Bastien Vivès

Bastien Vivès

Bastien Vivès (born February 11, 1984 ) is a French comic book author.

biography

Vivès studied graphics and animation at the École des Gobelins. Even at a young age, the draftsman can look back on a broad oeuvre with a wide range of styles. Bastien Vivès was awarded the Essentiel Révélation , the prize for the best young artist , at the 2009 Angoulême comic festival for “The Taste of Chlorine” . Vivès' works were also received very positively by German-language literary criticism . Vivès lives and works in Paris . For "Olympia" (together with Florence Ruppert & Jérome Mulot) he received the Rudolph Dirks Award 2017, 2018 for "A Sister", each in the taboo / erotic category.

stylistics

In Polina he looks at the fictional professional and existential career of the Russian ballet dancer Polina Ulianow in around 200 pages of graphic novels . Instead of a sophisticated color concept as in the earlier books, Vivès limits itself to black, white and beige. The bodies and movements are the focus of the drawings, backgrounds are largely dispensed with. The reviewer of Deutschlandradio Kultur praises the clever use of ellipses and time leaps as well as “lifelike dialogues” in the work, calls Vivès a “narrator who has something to say without getting lost in meaningful discourses”.

Publications in German

• The taste of chlorine. (Original title: Le goût du chlore translated by Kai Wilksen), Reprodukt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941099-48-7 .
• In my eyes . (Original title: Dans mes yeux , translated by Kai Wilksen), Reprodukt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941099-58-6 .
• Polina . (translated by Mireille Onon), Reprodukt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941099-91-3 .
• For the empire. (with Merwan Chabane: Original title: Pour l'empire translated by Ulrich Pröfrock):
  • Volume 1: The Honor. Reprodukt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941099-83-8 .
  • Volume 2: The women. Reprodukt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941099-84-5 .
  • Volume 3: Destiny. Reprodukt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943143-03-4 .
• The carnage. Reprodukt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943143-35-5 .
• with Florent Ruppert and Jerome Mulot: The great odalisque. Reprodukt, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943143-43-0 .
• Love. Reprodukt, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943143-77-5 .
• with Florent Ruppert and Jerome Mulot: Olympia. Reprodukt, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95640-106-0 .

• A sister . (Original title: Une soeur , translated by Heike Drescher), Reprodukt, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95640-144-2 .
• The blouse , Reprodukt, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95640-185-5 .

Web links

Commons : Bastien Vivès  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Bastien Vivès in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Bastien Vivès at perlentaucher.de
• Vivès blog

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reviewer Christian Gasser in Deutschlandradio Kultur on January 20, 2012: “The right line for every topic” - Bastien Vivès is the star of a new generation of comics in France