The beautiful escape
by Anne Laval
- Printed in France
* UNE RÉDUCTION DE 15% s'applique aux communes de moins de 5 000 habitants.Contactez-nous pour bénéficier de cette remise.
* POUR TOUTES LES COMMUNES, une réduction de 10% s'applique automatiquement à partir de 3 expositions commandées.
Exhibition available in 2 formats for outdoor use and 1 format for indoor use.
At the beginning of La belle échappée, there is a poster for the Colomiers comic strip festival: a desert landscape that could recall the Argentine Pampas or the foothills of the Andes mountain range, from which stands out a heroine, carrying an umbrella and riding a red horse...
This first poster gave birth to around twenty paintings, like so many invitations to travel, to play truant, to take an unexpected detour.
It was the landscapes that were the starting point for each painting: the first pencil sketches allowed the organization of color relationships and surfaces in a very small format. From these sketches, Anne Laval was able, when she moved to large format and painting, to retain the spontaneity and vibration.
And then came the characters, all women (there is also a little girl): whether they face the viewer or seem to be dreaming about their lives, whether they hold a stick or smoke a cigarette, whether they wear trousers or a colorful dress, a hat or a scarf, a parrot or a quiver, they all anchor the landscape and the gaze.
Each one is in their place, at the starting (or finishing) point of their own adventure and all that remains is to invent it.
" My characters are not tiny, it's the world that is big ," said Sempé.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
Anne Laval
From her birth in Papeete in 1979, her first trip, it seems that Anne Laval has retained the desire to go to sea and a certain taste for flamboyant colors.
Since graduating from HEAR (Haute École des Arts du Rhin) in Strasbourg, Anne has been drawing (and writing) books, posters, and series of images that are displayed in group or solo exhibitions.
