 I have the pleasure now to go on a virtual tour with you. But before I do that, let me just invite you to our next panel, which is happening tomorrow at 10 am CET understanding differences changing perspectives. Make sure you join a bit earlier since we're starting on time. For those who have not registered and those who have registered, you should have received a separate link for the panel in the after in the morning. If you're interested in this panel, but you haven't registered, you will find the link to join in this chat. So now we are going to our online tour. Yes, with a virtual tour of the exhibition. Yes. 51,000. Thank you. Balthasar City at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the virtual tours facilitated by our partner Rijeka 2020. We would actually have love to see this tour in person, but I'm actually also very excited to see how the digital translation of this tour is going to happen. So I will do this introduction with masks and then we will unmask afterwards. Okay. Here we are. Are you hearing seeing and hearing as well it's all working fine. I hope so. Yes. Okay, so fine. Okay, so my name is Zoran Krushver I work for the year 2020. And I will, I will now present my guests well guests. I'm actually their guests when we are on the exhibition because they are the most responsible people for it. This lady here is Christina Wolf. Hello. She is from Brigada Brigada is a design agency. And she is our director, and gentlemen here is Jerry Kulukovich he's our custodian. So he's responsible for all the articles that you can see on our exhibition. And they will do most of the talking. I will just do a short introduction here and I would like to start my presentation right now if you don't object. Share this. So I would like to welcome you all to Baltazar town. Now I can remove this. Baltazar town is the name of the fictional town where Professor Baltazar the hero of most famous creation animated series has his adventures. So why do we have exhibition about Baltazar town is because our town, Rieka is actually inspiration for actual Baltazar town but other speakers will tell you more about that. What I would like to say is that this is of course part of the Rieka 2020 program European capital of culture. And while we were announcing our European capital of culture, we were always saying that it's going to be one very, very, very special year. And guess what it's really a special year. So, well, we do have also a special exhibition. The exhibition is part of the Children's House program program line. Children's House, it's one of the program lines of Rieka 2020 European capital of culture program. And what's so special about Children's House is that it is a program line dedicated to children, of course. Now, when we were thinking about children's programs. We wanted to do something special, we will, we were thinking about children as a future citizens of our city and of our country and of our world. We wanted them to be better citizens. So we were thinking about what shall we do about it. And we decided to make a program line, which consists of programs that involve children as active participants. We had a very passive audience. So we had a number of programs festivals. Performances exhibitions where children could be could take part and do something actively. So this exhibition was one of those programs we wanted we wanted children to take part to experience it and to be submerged into the into the world of cartoons and into the world of Professor Baltazar. Besides Rieka being inspiration for the background for the Baltazar town in the cartoon. We also love this idea of having an exhibition dedicated to Professor Baltazar, because we shared certain values. So we had as a Children's House program line and also as Rieka 2020 European Capital of Culture are the same values that were promoted by animated series Professor Baltazar. Those values are helping each other non violence learning, always finding something new science as very important part of our lives. And of course, taking action, not being just passive observers. So, since we shared all those values with Professor Baltazar. It was only logical to take Professor Baltazar as main. Well, this is the main exhibition that Children's House is doing. This is what I wanted to say. And now I would like to invite Jacob is our custodian who will say some other things about how Professor Baltazar came to be and what are we doing with this exhibition. Jacob, please. Thank you, Zoran. Thank you for introduction. This is a call look at each other curator of the Baltazar town exhibition. And as Zoran said before, this exhibition was part of the values shared values between Rieka 2020 and animated series, Professor Baltazar for those who are unacquainted with this. This is probably the most famous animated cartoon series in ex Yugoslavia now, now Croatia. It started in 1967 with the first episode, I think the next screen will show that. Okay, this is Baltazar history. So I already started it started in 1967 and was made up until 1978. It was a for four seasons as we used to speak today. 59 episodes, 10 minutes each and the last seasons were only five minutes. The famous series was very well received all over the world, especially in Asia and America and Scandinavia, where it was also shown in the panel institutions. It was shown in schools. It was very popular. We also have on our exhibition, even some children's records with songs about Baltazar translated into Swedish. So it's kind of a famous character who stood alone as a single single most recognizable character in Zagreb school animation. Animation was probably, as you know, mostly known for its for its abstract art and animation. It already with the ersatz from Dushan Vukotic received an Oscar, but the Baltazar series were aimed at children's audience and it really succeeded in that it was already in 1968. It came first to Mamiya Animation Festival. It received the contributions from another production house. So it so it became one of the first joint ventures. Between then, I was loving on a production house Zagreb film and German production house windows that don't time, which later became a window that fans and Baltazar is a famous cartoon character for its let me go to the next panel. Yeah, on this panel, you will see that we on the exhibition, Baltazar Town tried to cover a few aspects of the history. One was the starting of the series, the reaching to audience reaching to festivals and also we tried to put the children into knowing about the process of animation. So we split the exhibition into four parts, which will be later explained by our designer, but from the history part, it is used to inform children and all the audiences about the offers about the animation process. We are of course talking about analog animation, which is now completely done digital way. So it was, as you see here, you can see some of the offers offers famous are from, of course, Zagreb House of animation is like a garbage and it's an image and especially it's like a Borek. You might know him from his other cartoon work and especially theater work. He made scenery, and he was responsible for making Rieke and Baltazar the town quite the same because first time he came into Rieke, he was amazed with the town with its structure, architecture and vivid colors. So he put the scenery in Baltazar. So Baltazar was, we've seen now, was not only made with those offers which were on the credits, but with some unknown workers, which is one part of the exhibition, we dedicated to famously unknown drawers or copies or other workers on the series because it was manual work and one frame of the film, exactly one second was made of 24 drawings. So each drawing had to be done manually. Each had to be faced copied and colored and all that work was done by female workers, unknown female workers, who was, who were never credited. So one of the part of the exhibition we took an acknowledgement of that female work, which is kind of unrepresented and typical for the 60s and the 70s. Even for the job applications for the series, they didn't had to know how to draw. They just wanted as some of the heads said to have a firm hand. So there was lots of firm hands, mostly female, and we tried to acknowledge that work with some of the exhibits. As I already said, part of the exhibition is learning about animation process. It was like from the process between the first idea, then the first drawings, then the storyboards, the screenplays and at last the taping and drawing of the each cells. So on the exhibition we have a huge selection of original cells from that period. They were very hard to find because it's almost 40 to 50 years old material and some of the cells are really, really piece of the art itself, although they were done in animation way like they were exactly copies done by the female workers you have seen before. Other parts of the exhibition are the Baltasars receiving and traveling around the world on the various festivals and film reviews. One of, as you see there, this is Cartoon Club in Italy in 1996. This was important because you can see the Baltas are here in a really good company from Alina famous, Alina famous Italian cartoon and other cartoons. The Baltas are really very well known. Even Chuck Jones famous animator from USA paid tribute to Baltas are with one of his characters. So, let me go to another international context was also important because the Baltas are started with the first exhibition in MoMA Museum of Modern Art in New York. When it when it when it was screened and later ABC television took the series on their screens. So even American audiences were very well known with the Baltas are concept. The concept was really simple for that time. It was one or two problems in the Baltas are town with its with its inhabitants and the Baltas are always told the problems in non violent way. Of course, with the use of science he had his wondrous machine for solving problems and they never as it was similar to other cartoons of that time like Tom and Jerry and others. There is no chasing there is no beating there is no violence of any kind. So Baltas are learned children to solve the problems with agreement and on the way that each each side should be satisfied. Every episode ended with solving the problem they everybody danced or sang a song on the he was also emphasizing the value of friendship, the value of noting different the other, the other was always important in the concept of Baltas are and all that was done in particular design way, which was of course inspired by Rieke but also with naive art or creation I even art and mostly with psychedelic art in America, one of the very well known influences on the designs of Baltas are was, of course, yellow submarine and it was right right there up until the fourth season when the German production house wanted to go with the Baltas are in another way we all be covered all that with the committee documentation on the exhibition, we even have letters between directors and handwritten notes on storyboards where you can see the process how the character grows into life, what the production bosses want of the character, what the German side wants wanted to do with Baltas are and what the creation side wanted to do with Baltas are. It was actually very very successful right right out until the end in 1978 when it was actually financing the other cartoons from the famous Zagreb school of animation. Let me go to the next oh, I'm already on the next so let me finish this with the further notes about the exhibition that are including from the famous Baltas machine we have the design of credits of the whole series, where you can see the changes in design we have international awards from Maya to most try in Italy, then photographs from the show photographs from the offers storyboards, and even some kind of a special films which were never in a filmography of the Baltas are they were called. Many films, because they even they called it bridges, it was a short educational films done between two seasons for the educational purposes in Germany, sadly, none of these films are digitized in Croatia, so we only have storyboards. And so lots of material combined with the learning possibilities for children, but for their parents to. So, let me know. I want to conclude this with the thank you note for the Rijeka 2020 the city Rijeka the mayor and museum of contemporary culture in Rijeka who all did this together with us and it was a really large effort in this usually unusual strange times, we should include in Baltas are to solve some of these problems so thank you for listening to me and may I introduce now our designer Christina from Brigada design studio thank you for listening. Nice to meet you all. I'm Christina from Brigada agency with the visual identity and exhibition design for the Baltas are sitting. I'm really happy to do it. It was a whole project that we did. I would just like to say, like the gel corady said the inspiration between the city of Rijeka and the Baltas are city. So we came here from the similarities. We divided the whole museum in the four parts. We came from the city to Rijeka. So you here cross the cross one room that is presented at the sea. Then we cross the river and then we entered the Baltas are city and at the last we have a room for the space. I will go now through each part of the exhibition and how we designed. And here the main motive is the head from the professor Baltas are in the cartoon, and we use to it in the now regional visual identity and it is the main part. When you come into the museum so it's like a welcoming part of the exhibition. You will see how it looks now. You're climbing up the stairs. So when you climb there is a welcoming note on the wall. And when you climb you see about all the heads in this colorful tones. This is the main wall that represents the interest to the Baltas city. And when you're clapping your hands the lights are switching from red to yellow blue and green. The specialty in all the episodes of Baltas are Baltas are cartoon is ice cream so we put this ice cream machine so every little visitor can have an ice cream. Because everything that was sold all the problems in the episodes, they always have ice cream like a reward. So when we come into the room to see and it's it was inspired by the episode Hannibal Alps and we wanted to hear to have this atmosphere that is calm. The main team was the lighthouse and the sea and over the walls you can see the projection of the cartoon characters and the whales and you can hear the sound of the sea seagulls and other sounds. Here's the movie. It is quite nice and ambient room for the start. Yes, so they're traveling all around the walls. This is the main character from the episode. So, when we come to the other wall of the lighthouse. It's, we have now this the moment for the cartoonist female cartoonist, and we put a big, big blank part of the paper so the kids can draw it whenever they want. So over four weeks it's the exhibition it showed it's full of the drawings and the Baltas are city, how they see it and inspiration of the Baltas are. So, yeah, you can see them. It's the thing when you give them opportunity the kids will definitely use it. And even the grown ups. Even I did it when it was the first opening the first day. Then we cross the river, the river, the name of the river is reaching now, and the inspiration was the vanilla monster is the name of the episode. And when you cross the bridge, you came to the Baltas are city, but from the Baltas are city you can come to this little dog, where you can, if you rotate the wheel, then you can see the episode of the vanilla master or how we call the master for full. This is quite interactive, and kids can stop it or let the animation go by turning on the wheel. Like you see it like here. So the idea was that the little children always think maybe in their river really exists the master for full. Finally, we came to the Baltas are city town. The whole idea was when the visitors come come to the exhibition that they really feel that they're in some other place so it is really about as a city. They go through the passage to the windows. They see little squares they're watching this whole exhibition with the new eyes. And so when they come to the different parts of the exhibition, the experience something new. The third part of this Baltas are town exhibition has its inspiration in the episodes of the Baltas are cartoon. So here you can see a lot of plant plants plants that you're viewing through panels that are in other colors. So it's, it's quite complex to it invites you to explore and go through all the whole space. The parts where original cells from the animation hand drawn and how this is how you move through the exhibition. Part of where the pink flowers are was the inspiration in birthday story from the original episode. All the exhibits. This part is the design by Lena Kovacic designer. She invented the Baltas are machine that always solves some kind of problem depends on the episode. Yes, this park is maybe the most loud one. It's the pyramid where every visitor can play something on their own, but it's not usually instrumented something that you can rarely see, but definitely inspires you to think stuff in a different way. And now finally we come to the room space. This is inspiration was from all the episode that have connections with some visitors from space. It's interactive tool. And here, even without the space you can watch the all episodes from about as a series. The main inspiration was in propellers that usually about as are always used to travel somewhere in the sea in the space to the town. The cartoon characters are from the space there are three main characters through all the episodes and they're all presented here. And this is the one episode. One sound and song where you will say. I just want to say here that this is interactive part where is there is an episode with this visitor from the space who always says this one song, no other characters are invited to play along with him in this series. We always use bottle scissors to play some kind of music. It was not the classical instruments. So we gave here ability to play with this singer from space so the children can play and be part of the episode and the part of the song. Yes, I think that I explained everything. Thank you very much. Hope you enjoyed and we're here for the questions or anything else. Thank you. Bye. Okay, thank you. Okay, thank you. Do you maybe have any questions or something you're welcome please come. You're also welcome to come in physical form. Yes. Thank you very much to you rega team. Yeah, you're the few that are still open most of the museums in Europe are closed a second time. So this would actually be the moment to visit you. Thank you very much. And we are also handing out the three ice creams. No, we actually do. Thank you.