From 5 to 27 February 2021, the Huberty & Breyne Gallery is heading West, for the America of comics illustrator BRÜNO. Inspired by its mythologies and counter-culture, Brüno tells – in album after album – a particular version of America’s story that is based on bloody and violently contradictory realities. To immerse oneself in the universe of Tyler Cross, Vintage and Badass, and the Man Who Shot Chris Kyle, is to step into a world of thriller scenarios, dramatic newspaper headlines and graphic codes that flirt with abstraction, inventing a modern-day ligne claire which relies on generous applications of black. Working in collaboration with comics writer Fabien NURY, Brüno explores the paradoxes of the great American narrative.

Entitled “America, America” after the film by Elia Kazan, this exhibition brings together for the first time a selection of original panels from these three albums, in addition to several new Tylor Cross drawings. While introducing us to Brüno’s American obsessions and his fondness for the technique of mise en abîme, it brilliantly showcases the illustrator’s graphic genius and talent for framing. Adopting a contemporary ligne claire, Brüno constructs a powerfully synthetic graphic language that is at once narrative and artistic.