For several years now, Soledad has been collaborating with Image Republic, creating a very colourful collection of feminine illustrations.

A stolen moment from a dance class, where the clumsy chatter of the "little rats" escapes from the window. Passionate about music, Jean-Jacques Sempé regularly represents its corollary: dance, in its surge of freedom and lightness. However, the rigour of the disciplined ballerinas is in stark contrast to the graffiti of little rascals... who no longer know which foot to dance on. 

Jean-Jacques Sempé's tiny characters always seem to move in an environment that is not at their scale. The draftsman thus plays with these contrasts, as here with the flute player in the center of a gigantic apartment. A dictatorship of excess that the little girl would be the only one to challenge, because she doesn't need that to be up to scratch.

For several years now, Soledad has been collaborating with Image Republic, creating a very colourful collection of feminine illustrations.

On July 29, 2024, to mark the opening of the Paris Olympic Games, Paul Rogers pays tribute to the iconic Monsieur Hulot, the free-spirited and eccentric character created by French filmmaker Jacques Tati. Through this illustration, he celebrates a certain joy of living and French elegance.

Hulot is depicted with a pipe in his mouth and a hat firmly on his head, riding his Solex while holding up the Olympic flame, as if moving on the fringes of the world's chaos. Beside him, little Gérard seems to embody the amazed gaze of a spectator discovering Paris for the first time.

This scene, directly inspired by the film Mon Oncle, perfectly captures the charm and poetry of Tati’s universe.

Whether they are amateurs or virtuosos, soloists or members of an orchestra, at home or in the spotlight of the stage, musicians remain a subject dear to Jean-Jacques Sempé. Passionate about jazz, the artist continues to take piano lessons to this day. Beyond music, he cultivates an almost intimate relationship with his instrument, made of memories of his friends who played on it, like an indelible melodic imprint on the keys.

Côte d'Azur, land of contrasts and summer paradoxes. From the pool to the sea, red rocks and tanned skin are combined with incandescent white. Monsieur Z invites us to summer, to the edge of infinity or to just a good book.

Paulo Mariotti takes us to Rio de Janeiro, with the enigmatic panorama of Guanabara Bay where buildings and rocks seem to compete for access to the open sea. Between swarming piles and confrontation of reliefs, the Brazilian illustrator lets our gaze float on this vertiginous coastline nibbled by urbanization. The composition even comes to tame the Sugar Loaf, this giant granite block both resisting the onslaught of the city and perched to contemplate the horizon. A landscape of sensations between suffocation and breath of air, not to forget to go up there, if you go to Rio.