The Angel
Belgium.
Brussels.
Street art and comic walk.
Kartuizerstraat 39, Rue des Chartreux
Het misverstand is onuitroeibaar. (Misunderstanding is ineradicable). Dieu est-il mort? (Is God dead?) - God: Nietsche is dood. (Nietzche is dead). - Lost illusions are found truths. Dès le début, il n'y avait pas de commencement: (In the beginning, nothing started:) The words underneath the mural seem to be an unsolicited addition by a bilingual graffiti artist. But actually, the existential slogans form an integral part of the mural by Bernard Hislaire. From one project to another, he changes his nom de plume: Hislaire, Yslaire, Bernar Yslaire or Sylaire. The award-winning Brussels cartoonist is unconventional, an innovator who is unafraid to experiment with form and different media. His best-known comic book is Sambre, a historical romantic saga about love and war in which Yslaire focuses on passion, flirting with death between a stunningly beautiful re-eyed woman and a rugged black-eyed man. German Romanticism, Böcklin, Caspar David Friedrich, Hugo and Mallarme are never far away. The angel on the wall belongs to a series in which the author takes a haunting look back at the revolutionary yet often woeful twentieth century: XXe ciel.com. An angel is immortal. You are only immortal if your beloved is not. Could that explain the obvious sadness of the winged presence that descended on rue des Chartreux?
visit.brussels/en/article/the-walls-of-the-comic-strip-wa...
The Angel
Belgium.
Brussels.
Street art and comic walk.
Kartuizerstraat 39, Rue des Chartreux
Het misverstand is onuitroeibaar. (Misunderstanding is ineradicable). Dieu est-il mort? (Is God dead?) - God: Nietsche is dood. (Nietzche is dead). - Lost illusions are found truths. Dès le début, il n'y avait pas de commencement: (In the beginning, nothing started:) The words underneath the mural seem to be an unsolicited addition by a bilingual graffiti artist. But actually, the existential slogans form an integral part of the mural by Bernard Hislaire. From one project to another, he changes his nom de plume: Hislaire, Yslaire, Bernar Yslaire or Sylaire. The award-winning Brussels cartoonist is unconventional, an innovator who is unafraid to experiment with form and different media. His best-known comic book is Sambre, a historical romantic saga about love and war in which Yslaire focuses on passion, flirting with death between a stunningly beautiful re-eyed woman and a rugged black-eyed man. German Romanticism, Böcklin, Caspar David Friedrich, Hugo and Mallarme are never far away. The angel on the wall belongs to a series in which the author takes a haunting look back at the revolutionary yet often woeful twentieth century: XXe ciel.com. An angel is immortal. You are only immortal if your beloved is not. Could that explain the obvious sadness of the winged presence that descended on rue des Chartreux?
visit.brussels/en/article/the-walls-of-the-comic-strip-wa...