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EXHIBITION – THE STROKES OF HUMOUR OF KRISTIAN

18.12.13 – 11.01.14

Opening: 18.12.13 – 06:30 pm

Rui Cunha Foundation and Alliance Francaise de Macao present, on December 18th 2013, by 06:30 pm, the exhibition of the French cartoonist Kristian. In this show we are going to assist to some of the works done in several approaches, that show the huge reach of this experienced cartoonist, in the attempt to foment a connection to the local designers, and incentivate them to the creation of this particular strokes, filled with humour.

Artist Bio

Kristian was born in Grenoble in 1960. His first cartoon is published in 1981 in the Dauphine Libere newspaper. Today his cartoons and current event drawings can be seen in more than 12,000 publications in France and abroad. He has also expanded his art to publicities, stage settings for plays and decorations for buses. His work has been shown in many different exhibitions in France,

Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Spain, Estonia, Italy and Mexico, as well as the in Oceanic Museum of Monaco, the Peynet Museum of Antibes and numerous exhibitions in Japan since 1996 (Tokyo, Yokohama, Fukukoa, Osaka and Nara) and in Colombia in 2008. He even has one of his drawings in the Paris Museum of Contemporary Art.

He collaborated in the 43rd and 47th International Film Festival of Cannes and had, for 13 years a weekly review ( Kristian’s Week) on TV channel France 3 Cote d’ Azur.

For the 1998 Soccer World Cup, his cartoons were placed on T-shirts, wine bottles and phone calling cards. He has realized logo for big department store as well.

Since 2001 he has been an official designer for the Nice Carnival floats, always ready to take on any new assignment with his sharp and sharpened pencil.

 

Useful information of Rui Cunha Foundation Gallery

Schedule: Monday to Friday 10.00 AM to 07.00 PM.

Saturdays from 03.00 to 07.00 PM.

Closes on Sundays and Public Holidays.

Venue: Avenida da Praia Grande, nº 749, r/c, Macau

Free Entrance

Contacts:

Rui Cunha Foundation

Telf: (853) 28923288

E-mail: carla@fundacao-rc.org; galeria@fundacao-rc.org