Das Anthropozän im Comic
Book presentation and discussion with Jens Harder
21.07.2016 at 19:00
Location: Deutsches Museum, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 Munich
Organizer: Deutsches Museum and Carlsen Verlag
Jens Harder’s three-part, prize-winning epic project chronicles the history of our planet and humanity in a stunningly illustrated comic book form. In Alpha and Beta I, the two volumes published so far, the Berlin artist visualizes the development of the Earth from the Big Bang to the year 1 CE. The volumes draw on the vast repository of visual memory from the last 300,000 years: from fossil finds and prehistoric cave drawings, to Roman mosaics, medieval paintings, and engravings, and finally photographs, film stills, and computer graphics. In this presentation, Jens Harder will present some of his artwork, mostly taken from the volume Beta, which encompasses the four-million-year history of humanity. The talk will be followed by a moderated discussion, giving audience members an opportunity to learn more about the artist’s work processes.
The event is organized in connection with the special exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands.” Register by 15 July 2016 by contacting anthropozaen@deutsches-museum.de. Please note that this event will take place in German.
Jens Harder studied graphic design at the Berlin Weissensee School of Art. He works as a freelance graphic artist and illustrator in Berlin. Alpha was published in German in 2010 and received the Max und Moritz Preis for best German comic and the Hans-Meid-Preis for book illustration. It was published in English by Knockabout Comics in 2015. He spent four years working on Beta I, the second volume in this project.
Image copyright by Jens Harder/Carlsen Verlag