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Hippolyte Hentgen

“Marble canyon” 2019

Exhibition view at Centre d’art Les Capucins, Embruns

Cur: Solen Morel & Karine Schlagater

photo: Frederique Deladerriere

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gonna cook so many things next week!!!!!!! i am too excited!!!!!!

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Subject: Barbatos (Barb) Art: Kam @hello-archivist Writing: Reid (Solen) (ID: A page titled ‘Barbatos (Barb)’ containing multiple illustrations. In the center is an illustration of Barb, a devil with broken horns and bandages over his eyes. Blood is dripping from the bandages. He has short hair and a scruffy goatee, and is wearing a bellhop uniform. the sleeves of the uniform are decorated with hearts and diamonds and cards are tucked up each sleeve. The text to the side of his right arm says “ace of spades” and the label on the left says “king of diamonds”. In the upper left there is an illustration of three cards, labeled ‘Personal Cards’. The top is the Ace of Pines, with an illustration of a black pine tree covered in red eyes. The bottom left is the Six of Shadows, which shows a silhouetted Night Gaunt in front of the full moon, over a forest of black pines with eyes. The bottom right is the Eight of Masks, which shows two masks positioned to mirror each other vertically. The top mask is a white mask with two red eyes, the bottom is a black mask with red eyes all over. the masks share a set of fangs, and are shaped like dog faces. In the upper right there is a key with a red diamond-shaped fob. The writing on the fob says ‘Room 17 The Resting Place’. The drawing is labeled ‘Proprietor of the Resting Place Hotel. Location: The Hallowoods’ There is a slightly crumpled note taped into the bottom left corner of the page which says *Advise agains making deals with during a game of cards*. The text is underlined emphatically.

The second page is written in blocky, all-caps handwriting, titled ‘Barbatos (Barb) followed by the below text:  Dangerous? Uncertain (not enough information to tell quite yet) Sentient? Full sentience- can be reasoned with

Values: creature comforts (high end whiskey, good music, cigarettes, a comfortable bed)The success of the resting place (takes his responsibilities as proprietor very seriously. He's a very gracious host  - but if you gamble with him, just be careful not to put more on the table than you're willing to part with) Cares about his friends (seems close with the countess and the diamond rider in particular)

Encounter location: the resting place hotel (see previous entry)

Description: a man (not quite sure what he is - requires further investigation) of about average size. Wears a stereotypical bellhop uniform, hat and all. He keeps a gauze bandage over his eyes which seemed to be bleeding through my entire visit to the resting place (might never stop?). Has two broken horns on his head that look to be constantly on fire.

Abilities: very good at cards (a bit too good. I've played my share of poker games in my time, and there's no way anyone would be that lucky without manipulating the cards at least a little). He's not able to see in a traditional sense, but he's gotta have some alternate vision if he's able to recognize the cards in his hand. Based on that and the flaming horns, I’d assume he'd have some sort of other abilities as well, but I hadn't seen evidence of them in the short time I was there.

Connections: The Countess, the Diamond Hound and the Diamond Rider (calls him Dimes), the Quilt, Mx Morell, Zorgelleck, Ricou (seems to have found his way out of his contract. Good for him) Many of the sentient (and partially sentient) creatures of the Hallowoods can be found here at some point or another. Barb claims to know everyone in this neck of the woods, although I reckon that's a bit of an exaggeration.)