KAB Event - From Hand to Hand: Picture Book Authors’ Messages for Children— Remembering 3.11

From Hand to Hand: Picture Book Authors’ Messages for Children— Remembering 3.11

Kyoto International Manga Museum

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This exhibition shows a collection of works gathered by Japanese picture book artists who have asked their colleagues to draw illustrations based on the theme of “thinking about our future in a world after 3.11”. Since the project started in Bologna, Italy in March of 2012, it has travelled to five countries, with many artists participated after another call for works in 2013. Original drawings by 110 artists from seven countries conveying messages to the children of the future are on display. At the venue you can see not just the exhibited works (143 original illustrations and nine reproductions), but also a corner with picture books by the exhibiting artists, as well as “The Picture Book Artists’ Guernica,” a collaborative live painting measuring 180 cm in height and 540 cm in width. It was created by Hiroshi Abe, Koji Suzuki, Nana Furuya, Mariko Matsunari, Michael Sowa, and Peter Uchnar.

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Media

• Illustration
• Art Talk

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