Araki Hirohiko celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017, and a live-action movie was released, and this year's JOJO 30th anniversary commemorative project continues. This summer, the National Art Museum of Japan will hold an exhibition of original paintings by Hirohiko Araki with the theme "Ripple of JOJO Adventure". The specific time of the
original painting exhibition has recently been made public. It is reported that the "Araki Hirohiko Original Painting Exhibition JOJO Adventure Ripple" will be held at the National New Museum of Art, Japan from August 24 to October 1, 2018. The last manga artist’s solo exhibition was after the death of Osamu Tezuka 29 years ago. The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo held a "Retrospective Exhibition of Osamu Tezuka" to commemorate the great manga artist, and Osamu Tezuka became the first. A cartoonist who held a solo exhibition at the National Art Museum. Araki Hirohiko’s solo exhibition will be held at the National New Museum of Art, so he became the second manga artist to hold a solo exhibition at the National Art Museum after Osamu Tezuka. His status as a manga artist has been improved historically. .
Japanese manga artist Hirohiko Araki was born in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. He made his debut as a manga artist with "Armed Park" in 1980. In 1987, he began serializing "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" in Weekly Shonen JUMP and achieved great success. After 2005, it changed to a long-term serialization in the Shueisha youth comic magazine UltraJump, and the sales volume of the entire series exceeds 100 million copies.
"JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" is an adventure-blooded comic, telling the story of the British aristocratic family Josda and the vampire Dior and his successors, which lasted more than a hundred years. From the first "Phantom Blood" to the latest eighth "JoJolion", each story is composed of different stages, themes, and the same blood of the Josta family. The charming characters, unique expression techniques and worldview, extremely dynamic and passionate battle scenes, impressive "JOJO stand" and other elements shocked the hearts of many people and fell in love with this work. Although many people are discouraged by JOJO's style of painting, as long as you accept this style of painting, you will definitely be able to lead you into a new, unconstrained and charming adventure world.
Araki Hirohiko is also looking forward to his solo exhibition of original paintings, saying, "It is really glorious to be able to showcase the achievements of JOJO's 30th anniversary in such a very famous place, and at the same time I feel very nervous." It is reported that in addition to displaying the existing JOJO original paintings, Hirohiko Araki will also bring his own new original comics. This series of actions makes people can't help but look forward to the fifth TV animation.
▪ Exhibition name: Hirohiko Araki's original painting exhibition JOJO 智険の風智
▪ Duration: August 24 to October 1, 2018
▪ Exhibition venue: National New Museum of Art Exhibition Room 2E (Tokyo, Roppongi)
▪ Organizer: National New Art Museum, Shueisha
▪ Co-organizer: NTT ドコモ, Da Nippon Printing
