Guinigi’s Tower, with its hanging garden at the top, is the undisputed symbol of the city, and this 16th-century treasure chest is ready to welcome the Lucca Comics & Games exhibitions historically hosted at Palazzo Ducale. The new location for the festival's longest-running exhibitions will, in fact, be Palazzo Guinigi.
From October 18th to November 2nd, one of the city's emblematic places opens its doors to host some of the most significant names in Italian and international comics.
In addition to the already announced exhibition dedicated to the poster's author Rébecca Dautremer, three other exhibitions will be presented. A selection of original art will make up the exhibition dedicated to the work of Kevin Eastman - the first of four international guests to be announced by Mirage Comics - where visitors will discover the narrative universes of the co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator, who launched The Last Ronin and will present Totally Twisted Tales at the festival. The author will be at Lucca Comics & Games from October 30 to November 2.
The exhibition L'Eternauta: beyond space and time, curated by Pier Luigi Gaspa and created in collaboration with Pietro Alligo and the publishing house Lo Scarabeo, will allow the public to admire 100 original plates, enriched by a series of textual and other apparatuses that immerse the visitor in the extraordinary, exciting and disturbing epic work of Juan Salvo, L’Eternauta. As its scriptwriter, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, wrote in the Seventies, L'Eternauta was initially conceived as "my version of Robinson [Crusoe]. The loneliness of man surrounded not by the sea, but by death". A gripping saga of resistance that reflects the situation of Argentina at the time, standing out as an authentic apologue against all totalitarianism. Considered THE national Argentine comic par excellence, L'Eternauta is a world masterpiece, in which Oesterheld pours his own vision of the world. Which would lead him to become a desaparecido two decades later.
With the exhibition Grazia La Padula: Drawing the unaffected , curated by Mara Famularo, the peculiarity of La Padula's art be showcased in an exhibition path that goes through her work as a cartoonist and illustrator: from her debut in the bande dessinée to her vast activity for magazines and journals, from the story of the creative process behind the comics to the drawings from life as a training ground for constant expressive exploration, from the portraits of important personalities in the entertainment industry to the tables of the award-winning Diary of a Dog , up to the unpublished images taken from her next work, Les insoumises, to be released by the French publisher Futuropolis. The author will be a guest at Lucca Comics & Games from 29 October to 2 November.
The prestigious location symbol of Lucca, in addition to hosting some of the exhibitions of this edition, will also be the center of another important project: it returns this year, exclusively for Lucca Comics & Games, Foodmetti - Artists of the tables, the festival within the festival dedicated to the excellence of the world of comics and food and wine. As per tradition, Foodmetti will offer numerous unmissable events, in which comic book authors will try their hand at being chefs, bartenders and many other surprises.
