Marc-Antoine Mathieu

Marc-Antoine Mathieu (2010)

Marc-Antoine Mathieu (* 1959 in Antony , France ) is a French comic artist .

Career

Marc-Antoine Mathieu grew up in Angers . He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Anger . His first album Paris-Mâcon was created as a collaboration with his brother Jean-Luc and was published in 1987 by the French publisher Futuropolis .

In 1989 Mathieu began work on his six-part story about the employee at the Ministry of Humor, Julius Corentin Acquefacques . The surname is a sonic backward palindrome by Kafka and the volumes are also characterized by a Kafkaesque style. The first part of the series, L'Origine (German Der Ursprung ), was published in 1990 by the French publisher Delcourt and has received various international awards.

Marc-Antoine Mathieu also created several individual volumes and concentrated on his work at the Lucie-Lom graphics agency, which specializes in exhibition design. For example, the large Moebius / Giraud retrospective at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême was created under his creative direction in 2000, and in 2017 the retrospective Will Eisner, Un Génie de la bande Dessinée Américaine . Mathieu was awarded the Prix de l'École supérieure de l'image in Angoulême in 1991 for his first album L'origine and in 1999 .

In 2017 the Museum of Applied Art in Frankfurt exhibited 50 of his original drawings.

Exhibitions

2017: Cartography of Dreams. The art of Marc-Antoine Mathieu . Curator and scenographer: David Beikirch. Museum of Applied Arts (Frankfurt am Main).

Works

debut

Lamou ou le Zanskar oublié. 1985 in collaboration with Janine et Gilbert Leroy
Paris-Mâcon. 1985 together with his brother Jean-Luc Mathieu

Series Julius Corentin Acquefacques, Prisoner of dreams

The origin (L'Origine). 1990 (German 1992 from Carlsen , 1999 from Reprodukt , ISBN 3-931377-28-8 )
The four F ... (La Qu ...). 1991 (German 1993 from Carlsen, 2003 from Reprodukt, ISBN 3-931377-35-0 )
The vertebra (Le Processus). 1993 (German 1994 from Carlsen, 2008 from Reprodukt, ISBN 3-938511-44-3 )
The beginning of the end (Le Début de la Fin - La Fin du Début). 1995 (German 1995 from Carlsen, 2013 from Reprodukt, ISBN 978-3-943143-32-4 )
The 2,333. Dimension (La 2,333e dimension). 2004 (German 2004 by Reprodukt, ISBN 3-931377-90-3 )
The Shift (Le Décalage). 2013 (German 2015 at Reprodukt, ISBN 978-3-95640-020-9 )

Other works

The Mutation (La Mutation). 1995 (German 2000 at Reprodukt, ISBN 3-931377-40-7 )
(Le Cœur des Ombres). 1998
Dead memory (Mémoire Morte). 2000 (German 2000 at Reprodukt, ISBN 3-931377-34-2 )
The drawing (Le Dessin). 2001 (2003 from the French by Martin Budde at Reprodukt, ISBN 3-931377-82-2 )
(Le Peintre Touo-Lan suivi de Hank). 2004
(l'ascension… et autres récits). 2005
(Les sous-sols du revolu). 2006
God himself (Dieu en personne). 2009 (2010 from the French by Kai Wilksen at Reprodukt, ISBN 978-3-941099-59-3 )
3 seconds (3 ") 2011 (German 2012 at Reprodukt, ISBN 978-3-943143-06-5 )
Direction (Sens) 2014 (German 2015 at Reprodukt, ISBN 978-3-95640-021-6 )
OTTO 2016 (2017 German at Reprodukt, ISBN 978-3-95640-131-2 )

literature

David Beikirch, Matthias Wagner K (ed.): Cartography of dreams. The art of Marc-Antoine Mathieu , Ch.A. Bachmann Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-941030-91-6
Kathrin Hahne: Bande dessinée as an experiment: deconstruction as a compositional principle in Marc-Antoine Mathieu (= Romania viva 21). Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-67084-2 .
Frank Leinen: Searching for traces in the labyrinth. Marc-Antoine Mathieu's Bandes dessinées on Julius Corentin Acquefacques as an experimental metafiction. In: Frank Leinen, Guido Rings (ed.): Worlds of images - worlds of text - worlds of comics. Romance encounters with the Ninth Art . Martin Meidenbauer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-099-7 , pp. 229-263.
Rolf Lohse: engineer of dreams. Media-reflexive comedy with Marc-Antoine Mathieu . Bachmann, Bochum 2014, 3rd completely revised and expanded edition, ISBN 978-3-941030-52-7 .

Web links

Commons : Marc-Antoine Mathieu - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Mathieu at reprodukt-comics
Portrait of the draftsman
bibliography
Review of the current German edition
Literature by and about Marc-Antoine Mathieu in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Entry about MA Mathieu at Lambiek.net
^ Festival International de la bande dessinée: Will Eisner, génie de la bande dessinée américaine - 46e Festival de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême. Retrieved December 24, 2018 (French).
↑ Thomas Maier: Marc-Antoine Mathieu The dream wanderer. In: Tagesspiegel. June 3, 2017, accessed December 24, 2018 .
↑ Michael Hierholzer, Frankfurt: Museum Angewandte Kunst: When arrows point in all directions . June 5, 2017, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 24, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Mathieu, Marc-Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Antony

[1] Entry about MA Mathieu at Lambiek.net

[2] Festival International de la bande dessinée: Will Eisner, génie de la bande dessinée américaine - 46e Festival de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême. Retrieved December 24, 2018 (French).

[3] Thomas Maier: Marc-Antoine Mathieu The dream wanderer. In: Tagesspiegel. June 3, 2017, accessed December 24, 2018 .

[4] Michael Hierholzer, Frankfurt: Museum Angewandte Kunst: When arrows point in all directions . June 5, 2017, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 24, 2018]).