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APRIL 27 - NOVEMBER 9

Corto Maltese exhibition – A world of adventures

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Duration of the visit : 60 minutes

APRIL 27 - NOVEMBER 9

Between forbidden seas and barbaric shores, Hugo Pratt draws the horizons of the most famous of sailors, Corto Maltese, for a world of adventures.

The hero with the razor’s edge of luck, who travels from the Isle of the Monk to the continent of Mu, from the icy deserts of Siberia to the pastures of Switzerland, accompanied by the haunting rhythm of whirling dervishes, or the mysterious song of a Celtic harp, from the poisonous Venexiana to the gentle Pandora who almost killed him.

Every time you open a Corto album, time dilates and the silent flight of seagulls in the Pacific sky, under Corto’s gaze, has a taste of eternity.

 

 

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Hugo Pratt © Cong S.A., Suisse. Tous droits réservés

 

Hugo Pratt

 

Born in 1927 and intensely Venetian by birth, Hugo Pratt spent his adolescence in Ethiopia, his early adulthood in Argentina and his maturity between Europe and the Americas, before his death near Lausanne in 1995.

Hugo Pratt was a storyteller, a passionate child-reader of Ernest Hemingway, Jack London and Robert-Louis Stevenson, a teenager of the “age of extremes”, that of the Second World War and the Italian colonies, who found in the art of drawing the synthesis of drama and adventure between black and white, shadow and light, the steps of a tango, the flash of a knife, the last gallop of a sinking world…

Exhibition tour

ROOM 1

Hugo Pratt

Creator of the open sea

Discover a lifetime of real journeys and dreamed-of ports of call, atlases scoured and long journeys in search of unusual adventurers, forgotten stories and unlikely encounters.

ROOM 2

Adventurous

Without the women he meets, Corto Maltese would be no more than a mechanically agitated hero. They are the ones who reveal him, move him, fight him, subjugate him or fall in love with him.

 

BLACK BOX

Maritime transition

to Corto Maltese albums

Discover Mu, the lost city, in the footsteps of the diver Corto Maltese.

 

 

ROOM 3

The world's horizons

Follow the seagull as it travels through the albums of Corto Maltese. Sail from Iceland to the Caribbean, from Hong Kong to New Guinea, from the Greek islands to the North Sea.

 

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