Searching for Valentina The World of Guido Crepax

1965 Paris London and Milan all move at the same fast pace fueled by a fresh creative and rebellious impetus Guido Crepax picks up on this energy and transfers it to a comic strip in which art music design film and fashion all blend together breaking with traditional narrative structure The dreamy photographer Valentina becomes Crepax alter ego as lovely as Louise Brooks as disturbing as one of Lucio Fontanas slashed canvases as knowing as Bob Dylans lyrics and as freewheeling as Charlie Parkers compositions