Worlds & Journeys 
Illustrations by Didier Graffet
March 29, 2009 to September 6, 2009
To celebrate the opening of the Maison d’Ailleurs’ extension, the Jules Verne Space, who is more appropriate than Didier Graffet? It is undoubtedly the most important contemporary illustrator of Jules Verne’s work and his Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, published by Gründ.
And even if he spends his days at his drawing table, Didier Graffet (born in 1970) has the soul of a long distance traveler. Encouraged by the tales of Brittany and Normandy countrysides, one can see him endorsing his wallet of pigments and brushes for going to explore the unexplored worlds, installed on frigates ready to leave to distant lands, or the mysterious island or Avalon…
Didier Graffet is fascinated by the great literary myths, that give the possibility to a large reinterpretation that belongs yet in an established tradition. His work as an illustrator is divided into several parts, all closely related to the fantastic sagas and fantasized worlds of our childhood: Nordic and Celtic mythologies (The Knights of the Round Table and The Ring of the Nibelung), actual fantasy (The Black Company and other recent fantasy books), or Jules Verne’s universe…
