Ledroit - Lot 156

Ledroit OLIVIER LEDROIT REQUIEM CHEVALIER VAMPIRE Le Couvent des soeurs de sang (T.7), Nickel Productions 2007 Original double plate # 30-31. Signed. India ink and colored inks on paper 81 × 58.8 cm (31.89 × 23.15 in.) In Le Couvent des Soeurs de Sang (The Convent of the Sisters of the Blood), Olivier Ledroit deploys his singular, gothic, baroque and flamboyant style. His plates, saturated with metallic colors, blend mannerism, theatricality and hellish settings. Each frame, teeming with detail and symbolism, is more akin to fantastic illustration than classical narrative, but this is precisely what makes Ledroit's style unique. Stylized bodies, sculptural poses, unreal lighting, elaborate symbolism - everything in his outrageous aesthetic is fascinating. The author has created a total visual work, somewhere between macabre opera and pictorial fever. A must-see!