KEIICHI TANAAMI ANIMATION RETROSPECTIVE
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 8 PM
Cinecycle (behind 129 Spadina Ave, in laneway)
$8, $5 students
Screening in Toronto for the first time, these 10 animated works offer an introduction to Keiichi Tanaamiʼs various styles and a trip through the eye-popping world of free form Japanese psychedelia. This event will also celebrate Tanaami's newest release, A Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami: 14 Films 1975-2009, a beautiful edition containing a hard cover book with never-before published drawings for animated films, 14 films from 1975-2009, and two documentaries about the man himself, available for purchase at the screening.
Keiichi Tanaami, born in 1936, is one of the preeminent pop artists of postwar Japan, producing a broad range of works since the 60s including experimental film and animation, woodblock printing, illustration, and editorial design. Tanaamiʼs imagery is provocative and playful, rooted in the realm of avant garde 60s pop psychedelia. In 1967 Tanaami took his first trip to New York where he discovered the works of Andy Warhol. These experiences opened him up to new artistic directions and in 1975 he became the first Art Director of Playboy Monthly (Japanese Edition). He has worked as a professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design since 1991, and his work continues to be exhibited around the world.
This event is a fundraiser to aid the victims of the earthquake in Japan and has been made possible by the generosity of: Keiichi Tanaami, CaRTe bLaNChe and CineCycle.
All proceeds will go to the Red Cross Japan Earthquake Fund.
Presented by:
ANGURA! (angura.org) / Toronto Animated Image Society (tais.ca) / CaRTe bLaNChe (c-a-r-t-e-blanche.com)
* NOTE: Some of the works featured contain imagery of an erotic nature. 18 +