peppone

Peppone is a 50 year old artist living near Aix en Provence. His parents were teachers and taught him that sharing is the greatest gift in life. His studio is located in a small industrial area at the foot of the Luberon.

Among his treasures are nearly 500 albums of the adventures of Tintin, some of which only have a few dusty pages left. He feeds his collection by what he finds in attics, by sales of municipal libraries or simply by what his friends or strangers bring him. Thus, from a link of dreams and travels, the adventures of Tintin have also become for Peppone a link of meetings.

But this treasure is mostly his “Proust's madeleine” since his first copies of Tintin came from his father, at the latter's death.

Peppone explains that man is the only living being who knows he is going to die and that, to escape his condition, he reproduces, communicates and dreams; a kind of cyclical link between past, present and future.