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Grafixx EXT.: Book Club @ Boektopia

Sun 26.10.25 - Sun 26.10.25

Lecture

in the context of Boektopia

Sunday October 26, 12:00 to 12:45
Meeting Center 3, Kortrijk Xpo

© Monday Jr.

In a live book club, Gerard Herman, Isabelle Vandenabeele Lukas Verstraete, together with Obi Mundorff, open their bookshelves and, with them, a piece of their creative souls. They talk about their own recent publications, reveal their most cherished sources of inspiration, and take a closer look at their favourite editions.

Gerard Herman

Gerard Herman (1989) woont en werkt. Graficus van opleiding, kunstenaar van beroep. Leerkracht, zanger, artistieke uitingen allerlei.

 

Isabelle Vandenabeele

Isabelle Vandenabeele often works with woodcuts and linocuts. She makes picture books, zines and posters, and occasionally creates papier-mâché figures. She sees the limitations of her techniques as a game and a challenge, through which she attempts to depict her inner world via stories and imagination. Her work is characterised by powerful lines, great expressiveness, striking colours and an intense inner tension between the images. Vandenabeele knows how to capture a story in a few key images — complex and understated at the same time. She does not shy away from touching on dark emotions. Raw and tough, direct and subtle at the same time: her images linger

 

Lukas Verstraete

Lukas Verstraete (born 1992) creates his drawings in a world populated by losers, grotesque women, and gloom. In these drawings, he expresses his doubts about human nature and, entangled in naivety, greasiness, melancholy and jolly, attempts to provide an answer to the purpose of our existence. Lukas obtained his Master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Luca School of Arts in Ghent in 2014. Since then, he has illustrated for HUMO, the New York Times, Rekto:Verso, VPRO-gids, Bahamontes, and others. In 2017, he published his first graphic novel, Een Boek Waarmee Vrienden Maakt, which was later translated into French and English. He also teaches in the Illustration studio at LUCA Ghent and Comic Strip at LUCA Brussels.

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