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The exhibition maps a wide range of regional traditions beyond Japanese manga, exploring how folklore, classical epics, and everyday supernatural themes shape narrative forms. It highlights influential creators and works, including links to broader media such as cinema, animation, fashion, visual art, music, and videogames, while addressing censorship and sensibility.","Asign.ComGSEvolutionotAnIonHBiTIoNovERVIEwbarbicanFLYING FISH  \nEVOLUTION OF AN ARTFORM  \n# 0VERVIEW\n\n1 Mapping Mangasia2 Fables &Folklore3 Recreating &Revising the Past4 Stories &Storytellers5 Censorship&Sensibility6 Multimedia Mangasia  \n# HIGHLIGHTS\n\n·  Taking a Ride on the Spirit Boat inflatable sculpture  \n·  Goddess Statue byJunko Mizuno  \n·  Original Astro Boy comic art,ink,color on paper  \n·  Traditional visual storytelling Kaavad Shrines  \n·  Mecha Robot interactive by Kawamori Shoji &Pentagram  \n·  Fukutani Takashi original drawing desk  \n0VERVIEW  \nAsian Comics:Evolution of An Artform presents avivid journey through the art of Comics and visualstorytelling across Asia.From its historical roots to themost recent digitalinnovations,the exhibition looks topopular Japanese 'Manga'and beyond,highlightingkey creators,characters and publications.Explorethriving contemporary comics cultures and traditionalgraphic narrative artforms from countries includingIndia,Philippines,Indonesia,China,Korea and Japan.  \nDelve into a kaleidoscope of diverse stories,fromfantastical folklore,pivotal historical moments,revealing memoirs,and challenging expressions offreedom.Discover acclaimed and influential creatorsfrom Osamu Tezuka,Miyako Maki,Hur Young Man  \nand Lat,to genre innovators and under-representedartists including Abhishek Singh and Miki Yamamoto.See how theirwork has influenced cinema,animation,fashion,visual art,music and videogames.  \nCurated by Paul Gravett with a team of more thantwenty international advisors,Mangasia featuresover 500 works -the largest selection of artworksfrom the continent -including Japanese woodblockprints,Hindu scrollpaintings,digital media,printedcomics and contemporary illustrations.This uniqueexhibition is a 'gateway to an unexplored world ofgraphic storytelling and its artistic value.  \nSpatial and graphic design by Pentagram Design.  \n# MAPPINGMANGASIA\n\nPrepare to explore an amazing continent ofcomics creativity called Asian Comics:Evolution ofAn Artform.  \nThis is the first exhibition to embrace the narrativecomics art produced in East,Southeast and SouthAsia.It will venture as far west as Pakistan,as farnorth as Mongolia,as far south-east as East Timor.This mapping of Asia encompasses sometwo dozencountries,ranging in size from smaller territoriessuch as Hong Kong and Singapore to the two mostpopulated nations ofall,China and India.  \nThere is no single Asia,but rather a diverse range ofcountries over which extends a network of historical,political,spiritual and artistic cultures.Among these is'manga',defined in this exhibition as comics createdin Japan.Over time,manga has grown to become theworld's largest and most enduring comics culture and analmost infinitely variable art form,covering subjects thatrange from children's stories to adult-only fantasies.  \nManga has had an undeniableeffecton the developmentof much of Asian comics.This has occurred,for example,historically when countries were occupied by Japan,or more recently as Japanese comics spread abroad aspirated orlicensed translations,as animated adaptations,and online.  \nNevertheless,there is much more to Asian comicsthan manga.From Chinese 'lianhuanhua'and Korean'manhwa'to Indonesian 'cergam'and Filipino 'komiks',each country can also draw on its own national traditionsand import influences from elsewhere.The result isthe web of artistic approaches,current trends,socialand political structures,histories,beliefs and folklorewhich fuels the brightly burning flame of Asian comics.WONDERLANDS await you...  \nFABLES &FOLKLORE  \nEvery culture's stories contain lasting truths of perennialrelevance.As a result,they are ripe for reinterpretationas they are handed down from one generation to thenext.Across Asia,these 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