The book itself is a gorgeous and carefully made object, with a black floral motif on its pages’ decorated borders, along with abundant red drop caps and tall, round gray page numbers. This newest version of “Hansel and Gretel” astonishes from start to finish. In 2014, Lorenzo Mattotti colaborate with Neil Gaiman who written with a devastating spareness an new version of «Hansel and Gretel», fearsomely illustrated in shades of black by Mattotti.

He collaborated with Lou Reed in re-imaging Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. Mattotti won an Eisner Award for his graphic novel Dr. “Doing fashion illustrations is part of my work, but for me it’s all about women,” Lorenzo Mattotti, the artist behind this week’s cover, says.ĭefinitelly, he’s recognized as one of the most outstanding international exponents of comics art. Recently he worked in the Film «Eros» of Wong Kar Way – Soderbergh et Antonioni, he creates the segments within the three episodes. He realized many important posters: Cannes 2000 – «Lire en Fête» «La Marie de Paris». In 1995, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome and The Frans Hals Museum in Harlem dedicated an anthology to him. He has carried out advertising campaigns and has illustrated the cover of such magazines as The New Yorker, Le Monde and Suddeutsche Zeitung.

Mattotti has also worked in the fashion world, reinterpreting the models of the most famous fashion designers for «Vanity» magazine.

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