BRUNO RICHARD / ELLES SONT DE SORTIE
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With his confrontational personality and strong individuality, his guttural, aggressive and uncompromising drawing style and his experimentation in book publishing, Bruno Richard – for a long time together, actually in a sort of symbiosis, with the late Pascal Doury – is one of the pioneers, and remains one of the most consisting figures, of the so called graphzine artists: starting in the mid-seventies almost simultaneously with the Bazooka group, composed of a new wave of French artists such as Loulou Picasso, Kiki Picasso, Olivia Clavel, T5 dur, etc., to create a revolutionary and later highly influential style of illustration and publication, in a similar way to what slightly older American underground artists like Gary Panter, Mark Beyer and Art Spiegelman were doing through the pages of the contemporary RAW magazine, to which he and Doury also contributed at the time, keeping even today strong connections with its promoters. Richard's amazing body of work made of many thousands of drawings (at least one per day since the beginning) has almost exclusively been offered to the public, rather than by making original artworks circulate, through publication in magazines and books (the medium he likes better and finds more suitable), experimenting with formats, papers, bindings and methods of reproductions, constituting in most part a fake series named Elles Sont De Sortie (also the name of a non-existing group composed by Richard and Doury) spreading through mainly self-made, limited-edition productions, some volumes on official publishers (Futuropolis, Balland, Jean-Paul Rocher, Limage, Autrement, Humanoïdes Associés, etc.) and contributions to magazines (Charlie mensuel, RAW, Infrarot, Zoulou, OBCN, etc.), and becoming through the years one of the most substantial and revered series in the world of graphzines and artist's books.
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 86? 87 – VAGINATLAS DER UNGERICHTLICHEN MEDIZIN (Elica BRVAGI) BOOK
After almost thirty years of personal appreciation of Bruno Richard's activities, Elica is proud to publish his work in what could be either the 86th or 87th volume in the implacable Elles Sont De Sortie series.
The Vaginatlas presents mainly recent works characterized by the use of collage of material taken from medicine and anatomy books plus a few older color drawings, as well as a work each by his friends Gary Panter, Mark Beyer and Tomeu Cabot. It is beautifully printed on quality paper to render the details these new works require and therefore it looks quite different from the rawer production of most recent ESDS private publications. Please note that the contents are graphically explicit.
Stapled 32-page, black & white and color 15x21cm. book, published in a limited edition of two-hundred copies, thirty of which are part of the édition de tête (please see below).
PRICE € 20
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 86? 87 – VAGINATLAS DER UNGERICHTLICHEN MEDIZIN - EDITION DE TETE (Elica BRVAGI) BOOKEdition de tête of Bruno Richard's Vaginatlas der ungerichtlichen Medizin of 30 numbered and signed copies composed of the regular Vaginatlas stapled 32-page, black&white and color 15x21cm. book plus an additional exclusive hand-numbered and signed 16-page 15x21cm. book of drawings and pictures with unique stamps, housed in an illustrated, stamped and hand-numbered cardboard enveloppe.
The Vaginatlas presents mainly recent works characterized by the use of collage of material taken from medicine and anatomy books plus a few older color drawings, as well as a work each by his friends Gary Panter, Mark Beyer and Tomeu Cabot. It is beautifully printed on quality paper to render the details these new works require and therefore it looks quite different from the rawer production of most recent ESDS private publications. Please note that the contents are graphically explicit.
PREZZO € 50
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 101 A – MY ESDS 101 PUTAS DE DIBUJOS NIGGER'S COLORS (Elica BRMYES) BOOKElica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie.
Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results.
This is the first volume (A), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book.
Each volume is published in a limited edition of two-hundred copies, forty of which are part of the édition de tête (please see below).
PRICE € 12
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 101 B – MY BLUE PORNOGRA-FICA (Elica BRMYBL) BOOK
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie.
Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results.
This is the second volume (B), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book.
Each volume is published in a limited edition of two-hundred copies, forty of which are part of the édition de tête (please see below).
PRICE € 12
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 101 C – MY ROSSO KISS TO MISS (Elica BRMYRO) BOOK
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie.
Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results.
This is the third volume (C), a stapled 16-page, full color 22x31cm. book.
Each volume is published in a limited edition of two-hundred copies, forty of which are part of the édition de tête (please see below).
PRICE € 12
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 101 D – MY KOLOR KRAZY KAZ (Elica BRMYKO) BOOK
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie.
Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results.
This is the fourth volume (D), a stapled 28-page, full color 22x31cm. book.
Each volume is published in a limited edition of two-hundred copies, forty of which are part of the édition de tête (please see below).
PRICE € 20
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 101 E – MY VAIN RÖT GLAND ENCULÉ (Elica BRMYVA) BOOK
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie.
Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results.
This is the fifth volume (E), a stapled 40-page, full color 22x31cm. book.
Each volume is published in a limited edition of two-hundred copies, forty of which are part of the édition de tête (please see below).
PRICE € 24
BRUNO RICHARD: BOOK SET
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 101 A – MY ESDS 101 PUTAS DE DIBUJOS NIGGER'S COLORS (Elica BRMYES)
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 101 B – MY BLUE PORNOGRA-FICA (Elica BRMYBL)
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 101 C – MY ROSSO KISS TO MISS (Elica BRMYRO)
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 101 D – MY KOLOR KRAZY KAZ (Elica BRMYKO)
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 101 E – MY VAIN RÖT GLAND ENCULÉ (Elica BRMYVA)
PRICE (SET) € 50
BRUNO RICHARD: ESDS 101 ABCDE – MY.... (Elica BRMYET) 5 BOOK BOX SET
Edition de tête of Bruno Richard's - My... volumes of 40 numbered and signed copies composed of the five ESDS 101 books, each with a hand-cut and -taped extra dust-jacket numbered and signed by Bruno Richard, collected in a specifically hand-made box with additional two-color drawing pasted on, number and stamp.
Elica is pleased to publish some rather peculiar and spectacular recent works by Bruno Richard in a series of five books, which individually or altogether constitute the 101th volume of Elles Sont De Sortie. Each volume is an almost fac-simile of a partly coloured second-hand colouring book for children, reworked by Richard with his drawings, with superb, eye-popping results.
PRICE € 150