I promised earlier that I would give you a complete round-up of all the exhibitions currently shown at the City Library of Malmö. Well, here they are. Seen above is the exhibition Världsserier (World comics), curated by yours truly. This I have reported about earlier, but now it is displayed in all its glory. It consists of really big printouts, each one presenting a comics artist from a different country with an image and a short text, and the sixteen huge pints together form a wall of images creating a brand new feel to the comics section of the library.
Just opposite, on the balcony outside of the comics section, is Svenska mangatecknare (Swedish mangaka), an exhibition showcasing Swedish artists working in a style inspired by the Asian comics culture, a phenomenon which is spreading like wildfire also in Sweden. Each artist is presented through a single color image, beautifully printed on structured canvas, with a short biographical note below.
Walking downstairs to the ground floor, the third exhibition, Fucking Vittula, can be seen on one of the walls in the café. It consists of mounted pages from the book with the same name, which is a comics reportage by Anders Annikas about the small towns Vittula and Åmål, which both enjoyed a period of "celebrity status" because of the tremendous successes of the book Populärmusik från Vittula and the movie Fucking Åmål respectively.
Walking towards the children's section of the library, you will find the fourth exhibition, Arabiska barnserier (Arabic children's comics) displayed on a number of stands, spread out all the way into the children's section. This exhibitions consists of full pages of a number of famous Arabic children's comics, with short annotations, both in Swedish and Arabic.
Finally, the fifth exhibition is inside the children's area of the library, where the results of a number of workshops where groups of kindergarten kids collectively wrote scripts to eight panel comic, which were then drawn on the spot by comics artist Lovisa Witt during 90 minutes sessions. The results are just as weird and wonderful as can be expected.
Well that's it. Now I'll just have to get around to reporting on the other 18 comics exhibitions currently displayed in Malmö...
