Mogambo Drawing

Jacques Ristorcelli (aka Risto) studied at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Bourges. He lives and works in Aix-en-Provence. Among the pioneers of artistic video in the early 1980s, he collaborated for a time at the Cahiers du cinema, and then devoted himself to illustration, in parallel to the multimedia realization. Ristorcelli, a faithful heir to pop art, of the Bazooka group, a companion of American artists such as Raymond Pettibon, Robert Longo and Richard Prince, draws only from existing images taken from comic books, pulp magazines, engravings, Popular images, personal photographs. He seizes the images, cuts them, crops them, mishaps them, redesigns the details, assembles them by collage, repeats them ... With these strange, often stereotyped, impersonal images, Ristorcelli orchestrates a sort of inner theater, refined, grotesque, romantic and violent. His blog is entitled "Théâtre de papier électrique", in reference to aukamishibai (literally "paper theater"), this modest art of Japanese street storytellers, and the nickname that came to the television sets in Japan : "Electric kamishibai". Screen papers, back and forth.