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Special exhibition
Akatsuka Fujio Manga University Exhibition
Do you know Akatsuka Fujio?
The "Akatsuka Fujio Manga University Exhibition" is a project that aims to rediscover this genius manga artist, who was at the forefront of not just the manga industry, but the post-war period itself.
While exhibiting many of his very diverse works and valuable artifacts, we are also showing the world he lived in, the world he helped create in the "Research Part", and new works created by contemporaly artists who followed in his footsteps in the "Art Part"! Akatsuka Fujio's appeal is that he did not just revolutionize the world of manga, he also greatly influence artists in many genres.
We will also, in cooperation with the World Heritage Nijo Castle, hold a "neo kyogen (traditional comic theatre)" event which a collaboration of the kyogen performed and Akatuska manga, and art exhibiton. We will also hold talk shows featuring people with a connection to Akatsuka. Let's analyze Akatsuka Fujio from various angles.
"Akatsuka Fujio Manga University Exhibition"
Relevant dates for each project
The 26th National Cultural Festival in Kyoto, 2011, Manga Art Festival
October 29 - November 6, 2011
Kyoto CMEX 2011 related events
October 29 - November 27, 2011
At the Kyoto International Manga Museum
Kyoto International Manga Museum 2nd Floor, Gallery 1, 2, 3, 4, and in other spaces inside the museum.
| Period | October 29 - December 25, 2011 10am - 6pm (Admission to the museum until 5:30pm) Closed every Wednesdays and November 24. * On November 2 and 23, the museum will be open. |
| Fee | Free * However, a General Admission ticket to the Museum is required. *On November 2, which is Kansai Culture Day, admission to the museum is free. *You can get a discount to the Manga Museum by presenting your ticket for Nijo Castle (between 11/1- 6). Admission will be reduced (Adults:640yen, junior and high school students:240yen, elementary school students:60yen) *For the commemorate of 5th anniversary of the museum, citizens of the Kyoto city get a 20% discount during this period after providing proof of address. |
At Nijo Castle
| Period | November 1 - 6, 2011 9am - 4:45pm (8:45am - 5pm *Admission to Nijo Castle until 4pm) |
| Fee | Free A general admission ticket to the castle is required (Adults: 600yen, junior and high school students: 350yen, elementary school students: 200yen) On Saturdays and Sundays children and junior high school students from inside Kyoto City can enter free of charge If you show "The 26th National Cultural Festival - Kyoto 2011 Kyoto City Official Guidebook" at the entrance, there is a 100yen discount on admission for adults (only valid between 11/1 - 6) |
RESEARCH PART
"The 26th National Cultural Festival - Kyoto 2011 Manga Art Festival" Project
Organized by The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education, hosting municipalities, hosting municipality's boards (associations) of education, the Prefectural Executive Committee of the 26th National Cultural Festival, the Municipal Executive Committee of the 26th National Cultural Festival, and Kyoto International Manga Museum.
Cooperation from Fujio Productions
At Kyoto International Manga Museum (Galleries 1, 2, and 3)
While presenting works and valuable artifacts by Akatsuka Fujio, we try to discover his influence not just on the world of manga, but on society as a whole. We also show just how important Akatsuka Fujio's influence was, especially on gag manga, by following the history of this genre.
1. Akatsuka Fujio's life and works
Here we follow the period in which he lived, introducing his manga works through means of valuable artifacts.
2. The history of gag manga
We introduce the history of comical manga, and the genre Akatsuka created, the gag manga.
3. Tribute works
We exhibit tribute works by artists who were connected with Akatsuka Fujio in one way or another.
At Nijo Castle
Ogasawara Tadashi, a kyogen performer who, while preserving tradition, has always strived to reinvent the genre, will perform a "Neo kyogen", in which he will perform in a masque, based on Akatsuka's world combined with kyogen, and the Italian form "comedia del arte".
New works of art based on Akatsuka's works will also be exhibited.
1. "Neo kyogen X magan X comedia del arte : Akatsuka Fujio's world"
| Performers | The Ogasawara Tadasi (Noh comic actor) Group |
| Choreography | Ogasawara Tadashi |
| Date and Time | November 3, 5, and 6, 2011 1st performance: 1pm~ 2nd performance: 3pm~ (About 45 minutes each) |
2. Exhibition of new works of art based on Akatsuka's work, by contemporary artists Akatsuka Rieko and Yokoyama Yuichi (between 11/1 - 6)
ART PART
"Kyoto CMEX 2011" Project
Organized CMEX executive committee, Kyoto International Manga Museum
Cooperation from Fujio Productions
横山裕一「ニューバカボン」
©横山裕一
赤塚りえ子「家訓」
©赤塚りえ子
金氏徹平
「Games, Dance & the Constructions (Sculpture of AKATSUKA)」
©金氏徹平
パラモデル
「バカモデリック・グラフィティ」
©paramodel
At the Kyoto Manga Museum (Gallery 4 and others)
Akatsuka Fujio did not just influence manga artists of the same generation, but continues to influence vorious artists to this day. The works of four contemporary artists, all influenced by Akatsuka, are exhibited in various areas of the museum.
１． Exhibition of contemporary art
Exhibiting artists:
Akatsuka Rieko, Kaneuji Teppei, Paramodel, Yokoyama Yuichi.
* For the second half profiles are available
2. Exhibition of earlier tribute to Akatsuka works
Exhibiting artists:
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Asakura Sekai-ichi (manga artist), a remake of the manga "Tensai bakabon" (original art), Kyogoku Natsuhiko (novelist), meta novels that feature characters by Akatsuka, Gokita Tomoo (illustrator), illustrations featuring characters by Akatsuka, the "Oh! Heaven The Gokita Tomoo respects Akatsuka Fujio" series (silk screen).
Gokita Tomoo
©TOMOO GOKITA 2001 with his respects to FUJIO AKATSUKA
Asakura Sekaiichi
©朝倉世界一／イースト・プレス／
©赤塚不二夫
RELATED EVENTS
Talk shows
Fujiko Fujio Ⓐ Talk show
| Date and Time | October 29, 2011 2 pm - 3:30pm |
| Venue | Kyoto International Manga Museum 1st Floor, Multi purpose hall. |
| Fee | Free * However, a General Admission ticket to the Museum is required. |
| Appearance | Fujiko Fujio Ⓐ (Manga artist , author of Manga michi, Kaibutsu kun) |
| Capacity | 250 seats (on a first come basis) |
| How to participate | There is no need to register. Numbered tickets will be distributed starting at 10 am. inside the museum. |
藤子不二雄Ⓐ「まんが道」／©藤子不二雄Ⓐ
A collaboration between The World of Girls's Comics Genga'(Dash)'s Ten Year Trajectory
Mizuno Hideko X Takemiya Keiko Debate
| Date and Time | December 17, 2011 2 pm - 4pm |
| Venue | Kyoto International Manga Museum, 1st Floor, Multi purpose hall. |
| Fee | Free * However, a General Admission ticket to the Museum is required. |
| Appearance | Mizuno Hideko (manga artist) Takemiya Keiko (manga artist) |
| Capacity | 250 seats (on a first come basis) |
| How to participate | There is no need to register. Numbered tickets will be distributed starting at 10 am inside the museum. |
Akatsuka Fujio
Born in 1935 ( - 2008) in Manchuria.
He was influenced by Tezuka Osamu's Lost World and decided to become a manga artist. He debuted in 1956 with "Arashi o koete", and moved to the legendary apartment Tokiwa so, where after the war leading figures in the manga world, like Ishinomori Shotaro, Fujiko F. Fujio, Fujiko Fujio Ⓐ and others, lived. Together they barely made a living. In 1962 his stories "Osomatsu kun" and "Himitsu no Akko chan" were serialized, and he became a star. In 1967 he started the series "Tensai bakabon", which established the gag manga genre as we know it today.
He started producing very early, and among the artists he represented were heavy weights like Nagatani Kunio ("Akatsuka Fujio Tensai nyarome den"), Kitami Kenichi ("Tsuri baka nisshi"), Furuya Mitsutoshi ("Dame oyaji"), Takai Kenichiro ("Somubu somuka Yamaguchi Roppeita"), and Tsuchida Yoshiko ("Tsuruhime ja!").
He didn't just do manga, his way of always searching for new ways of comic art inspired others, in may different fields, like Tamori (TV host), Shinoyama Kishin (photographer), Yamashita Yosuke (jazz pianist), and Tsutsui Yasutaka (author).
Akatsuka Rieko "1,000,000 Baka"
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Akatsuka Rieko
Born 1965 in Tokyo, as Akatsuka Fujio's oldest daughter.
In 1994 she went to the U.K. where she enrolled at London University's Goldsmith College of Fine Arts in 1998. She started exhibiting while she was still a student. In 2002 she became an associate at a gallery in London (Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art), and is active worldwide as a contemporary artist. She also creates works based on her father's earlier works. In 2006 she came back to Japan, and now works as the President of Fujio Productions.
Among her books, there is "Bakabon no papa yori baka na papa" (Tokuma shoten)
Main Exhibitions:
Group exhibitions
The Eight Baltic International Art Biennale (Contemporary Art Center, Lithuania, Vilnius, 2002)
Group exhibitions
1,000,000 riki exhibion" (Gallery Kuraya, Naoshima, 2010)
Kaneuji Teppei "Teenage Fan Club"
©金氏徹平 photo:eric
Kaneuji Teppei
Born in 1978 in Kyoto. Modern artist. A graduate of Kyoto City University of Art, Department of Sculpture.
He makes art that overstyles every day objects and has gained both national and international acclaim as a modern artist. He is active not just individually, but also participated in the "Yokohama Triennale", as a member of the art unit "COUMA".
Main exhibitions:
Individually:
Kaneuji Teppei Exhibition: splash & flake (Hiroshima City Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima, 2007)
Individually:
Kaneuji Teppei: Tokedasu toshi, kuhaku no mori (Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, 2009)
Paramodel "paramoderic graffiti"
（2010 Otani Memorial Art Museum [Hyogo] solo exhibition : The World According to Paramodel）
©paramodel photo : paramodel courtesy of MORI YU GALLERY
Paramodel (unit)
Mori Yasuhiko, born 1971 in Osaka. Graduate of Kyoto City University of Arts, Department of Conceptual Design, and Nakano Yusuke, born 1977 in Osaka, graduate of the same university, Department of Fine Art.
They started working together in 2001. In 2003 they decided to make their name paramodel, and while they both have different tastes and different skills, they work around the center of their project: "Paramodel: a poetic blueprint and model made of various parts of the world and the heart". They depart from the gaps and differences in their position and perspective, and "play" by making models, turning them into works of very diverse composition. They are famous for workshops in which they use toy railroad rails by toy manufacturer Takara tomy.
Main exhibitions:
As a unit:
Paramodel no sekai wa puramoderu: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO PARAMODEL (Nishinomiya city, Otani Memorial Museum, Hyogo, 2010)
As a unit:
Paramodel exhibition: paramoderu no sekai wa P」（MORI YU GALLERY KYOTO, Kyoto, 2010）
Group:
Sekai seisaku no hoho/Ways of Worldmaking (National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2011)
Yokoyama Yuichi "New Doboku"
©横山裕一/イースト・プレス
Yokoyama Yuichi
Born 1967 in Miyazaki prefecture. Manga artist, modern artist.
After studying in the oil painting department of Musashino University of Arts, he started drawing manga in which he could express time. In 2001 he debuted in COMIC CUE with a queer story in which people in strange get-ups engaged in public works endlessly, called "Nyu doboku" (New public works). After that, he gained worldwide acclaim with a special kind of new manga dubbed "neo manga". At the moment he works as a modern artist.
He has published the manga, New doboku, Travel (both East press), a collection of illustrations, Yokoyama Yuichi Painting (Blue mark), and many more.
Main exhibitions:
Individually:
Kanagawa: Yokoyama Yuichi Neo manga no zenkiroku: watashi wa jikan o kaite iru
(Kawasaki city City Museum, Kawasaki, 2010)
Group:
Roppongi crossing 2007
(Mori Art Museum , Tokyo, 2007)
The schedule and details of this event are subject to change.
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