Stéphane Blanquet
Born in 1973 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine
Lives and works in Paris
Stéphane Blanquet studied
Stéphane Blanquet is a cartoonist, illustrator, multimedia artist, animated film director, and publisher. In 1989, he founded his own publishing house, Chacal puant, and began publishing alternative comic book authors. In 1996, he received the Alph'art award for fanzines at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. He creates graphic novels and autobiographical stories in which he explores “the hidden dimension of things, concealed frustrations,” his relationship with the body and the organic, saying he imagines “oddities and projects my own obsessions onto my characters.” He is interested in pulp fiction and popular art and has developed his own style, characterized by a saturation of media. His books have been translated in many countries. In 2003, he began working with the Comédie de Caen and participated in the scenography, sets, costumes, and production of plays. In 2007, he launched United Dead Artists to make art accessible to all. He publishes magazines, monographs, and objects on the work of more than 350 artists. He also developed a body of work in sculpture and installation, to which the Halle Saint Pierre in Paris dedicated an exhibition in 2021.
Stéphane Blanquet a dit : « J'aime quand mon travail est dense car j'ai du mal à être minimal. C'est la composition qui fait que j'ai l'impression que tout s'emboîte et s'harmonise dans cette espèce de magma. Au final, je ne m'arrête que lorsqu'il n'y a plus de blanc. Quand c'est bien dense et qu'on ne peut plus rien mettre dedans alors là c'est réellement fini. »
making of Parabole Arithmétique, 2018 - Stéphane BLANQUET
Three colors lithographic print on Arches paper
Édition à 10 exemplaires
29.53 x 41.34 in (75 x 105 cm)
Réalisée à l'atelier Idem, Paris
Signed and numbered by the artist
Black lithographic print on Arches paper
Édition à 60 exemplaires
17.72 x 21.65 in (45 x 55 cm)
Réalisée à l'atelier Idem, Paris
Signed and numbered by the artist
Black lithographic print on Arches paper
Édition à 60 exemplaires
17.72 x 21.65 in (45 x 55 cm)
Réalisée à l'atelier Idem, Paris
Signed and numbered by the artist
Stéphane BLANQUET Parabole Arithmétique, 2018
Black lithographic print on Arches paperEdition à 35 exemplaires
51.18 x 69.29 in (130 x 176 cm)
Signed and numbered by the artist
Réalisée à l'atelier Idem, Paris