This is a collection of 15 books, in very different formats, which have no predetermined order, but are meant to be discovered and connected individually by the reader. The elaborately produced set of comics Building Stories from 2012 is particularly impressive. From a wide variety of perspectives and within a unique concentrated density, the reader finds out about human inadequacies, communication difficulties and disappointments.
This exhibition demonstrates how, via exploratory preliminary sketches, he arrives at his carefully composed sequences of images reminiscent of plans and construction drawings. In terms of both narrative and form, his books are all-encompassing artworks, in which he is responsible for everything from the typography to the binding. Chris Ware draws with perfectionist meticulousness and technical precision. In the early 1990s, he launched his extensive Acme Novelty series, in which he established his most important characters. Born in 1967 in Omaha, Chris Ware published very early in the avant-garde magazine RAW, which was edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly.
Developed in close collaboration with the artist, the retrospective Chris Ware shows the oeuvre of this major US author and cartoonist in all its richness.
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