Jack RISTO

Jacques Ristorcelli (alias Risto) studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Bourges. He lives and worked in Aix-en-Provence.Parmi The pioneers of artistic video in the early 1980s, he collaborated for a time at the Cahiers du Cinéma, then focused on illustration, in parallel to the multimedia realization.fidèle Heir to pop art, from the Bazooka group, trail companion of American artists such as Raymond Pettibon, Robert Longo and Richard Prince, Ristorcelli only draws from existing images extracted from comic books, pulp magazines, engravings, d 'popular images, personal photographs. He seizes images, cuts them, reappears, mismanages them, redrawn the details, assembles them by collage, repeats them ... With these foreign images, often stereotypical, impersonal, risorcelli orchestra thus a sort of interior theater in turn Refined, grotesque, romantic and violent. His blog is significantly entitled "theater of electric paper", in reference Aukamishibai (literally "paper theater"), this modest art of Japanese street storytellers, and to the nickname that the television stations in Japan received at the time of their appearance : "Electric kamishibai". Papiers-ecrans, round trips. Author of BD at the Edition Material: https://www.matiere.org/auteurs_/risto/ - Book Critique "Les Ecrans" https://www.comicsgrid.com/articles/10.16995/cg.73/