The Italian Museum of Comics and dell’Immagine (Piazza S. Romano) opens Saturday December 20 at 16.30 hours, an exhibition by the evocative title “Days of Remembrance and Memory”, a triptych of exhibitions that have the honor to explain the historical path of humanity, by the end of, a century full of positive illusions, the harsh disillusionment of the First World War, through the comic.
“When he arrived at Lucca Boheme”, “Diary presented without heroes” and “Chronicles of the Great War” are the three exhibitions visited with single entry (4 euros), daily, except Mondays, from 10 to 19 to 21 March (info: segreteria@museonazionaledelfumetto.it or tel. 0583 / 56326).
At present the initiative, Donatella Buonriposi, Alderman municipal museums, Angelo Nencetti, curator of the museum and one of the artists, Gradimir Smudja that, in Italy since 1994 has chosen to live in the territory of Lucca.
“Smudja is one of the most popular contemporary artists – underlined the assessor Buonriposi – and welcome, can submit works in Lucca a fellow considered among the great contemporary.”
“The days of remembrance and memory – said Angel Nencetti – gives visitors a clear path divulgativo \ teaching that through the comic and illustration, remember the major events of the past century: from positivism of late XIX, to the disillusionment the first World War, provided by the pencil of Matina first big pictorial report of the war that followed the war and drawing the reality that he saw around him. “
For its part, the same Smudja stressed satisfaction with what has welcomed the news of an exhibition staged in one considers that, by now, his city.
When he arrived at the Boheme Lucca – An exhibition devoted to Gradimir Smudja and his art.
Through the exhibition of over 150 paintings of (even large), illustrations and tables comics, sketches, and more history is celebrated the art of one of the most creative contemporary Europe.
Gradimir Smudja is recognized today as a multifaceted figure who has been able to convey through the comic book knowledge of the great artists (Impressionist painters, writers and musicians) in the late nineteenth century France, the Ville Lumiere, coffee chantant of Humor Berger, of bohemiennes.
And it is precisely from the combination of pictorial art and comics, who takes home this wonderful show for the occasion, the artist Smudja unpublished illustrations enhanced by specially built for the show (as well as the illustration that will be the official poster of the show) about Giacomo Puccini heroines her and her life by bohemians.
