SEMPE FUNAMBULE
Solitude or multitude? Jean-Jacques Sempé constructs most of his drawings by staging his characters absorbed by the crowd or freely lonely. Here the tightrope walker, symbol of the solitude between heaven and earth, is closely followed by a whole agglutinated mass. A comic gathering, like birds perched high up on electric wires, sign of a sudden need to find a balance between being alone... and (badly) accompanied.