Inspired by Pieter Brueghel’s engravings of the seven deadly sins, this work is a moralizing but surprisingly poetic display of constant ingenuity where men, women, animals, transformed creatures, hybrid characters, giants and phantasmagorical constructions coexist in a delirious and perfect harmony.

In Les sept péchés capitaux; apart from the ingenious beauty of Brueghel’s drawings, Antoine Roegiers is fascinated by the representation of space. Scene after scene, he travels painstakingly through each of Brueghel’s seven drawings picking out detailed components of scenery and traits of personalities which are ingeniously recreated, reinvented and reproduced in a series of ink drawings.

LES SEPT PÉCHÉS CAPITAUX (trailer)

from the drawings « The Seven Deadly Sins » by Pieter Brueghel 1559

Antoine Roegiers
music: Antoine Marroncles
1/7 with one drawing, ink on paper, 29,7 × 40,5 cm
1/1 with all drawings designed for the work (92 drawings), ink on paper, 21 x 28,2 cm.
Video Projection, Blu-ray, 18′30
2011

See all the 92 drawings designed for the movie