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Preview Of 2016

The end of the year is good for a review of 2015 but also for a preview of 2016. What are the plans of François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters for the new year?

The exhibition Lumières sur les Cités will end on February 7, 2016, but before it closes the Centre de la gravure et de l'image imprimée will held several events:

  • Conférence L'Horloger du rêve, Author of the texts the book L'Horloger du rêve, Thierry Bellefroid will tell about François Schuiten. Thursday (date to be determined) January 2016 from 19h until 20h. Price: 5 euros with the possibility to visit the expo from 18h until 21h.
  • Meeting with François Schuiten, on Sunday February 7, 2016 at 15h. Price: Entry + € 5.
  • Around François Schuiten, on Wednesday January 27, 2016 from 14h to 16h30. An engraving Workshop at the town library (place de Bracquegnies) for children from 6 to 12 years. Free, but reservations required.

Maison Autrique is scheduled to reopen in Spring 2016.

Memory Reloaded, the Greek movie with concept design by François Schuiten is part of the official selection of The Fourth Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival in New York from January 14 - 17, 2016 1).

In 2016 François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters will work together on a new exhibition: Machines à dessiner at the Musée des Arts et Métiers. The exhibition will be held from October 2016 to January 2017. Casterman will publish a catalogue of this exhibition.

François Schuiten working on Revoir Paris T2

The event most fans look forward to in 2016 is the publication of the second and final episode of Revoir Paris. Due to the many 2015 activities the publication is delayed to October 2016. Casterman will publish the second album. There will also a special edition with the whole story. This album will be in a horizontal large format (same as « La Théorie » volume 1 and 2).

Publisher Atlantic 12 announced that on the occasion of the BRAFA 2016 which will take place in Tour & Taxis in Brussels from 23 to 31 January, two new reproductions of drawings by François Schuiten around the Type 12 and a sculpture of bronze casting locomotive will be on display on the stand the Gallery Huberty & Breyne. A screen printing, 'Au repos' (80×60), printed in 200 copies and a pigment ink, 'Au repos' (100×70), led to 30 copies are being printed. As for the bronze sculpture (23x43x10cm), it was designed by François Schuiten but manufactured by the cabinetmaker Karl Theiss. Both have already collaborated several times in the past in making various objects related to the world of the Obscure Cities.

Comic shop Brüsel in Brussels will publish early 2016 a deluxe edition of the album Brüsel. The album will have an exclusive cover. It will include the DVD of the Dossier B movie and a limited ex-libris in black & white. The format will be 317x410mm. The album will be 208 pages on Gardapat 13 Klassica ivoire 150g paper. It will include 18 pages of bonus content. This edition will be limited to 350 copies.

The Aquarica project of François Schuiten, Benoît Sokal and Martin Villeneuve will first be adapted into a comic book by Benoît Sokal. The 134 pages album will be published by Rue de Sèvres in Fall 2016.

Dolorès, the 90-minute feature film produced by Schwabenlandfilm and based on the graphic novel Dolorès will be broadcasted in autumn 2016 on SWR television.

In 2016 we will also celebrate the 20th anniversary of this website. It all started end of 1995 with the first story of Joseph le Perdriel. A few years later this story became the ebbs.net website where all kind of content related to the Obscure Cities was published. In 2011 all this content was turned into the altaplana.be website. So in 2016 we also celebrate the 5th birthday of altaplana.be.

It looks like it will be again an exciting year!