The press drawing house in Morges (VD) offers on Saturday and until October 26 to survey the spaces of endangered species particularly in Switzerland with humor. Go to mountain pastures, forests, countryside, lakes to meet wolves, lynxes, bees, fish that animate biodiversity, but also elsewhere with sperm whales and polar bears.
In the midst of this animal fauna, another threat slips into the exhibition, the one hanging over the press, a burning subject marked by artificial intelligence. “Through more than a hundred drawings, the press drawing house explores these questions with sagacity and humor,” said its managers in a statement. “A committed exhibition that meets artistic looks and current ecological issues in Switzerland”, they sum up.
Chappatte, Barrigue, Bénédicte, etc.
Among the Swiss press cartoonists, sensitive to the animal world and engaged in the questions of biodiversity, the public will find Alex, Barrigue, Ben, Bénédicte, Caro, Chappatte, Dam, Herrmann, Debuhme, Mibé, Pigr, Pitch, Peter Schrank, Swen, Vincent, Vincent, Vincent L’Epée and Tony.
The stories of the French Ulysse Gry and Coco are also highlighted. The first, journalist illustrator, published under the name Ulys in 2019 on the Mediapart site “the endangered species”. The second, well known to readers of Charlie Hebdo and Liberation, published in 2024 “poor animals! Travel to the heart of the animal condition”.
The exhibition is also supplemented by the drawings that participated in the Burki Prize on the same theme “Threatened species”. On all the drawings received, fifteen have been selected, including those of the three winners, Nina Thomas, Elmax and Shizuo Nathaniel Miyuki Maillard.
Why this title?
“The objective of this exhibition is as always to stay in touch with news. With an anxiety-provoking international climate where war threats compete for climate change and population movement, biodiversity and thereby the survival of species is a speaking subject,” explain the managers of the house. But what species are we talking about? It is this question that is explored through press drawings.
“We have decided to remain focused on both temporal and geographic proximity. Thus, animals reintroduced such as the wolf, the lynx, the bear or the beaver undergo today regulatory laws accredited by fire. For their part, the bees are scarce, decimated both by pesticides and by the invasion of Asian hornets”, it is explained.
Some will say that these species are not always classified as “threatened” in the strict sense. So why this title? “Because beyond their official status, these species are symbolically, politically or media threatened, and this in the singular, to strengthen the specificity of each species. The wolf divides, the worried bee, the whale fascinates and the birds disappear without noise”, answer the organizers.
This article was published automatically. Source: ATS