Exhibitions

 

June 30 th - August 31st
Winged Pencils
Comics with wings in the stories by  Stefano Babini, Paolo Cossi and Guido Fuga
“Federico Fellini” Airport
via Flaminia 409 – Miramare di Rimini

Real and fantastic airplanes, piloted by timeless characters who can make us fly with imagination. “Winged pencils” is an exhibition of works by three artists who have put the thrill of flight in the DNA of their stories. For many years, Stefano Babini, Paolo Cossi and Guido Fuga have communicated the fascination of air thanks to their style, giving to their readers a special connection between fantasy and technology. From the stories of the pilots Elia Liut and P. Luigi Penzo, to the many airplanes drawn by Fuga for the adventures of Corto Maltese, to the air battles told by Babini on the magazine of the Air Force, the artistic biography of these three comics artists is like the story of a wedding between comics and clouds.

 

July 13th – 31st
Happy Birthday Charlie Brown
Peanuts are 60 years old
City Museums, via Tonini 1 – Rimini
From Tuesday to Saturday: 10.00 / 12.30 e 16.30 / 19.30
Sunday and Holidays, 16.30 / 19.30 (Monday closed)
Every Tuesday and Friday, evening opening: 21.00 / 23.00

There is no more famous comics artist than Charles Schulz, there are no more renowned characters than the sweet, smart, wise Peanuts: the eternal looser (“child with a round head”) Charlie Brown, the philosopher Linus, the pragmatic Lucy, the child prodigy Schroeder, the hyperactive Peppermint Patty, the dusty Pigpen, the mysterious Little Red-Haired Girl, and of course the talented beagle Snoopy with his beloved friend Woodstock. For sixty years these children have conquered the heart of their readers, acting in a small universe that reminds of the real human society. This exhibition organized by Cartoon Club is a walk in the story and the meanings of this famous comic-strip, through the birth of the characters, their development and their worldwide fame.

 

July 16th – 31st
Graphic Novel or Romanzi Disegnati
What they were, what they are, what they could become
Podestà’s Palace, Cavour square – Rimini
10.00 / 12.00 and 18.00 / 23.00

The words graphic novel are used to mean comics that tell long and complete stories, generally addressed to adult readers. One of the first stories to be defined this way was A Contract With God, by Will Eisner, published in 1978, but the birth of this kind of comics stories is not so recent, considering that in 1967 Hugo Pratt had already published his masterpiece Una ballata del mare salato, which has always been considered a real novel made with comics. The main aspects of this genre, like the importance of the themes and the deepness of the characters, are influencing the whole comics industry: a path whose future consequences are still unknown. This exhibitions ideally goes on at the commercial centre “Le Befane”, with a section about the life and works of the great comics artist Frank Miller.

 

July 16th – 31st
Graphic Novel or Romanzi Disegnati
From Daredevil to Sin City. Under the sign of Frank Miller
Le Befane Shopping Centre,
via Caduti di Nassiriya 20 – Rimini
9.00 / 22.00

Frank Miller is the major American living comics artist, and one of those authors who have re-created the way of making comics, in USA and in the whole world. This exhibitions offers an itinerary among very renowned works like Batman: the Dark Knight Return, the famous story-arc on the Daredevil series, the stories dedicated to Elektra, the saga of Sin City and many other works. This exhibition is an ideal prosecution of the above-mentioned exhibition about Graphic Novels, held at the Podestà’s Palace.

 

July 23rd – 26th
In the name of Athena
Knights of the Zodiac, for 20 years in Italy
Palazzina Roma, Fellini Square – Rimini
18.00 / 23.00

Twenty years ago, Italian television aired for the first time a series which would later become incredibly famous and would generate many sequels and spin-offs: Knights of the Zodiac. This series is an original mixture between the Western mythological tradition and the Japanese values and ethics; its character design was made by the very talented Shingo Araki, and this sure helped Knights of the Zodiac to gather around it a real legion of fans, who will love this exhibition, where they will be able to see one of the greatest collections of original materials, art-books and merchandising dedicated to the young characters of this series. In collaboration with Edizioni Star Comics and Yamato Video.

 

July 23rd – 26th
How to draw a blank
Exhibition of the artworks that participated to the homonymous competition
Palazzina Roma, Fellini Square – Rimini
18.00 / 23.00

Last year, Cartoon Club and Leonardo Publishing, a publishing house specialized in books for children and youngsters, have organized the award “How to get a spider out of a hole”, addressed to young illustrators and artists of comics and animation cinema. The winner of the award was Otto Gabos (aka Mario Rivelli), who was given the chance to draw the illustrations for a novel about the famous sergeant Antonio Sarti,  published by Leonardo Publishing and written by Loriano Macchiavelli. Cartoon Club offers now an exhibition with the best artworks that have participated to the award, thus promoting new talents in the field of art and illustration.

 

July 24th - 27th
Cubana
A graphic novel by Guido Fuga and Lele Vianello
Palazzina Roma, Fellini Square – Rimini
18.00 / 23.00

Guido Fuga and Lele Vianello are the true followers of the art of Pratt, having been for many years his closest collaborators. The first one as an illustrator of backgrounds, airplanes, trains and cars, since Corte Sconta detta arcana, the second one as the creator of many sequences of masterpieces such as Cato Zulu, La Casa dorata di Samarcanda, Tango, Le Elvetiche and Mu. In 1993, Pratt was thinking about writing the second part of L’uomo dei Caraibi, a story published in 1977, but in 1995 he left for his last journey and the project remained incomplete. Only in March 2010, Fuga and Vianello decided to re-write this story, to complete and enlarge it and to give the character a new name (Captain Cudd), so this graphic novel has been finally completed and published: a fruit of Pratt’s world and of two great artists’ mastery.