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A few from Ledroit's Fees et Amazones
>Preface
>'SOLEMNLY ANNOUNCE THAT THIS IS MY PENULTIMATE preface, because requests are multiplying. Although, I must say, it is rather flattering on the part of talented artists that I love, I would not want to end with post mortem tributes, no!
>So let’s get back to life in style with Olivier Ledroit.
>Olivier is one of the many friends I have in our profession. I have an anecdote to tell you about him: he was the one who put me to bed drunk in my hotel room at the Angoulême festival, like other authors elsewhere! So, above all, he is a perfectly respectable man.
>GOOD.
>That said, Olivier's work fascinates me with his paintings and comics, with the finesse and strength, in the noble sense of the term, that emanate from his creation, with his generosity. In his art, he opens up and offers himself to us
>a vast, haunted universe, a constructed and coherent, sincere world.
>Olivier is not a liar, he is the pure soul of his work, it can be seen, it can be felt.
>It is the fact of dreaming graphically: we are magicians somewhere. Magicians of the heart, because from the hat emerges the truth, the work of a true artist.
>It is not my friendship for him that dictates these words to me, it is sincerity and the pleasure felt.
>Pleasure: something essential to those who read him and contemplate his paintings. A door to elsewhere in this, we are passers-by, brothers of the world of dreams and future reality.
>A dream built by sensitivity that fascinates, that's called talent.
>To you, my Olivier,
>Philippe Druillet
>March 2015
>Preface
>'SOLEMNLY ANNOUNCE THAT THIS IS MY PENULTIMATE preface, because requests are multiplying. Although, I must say, it is rather flattering on the part of talented artists that I love, I would not want to end with post mortem tributes, no!
>So let’s get back to life in style with Olivier Ledroit.
>Olivier is one of the many friends I have in our profession. I have an anecdote to tell you about him: he was the one who put me to bed drunk in my hotel room at the Angoulême festival, like other authors elsewhere! So, above all, he is a perfectly respectable man.
>GOOD.
>That said, Olivier's work fascinates me with his paintings and comics, with the finesse and strength, in the noble sense of the term, that emanate from his creation, with his generosity. In his art, he opens up and offers himself to us
>a vast, haunted universe, a constructed and coherent, sincere world.
>Olivier is not a liar, he is the pure soul of his work, it can be seen, it can be felt.
>It is the fact of dreaming graphically: we are magicians somewhere. Magicians of the heart, because from the hat emerges the truth, the work of a true artist.
>It is not my friendship for him that dictates these words to me, it is sincerity and the pleasure felt.
>Pleasure: something essential to those who read him and contemplate his paintings. A door to elsewhere in this, we are passers-by, brothers of the world of dreams and future reality.
>A dream built by sensitivity that fascinates, that's called talent.
>To you, my Olivier,
>Philippe Druillet
>March 2015
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