"There is a manga for everybody,"
"Once you see the drawings, you can't unsee them,"
"It's the future visual language,"
"Manga is already in textbooks in Japan. The images are carrying the content. It goes to another part of your brain. At the end of the exhibition, you will be fluent in manga."
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco opens 'Art of Manga' at the de Young Museum on September 27 as the largest manga exhibition staged in North America. The show presents more than 600 rarely displayed genga (original drawings) by ten major contemporary artists, including Araki Hirohiko, Oda Eiichiro, Tagame Gengoroh, Takahashi Rumiko, Yamazaki Mari and Yoshinaga Fumi, with additional representation from masters Kelich Tanaami and Fujio Akatsuka. The exhibition includes an installation that traces the creative process and offers instruction on how to read manga. Genres span fantasy, crime, sports, history, sexuality, friendship, food, science fiction, martial arts, humor and the human condition, and the presentation frames manga as an evolving visual language already present in Japanese textbooks.
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