Horfee has dipped his interest in the early, early years of Disney animation; even his innovative and legendary graffiti work was soaked in a 1940's Walt Disney aesthetic, albeit with a little psychedelics thrown in. Now known as Antwan Horfee, the French artist's beautiful exhibition Fantasia at Ceysson-Benetière in Lyon is an accumulation of so much of where he has thrown his work into over the years; how to create motion in work, how to free-frame a single-cel from an animation and create the action of seeing and moving. In many ways, where Horfee may have looked at character design in past works, he now owes so much of his visionary works to backgrounds, the sets that famed animations rest upon, where the gallery notes his references include the highly influential Don Bluth (from whom we have Fievel and Brisby); the virtuoso of humour Chuck Jones, renowned for his sets and rhythm in animation; Eyvind Earle and his emblematic forests from Sleeping Beauty, 1959. Horfee has looked at the autonomous act of painting backdrops in animation and brought it to the forefront here, right where it feels they should always be. —Evan Pricco