JOANNA RUBIN DRANGER

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger

Acclaimed as the queen of the Swedish graphic novel, Joanna Rubin Dranger is an uncommonly vibrant storyteller whose work spans illustrations, comic books, short stories, posters, postage stamps, theater and, most recently, film. This profusely illustrated book is the first focusing on Dranger as an artist, including her pictures, pictorial narratives and writings. Her characters are unforgettable: Miss Scaredy-Cat feels lonely, and shares with us her fears and joys in affairs of the heart; Miss Remarkable knows that to make the grade you must become something grand like a nuclear physicist, a film director or a Manhattan designer. Includes texts from prominent Swedish directors, actors and journalists.

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EXPONENTIAL FUTURE

A beautifully illustrated exhibition catalog from Vancouver’s Belkin Gallery, bringing together eight exciting young artists: Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger and Elizabeth Zvonar. The exhibit looks at the dizzying rush to contradictory futures rehearsed daily in the mass media that flood our imaginations. Yet images also tug us into the past, towards a primitive condition of order, familial loyalty, ecstatic belief, and thrall to totalitarian sublimes. Curators Juan Gaitán and Scott Watson use the notion of imagined futures as a narrative and thematic device, a device to open up the larger question of the relationship between works of art and historical consciousness in a time of general amnesia.

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