For many years, there was no animation art to be found in museums or other art exhibitions, with the exception of William Kentridge’s social criticisms. Recently, the genre is blooming, in all its manifestations. Paul Chan’s shadow plays at TENT and the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Jan van Nuenen’s videographic experiments at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and W139, Nathalie Djurberg’s clay characters at locations all over Europe: what is going on here?

Scarcely a week goes by without an exhibition of his work opening somewhere in the world and virtually every exhibition is devised and drawn by him on the spot. The Romanian artist and cartoonist Dan Perjovschi is having the busiest years of his career. American artist Otto Berchem is a big fan of drawing and cartoons and managed to entice Perjovschi into a conversation about his oeuvre which is just as taciturn as it is boisterous.

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