METROPOLIS by Christian Montenegro

Graphic Novels and ComicsChristian Montenegro
Written By Dutch Uncle

Christian Montenegro presents Metropolis, one of his most visually powerful works to date with over 200 illustrations: an authentic tribute to the mythical film by Fritz Lang.

Metropolis is one of the most important moments in the history of cinema and the first feature film considered a Memory of the World by UNESCO .

“Why do we treat those who with their hands built Metropolis so badly?! What if those from the deep rise up against you one day?

In this dystopia, which hits bookstores in the form of a graphic novel, the Argentine artist reissues the clash of the two worlds of the city of Metropolis: on the one hand, that of the wealthy elite who run from luminous skyscrapers and, on the another, another, that of the workers who exhaust their strength during endless days at the service of the machines.

The hard lines and the digital technique, together with the chromatic contrasts, recreate the mechanical essence and the traces of that urban labyrinth and its explosive transformation into a battlefield of lights and shadows, shapes and movements. Montenegro reproduces the graphic patterns of each scene and manages to capture in his drawings that continuous and geometric dance, characteristic of the film.

This edition, which adds a new title to our classic film series inaugurated by Potemkin , also includes an epilogue by Fernando Martín Peña, director of the film section of the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, where in 2008 he recovered a copy of the film in extended version.

The historian and archivist gives an account of this remarkable exhumation while going through the historical details of this infinite fable.

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