Jules Magistry

Jules Magistry is an illustrator living and working from Paris. After receiving his degree in Graphic Design from LISAA, he began working for publishing houses designing and creating book layouts. However, he has recently decided to focus on something much more important to him; illustration.

Jules’ work conveys a few clear obsessions and themes: adolescence, violence, and masculinity. Dealing with adolescence provides him with the opportunity to approach violence and masculinity in a way that is as explosive as it is sensual. “Adolescence is a short period of time that is experienced as a very long, very melancholic one. Living under the weight of forces of oppression, rejection, and doubt, these boys – even as they try to love themselves – become time-bombs. Here, these male ‘gangs’ correspond to the codes of masculinity at the same time as they manipulate them – they embrace them, tenderly. They are forever trapped in this languor, in the suburbia, in the nineties” explains Jules.

Inspired by pop culture, cartoons and directors such as Gregg Araki; colours are a huge part of Jules’ creative process. Using coloured pencils after a quick blue pen draft, the technique allows him to use matter as much as colour.

Jules currently works for magazines in France including Brain Magazine and Kiblind, and has recently started working with Vice France providing illustrations for articles. He has participated in two collective exhibitions this year at the Palais de Tokyo during the Paris Ass Book Fair and at Le Hasard Ludique where he exhibited his first fanzine; Teenage Apocalypse 4. The zine can now be found at the Arts Factory in Paris and will soon be available at Printed Matter in N-Y. Jules is presently working on a big book project of his own, with more details to be revealed soon.

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