Sous la plume d’Aude Picault exhibition
The Festival international de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême, held yearly since 1974 in the French city of Angoulême, is the second largest comics festival in Europe. During the 49th edition in 2022, it honored French graphic novelist Aude Picault with a monographic solo exhibition.
Born in 1976, Aude Picault graduated from the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (ENSAD) of Paris in 2005. That same year she published her first book, Moi je, and soon after she obtained a weekly cartoon in Voici, a popular French magazine. In the following years Picault conquered a large field of work, from comics for kids to erotic novels for adults. Nothing is safe from her curiosity and drawing nib.
The exhibition Sous la plume d’Aude Picault (“Under the Nib of Aude Picault”) was curated by Sonia Déchamps and Augustin Arrivé, the scenography is by Marie Corbin who worked with graphic designer Benoît Cannaferina. The typography inside the exhibition was composed from three elements: title letterings of the original publications, Aude Picault’s personal handwriting, and the typeface Enduro, designed by Emmanuel Besse and published by Production Type.
Enduro is an industrial Grotesk and a somewhat quirky family: while it comes in seven weights, it only comes in three widths, condensed, narrow and regular. The steps between the widths are so significant that each of them changes in character, allowing the graphic designer to play on different flavors within a coherent system.
