Apart from mosquitoes and a certain mentally disturbed painter, Arles seems to have the gift of attracting Belgian publishers and Swiss billionaires. Let us welcome Hubert Nyssen (1925-2011) and Acts Sud, pioneers in the first register, and welcome Vera Michalski, who launched, three years ago, the drawing festival. President of the Libella editorial group (Phebus, Buchet-Chastel, black on white editions), created in 1987 with her late husband, Jan Michalski (Les Cahiers drawn, Favre, Libretto, Photosyntheses, Delpire …), she is also the daughter of Luc Hoffmann (1923-2016), a famous ornithologist-he was one of the founders of WWF- Basel pharmaceutical laboratories fallen very early in love with the Camargue, where her four children grew. Two of them hold the spotlight in town: Maja, who created the Luma Foundation, and Vera.
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The latter entrusted the artistic direction of the festival to one of its house authors, the Franco-Swiss Frédéric Pajak, creator of the drawn notebooks and crazy drawing writer. She had a hollow nose: we have rarely faced such a proliferation of proposals, dispersed in a dozen places throughout the city, some disturbing, others unexpected, all exciting.
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