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Germany to Host Proto Anime Cut Exhibition

Exhibition Proto Anime Cut: Spaces and visions in Japanese animation

21 January – 6 March 2011, Opening: 20 January 2011, 19:00h
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

The exhibition Proto Anime Cut presents original drawings of the most important directors and illustrators of Japanese animated films.

The action-packed hero stories and the visionary science fiction of Japanese Anime are set in impressive worlds that are constructed in painstaking detail. Looking at the creative processes, the filmmakers appear as architectural dreamers who operate with virtuosity at the borders of credibility, fiction and utopia. The exhibition focuses on the development of these arenas of action and narrative scenarios. Numerous background paintings, storyboards, drafts, sources of inspiration and film excerpts provide insight into the working methods of the most successful animation artists of the last two decades. Proto Anime Cut presents them for the first time in Europe.

The exhibition includes work by Hideaki Anno (director, Neon Genesis Evangelion), Haruhiko Higami (photographer), Kōji Morimoto (director, Dimension Bomb), Hiromasa Ogura (art director), Mamoru Oshii (director, Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell, Innocence) and Takashi Watabe (layout).

The presented artists have played key roles in the development of Anime. By cooperating closely in different production studios in Tokyo they gave their distinctive signatures to many films and developed the prototypical Anime style.

The director Kōji Morimoto and the background designer Hiromasa Ogura will attend the opening on January 20, in Berlin.

Producer
Curated by Stefan Riekeles and David d'Heilly.
A project by Les Jardins des Pilotes (Berlin) in cooperation with 2dk (Tokyo).
Co-produced by Obra Social CajaMadrid (Madrid). Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Japan Foundation.
Kindly supported by Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

The association Les Jardins des Pilotes was founded as a non-profit organisation in 2008 and is represented by Andreas Broeckmann and Stefan Riekeles.

Location
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Str. 10, 10999 Berlin, Germany, Phone: +49 (0)30 6169030
Opening hours: Tue–Sun 14:00–19:00h, free entry

Further dates of the exhibition
2011/09/10 – 11/13, HMKV im Dortmunder U – Center for Art and Creativity, Dortmund, Germany
2012/01/25 – 03/25, Espai Cultura Caja Madrid, Barcelona, Spain
2012/04/15 – 06/06, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain


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