channels for comics. While their makers have absorbed the imagery and codes of the ninth art, they have reworked them, incorporating them into their own unique imagination and visual language. Like many contemporary comics artists, they also devise new and surprising thematic, narrative, and aesthetic resources. The exhibition showcases exceptional work from renowned museums such as the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, as well as from national and international art studios and private collections. Words and images are combined in unconventional ways for a refreshing immersion into this other world of comics.

Featuring work by

Sarah Albert, Denis Boudouard, Luigi Brunetti, Wouter Coumou, Hein Dingemans, Karel Frans Drenthe, Johann Fischer, Alfons Frenkl, Giga, Michael Golz, Tomoyuki Hirano, Vojislav Jakić, Frank Johnson, Daniel Johnston, Jim Kaliski, Johann Korec, Katsutoshi Kuroda, Gérard Lattier, Jean Leclercq, Pascal Leyder, Jean-Jacques Liabeuf, Andreas Maus, Norbert Moutier, Yuichi Nishida, Marilena Pelosi, Aldo Piromalli, Luciana Rossi, Gustav Sievers, Kanako Tayu, Dominique Théate, Alfred Trouvé, Oskar Voll en Clemens Wild. 

Curator: Erwin Dejasse

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