Exhibition until January 30, 2012, at the Press Club
2, Rue Rossini – Palais Alphonse Karr- Nice
Hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 2 PM to 6 PM
Kristian was born in Grenoble in 1960. His first drawing appeared in 1981 in the Dauphiné Libéré.
Today, his humorous and current events drawings, which have been the subject of over 12,000 publications in France and abroad, are published in the press and on television. He also creates posters and advertising drawings. He has designed theater set decorations and bus graphics.
His works have been exhibited at various humor salons in France, Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Spain, Estonia, Italy, Mexico, at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, the Peynet Museum in Antibes, and in numerous posters and personal exhibitions in Japan since 1996 (Tokyo, Yokoama, Fukukoa, Osaka, Nara) as well as in Colombia in 2008. One of his drawings is in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Paris.
He collaborated from the 43rd to the 47th Cannes International Film Festival, managed a weekly press review (“Kristian’s Week”) for the television news on France 3 Côte d’Azur for 13 years.
He created drawings for each match of the 1998 FIFA World Cup reproduced on t-shirts, wine bottle labels, and phone cards. He designed signage for several department stores.
As the illustrator for the Nice Carnival since 2001 (designing floats, the king, the poster), he takes on new challenges while continuing his activities with his sharp and lively sketches.
Learn more: https://kristian.cartoon.free.fr/
