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In the summer of 2016, an extraordinary collection of art will arrive at the Mori Arts Center Gallery from the world’s greatest art gallery, the Louvre in Paris. Four ancient civilisations from Greece and Rome right up to the Renaissance, past and present, East and West, the Louvre has sent an expansive collection to be proud of, and what is it? Of course, it’s manga.
Mori Arts Center Gallery will exhibit the “Manga is Art” themed “The Louvre Invites the Comics” exhibition from July 22 to Sept. 25, 2016. The official Japanese title of the exhibition is expected to be announced in the next few days, but after it finishes in Roppongi, the exhibition will tour to Grand Front Osaka North building Knowledge Capital Event Lab, and the Matsuzakaya Art Gallery in Nagoya.
The collection of manga which the Louvre has put together might just be a unique reflection of the medium. However, the Louvre has been advancing the Louvre BD Project since 2005 which treats various kinds of manga and French comic art, bande dessinée (BD), as works of art in which Japanese and French comics artists produce Louvre-themed pieces. The exhibition will show some of these artworks together in one place.
The exhibition features the French masters Nicolas de Crécy and Enki Bilal, and amongst them the Japanese artists Hirohiko Araki and Jiro Taniguchi. It’s an exhibition where the premier talents of Japan and France finally meet.
The high quality of the exhibition has already made it a popular topic. The pieces aren’t just published in France but some of them in Japan too.
The gallery is planning something beyond your conventional manga exhibition. Other famous Japanese authors besides Araki and Taniguchi are also expected to feature in the exhibition at a later date.
The reason for the participation of Japanese artists is that France is known even internationally for its love of Japanese manga, and Araki and Taniguchi were chosen as being artists familiar to the French audience. Also, in recent years there’s been a growing interest in French bande dessinée in Japan too. The exhibition is a symbol of the connection between France and Japan through manga.
“Manga is Art” Louvre “Manga Gallery” comes to Japan in summer 2016
(Official exhibition name to be announced soon.)
http://manga-9art.com
July 22 – Sept. 25, 2016
Mori Arts Center, Roppongi
Sponsors: Louvre, Fuji Television, Toei, Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Mori Arts Center
Source: animeanime
