For the first time in France, fans of Blake and Mortimer and the Floc’h style will be able to discover the panels from his latest album the artist’s graphic art is displayed on very large formats (77 x 58 cm), a truly immersive and pop-art experience that has already been admired in Brussels, where the artist presented a selection of his panels, praised by comic book greats such as François Schuiten, Ever Meulen, Laurent Durieux, and Yves Schlirf…

A Modernist Tribute

What captivates and fascinates is the silence that Floc’h between his panels—that luxurious emptiness that allows the page to breathe. Far from verbose excesses and overloaded backgrounds, he embraces minimalism, and in doing so, he lends the mythical universe created by E.P. Jacobs wholly new aesthetic dimension.

Filled with playful nods to modernist architecture and the 20th-century New York art world (Warhol, Hopper, Mondrian, Norman Rockwell…),L’Art de la guerrebecomes a graphic manifesto, in which the comic book rises to the status of contemporary art.

A meticulously crafted screenplay

album story, crafted by Fromental and Bocquet, revolves around a UN peace conference and an amnesiac Olrik, echoing Sun Tzu’s famous Chinese treatise on military strategy. But in Floc’h, the real war is aesthetic: the one that pits fullness against emptiness, narrative tension against formal purity.
With L’Art de la guerre , L’Art de la guerre Floc’h illustrate an adventure: he creates a work of art, a book that is as much meant to be contemplated as it is to be read. This is a rare feat in the world of comics, and it makes this album valuable milestone in the Blake & Mortimer series. ( Dargaud & Mortimer).