Giant monsters, dolls suspended by their feet, terrifying toys, battered geishas... the new exhibition presented at MIAM is surprising. Organized in collaboration with the Cartel de la Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille, it compiles 40 years of Japanese graphic avant-garde. All the artists exhibited are associated with the Heta-Uma style. "The specialists diverge to give a French translation to this Japanese graphic movement, born in the 70's under the impulse of King Terry Yumura. The exhibition opens with an imposing fresco of the mangaka Shiriagari Kotobuki. And it's a wall of paper which then leads visitors to a tunnel where pieces of cloth, noren, hang. "The idea was to fill every space, to recreate the excitement of a street in Tokyo," explains Pakito Bolino, one of the exhibition curators. A trashy exhibition that opposes the perfect aesthetics of traditional Japanese culture, digested and hijacked in the rooms of MIAM. Graphzines, drawings, paintings, videos, installations, "Japanese" music, toys... a rich and devastating exhibition. Black humor on the program.
Heta-Uma
18 October 2014 - 1 March 2015
MIAM, Sète
