It is not usual to find comic artists inside high art circuits such as biennales or art fairs, But this year, Massimiliano Gioni's curatorial job, brought a few surprises to the table. One of hem was the entire book of Genesis By the American Artist Robert Crumb, yes! and I mean ALL the originals.
That was definitely one of the highlights of the Arsenale.
This ambitious project is a 207 page/50 chapters, hand drawn and hand written book, it also took five years to be completed. Crumb certailnly enjoys getting inspiration from thebible stories and turning them into even a bigger satire and soap opera than it already is. If you know R. Crumb's work you probably know that he loves to deal with sex, violence a bit of dark humor, human tragedy, laughter and sometimes some crazy LSD fueled characters (this is not the case).
Just standing there watching how this 207 pages spread across the white room is overwhelming. You can feel the obsession for detail on every page, it keeps getting better. Once i left that room I just felt like going out and devouring each one of Crumb's comic books.
Here's a link to a reaaally good documentary if you want to know more about Crumb's work and life:
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