brecht evens

Our big favorite Flemish illustrator Brench Evens is bringing his amazing watercolors to Paris. La Galerie Martel is exhibiting the Sint Lukas de Gand’s graduate works until December 10th.

Les Amateurs - 2010-2011 by Brecht Evens

His comic “Noceurs” was considered by many one of the best 2010 comics when released in the Francophone world, and despite having already released several works under the Belgian edition house Oogachtend his international recognition (Angoulême’s 2011 “Audace” award) hasn’t truly arrived until this year. If you remember well we discovered him when contributing early this year to the animation festival “Anima 2011” identity.

Les Amateurs - 2010-2011 (2) by Brecht Evens

Galerie Martel (well-known for their comic-release parties) thinks he deserves a solo exhibition, and now that he’s recently released his new “Les Amateurs” in France the original drawings of his two latest comics will be hanging on the central Parisian gallery walls.

Les Amateurs - 2010-2011 (3) by Brecht Evens

No excuse for this free exhibition of the young Flemish talent! Full address, info (in French) on the gallery website and photos from the opening party on their blog.

Who are the kings of cartoon and BD here in Europe? Frenchies? Spaniards? Naaaaaaaa, Belgians! And as one of the most outstanding Flemish illustrators Mr Brecht Evens deserves not one but many references @ our humble blog…

His water color series are seriously explosive and it doesn’t surprise us every Belgian & French publisher is willing to work with this young artist.

Record labels, magazines, newspapers… several publications squabbling over him because his highly complex & dense compositions englobe too many subtle details, some of them quite horrid…. watercolour are not for children’s books anymore…

Mr Evens was born in 1986 and studied illustration in Ghent, Belgium. His prizewinning debut comic book A Message from Space was released in 2005, followed by several other books including Vincent (2006) and The Wrong Place (2009), which recently won the Haarlem Comic Festival’s Willy Vandersteen Award for best Dutch-language graphic novel. If you haven’t had enough you may want to visit his flickr page.

Brench Evens @ Galerie Martel

Anima ’11