There are people in the aisles of the International Caricature, Press Cartoon and Humor Show in Saint-Just-le-Martel. There 43rd edition has been open to the public since September 28 and will last until October 6.
A show where we “meet people who have enormous talent”
Many visitors come to meet the cartoonists, like Léa who appreciates “power talk with the artists“. Cartoonists willingly play the game. This is the case of Élise, a caricaturist for around twenty years: “cartoonists tend to work alone in their corner and it’s an opportunity to all get together and it’s really good“.
“We all meet again“, agrees Hours, a regular at the event. For him, the Show is also an opportunity”to expose our problems” of cartoonists. Behind his table, Gines draws. Both a caricaturist and a painter, he appreciates the atmosphere of Saint-Just-le-Martel: “the fun, the conviviality, the simplicity, the talent, because we meet people who have enormous talent and the international side of things“. Cartoonists from all over the world are exhibited. Didier and Dominique traveled from Creuse: “We’ve been coming for years, we still enjoy it so much“, explains Didier. “There are times, we laugh at the caricatures“, adds Dominique.
“Tignous Forever”, an exhibition paying tribute to “a great designer and a great contemporary artist”
This year, the Caricature and Press Cartoon Show is hosting the exhibition “Tignous Forever“, in tribute to the cartoonist killed during the attack on Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015. Drawings as well as the designer’s office are exposed. A desk full of drawings, “These are drafts, tests… and they are everywhere… The trash can is obviously full, but on the floor there are also everywhere“, describes Sébastien Peaudecerf, co-president of the Salon. “When you know that they are originals and when you know the signature, it’s still impressive“, adds Philippe Henry, also co-president of the event. Tignous’ office resonates with that of Wolinski, another Charlie Hebdo cartoonist killed on January 7, 2015, installed a few meters further away for several years
The curator of the exhibition is Chloé Verlhac, Tignous’s partner. She explains the choice to recreate the designer’s office: “if we want to tell him, we have to have something of him, with his little mess, his photos, his emotion“. “Every decision we made, every way we exposed everything tell a story“, adds Chloé Verlhac. Thus, the characters reproduced in large scale are there because Tignous “had a degree in interior architecture” and said: “Me, my guys, you can enlarge them infinitely. The proportions are right and they stand upright“.
The exhibition is visible until August 14, 2025 and throughout the duration of the Saint-Just-le-Martel International Caricature, Press Cartoon and Humor Exhibition which ends on Sunday.
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