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15 - 30 July
Fusako Yusaki: Sculptress of Movement
Civic Museums, via Tonini 1 – Rimini
Tuesday to Saturday: 9.30 / 12.30 e 16.30 / 19.30
Sunday and Holidays: 16.30 / 19.30 (Monday closed)
On Tuesdays and Fridays, night opening: 21.00 / 23.00

Fusako Yusaki is a Japanese designer and artisti, "adopted" by Italy. She is famous in the world for her animations with clay (Claymation), and has won the Bagatto d'Oro in 1971, for her advertisements of the Fernet Branca liqueur, in the Carosello TV show. The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, in Tokyo, hosts the complete series of her films. She works with European and Japanese TV networks, creating opening sequences, short films and series - i.e. the opening sequence of L'Albero Azzurro, a TV show for children, aired on Italian television. This exhibition pays a sincere tribute to her creative talent.

 

15 - 30 July
Seven Changing Animals.
Artworks by Stefano Ricci
Civic Museums, via Tonini 1 – Rimini
Tuesday to Saturday: 9.30 / 12.30 e 16.30 / 19.30
Sunday and Holidays: 16.30 / 19.30 (Monday closed)
On Tuesdays and Fridays, night opening: 21.00 / 23.00
Opaning ceremony: Friday 15 July at 18.00

Artist and illustrator, Stefano Ricci was born in 1966 in Bologna, and currently lives in Quilow and Hamburg. Illustrator, he’s been cooperating since 1986 with periodical press and publishing, both in Italy and abroad. Seven changing animals is a drawing exhibition, of large and small drawings. Some of them have been made for animation films, that will be screened in the exhibition hall, together with other very short film, made with a camera.
In collaborazione with Galleria D406, Modena (www.d406.com).

 

15 - 28 July
The Art of the Rat by Larry & Leo Ortolani
Podestà's Palace (ground floor)
Cavour Square - Rimini
10.00 / 12.00 and 18.00 / 23.00

It is the most significant phenomenon of Italian comic-books since twenty years. He is short, coward and stupid, but he has a big heart and wears the Rat-Man costume to defend the world from menaces and criminals. The two Ortolani brothers (Leonardo and Lorenzo) will exhibit all the illustrations that they have made together: Leonardo with pencils and ink, Lorenzo with colors. The artworks have been published on magazines, anthologies, volumes, comic-book series, cards, posters, calendars... and more. A chronological path, that enlightens the evolution of their style.
A precious, four-color catalogue of this exhibition, will be published by Panini Comics, with editing by Cartoon Club.

 

15 - 28 July
Zagor, the King of Darkwood
Podestà's Palace (first floor)
Cavour Square - Rimini
10.00 / 12.00 and 18.00 / 23.00

Critics, fans and readers call him the "inimitable imitator". In part Tarzan, in part Phantom, in part a gunman, in part a trapper: this, and much more, is Zagor, the avenger of Darkwood forest. The setting of his adventures is a Far West filled with elements from other fictional genres, such as horror, fantasy, spy-stories, and science-fiction. Created in 1961 by Guido Nolitta (art-name of the famous publisher Sergio Bonelli), Zagor is a character with many aspects, whose dramatic origins have shaped a warrior but also generous spirit. This exhibition gives an overview on the career of the Spirit With The Tomahawk, from his debut to our days.

 

8 - 30 July
I Love Japan
Le Befane Shopping Centre
via Caduti di Nassiriya 20 – Rimini
9.00 / 22.00

They came to Italy at the end of the Seventies, and since then they are always part of our TV shows. Loved, hated, analyzed in thousands of ways, Japanese animation series have reached a top position in the audiovisual entertainment, while comics from the Land of the Rising Sun have conquered a large part of the publishing market.This exhibition aims to collect the most significant and distinguished representatives of this invasion, that too many times have been considered in a very superficial and prejudicial way.

 

20 - 24 July
Sergio Bonelli, Creator of Adventures
Palazzina Roma
Piazzale Fellini – Rimini
18.00 / 24.00

Sergio Bonelli is not just the owner of the biggest comics publishing house in Italy (the one of Tex and Dylan Dog), but a comics author himself (he created the characters of Zagor and Mister No). In his stories, he decided to put not just his fantasy and his ideals, but also his love for exotic and faraway lands, first of all the Amazon Rainforest. This photographic exhibition shows Bonelli's travels and peregrinations: the places he visited, the people he met, the emotions he lived.

 

8 - 30 July
Flying pencils
Comics with wings in the stories by Attilio
Micheluzzi, Sergio Toppi and Roberto Diso
“Federico Fellini” Airport
via Flaminia 409 – Miramare (RN)

Real and fantastic airplanes, piloted by timeless characters who can make us fly with imagination. Flying pencils is a sequel of the 2010 exhibition Winged pencils: a selection of works by three artists who have put the thrill of flight in the DNA of their stories, creating a short circuit between technology and fantasy.