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Opening Reception for Ingrid Godon’s Faces
April 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FreeIngrid Godon, the illustrator of Elsewhere Editions’ I Wish, with words by Toon Tellegen, is exhibiting her work in a new show entitled Faces at C.G. Boerner. The opening reception will take place on April 22, 7:00pm-9:00pm. Refreshments will be served. The pop-up exhibition runs from April 21 to May 5.
Ingrid Godon is a Dutch children’s book illustrator. A born observer, her evocative drawings are charged with great seriousness and strangeness, with immense compassion for ordinary people. She was awarded the Boekenpauw Award and the Gouden Griffel in 2001 for her book with André Sollie, Wachten op Matroos. She also won the Boekenpauw Award in 2015 for Ik denk. Godon’s drawings in I Wish were exhibited at the museum M in Leuven and around Europe, and Godon and Tellegen’s I Wish was nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis in 2011.