Тэг: Бумфест 2010

Dear friends, tomorrow will start 1st exhibition of Boomfest - Grand Prix Angouleme, which opens the special French program of this year. The official opening of this exhibition will be September 22 at 18.00, along with representatives of the festival Angouleme Benoit Mouchart and Nicolas Finet, and also with Baru who has Grand Prix 2010 .

This project is part of the official program the Russia-France year and support Culturefrance and French Institute in St. Petersburg, which has a lot of comics book in them library (the address of library - Nevsky pr.12, 3 floor).

Our Japanes guest recived russian visa and will come to Boomfest.

© Emelie Östergren

Nordicomics.info - New Nordic comics!

The Nordicomics.info exhibition explores the contemporary Nordic comics through debuting artists from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

What do Nordic countries have in common? Is it reasonable to talk about the Nordic comics on the whole? The Nordic comics cultures do have similar traits. New artists and publishers are constantly emerging. The field is lively and international in all of the countries, with all kinds of different activities. However, the artists often remain unknown outside their own country.

The Nordicomics.info exhibition is touring in Nordic countries. The first exhibition was held in Helsinki 4th to 29th of August with a workshop. The exhibition will tour in Oslo, Stockholm. Different adjoin events will take place alongside the exhibition with the artist included in the exhibition and the local artist. Now the exhibition travels to St. Petersburg and complement the work of the St. Petersburg authors.

Again this year artists from Switzerland (Ibn al Rabin and Andréas Kündig) will come with a great project “Fanzine factory” and everybody can draw and publish his small comics book!

August 25 we finish our competition. We got more than 140 comics and it’s more than last year. List of authors of works belonging to a short-list will appear on our website until 10 September. These works will be exhibited in the garden of the Fountain House at a location nearby museum of Anna Akhmatova.

Thank you very much!

A BLACK IS A BLACK IS A BLACK by Olivier Deprez & Miles O'Shea

A BLACK IS A BLACK IS A BLACK IS A HYMN TO THE COLOUR BLACK, A BLACK IS A BLACK IS A BLACK IS A SELFREPRESENTATION OF THE COLOUR BLACK VIA THE MEANS OF WOOD-ENGRAVING, A BLACK IS A BLACK IS A BLACK IS AN EXPOSé OF THE COLOUR BLACK, A BLACK IS A BLACK IS A BLACK IS A PRAYER TO THE GREAT NOTHING, A BLACK IS A BLACK IS A BLACK IS A TRIBUTE SPANNING THE CENTURY OF KAZIMIR MALEVICH'S ART...

Limiting edition buttons from the company Art-T-Plastic. During the festival you can buy them in the studio Art-t-shok at a price 50 rubles

The art of graphic story – universal and understandable to each language.

Participants of the exhibition:
Yuichi Yokoyama (Japan), Jason (Norway), Francois Ayroles (France), Pieter De Poortere (Belgium), Nicolas Mahler (Austria), Ibn Al Rabin (Switzerland), Erik Kriek (Holland), Zakhar Yaschin (Russia).

Yuichi Yokoyama, Ibn Al Rabin, Erik Kriek, Захар Ящин are guests of the festival.

Exhibition will be at the museum of Anna Akhmatova at The Fountain House from September 23 till October 12.