Manga Exhibition at British Museum
Noirit Mustapha
A free exhibition on manga, Japans widely popular graphic art form, opened at The British Museum in London last week. The show, titled Manga Now: Three Generations, will run until November 15.
The exhibition features newly commissioned and recent pieces by Tetsuya Chiba, Yukinobu Hoshino Yukinobu and Hikaru Nakamura, according to AnimeNewsNetwork website.
The main image on display will be an original colour drawing of a golfer on a green by prominent and influential manga artist Chiba Tetsuya. He is a specialist of sports manga that relate a young persons struggle for recognition through dedication to sport.
The second generation of contemporary manga is represented by Hoshino Yukinobu, with a portrait of his new character Rainman. One of Japans best-known science fiction manga artists, Hoshino Yukinobus Professor Munakatas British Museum Adventure featured in a Room 3 display in 2011.
Nakamura Hikaru represents the most recent generation of manga artists and is currently the seventh bestselling manga artist in Japan. Fusing everyday life with youth culture and cutting-edge production techniques, her work in this display imagines the comical existence of Jesus and Buddha as flatmates in Tokyo.
The exhibition, in room three of the museum, will also host a talk on manga in world culture by Helen McCarthy, and a drawing workshop with illustrator Hugo Yoshikawa.
