Last Saturday my wife and I visited the FIBD in Angoulême. I had the opportunity to meet Bernard Cosey himself, for the first time. He had a day packed with presidential obligations, but he took some time before his duties began. We walked from his hotel to his exposition, talking about the Festival, his books, my site, etcetera etcetera. A very nice meeting!
During my visit to the exposition, I met another Bernard I had also never met before, Bernard Matthey-Doret. He is probably the greatest collectionneur of Cosey works, and certainly the greatest expert when it comes to special editions and all kinds of publications. Since I started my site in 2002, there has been regular mail traffic between us: he sends me scans of new publications and I send him questions regarding images I find on the internet (in all cases he had the answer). In the afternoon, we met again, talking about Cosey’s work until a restaurant employee asked us to leave the place.
Two special meetings, beautiful expositions and a few bags with nice acquisitions to my collection: it was a very good day in Angoulême.