Fresh from the 2023 edition with over 170.000 visitors, COMICON renews its collaboration with the National archeologic museum di Napoli directed by Paolo Giulierini, with Re-Traits of Blue (2 June – 15 September) an exhibition that combines comics, photography and a passion for football, set up in the Prehistory and Protohistory section as part of the OBVIA (Out Of Boundaries Viral Art Dissemination) project for the Mann, of the University of Napoli Frederick II.
Sixteen protagonists of Italian and international comics have been photographed by Simone Florena in a project curated by alino for COMICON started eleven years ago with a first exhibition and a book (COMICON Edizioni) and then followed by a series of exhibitions around Italy, a journey of which can be seen on the Instagram profile, Ri_tratti.
A journey that arrives today at the Mann to intertwine with the great celebration for the proclamation of Napoli “Champion of Italy”. It is an experiment of interaction between the art of drawing and photographic art, conceived by the well-known Neapolitan photographer. To celebrate the success of the blue team, Florena asked only NON-Neapolitan artists to 'play' with the joy of victory for the championship through their own image and a small black card drawn in chalk turned to Blue.
Comicon and Mann for “Ri-Tratti d'Azzurro”: the artists involved
The names involved are all of the highest level of the international Ninth Art: Brian Azzarello, Paolo Bacilieri, Paolo Barbieri, Matteo Casali, Fumettibrutti, Massimo Giacon, Reinhard Kleist, Tanino Liberatore, Lrnz, Milo Manara, Rita Petruccioli, Luis Quiles, Ratigher, Maurizio Rosenzweig, Tony Sandoval, Sio.
The sixteen authors thus take to the field like a squad of a football team, with as many black and white shots, for a work that is clearly four-handed in which the photographer and the cartoonist become accomplices in giving the public the double gaze of the author and the portrait in a moment of overwhelming celebration for the city.
Article published on 1 June 2023 - 12:49
