Swiss designer Leonie Bischoff worked for eight years on the album dedicated to the American author. We reveal the years of training of an artist who reveals himself, as shown in this latest sequence we published.
It took eight years for Leonie Bischoff to bring into the picture not the life of sulphurous Anais Nin, but the years of her training that led to her artistic flowering, as an echo of Leonie Bischoff’s career. Using colored pencils, the designer thus “materialized” the fantasy of the writer, the sensuality of his language, the many facets of his personality, who grew up between two continents and three languages and felt alienated from himself for a long time. patriarchal society. Anais Nin describes how the diarist, married for several years to banker Hugo Giller, meets Henry Miller, who introduces her to sexual freedom and becomes her privileged partner in literature; far from being a mere muse, she exchanges with him as an equal, and they dialogue. their entire lives. Between Art Nouveau and Art Deco, which were very fashionable movements in Paris in the 1930s, this magnificent nautical and floral album covers the pioneering journey of auto-fantasy, erotic literature and polyamory, of which three pages. that we publish describes a path to culmination. after many twists and turns, Anais Nin has found her place as a lover and as a creator.
Source: Le Figaro
