The Musée des Tissus in Lyon is the venue for an exhibit dedicated to Corto Maltese: from 31 May to 28 July, the museum will host the exhibition ‘Hugo Pratt, the heritage, the artwork, the biography’. And in the run-up to the Lyon Festival BD 2024, scheduled from 7 to 9 June, Juan Díaz canales and Rubén Pellejero also arrive.
Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Lyon with the support of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, in collaboration with Cong SA, the exhibition is part of the 19th Lyon International Comics Festival, hosted in one of the city’s most emblematic historical sites. After Pula (Croatia), Valona, (Albania), Oslo (Norway), Québec City (Canada) and Athens (Greece), the travelling exhibition dedicated to Hugo Pratt, chosen as a symbol of Italian language and culture in the world, arrives in Lyon.
Six years after the stunning success of the ‘Hugo Pratt – Lignes d’horizons’ exhibition at the Musée des Confluences, Corto Maltese is returning to Lyon, and the Lyon BD Festival will feature an exhibition of the original plates by Rubén Pellejero, who together with screenwriter Juan Díaz Canales has revived the Corto Maltese stories with four new episodes, and a fifth on the way.
The exhibition experience is further enriched: on Sunday 9 June at 11 a.m., the authors will take on the role of exceptional museum guides. Available by appointment only, Canales and Pellejero will accompany visitors on an exclusive journey through the history, origins and future prospects of the works on display, offering an intimate and detailed look at their creative process.
