Genoa and Montreal are very similar: a comic book exhibition to find out why

Until March 20, 2022, the Liguria Room of the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa is hosting the exhibition Vicoli e Ruelles. Representations of Urban Space in Comics between Italy and Quebec, curated by Elisa Bricco, Johanne Desrochers, Anna Giaufret, Ferruccio Giromini, Franco Melis, and Greg Nowak and organized by Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura with the Festival BD de Montréal (FBDM), the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (DLCM), the Interdepartmental Research Center on the Visual Arts (ciVIS) and the Interdepartmental Research Center on the Americas (CIRAm) of the University of Genoa, as part of the public notice Promoting Comics 2021, promoted by the Ministry of Culture’s General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity.

The exhibition presents comic book plates created by twenty-four Italian and Quebec authors on the theme of the representation of urban space. After Genoa, the exhibition will in fact be staged at theItalian Cultural Institute in Montréal from April 28 to May 31, 2022. Montréal, also thanks to its BD Festival that celebrated its tenth anniversary in May 2021, is considered a capital of North American comics.

Vicoli e Ruelles stems from an earlier collaboration between Italian curators and the Festival de la Bande Dessinée de Montréal and the desire to compare the ways in which two spaces are represented, which, although they have profound differences, have points of contact. Although these are European and North American spaces, both cities feature alleys and ruelles, or narrow, intimate, protected urban spaces that can easily become metaphors for our interiority and relationships.

For Genoa, alleys are the essence of the medieval historic center, the core of the city. All Genoese know that the ancient urban layout is divided into two zones: that of the alleys or caruggi, the lower city, close to the harbor, animated by a varied humanity, sometimes in crisis but always pulsating, and that of the crêuze, the small brick streets that climb the steep hills, still dotted with gardens and vegetable gardens. Montréal’s ruelles are alleys set along the backs of three-story houses overlooked by gardens. They are streets that have no numbering, but which welcome forms of solidarity life, posters, meetings.

The authors involved are Eliana Albertini, Paolo Bacilieri, Bianca Bagnarelli, Lorena Canottiere, Sara Colaone, Andrea Ferraris, Emanuele Giacopetti, Gabriella Giandelli, Marino Neri, Davide Reviati, Silvia Rocchi, Pietro Scarnera, Caroline Breault aka Cab, Samuel Cantin, Ariane Dénommé, Pascal Girard, Michel Hellman, Mélanie Leclerc, Tania Mignacca, Djibril Morissette-Phan, Michel Rabagliati, Salgood Sam aka Max Douglas, Shaghayegh Moazzami, Mireille St-Pierre.

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Genoa and Montreal are very similar: a comic book exhibition to find out why

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