China-Latin America and Caribbean 2016 Year of Culture Exchange, China-Argentina Original Comic Art Exchange Exhibition, hosted by the CPAFFC and the Vi?etas Sueltas, undertook by the Beijing Total Vision Cultural Spreads Co. Ltd., was held successfully in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina from October 14 to 16. Deputy Director-General Ji Wei of the Cultural Exchange Department of the CPAFFC, Directo Marcelo Panozzo of Planification of Argentina Cultural Ministry, Director Oscar Smoje of Palais de Glace, Cultural Counselor Yang Chuanying of Chinese Embassy in Argentina, Director Thomas Dassance of the Vi?etas Sueltas attended the opening ceremony in the evening of October 14 and made speeches respectively. More than 100 audience from both home and abroad attended the opening ceremony and watched the exhibition.
The exhibition displayed a collection of 350 comic works from 5 countries, China, Italy, France, Argentina and the U.S., including 240 pieces of contemporary Chinese caricatures, 110 exquisite manuscripts. Among them, there was San Mao Joins The Army, a masterpiece by Mr. Zhang Leping, a famous cartoonist of China. In addition, more than 10 pieces of caricatures by peasant artists from Qiuxian County of Hebei Province, which was known as one of “three hometowns of caricature of China”, were displayed at the exhibition.
Xinhua News Agency reported the exhibition. The project has been included in the “China-Latin America and Caribbean 2016 Year of Culture Exchange” and “China- Latin America and Caribbean Dialogue Mechanism of Civilizations” initiated by the Ministry of Culture of China.
