From 6 to 29 October 2022, the Huberty & Breyne – Les Arts  dessinés gallery is delighted to be hosting a double exhibition  dedicated to the work of two talented artists, illustrators and comic  book creators – Jean-Claude Götting and François Roca. 

On display will be a combination of plates, illustrations and  original drawings that demonstrate the duo’s creative approach to  drawing, the originality of their ideas and their sheer technical  brilliance.    

François Roca was born in Lyonin 1971. He studied at  the National School of Applied Arts and Crafts Olivier de Serres, in  Paris, and later at the Émile Cohl  School, in Lyon, where in 1990 he met the author and illustrator Fred  Bernard, who was to become his regular “compagnon de route”. 

Roca’s first illustrations appeared in Je bouquine and he made a name for himself as a children’s illustrator with Solinké du grand fleuve (written by Anne Jonas and published by Albin Michel Jeunesse) in 1996, followed by La Reine des fourmis  (published by Albin Michel, with text by Fred Bernard). Roca has  published more than 20 other albums in collaboration with Fred Bernard,  with the latest, Solveig, due from Albin Michel Jeunesse in  November of this year. Since 2017, Roca has been producing the  illustrations for texts by Charlotte Moundlic, including Le Papa de Simon and Blanche-Neige. In 2017, he was made a “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”. 

Maudits is Roca’s first exhibition at the Les Arts dessinés  gallery, which is showing (in their entirety) the illustrations from  three of his children’s books – Blanche-Neige, A l’Ombre de Barbe-Bleue and Dracula.