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François Schuiten. Original work in gouache and felt-tip pen exclusively for the "Une tente une vie" operation, on cardboard. Signed. Wood frame with Plexiglas glass included: 155 x 125 cm Born in Brussels on April 26, 1953, Schuiten is a Belgian cartoonist and set designer. Made famous by the fantasy comic series "Les Cités obscures", produced in collaboration with scriptwriter Benoît Peeters. He published his first story, entitled Mutation, in the Belgian edition of Pilote, when he was 16. He studied at the Institut Saint Luc's comics workshop, run by Claude Renard, founder of Atelier R4. In 1977-1980, he contributed to the three volumes of 9 ème Rêve, from which emerged the main architects of the Belgian comics revival. In collaboration with his elder brother Luc Schuiten, he published his first stories in Métal Hurlant from 1974. They were collected in 1981 in the album Carapaces. In 1979, he launched Aux médianes de Cymbiola in the same magazine, in collaboration with Claude Renard, with whom he also produced Le Rail in 1981. In 1983, he began a long collaboration with his friend Benoît Peeters when Les Murailles de Samaris, the first story in the Les Cités obscures series, appeared in Casterman's (À suivre) collection. Translated into ten languages, Les Cités obscures has won numerous awards, including the Grand Prix Manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2013. During the 1990s, he concentrated on Les Cités obscures for stories now published directly in albums by Casterman, but also diversified, experimenting in different media. From 1989 to 1993, he worked with Maurice Benayoun on Les Quarxs, one of the very first 3D CG animated series. He also collaborated on the visual design of five films and two documentary-fictions. François Schuiten designed the decor for the Porte de Hal metro station in Brussels and the Arts et Métiers station on line 11 of the Paris metro network. He also designed the first Art Nouveau building by the great Belgian architect Victor Horta: the Maison Autrique, now an exhibition venue. He worked on the scenography of the Train World museum in Schaerbeek station (Brussels), inaugurated on September 25, 2015. ORIG-AMI is a cardboard shelter measuring 117 x 235 x 150 cm. It is insulating, structurally protective, foldable like an accordion, transportable like a backpack and recyclable. The homeless shelter was designed on the principle of origami, a Japanese paper-folding technique.
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François Schuiten. Original work in gouache and felt-tip pen exclusively for the "Une tente une vie" operation, on cardboard. Signed. Wood frame with Plexiglas glass included: 155 x 125 cm Born in Brussels on April 26, 1953, Schuiten is a Belgian cartoonist and set designer. Made famous by the fantasy comic series "Les Cités obscures", produced in collaboration with scriptwriter Benoît Peeters. He published his first story, entitled Mutation, in the Belgian edition of Pilote, when he was 16. He studied at the Institut Saint Luc's comics workshop, run by Claude Renard, founder of Atelier R4. In 1977-1980, he contributed to the three volumes of 9 ème Rêve, from which emerged the main architects of the Belgian comics revival. In collaboration with his elder brother Luc Schuiten, he published his first stories in Métal Hurlant from 1974. They were collected in 1981 in the album Carapaces. In 1979, he launched Aux médianes de Cymbiola in the same magazine, in collaboration with Claude Renard, with whom he also produced Le Rail in 1981. In 1983, he began a long collaboration with his friend Benoît Peeters when Les Murailles de Samaris, the first story in the Les Cités obscures series, appeared in Casterman's (À suivre) collection. Translated into ten languages, Les Cités obscures has won numerous awards, including the Grand Prix Manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2013. During the 1990s, he concentrated on Les Cités obscures for stories now published directly in albums by Casterman, but also diversified, experimenting in different media. From 1989 to 1993, he worked with Maurice Benayoun on Les Quarxs, one of the very first 3D CG animated series. He also collaborated on the visual design of five films and two documentary-fictions. François Schuiten designed the decor for the Porte de Hal metro station in Brussels and the Arts et Métiers station on line 11 of the Paris metro network. He also designed the first Art Nouveau building by the great Belgian architect Victor Horta: the Maison Autrique, now an exhibition venue. He worked on the scenography of the Train World museum in Schaerbeek station (Brussels), inaugurated on September 25, 2015. ORIG-AMI is a cardboard shelter measuring 117 x 235 x 150 cm. It is insulating, structurally protective, foldable like an accordion, transportable like a backpack and recyclable. The homeless shelter was designed on the principle of origami, a Japanese paper-folding technique.
