7th of February at 7PM in Korpusu cehs (Andrejsala) the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts (LCCA) and the comics magazine kuš! invite you to the opening of the first international comics art exhibition in Latvia “tell me more…” . The exhibition will showcase artworks of 14 artists or artist collectives from France, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia, Netherlands and Latvia.
The exhibition “tell me more…” is introducing the Latvian audience to artists who are creatively using comics as medium and showing that comics is not characteristically identified by speech bubbles or crash! bang! sounds. The main thing characterizing comics stays its narrative nature and there is nothing else that would necessarily unite all comics-narrators - one tells fairy-tales, others - their private experiences, another experiments with the relationships between text and image or wrestles with philosophical issues.
Exhibition will showcase artworks from Atak, Anke Feuchtenberger, Moki (Germany), Florent Rupert & Jerome Mulot (France), Nicolas Robel (Switzerland), Matti Halgelberg, Katja Tukiainen, Tommi Musturi (Finland), Kolbeinn Karlsson (Sweden), Lamelos (Netherlands) Stripburger crew (Slovenia) and Latvian artists – Anete Melece, Maija Kurševa and Ingrīda Pičukāne; most of the artists will be present on the opening night.
Adapting to the exhibition format, the artists have thought of non-traditional representation of comics – we will see a comics video cabin, “moving paintings”, objects, animated videos etc. Traditional comics in the album or magazine format will also be present in the reading corner of exhibition.
Comics’ exhibition will be accompanied by film screenings showing animation films made by comic artists or in other way connected to comics.
Full program:
February 7th
12 – 2PM: Workshops for kids and teenager in the exhibition
7PM: Opening show with Lamelos performance
9PM Comics party in Meta Kafe
February 13th
7 PM Screening of the animation movie „Fear(s) of the dark” (Peur(s) du noir, France, 2007) & special exhibition tracing back the creation process from drawing to animation in Kino Riga. This animation movie brings together six very different comics artists and graphic designers (Charles Burns, Richard McGuire, Lorenzo Mattotti, Blutch, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Sciullo) to tell six stories of horror, fear, and darkness in one united piece. Organized in cooperation with the French Culture Centre this is the only screening of fear(s) of the dark in Latvia. Screening takes places in Kino Riga.
February 18th
7 PM Animation movie evening with films from comics artists.Films by Bendik Kaltenborn (NO), Max Andresson (SE), Matti Hagelberg (FI), Tommi Musturi (FI), Katja Tukiainen (FI), Andrej Štular (SI), Anke Feuchtenberger (DE), ATAK (DE), Ingrīda Pičukāne, (LV), Maija Līduma (LV), Moki (DE), Maija Kurševa (LV), Nicolas Robel (CH) and other comics artists. Screening will take place in the exhibition, Andrejsala, Andrejostas street 4.
Exhibition info:
International Comics Exhibition „tell me more...”
7.02 – 8.03.2009
Andrejsala, Ēdnīca & Korpusu cehs, Andrejostas street 4, Riga, Latvia
TUE-SAT 13.00-19.00
SUN 13.00-18.00
Entrance fee: LVL 1.50; 0,50
Watch the video in Diena.lv about the exhibition!
