Two figures stand well back from a barbecue that has clearly got away from them, the flame taller than the cook, the lawn impossibly green. Simon Bailly draws a French summer the way it is actually remembered, slightly out of hand.
The joke lands in half a second and keeps working after that — the posture of the man holding the tongs tells the whole story. It is the print people stop in front of in a kitchen.
Risograph-printed in Lyon by KIBLIND Atelier, the print studio attached to the French illustration magazine KIBLIND, on Munken Print White paper. Risography is a semi-artisanal process: colours, flat areas and screens shift slightly from one copy to the next, so no two prints are quite identical.
A3 is a standard frame size, so framing costs the price of a frame and ten minutes. We hang these in threes above a desk, or lean one on a shelf and change it when the mood turns. It arrives flat, wrapped, with a rigid board behind it.
