book launch and workshop for children aged 7 to 11
Friday 15 March at 5.00 pm
Forum - Palazzo delle Esposizioni
"I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in wonderland."
Yayoi Kusama
Lewis Carroll's great classic story for children and the psychedelic dot-based art of Japanese illustrator Yayoi Kusama come together in a surprise encounter in this wonderful book recently published in Italy by Orecchio Acerbo. Kusama's dreamlike images made up of coloured dots accompany and enrich the text without ever attempting to illustrate it in any literal sense, while playful examples of the printer's art help to enliven the tale.
To mark the occasion, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni's Art Bookshelf has organised a worshop for children aged seven to eleven designed to allow them to delve into the pages of the book, to plunge with Alice into the search for a white rabbit, to drink weird potions that will make them shrink, and to vanish into thin air like the Cheshire Cat.
Letters large and small in odd shapes and dozens of coloured dots offer an original reinterpretation of the most intense episodes in Lewis Carroll's novel.
information and reservations
Friday 15 March at 5.00 pm
Forum - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Milano 13, Rome
admission free while places last (max 25 children)
reservations recommended scaffaledarte@palaexpo.it