{"product_id":"tarwar-ilan-manouach-nero-1","title":"Tarwar | Ilan Manouach (Nero)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeta comics !\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-8 col-resume\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-block d-md-none\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mt-4\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accroche\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003eAn extensive and sophisticated exploration of a recurring theme in global comics—black box—which the artist has gathered and reorganized into a large-scale, collective, transtemporal and transgeographic narrative.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003eIlan Manouach's \u003cem\u003eTarwar\u003c\/em\u003e expands upon the author's earlier \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lespressesdureel.com\/EN\/ouvrage.php?id=7825\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, but broadens its scope to explore global comics. By leveraging computer vision technologies to study thousands of comics from diverse cultures, \u003cem\u003eTarwar\u003c\/em\u003e zeroes in on one recurring visual element: the black panel. These iconic elements, discovered in comics across genres and regions and cultural context all over the world, prompt reflection and signify narrative pauses, often evoking themes of introspection and suspense. Embracing the universality of this motif, \u003cem\u003eTarwar\u003c\/em\u003e, entirely composed by black panels, reveals how comics serve as a shared language that transcends geographic, cultural, and stylistic boundaries, creating a collective narrative experience in a globalized world.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"note\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003eIlan Manouach (born 1980 in Athens, lives and works in Athens and Brussels) is a musician, a book publisher and a multidisciplinary artist with a specific interest in conceptual and post-digital \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lespressesdureel.com\/EN\/index_theme.php?id=1083\u0026amp;menu=4\"\u003ecomics\u003c\/a\u003e. He currently holds a PhD researcher position at the Aalto University in Helsinki (adv. Craig Dworkin) where he examines the intersections of contemporary comics, art and poetry. His work claims for the importance of comics as a materially self-reflexive medium, unaffiliated to any general art history. He has more than twenty published bookworks under his belt, solo exhibitions to important comics events worldwide. He is mostly known for Shapereader, a tactile system of communication for comics artists with visual disabilities. His work has been written about in \u003cem\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWired\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Comics Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003edu9\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e50watts\u003c\/em\u003e and Kenneth Goldsmith's \u003cem\u003eWasting Time on the Internet\u003c\/em\u003e and his works are also part of the Ubuweb online contemporary art archive. He is the director of Futures of Comics, an international research program that explores how comics are undergoing historic mutations in the midst of increasingly financialized, globalized technological affordances and proposes to map the social, economic, racial and gendered forces that shape the industry's commercial, communication and production routines. It took place in 2019 during the Fumetto Comics Festival. He was the curator of the Festival Shadow Libraries: Ubuweb in Athens, that proposed to examine the uses of the archive in regards to artistic production and explore the conceptual consistency and the ethics of digital preservation and distribution in web libraries, through the lens of its users and makers. The festival consisted of two symposia, four workshops, an exhibition of media works and a 24h video programme and took place in the Onassis Cultural Centre in March 2018.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-4 col-infotech\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"separationTitre\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003epublished in October 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\" itemprop=\"inLanguage\"\u003equadrilingual edition (English \/ Spanish \/ French \/ Japanese)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003e16,5 x 24 cm (hardcover)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\" itemprop=\"numberOfPages\"\u003e120 pages (ill.)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"separationTitre\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"separationTitre\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003eISBN : \u003cspan itemprop=\"isbn\"\u003e978-88-8056-299-3\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003eEAN : \u003cspan itemprop=\"ean\"\u003e9788880562993\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beuys on Sale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53075179340043,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2031\/1055\/files\/52118F1A-335B-4553-A123-00917B98B460.jpg?v=1762948289","url":"https:\/\/beuysonsale.com\/products\/tarwar-ilan-manouach-nero-1","provider":"beuysonsale.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}