{"id":5908,"date":"2020-02-14T08:03:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T07:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caurette.com\/?page_id=5908"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:09:44","slug":"los-angeles-sylvain-despretz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caurette.com\/en\/artbooks\/los-angeles-sylvain-despretz\/","title":{"rendered":"Los \u00e1ngeles – Sylvain Despretz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Announcing the release of\u00a0los angeles<\/em>, May 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/h1><\/span>

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The image of its city namesake,\u00a0Los \u00e1ngeles<\/em>\u00a0is a multifaceted book teaming with angels and gods. It\u2019s where Sylvain Despretz has lived for the past twenty years, behind the scenes and next to the mightiest of the mighty. A renowned artist who works in the shadows, he has helped pen the visions of\u00a0Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Andrei Konchalovsky, Mike Newell, Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick<\/strong>, to name a few.\u00a0Storyboards, concept art, paintings and illustration<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 his palette of talents has been deployed to bring emblematic (The Fifth Element, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Eyes Wide Shut<\/em>) and other lesser-known works to fruition.<\/p>\n

This book is neither catalogue nor instruction manual \u2013 it is both, and yet so much more. Throughout the pages the author reveals his calling \u2013 that of an artist and craftsman putting his talent to work on the dream machine that is Hollywood. Peppered with\u00a0anecdotes, observations and musings<\/strong>\u00a0on the past two decades, this book is a unique must-have for all those who are interested in\u00a0cinema, illustration and art<\/strong>\u00a0in general.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Sylvain Despretz is an independent writer-director who has worked extensively in the USA and in Europe in the fields of storyboarding and illustration. His mentor in the early part of his career was none other than the late Jean \u201cM\u0153bius\u201d Giraud, the world-renowned artist.<\/p>\n

Sylvain took his first steps as an art director in New York at the advertising agency BBDO where, over a number of years, he worked on TV spots for clients like Pepsi, Gillette and General Electric. When he moved to Hollywood, he created storyboards for director David Fincher for Madonna\u2019s\u00a0Like a Prayer\u00a0<\/em>music video, and worked alongside pop star Michael Jackson on video concepts for his\u00a0Dangerous\u00a0<\/em>album. Throughout the 1990s Sylvain also worked for director Ridley Scott and, over two decades, contributed to the development of numerous feature film projects and TV spots.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Sylvain Despretz, M\u0153bius and Ridley Scott<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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For two decades his name has been associated with several successful, high-profile films, notably\u00a0Black Hawk Down<\/span><\/span><\/em>,<\/span>\u00a0The Planet of the Apes<\/em><\/span><\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em><\/span><\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0Valerian<\/em><\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>The Fountain<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>or\u00a0Alien Resurrection<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He lives between Los Angeles, London and Paris.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis book is wonderful, it\u2019s as much an essay about cinema (what it was, what it is, what it\u2019s becoming),\u00a0his<\/em>\u00a0cinema (the one he loves), the specifics and duties of a storyboarder, as it is about the special experience of a (talented) French artist in Hollywood, with his dreams, his training, his mentors (including Moebius, as you can see below), his ambition, his ethic, his frustrations too\u2026 but it is also a beautiful scenery of an entire \u201cbody of work\u201d like the English say. No matter what Sylvain will tell you, it is truly an admirable work which could make ANYONE jealous.<\/p>\n

Sylvain is not only a great artist whose art goes way beyond the storyboards, even if that\u2019s what people tend to associate him with, but his writing is also one of the most interesting and alive and sharp that I had the pleasure to read on cinema and the creative process in a long time.\u201d Don\u2019t miss\u00a0 this book\u2019s release!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>

\u2013 Ludovic Gottigny, editor for\u00a0Rockyrama<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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