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Monday, February 18, 2013

Belgian Retro-Futures


Images Source: Collectors Weekly.

I09 and Collectors Weekly are reporting on Belgian Gen X artist and illustrator, Laurent Durieux, who has attracted attention for his retro-futuristic classic movie and pop art posters, inspired by Jean "Moebius" Giraud:
Laurent Durieux doesn’t actually live in a retro-futuristic world imagined by H.G. Wells and designed by Raymond Loewy, but looking at his screenprints of the past few years, you’d be forgiven for thinking he does. In Durieux’s world, gigantic robots tower over forests populated by mythical beasts such as Bigfoot and King Kong; city skies are thick with airships shaped like Snoopy, while Buck Rodgers-like vehicles whiz by on slender monorails; and movie monsters are portrayed as sensitive creatures, victims of their grotesqueries rather than revenge-fueled fiends.













 

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