The outstanding French artist Edmond Baudoin was born in 1943 at Nice. His first book was published when he was already 38 years before that, he worked as bookkeper. Since then he has published over 50 books, traveled with exhibitions and lectures around the world, received awards for best script and a best comics book on festival in Angouleme. Also he was a professor of art.
Edmond Baudoin is a guest of festival.
His exhibition will be at the museum of Anna Akhmatova at The Fountain House from September 23 till October 12.
Exhibition of comics and illustration at the Bastille festival in a big yard Hermitage.
Another French exhibition to be held in September. The exhibition will present all Grand Prix winner in the biggest European comics festival Angouleme. Representatives of the festival will visit Boomfest – art director Benoit Mouchart and coordinator of the Russian-French program Nicolas Finet. In addition, the winner of the Grand Prix 2010 french artist Baru will come also.
This project is part of the programming of the Year France-Russia.
In September wiil be exhibition “Nouvelle vague”, there will bo show modern comics artists of France. Here you can see small presentation about participants. All of them will come to Saint-Petersburg in September. This project is part of the programming of the Year France-Russia.