Enki Bilal

Enki Bilal (b. 1951, Belgrade) — Franco-Serbian artist, comics author, painter, and filmmaker. Emerging from the Franco-Belgian bande dessinée tradition in the 1970s, Bilal developed a visual language of post-industrial bodies, political dystopias, synthetic skin, and damaged memory that moved progressively from the page into painting, cinema, and large-scale installation. His figures inhabit worlds of atmospheric decay and technological unease, appearing as if passing between analogue and digital states. Major works include the Nikopol Trilogy and the film Immortal (2004). His first major exhibition within the Venice Biennale context, Inbox, was presented at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in 2015.

Exhibition ephemera, printed matter, and related documents from The New Rare.

  • Original 2015 Enki Bilal Inbox exhibition postcard, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice — recto reproducing a detail from Inbox: two spectral faces rendered in Bilal's characteristic blue-grey science-fiction palette, faces upturned and partially dissolved, a thin vertical pale form dividing the composition; acrylic on canvas; figures suspended between painting, cinema still, and hallucinated image against a dark blue-grey ground Reverse of 2015 Enki Bilal Inbox exhibition postcard, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice — verso on white card stock functioning as postal announcement; Inbox in bold black on dark rectangle at upper left; By Enki Bilal; dates 08.05–02.08.2015; Fondazione Giorgio Cini / Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia–Italia; hours 10.00–19.00, Chiuso il mercoledì / Closed on Wednesday; Artcurial Briest·Poulain·F.Tajan and Fondazione Giorgio Cini logos at foot; vertical yellow-green stripe at centre with CartCom/NeoStop

    Enki Bilal — Inbox, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 2015

    Enki Bilal — Inbox, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 2015