A "hazy city" beyond time and space? Exquisite and charming "paper architecture"

The series of graphic novels in the hazy city, like a fascinating "paper architecture museum", gives us a glimpse of the future world where imagination, literary metaphor, philosophical speculation, exquisite architecture and thrilling fantasy stories are intertwined.

Von Francois Skelton, a contemporary architectural genius, has cooperated with the story master Bernie Peter for several years to create a series of works called Hazy City, which has become a classic in global architectural graphic novels, and has aroused heated discussions on the future, cities, religions, centralization and many other topics in European critics.

Want to enter the "hazy city", there is no doubt that it starts with Fran, the builder of this city? Ois Schuiten) talked about it.

Like Peyo, the father of the Smurfs, Von Sauvage was born in "the center of the comic book kingdom". Born in an architectural family, he loved painting since he was a child. 16-year-old Feng Suowa used a rare and very Feng Suowa-style "cross-hatching" drawing method in his comic debut "Change".

Since then, comic works such as In a Star City, Orbit and Depression have been translated into ten languages and won many awards. Posters, illustrations and stamps designed and created by him are also widely circulated all over Europe.

Von Francois is good at constructing virtual buildings and urban spaces, but his creation is by no means an unrealistic dream castle, but a scientific and rigorous pioneer design with practical significance. Returning to reality from the virtual world of comic novels, we can also see the figure of Von Fran? ois: the design of Arts et Metier in Paris subway station is inspired by the series of "The Hazy City", which makes people feel as if they are in his comic scene.

Wizards and generalists can always find each other. When Von Francois, who prefers painting, meets the charming writer Beni Peter (Beno? T Peeters), the two hit it off and became lifelong partners.

Berne, an "all-round genius", is not only a famous French writer, playwright and critic, but also participates in art work such as curation, short film and documentary shooting.

In the creation of the series of image novels in "The Hazy City", Beni's profound literary skills and highly infectious language have made a series of touching mysterious stories.

Starting from 1980, Von Fran? ois began to create a series of image novels Les Cités Obscures with Berne. The 13-volume works tell a series of fantasy worlds including philosophical thinking.

In "The Inclined Girl" and "The Disappearing Boundary", they used brushes and imagination to build a dream city left in the world, and then told those who lacked imagination: never go out!

As the most popular volume, The Tilted Girl continues the absurdity, uniqueness and strangeness of The Hazy City: the protagonist Mary von Larsen, a little girl born in a middle-class family in Milos, became tilted after a strange "star coaster" and was humiliated in boarding school, so she had to escape alone and finally joined the circus; At the same time, in the oblak Plateau, the painter Augustine involuntarily created a mysterious picture in a lonely house; In another city, Michelle Songshan, scientist Wafandoff insisted that they were attracted by the mysterious planet, and finally the three of them gathered in a mysterious world opened by artistic creativity.

Von Francois and Berne put photography into the narrative mode of comics, juxtaposing photographic photos with hand-drawn images in The Inclined Girl, which leads to two parallel clues between the imaginary space and the real world, making it difficult for us to extricate ourselves from the two parallel lines.

The Vanishing Border shows the anxiety of von Fran? ois and Berne about the future to the extreme. In the whole story, "sex" has become the most private symbol and the last dignity that human beings try their best to protect in the mechanical age when the "privacy boundary" collapses.

Roland, the hero of The Vanishing Border, is a young cartographer, who is immersed in the mechanical work of mapping maps all day, providing a sense of security for the national government with clear land boundaries and military centralization. However, with the development of mechanical technology, machines have gradually replaced humans to measure and draw maps, and Roland's girlfriend has also been pursued by the government because of her mysterious map birthmark. All these make Roland feel great frustration, disappointment and helplessness. ...

This pair of artists reassembled a large number of materials from architecture, art, design, literature, history, philosophy, science and many other fields, fused and collided into a brand-new collage creation, depicting their stories and fantasy world.

"Video novels" are different from pure literature and children's cartoons. It tells the novel through painting, making it more artistic and visual, and at the same time, it has a sense of story hierarchy and deep thinking in content.

Reading the "Fog City" series of video novels is an immersive experience that challenges the five senses. You can't help being taken into their fantasy space by the author, walking through it and feeling the tension in the novel.

The imagination of von Fran? ois and Berne is realized along the building, which leads us out of utopia and gives us a glimpse of the hazy world with curiosity.

This story will confuse your eyes and mind. Even if different people have different understandings, there is no doubt that this is a very artistic and imaginative work. It is a great choice for readers who like philosophical speculation and other world fantasy novels.

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