Benoit Mouchart

Born on July 20, 1976, Benoit Mouchart is an author, curator and, since 2003, artistic director of the cultural programming of Angouleme International Comics Festival, in France.

After having obtained in 1999 a masters of Literature in the Sorbonne (Paris IV), he becomes French professor for high school programme, intend to devote itself to journalism. Critic (“Bang!” and “9e art”), he contributes its share to the special issues devoted to the comics of the French magazines “Géo”, “Télérama”, “Science et Vie” and “Beaux-arts magazine”. He is also the author of several books, of which an investigation into the ghost writer of the Belgian school Jacques Van Melkebeke and, in collaboration with François Rivière, a biography of the creator of “Blake and Mortimer”, Edgar P. Jacobs. Since 2004, he animates the two-monthly meetings "the territories of the comic strip" for the BPI of the Pompidou Center. With Areski Belkacem and Zep, he developed also the original concept of the “Concert de dessins” (‘concerts of drawings’), who propose creation, on live, on large screen and in music, of an original comic strip… Under its artistic direction, the Festival of Angouleme considerably consolidated its opening to the international scene and the young creation, while producing a great number of events apart from Angoulême, in particular with Paris (exhibitions produced for the Musée de l’Homme, Mondial de l’automobile or Jardin d’acclimatation). Especially, Benoit Mouchart knows to cross arts, through exhibitions, meetings and spectacles where the comics are confronted, without any complex, with other artistic forms: music, cinema, literature, contemporary art, inter alia. Author of an essay about the French novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette, he publishes in 2008 a monograph devoted to the French singer and poet Brigitte Fontaine.

Bibliography

* "Brigitte Fontaine, intérieur/extérieur", éditions Panama-Archimbaud, 2006 ISBN 2-755-70067-X
* "Manchette, le nouveau roman noir", éditions Séguier-Archimbaud, 2006 ISBN 2-840-49495-7
* "Portraits de famille", avec Zep, éditions Christian Desbois, 2006 ISBN 2-910-15031-3
* "La bande dessinée", coll. Idées reçues, éditions Le cavalier bleu, 2004 ISBN 2-846-70071-0
* "Nous Tintin", ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Michel Daubert, éditions Moulinsart, 2004 ISBN 2-874-24050-8
* "Primé à Angoulême", ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Thierry Groensteen, éditions de l'an 2, 2003 ISBN 2-848-56003-7
* "La bande dessinée part en voyage", ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Jean-Luc Marty, éditions Casterman, 2003 ISBN 2-203-37004-1
* "La Damnation d'Edgar P. Jacobs", avec François Rivière, éditions Seuil-Archimbaud, 2003 et coll. Points Seuil Essais, 2006 ISBN 2-020-60530-9 et ISBN 2-020-85505-4
* "A l'ombre de la ligne claire", éditions Vertige graphic, 2002 ISBN 2-908-98171-8
* "Martin Veyron, faiseur d’histoires", éditions du Musée de la bande dessinée, 2002 ISBN 2-907-84832-1
* "Michel Greg, dialogues sans bulles", éditions Dargaud, 1999 ISBN 2-205-04786-8

Exhibitions

* "Comics World Expo, volet 1" (produced in Angoulême, 2007).
* "Jules Verne, images d’un imaginaire" (produced in Nantes, Shanghai, Seoul and Angoulême, 2006).
* "La nouvelle bande dessinée finlandaise" (produced in Angoulême, 2006).
* "Le Monde de Zep" (produced in CNBDI’s Angoulême, and in Paris, Jardin d'acclimatation, 2005)
* "Blake et Mortimer" (produced in Paris, La Chaux de Fonds (CH), Angoulême, Poitiers, Ajaccio, 2004, 2005 and 2006)
* "La science-fiction dans la bande dessinée" (produced in Futuroscope de Poitiers, 2004-2007)
* "Dave Cooper, anamorphoses" (produced in Angoulême and in the Centre culturel canadien in Paris, 2005)
* "ABCDEF… Greg !" (produced in Angoulême, 1999)
* "Johan De Moor" (produced in Rambouillet, 1997)
* "Tintin, mythe du XXe siècle" (produced in Rambouillet, 1995)