Exhibition poster for the Osaka exhibition by Andrea Rauch
Posters 1978-2010
Osaka, Japan
8 to 19 April 2011
Osaka University of Arts,
Art Information Center,
Showroom (469 Higashiyama, Kanan-cho Minamikawachi-gun, Osaka-fu)
Organized by the University of the Arts
Osaka, in collaboration with the Italian Institute
Culture - Osaka
8 to 19 April, the exhibition of posters by Andrea Rauch exposed last November in Tokyo, by the Italian Institute of Culture, will move to Osaka where he will be presented at the University of the Arts University students who have managed the installation, have asked that we publish an explanatory note below.
The wave of Hokusai
A few months ago, in October of 2010, I prepared a poster for my solo exhibition in Tokyo. I designed, then, one of the famous views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai, which seemed to be the symbol of everything I had always admired in Japan: the great harmony of shapes, the composure of the lines, but also the sudden and terrible force of nature , its capricious unpredictability. Then the horror of these months, the tidal wave, tsunami, destruction and death. The wave of Hokusai I designed it has since become, then, immediately after the disaster, a manifesto of solidarity among the many graphic designers around the world dedicated to Japan: the wave had suddenly transformed from a ed'equilibrio miracle of art, in a terrible monster, but had also become the symbol of the very soul of Japan, its incredible composure and dignity, of his rise up the disaster, starting again, taken the day, to reorganize and rebuild, to invent a new future. From "the abyss of despair" could be seen again, eternal and unchanging, the silhouette of Mount Fuji.
Andrea Rauch
The wave of Hokusai, poster for the Japan earthquake by Andrea Rauch
Exhibition poster for the Tokyo exhibition in 2010 by Andrea Rauch