Urbis 08

"How Manga Took Over the World"

Hey, just a little info on an exhibition that ended in October. It was held in the Urbis gallery in Manchester. It was right up my street and I thought It was about time that I shared some of the things I liked at the exhibition, entitled "How Manga Took Over the World", they have some really nice photos of their own at the bottom of the page.

Here is the poster image used to promote the event.And some of my snaps.... This first one as you can see is of a "sweet" customized Darth Vader helmet. I must apologize for the reflections on the glass case. It is down to my poor photography skills alone. I hope the second image does the helmet justice.
These were a sweet bunch of characters and puppets displayed in the same room within the exhibition. I believe that they represented more contemporary sub divisions of the genre. This first print was called "Catboi", even though I thought it was a Vixen. I must say I love the effect of the image being printed on sheets of corrugated plastic, it is something that I have to try out It provided an interesting finish (many prints in the exhibition were on this type of board) and could provide an interesting alternative to regular mount board.I have no record of the second pieces title, so I will go with "Hairboi". The same goes for the Image after it which I have titled as "Puppet", they both seem to be DIY manikins much like an Artist model/urganome, which I am intrigued by.Another board with a monstrous Trio on it, again I am oblivious to the pieces name or that of the artist. The same goes for the board after it featuring a "harajuku girl" or pop culture teen of sorts.EVE3000, the work of Ivy Ling, an artist developing storyboard based music videos along with a fully developed animation was on show. She created them in collaboration with her friend and muscisian Anna Mercedes. The MySpace page is visualy appealing and has lots of work on show.Again I apologize for reflections on the image (if you look closely though, you can see "Hairboi" in the reflection).These last two images were the only famous characters that I decided to photograph, their were tones of posters, boards and prints of famous Anime & Manga characters within the exhibition but these reworkings of classic images were the ones that appealed to me.On reflection I know that I need to document my visits to art galleries more carefully. I need to go to greater effort to record the details of artists in order to keep track of their future work.