![]() ![]() "Sometimes it's more interesting when the text is written after the images – normally it's the other way," Paris-based Mattotti said earlier this spring during a talk at Toronto's Italian Cultural Institute gallery.īeforehand, the artist described how the idea for page after page of inky darkness first came to him a decade ago, during at trip to Patagonia, merely as a vague sense of atmosphere and emotion he wanted to explore. If the story set-up seems deliberately elliptical, it's because the images started off that way. 'This all happened a long time ago, in your grandmother's time, or in her grandfather's." That's the once-upon-a-time set-up of a haunting new Hansel & Gretel, the dark picture book by writer Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti, the Italian artist and illustrator whose work regularly graces his own books, New Yorker magazine covers, the pages of Vogue and international gallery walls. ![]()
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