Sergio Cavallerin. God Save Anime

“At the cultural level superhero is nothing more than the 'evolution of the mythological hero: shares some features with this fact, such as the hybrid nature or supernatural - What if Krypton not a metaphorical Olympus and l 'Spider-Man the Batman if not modern incarnations of mythological characters where man merges with the animal? - And how this equates to a superhuman physical prowess, in seno below kalokagathia, a high moral profile. In occidente, for example, Mars, San Rocco, Captain America could be included, in succession, on the same evolutionary line pertaining to the aforementioned practice of "overlap of worship", unlike what happens in the east where Shintoism gives, without intermediaries, the manga actually an enormous wealth of references and cross-references not only iconographic. Just clearance implemented by Japanese culture, veicolata dall'esperienza di Takashi Murakami e della kai kiki, opens up new avenues and new ways of reading 'icon of shunt comics. God save anime this research in the form of an explicit statement, statement that sets out in its full force in the "blade high"Dedicated to Dragonball, where Sergio Cavallerin you, as a cultural mediator, interpreter of a globalization that also passes through the language of comics. In fact, just in the tradition of Christian, which used the altar as the highest expression of an intent devotional and didactic, fits the character of Dragonball, evident and declared origin of manga, which becomes, in this case, honor of the altars for the iconic value that inherently holds…”

From Critic “Pantheon contemporary: dall'eikon al manga” di Igor Zanti

Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition Sergio Cavallerin. God Save Anime by Igor Zanti: 30 march - 29 April 2012 | WOW Comics Space – Viale Campania 12, Milan