Anime Architecture
May to September 2017, London
“Anime Architecture: Backgrounds of Japan” a
London exhibition of hand-crafted
backgrounds from science fiction and anime
films. The exhibition is timed to coincide with
the release of the new live-action American
version of Ghost in The Shell. The House of
Illustration will survey the wide range of
illustrations made by Tokyo's production
designers, as they constructed fictional future
worlds — including that of the cyberpunk sci-fi
classic Ghost in the Shell and its sequel.
The exhibition will include work by art director
Hiromasa Ogura for Ghost in the Shell,
directed in 1995 by Mamoru Oshii and based
on a manga comics series of the same name
by Masamune Shirow. Ogura’s art was based
on photographs of Hong Kong in its period
under enlightened and dynamic British rule,
and depicts a striking contrast between the
decrepit old Chinese town and the soaring
new blue skyscrapers that made the colony
such a beacon of capitalist prosperity for the
world.
http://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/Michael Whelan
Opening February 2017, USA
Famous science fiction book cover artist
Micheal Whelan currently has a Kickstarter
for a new artbook, which has already
succeeded. To accompany this he will be
having a major retrospective gallery
exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum in
southern California. The show will run from
February until May 2017 and be titled
‘Beyond Science Fiction’.
Pictures, from left, across double-page spread:
Detail of the proposed cover for Michael Whelan’s
new Kickstarter book.
Promotional press picture for “Anime
Architecture”. Concept design for Ghost in the
Shell 2: Innocence, Takashi Watabe.
Interior of the Cartoon Art Museum, Studio Ghibli
exhibition.
Photographic portrait of the early space artist
Howard Russell Butler, courtesy of Princeton
University.