Cartoonmuseum Basel

Sunday guided tour, Sunday, 30.6.2024, 2pm–3pm

A guided tour through the exhibition: Since the late 1970s, Richard McGuire has created a multidisciplinary body of work combining comics, music, graphics, illustration, animation and installations. Then and There, Here and Now reveals the diversity and richness of his output, tracing the extraordinary career of an unclassifiable artist.

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Image: © Richard McGuire, 'Here', Pantheon (Hg.), 2014

Register now online on our website: Summer Workshop, 'No comic without noise!', Wednesday, 3./10./31.7.2024, 2pm–5pm

Artist Richard McGuire has been inspired by the noises, voices and sounds that came through the eleven windows of his house during the pandemic lockdown. We have prepared a soundscape - prick up your ears and develop a short comic from what you hear. With afternoon snack.

© Richard McGuire, «Noise New York», The New Yorker 2019

https://cartoonmuseum.ch/veranstaltungen/kein-comic-ohne-krach

Last week Cartoonmuseum Basel once again had a stand at ‘I Never Read’, Art Book Fair Basel, where we presented this new publication of Richard McGuire together with the publisher Christoph Merian Verlag. The American artist also attended the book launch at Kaserne Basel, where he personally signed guests’ favourite publications and chatted with many fans.

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Meet the artist 'Talk and Sound', Basel Social Club, Thursday, 13.6.2024, 7pm

From the museum to a farm: Richard McGuire will present his publication at Basel Social Club’s extraordinary exhibition space on the countryside – surrounded by music.
Location: Predigerhof, Basel

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Richard McGuire zu Gast während der Art Basel:

Buchvernissage mit Richard McGuire
I Never Read
Mittwoch, 12.6.2024, 18 Uhr
Ort: Kaserne Basel

Meet the artist «Wort und Ton»
Basel Social Club
Donnerstag, 13.6.2024, 19 Uhr
Ort: Predigerhof

Foto: Derek Li Wan Po

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Im Cartoonmuseum Basel ist die Ausstellung zu Richard McGuire eröffnet worden. Der US-amerikanische Künstler ist ein wahres Multitalent, wie dieser Beitrag von SRF Kultur sicht- und hörbar macht. Bereits 1982 hatte er als Bassist der Post-Punk-Band «Liquid Liquid» ein Konzert in der Schweiz gegeben.

Die Ausstellung im Cartoonmuseum Basel zeigt, wie wichtig ihm Musik und Geräusche in seinem künstlerischen Schaffen sind. So übersetzen beispielsweise seine neusten Arbeiten Vogelgesänge in abstrakte Bilder. SRF Kultur bringt es auf den Punkt: «Wer die Bilder sieht, weiss sofort, wie das klingt».

Den ganzen Beitrag hier lesen und hören: https://www.srf.ch/kultur/literatur/ausstellung-im-cartoonmuseum-comic-zeichner-richard-mcguire-macht-aus-sounds-geniale-bilder

Die Ausstellung im Cartoonmuseum dauert bis 3.11.2024.

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Richard McGuire: Then and There, Here and Now - e-flux Agenda The Centre for Narrative Art welcomes Richard McGuire to Basel

*Special events with the new catalogue of Richard McGuire during Art Basel*

1) Book release with Richard McGuire
, Wednesday, 12.6.2024, 6pm

2) Meet the artist 'Talk and Sound' .social.club,
Thursday, 13.6.2024, 7pm

Born in New Jersey in 1957, Richard McGuire studied art at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, some
60 kilometers from New York City. "I was regularly between the two cities, as I sometimes worked in galleries during my studies," he says. "Of course, I couldn’t escape the graffiti that covered the subway trains. The art scene at the time consisted mainly of conceptual and performance art, and it didn’t seem as exciting as what was happening in the streets." Interview between Richard McGuire and Vincent Tuset-Anrès (2020 ongoing)

Catalogue: 'Richard McGuire. Then and There, Here and Now', Cartoonmuseum Basel (Ed.); Vincent Tuset-Anrès, Anette Gehrig, Richard McGuire; Christoph Merian Verlag 2024

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Do not miss the opening of the exhibition 'Richard McGuire. Then and There, Here and Now' today: Friday, 7.6.2024, 6.30pm–9pm

Celebration with speeches, music and aperitif, you and your friends are cordially invited. and afterparty

In 1982, Richard McGuire was on stage with Liquid Liquid at Basel’s ‘Totentanz’ (Katakombe). He is now returning to this city for the exhibition at Cartoonmuseum Basel and will stay another week during Art Basel. Several events in June will offer an opportunity to get to know this artist and his work. Check out our events online on our website: https://cartoonmuseum.ch/en/veranstaltungen

See you on Friday for the opening and afterparty of the exhibition 'Richard McGuire. Then and There, Here and Now', Friday, 6.7.2024, 6.30pm

Are you ready for a big party? Richard McGuire is coming to town! After the evening at the museum we invite you cordially to the afterparty at Renée in Basel with the DJs PW Tobi & DJ Pult. They will play music in the spirit of McGuire's dance-punk band Liquid Liquid.

📷Portrait Richard McGuire © Tony Cenicola/The New York Times, 2018

Only one week left for the big opening of ‘Richard McGuire. Then and There, Here and Now’, Friday, 7.6.2024, 6.30pm–9pm

With Richard McGuire, artist and cartoonist, Beacon (USA), Vincent Tuset-Anrès, co-editor and co-author of the publication, director of Fotokino, Marseille (FR), and Anette Gehrig, director and curator of Cartoonmuseum Basel
Music: PW Tobi & DJ Pult
Afterparty at Renée, Basel

‘La BD à tous les étages’ au Centre Pompidou, Paris
29 May - 4 Nov 2024

Yesterday was the big opening of a great exhibition project at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Organized in all the spaces it is an exceptional celebration of the 9th art that explores this form of artistic expression in all its diversity.

A lot of artists Cartoonmuseum Basel has shown in the last years, came together in the French capital to honour the Narrative Art. From our last exhibition for Dominique Goblet or for Catherine Meurisse in 2021, art works by Will Eisner we dedicated a show last year or Richard McGuire was also present whom our next exhibition is devoted. You can discover a lot of names from our programme in this group exhibition. And Chris Ware was honoured in France – stay tuned! Do not miss this amazing opportunity to see all those art works together in the heart of Paris.

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***Special opening hours and closing event in the last week of the exhibition***

The museum is open this Monday, 20.5.2024 and do not miss the curator guided tour with Anette Gehrig and artist Dominique Goblet on the last day of the exhibiton on Sunday, 26.5.2024, 2pm.

📷Photo: Derek Li Wan Po

The museum is open during the holidays! Hope to welcome you soon at Cartoonmuseum Basel - Centre for Narrative Art with the exhibition 'Dominique Goblet. Abysses' until 26.5.2024.

© Dominique Goblet, Cover of 'Souvenir d'une journée parfaite', Fremok (2017)

Festival Central Vapeur 14
24.4.-19.5.2024
Coop Strasbourg Grand Est

Vite vite à la gare: Do not miss this festival in Strasbourg! Central Vapeur invited Dominique Goblet last year and she created ‘Les deux cercles‘ with the artist Nygel Panasco in 2023. The series from 2023 comprises drawings on the theme of womanhood, created in dialogue with French-Cameroonian artist Panasco. In this series, which is also where our exhibition poster’s motif came from, the figure of the majorette appears: a female leader who is often seen in Dominique Goblet’s oeuvre, symbolising the artist’s commitment to gender equality. And this Sunday you can have a walk through the current exhibition ‘Dominique Goblet. Abysses‘ at Cartoonmuseum Basel.

For the first time, a French city has been designated World Book Capital by UNESCO, for a period of one year from April 2024. That’s why the Central Vapeur festival and Les Rencontres de l’Illustration are taking place so late in Strasbourg. There will be exhibitions, concerts, professional meetings, workshops, mixes and drag shows in all kinds of venues. Amusez-vous bien!

✨ Your festival ticket from Strasbourg allows reduced admission to the museum in Basel! ✨

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Image 2: © Dominique Goblet, ‘Les deux cercles‘, 2023

Dominique Goblet’s work revolves around the complexity of being a woman and of femininity in a male-dominated society. For years, the artist has been frequently meeting up with women, to have conversations while walking in
the woods. This artistic practice, which Dominique Goblet calls ‘Projet commun’, is a ritual in which her companions, who are all aged forty and above, tell the artist their histories and what they have experienced in their
lives. Each walk ends with a cleansing act, whereby the women undress among the trees, thus encountering their bodies anew in a poetic and sensual way.

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Cartoon Sunday ‘Fibbing or lying?’, Sunday, 21.4.2024, 2pm–4pm

Lying is a skill. Your stories do not have to be true. This Sunday you can attempt on our workshop with your family and friends. It is all about storytelling. Register now and create your own comic the workshop is inspired by a work of Dominique Goblet. ‘Faire semblant c’est mentir’ (Pretending is Lying) is an unsettling and sensuous story that depicts Dominique Goblet’s childhood, along with the effects of the pressure and violence to which her alcoholic father subjected the family. Four separate but interwoven stories generate a multifacetedness and ambivalence, within which, different ‘truths’ collide.

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