Attack On Titan: The Exhibition is set to arrive at The ArtScience Museum, Singapore next month. The upcoming event marks the first time manga exhibition ventures outside Japan and coincides with the final season of the anime, which premiered last week, and is currently being released on a weekly basis.
The exhibition is organized by design firm SPACELogic and will feature over 180 artworks by AoT manga artist Hajime Isayama, including the manga’s initial drafts, storyboards that feature handwritten dialogue from Isayama, and animated battle sequences displayed in The Great Titan Theater. The immersive space will transport viewers into Isayama’s dystopia beginning with a choice to venture on a blue path “Outside the Walls,” and a red path that leads “Inside the Walls.”
“I hope you enjoy Attack on Titan: The Exhibition and I would be happy if you continue to immerse yourself in the world of Attack On Titan and engage with the characters as you like,” Isayama said in a press release.
Tickets for Attack On Titan: The Exhibition will be offered beginning January 20, on the Marina Bay Sands website. The event will run from February 19 to July 3. Exclusive merchandise will be available for purchase.
Elsewhere, Damien Hirst is set to present “Cherry Blossoms” paintings in Tokyo.
Death has been a constant theme in Hirst’s works, and this exhibition continues the arc in his signature dot painting style. Hirst explains the inspiration behind his works below.
“The Cherry Blossoms are about beauty and life and death. They’re extreme—there’s something almost tacky about them. Like Jackson Pollock twisted by love. They’re decorative but taken from nature. They’re about desire and how we process the things around us and what we turn them into, but also about the insane visual transience of beauty—a tree in full crazy blossom against a clear sky. It’s been so good to make them, to be completely lost in colour and in paint in my studio. They’re garish and messy and fragile and about me moving away from Minimalism and the idea of an imaginary mechanical painter and that’s so exciting for me.”
The showing will be Damien Hirst’s first major solo exhibition in the country and will include 24 select paintings from his 107-work series, the largest of which measure over seven meters in length. Hirst completed the paintings in 2020, and first displayed the pieces at Fondation Cartier in Paris last summer. The upcoming exhibition, scheduled for May 2 to May 23rd later this year, will harmonize with its natural backdrop as the cherry blossom trees around the museum begin to shed and scatter their pink petals.
The National Art Center, Tokyo
7 Chome-22-2 Roppongi,
Minato City, Tokyo 106-8558,
Japan
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