Crazy Planet: Ghosts, Folk Monsters, and Aliens in Manga – An Aspect of Japanese Media Art 2016

Overseas program of the Japan Media Arts Festival, hosted by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government.

Exhibition - Matadero, Madrid, Spain


The exhibition picks up a number of works that deal with everyday interaction between different worlds as an aspect of Japan’s visual arts. It places special focus on the latest exemplars, the works of Ryo Hirano, to explore his contemporary inspiration.

©2015 The Agency for Cultural Affiars

©2015 The Agency for Cultural Affiars

©2015 The Agency for Cultural Affiars

©2015 The Agency for Cultural Affiars

©2015 The Agency for Cultural Affiars

©2015 The Agency for Cultural Affiars

©2015 The Agency for Cultural Affiars

©2015 The Agency for Cultural Affiars

Organizer:Japan Media Arts
Festival Co-organizer:Matadero Madrid, The Japan Foundation, Madrid
Patronage:Embassy of Japan in Spain
Planning director:KANAZAWA Kodama (Independent curator)
Project advisor:YOSHIOKA Hiroshi (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University / Aesthetics and Art Theory), MOURI Yoshitaka (Musical Creativity and theEnvironment, Tokyo University of the Arts / Sociology)