"This is a singular book. As soon as you turn the beautiful blue and black cover, you are drawn into these long nocturnal pages that invite contemplation and silence. Is it the paper-cut technique that gives them a scent of childhood?
Simple and elegant motifs compose large silent images. Each one is like a painting, but, page after page, they weave together a poetic and mysterious narrative. There is a couple in love, fireflies shining in the tall grass, and a luminous child who is born and grows.
From field animals to lonely men in big cities, he casts his gaze upon the world, without forgetting to contemplate the sky."
Victor Macé de Lépinay, Le Pèlerin
"There is 'éclat' (brilliance) in 'lueur' (glow), and it is like a light that shatters and abandons its fragments to the air. There is 'nuit' (night) in 'lueur'—a night dotted with fine gold. As darkness falls, a path emerges between silhouettes and mountains, between rocks and what one perceives of a wind. Two bodies find each other, then a child is born of them and the night, both invisible and dazzling. From its eyes and hands soon arise the shadowless forms of a world that moves at the speed of light. There is 'déchirure' (tear) in 'lueur,' cuts and cut-outs, collages and superimpositions. Echoing the child observing what is being created, Adrien Demont unfolds his night and gives it the choice of silence or exposure, desert or city, ground or space. His glows are tiny and infinite—diamonds, circles, lines, and other minimal motifs respond to immensity, beyond the conceivable, where the eye so rarely ventures. And the publisher plays the goldsmith, refining the object-night; and the author invents himself as a choreographer of sparks."
Cathia Engelbach, dBD
"The beautiful landscape format is a sublime setting for this magnificent story between poetry and dream. The graphic part, made of collages and cut-outs, gives an original tone to the story.
This singular initiatory journey impresses with the beauty of its graphics and its invitation to contemplation!"
Comixtrip
"Once the sun sets, glows awaken in the darkness. Those of stars, fireflies, lighthouses, streetlights, amusement parks, but also – more unexpectedly – of a phosphorescent baby. A cryptic adventure begins, assembled by Adrien Demont using cut paper and cardboard. In a landscape format, its pages are full of textured effects, layering plays, beautifully mixing black, blue, yellow – sometimes red."
Marius Jouanny, Casemate
"In the elegant setting of a landscape format, the plates reveal meticulous work based on collages, cut-outs, and scalpel incisions of paper and cardboard. The result of this original graphic score impresses with its eye-catching rendering, its play with material, shapes, superimpositions, and colors. [...]
An unusual album, Lueurs offers a beautiful journey to discover at Éditions de la Cerise. A magical and captivating read."
M. Natali, BDGest’
