Palazzo
delle Esposizioni ROME | ITALY
OCTOBER 07,
2017-JANUARY 20, 2018
The
exhibition “Mangasia: Wonderlands of Asian Comics” will present the largest
ever selection of original artworks from Asian comics, displayed alongside
their printed, mass-produced forms, much of them rarely if ever shown outside
their country of origin. The exhibition will also reveal the creative processes
that underlie their production, from scripts, sketches and layouts to finished
pages.
Curated by
Paul Gravett and a team of over twenty advisors, “Mangasia: Wonderlands of
Asian Comics” will survey the entire realm of this new comics continent of
‘Mangasia’, through artwork from Japan, North and South Korea, India, China,
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines and Singapore, as well
as emerging comics cultures in Bhutan, Cambodia, East Timor, Mongolia and
Vietnam. Thematic sections will contrast the diversity of fantastical folklore,
real history and daring experimentation in comics from across the whole region.
The exhibition will explore precursors of comics found in Asia’s visual
narrative traditions and also their continuing impact beyond the printed page
on live-action and animated film and television, music, games, fashion and
contemporary art.
Address:
Via
Nazionale 194 , Rome, Italy 00184
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