Exhibitions, Italy, Bologna, 22 September 2017
IN THE MANARA SIGN
It has been nearly 50 years since a young graduate of fine arts decided to embark on a comic book career, changing forever the imagination (erotic, but not exclusively) of entire generations that, from the eighties onwards , Entertained, delighted and, without exaggerating, formed, reading his comics. And not only, as it might be easy to imagine, boys and men, but also girls and women, as witnessed by the many who stand in line for him at all festivals or lounges around Italy or Europe.
The exhibition, one of the most important paintings ever made by the artist in Verona, is to pay tribute to one of the most famous and appreciated contemporary Italian authors all over the world; Few are in fact our fellow countrymen, what their artistic or professional field of action is to have full and waiting rooms for an autograph around the five continents as well as our national Milo.
About 130 works, divided into various sections, will feature the exhibition path by embracing his comic production and his work as illustrator for print, film, and advertising: from the almost never seen bands of A Bomb to the absolute preview Of the second volume tables of Caravaggio, which will be exhibited before the volume is available in the library. Passing through the comic stories that have marked the history of ninth world art in the last four decades, and which have influenced and inspired hundreds of authors and authors in Europe, the US, Japan, and wherever a book came into their hands Of a designer. It will be possible to admire the tables of The Game and the Perfume of the Invisible, those of the first volumes with the protagonist his alter ego Giuseppe Bergman, the comic book pages born of the collaboration with his friend and master Hugo Pratt (Manara was the only Designer who the great Venetian author wanted to work on his scripts) as well as those of the Borgia born of collaboration with Alejandro Jodorowsky, without obviously forgetting another exceptional collaboration, that with Federico Fellini, of which, in addition to the tables Of Journey to Tulum and The Journey of G. Mastorna, Fernet, will be exposed the precious Rhinese director's autograph drawings, along with storyboards and indications that the scrupulous Fellini sent to the young manara as a canon for his stories. Another section will propose for the first time to the Italian public, some of the watercolors made in 2016 for a charity auction with subject the mythical Brigitte Bardot, at the same time as the inauguration of a statue that the City of Saint Tropez will install In Place Blanqui and that was created right from one of the drawings of Manara and under his supervision. There will also be many recent illustrations made for the French magazine LUI, with the protagonists of the most prominent contemporary actresses, along with older, rarely exposed or rarely exposed works, such as the series of illustrations inspired by Shakespeare's texts, or the The celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the birth of WA Mozart that will be exhibited in the Pallavicini palace hall bearing the name of the Salzburg composer. But next to the many communitarian work, for the first time, there will be some more personal illustrations, made for your own pleasure or for the family, as some beautiful equestrian images produced for his daughter Simona, at that time, horsed in grass.
This exhibition wants to be, in short, a small journey into the career of a great explorer, made for those of Manara who is passionate but also for those who did not know him by name, an invitation to get lost in the details of his original tables, to enjoy that magic of Design that no print will ever be able to play on paper.
Claudio Curcio.
It has been nearly 50 years since a young graduate of fine arts decided to embark on a comic book career, changing forever the imagination (erotic, but not exclusively) of entire generations that, from the eighties onwards , Entertained, delighted and, without exaggerating, formed, reading his comics. And not only, as it might be easy to imagine, boys and men, but also girls and women, as witnessed by the many who stand in line for him at all festivals or lounges around Italy or Europe.
The exhibition, one of the most important paintings ever made by the artist in Verona, is to pay tribute to one of the most famous and appreciated contemporary Italian authors all over the world; Few are in fact our fellow countrymen, what their artistic or professional field of action is to have full and waiting rooms for an autograph around the five continents as well as our national Milo.
About 130 works, divided into various sections, will feature the exhibition path by embracing his comic production and his work as illustrator for print, film, and advertising: from the almost never seen bands of A Bomb to the absolute preview Of the second volume tables of Caravaggio, which will be exhibited before the volume is available in the library. Passing through the comic stories that have marked the history of ninth world art in the last four decades, and which have influenced and inspired hundreds of authors and authors in Europe, the US, Japan, and wherever a book came into their hands Of a designer. It will be possible to admire the tables of The Game and the Perfume of the Invisible, those of the first volumes with the protagonist his alter ego Giuseppe Bergman, the comic book pages born of the collaboration with his friend and master Hugo Pratt (Manara was the only Designer who the great Venetian author wanted to work on his scripts) as well as those of the Borgia born of collaboration with Alejandro Jodorowsky, without obviously forgetting another exceptional collaboration, that with Federico Fellini, of which, in addition to the tables Of Journey to Tulum and The Journey of G. Mastorna, Fernet, will be exposed the precious Rhinese director's autograph drawings, along with storyboards and indications that the scrupulous Fellini sent to the young manara as a canon for his stories. Another section will propose for the first time to the Italian public, some of the watercolors made in 2016 for a charity auction with subject the mythical Brigitte Bardot, at the same time as the inauguration of a statue that the City of Saint Tropez will install In Place Blanqui and that was created right from one of the drawings of Manara and under his supervision. There will also be many recent illustrations made for the French magazine LUI, with the protagonists of the most prominent contemporary actresses, along with older, rarely exposed or rarely exposed works, such as the series of illustrations inspired by Shakespeare's texts, or the The celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the birth of WA Mozart that will be exhibited in the Pallavicini palace hall bearing the name of the Salzburg composer. But next to the many communitarian work, for the first time, there will be some more personal illustrations, made for your own pleasure or for the family, as some beautiful equestrian images produced for his daughter Simona, at that time, horsed in grass.
This exhibition wants to be, in short, a small journey into the career of a great explorer, made for those of Manara who is passionate but also for those who did not know him by name, an invitation to get lost in the details of his original tables, to enjoy that magic of Design that no print will ever be able to play on paper.
Claudio Curcio.
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