THE STRANGER

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Once upon a time a stranger arrives at a place where the king and his people lived in great peace. He doesn’t look like them. In fact, this stranger is so big and the people so small, that neither can communicate and the uneasiness and hatred that the most harmless of outsiders can engender start a well known chain of events : guards, clueless politicians, the threat of military force. “The Stranger”, again relevant today, is a small story filled with big themes that celebrates in a hopeful way the victory of acceptation and empathy over ignorance and prejudice.

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Kjell Arne Sörensen Ringi (1936-2010) was a Swedish artist, graphic designer, sculptor and author from Gothenburg. His artistry can be appreciated in his paintings, illustrations, official monumental items, art books, art and documentary films, international events posters, etc. A master in the small, with his millions of constricted little figures, and sumptuous in the great, whith his magnificent sculptural cathedrals and skyscrapers that strive high against the sky, his paintings are represented in some thirty international museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Library of Paris, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne and the Staatliche Museum in Berlin. After spending long periods of time in New York, where he had great success with his paintings, Ringi creates between 1967 and 1974 seven pictures books for some of the biggest north-american publishers. Books written and illustrated by himself, like The Stranger (selected as one of the best picturebooks of 1968 by the Junior Literary Guild), and also in association with writer Adelaide Holl.