Espace
Louis Vuitton - Venice
Travel Book by Jiro Taniguchi
Venice:
Espace Louis Vuitton – Mariano Fortuny – Jiro Taniguchi – Sguardi Incorociati a
Venezia – travel book launch. Sguardi Incrociati a Venezia is the third exhibition, until November 18,
at Espace Louis Vuitton - Venezia. It is a, “face to face” between Jiro
Taniguchi, the famous Japanese manga artist, and Mariano Fortuny, painter, set
designer and photographer, which offers two different views on Venice with
striking similarities.
Above. Video of the Jiro Taniguchi and
his Venice Travel Book and a still of Taniguchi.
Espace
Louis Vuitton: Mariano Fortuny – Jiro Taniguchi – Sguardi Incorociati a
Venezia. The
exhibition brings together more than
30 sketches, made by Jiro Taniguchi for the new Louis Vuitton Travel Book with
25 photographs by Mariano Fortuny held in the reserve collection of Palazzo Fortuny, together with films and books, after meticulous restoration work
funded by Louis Vuitton, as part of its partnership with the Fondazione Musei
Civici Venezia of which the museum is part of.
Palazzo Fortuny's curator Daniela Ferretti and Louis Vuitton’s head of
art and culture Christine Venredi-Auzanneau
Espace
Louis Vuitton: Mariano Fortuny – Jiro Taniguchi – Sguardi Incorociati a Venezia
– travel book. In
Fortuny’s photographs presented here, one recognizes immediately his taste for
not just theater, scene setting and stage sets, but also for unexpected
lighting. In the cartoonist Taniguchi it is the comic strip, so close to manga,
and at the same time so different. Both of them wish to stand out from the
crowd and both succeed: Fortuny sought to distance himself from painting, which
he practiced himself, sometimes with similar compositions, as, for example,
when, he set the depth of the narrow streets in small vertical format
paintings, Taniguchi wishes to forget the classical storytelling of the comic
strip, divided into a succession of panels.
Curator of the exhibition Adrien
Goetz
Espace
Louis Vuitton: The
Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia launched the publication of the Venice Travel Book
designed by Jiro Taniguchi during the opening of the 14th International Architecture, directed by Rem Koolhaas. The
Louis Vuitton “Travel Book” collection is an invitation to real and virtual
voyages, enriched by intellectual stimulation and poignant moments. In its
pages, illustrations by renowned artists and promising young talents tell the
stories of the cities and countries they have visited, depicting the varied
architecture and special light of each place, and recording the passing days
and lives of its people.
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