Frédéric Back Exhibition

Frédéric Back : L’homme qui plantait des arbres

Frédéric Back is a Canadian artist and film director of short animated films.

In 1980, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film for his film Tout rien (All Nothing in English). In 1982, he won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film for his film Crac. In 1987, he won his second Academy Award for Animated Short Film for L’homme qui plantait des arbres (The Man Who Planted Trees in English). In 1994, he was nominated again for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film, for his film Le fleuve aux grandes eaux (Mighty River in English).

Featuring over 1,000 drawings, illustrations and animations, this is the most comprehensive exhibition devoted so far to the works of Frédéric Back.
The 87-year-old artist has said that he had wanted to visit Japan to honour the courage of the Japanese people. He hopes that the exhibition would pass on a message of hope for efforts to rebuild Japan in the image of The Man Who Planted Trees. 

 

You can see a virtual tour of the Tokyo exhibition in October 2011 here.