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Thursday, November 6 2008

Exhibition 'Creature di carta'

INTERAZIONI 2008

“Creature di carta” – Exhibition of Anna Deflorian, Angelo Mennillo, Eugenia Monti e Emanuele Rosso

OPENING: FRIDAY 7th NOVEMBER, 9 p.m.

Place: Galleria Sessantaquattro Baricellarte

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At 9 pm open the exhibition ‘Creature di carta’ curated by the cultural association Mirada. Works of Anna Deflorian, Angelo Mennillo, Eugenia Monti e Emanuele Rosso.

These four young Italian authors come from the comic scene of Bologna. Very different in style, techniques and narrative features, in 2007 attended the prize Iceberg addressed to young artists. Eugenia Monti won the contest while the other three authors have been reported thus forming a kind of group, representative of what happens better among the younger generation of cartoonists.

There will be also the concert of the Alhambra.

Biographies of the artists:

Eugenia Monti

Born in 1985 in San Marino, she attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna section Illustration and Comics. Won the "Iceberg" (2007) with the feature Aceto di semi di girasole, and then published in the special issue of Inguine MAH! Gazine dedicated to the competition. For the same contest won the prize Guercino.

You just come out for the types of Edizioni del Vento Mozziconi with text by Monica Nardozi.

Anna Deflorian

Born in 1985, she has a diploma in Applied Arts - Visual Art and attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. She has been reported in the contest of "Iceberg" (2007).

Angelo Mennillo

Born in 1982 in Germany, he lives and works in Bologna. He won for the comics section in 2002, the contest RAM of the City of Ravenna and was reported in 2007 Iceberg competition in the City of Bologna with the short story Metamorphose. He published in 2003 No Words and No Comment for the publishing house Luca Bonanno, and also on InguineMAH! Gazine and "Inguine-MAH! 2008 ' illustrating texts of Elettra Stamboulis, Christian Del Monte and Boris Battle. In 2007 he participates in the realization of Guadalajara será la tumba of fascism, published in Spain with Edicions de Ponent. In 2008 he was asked to participate in the collective work Futuro anteriore for the Festival Comiconin Naples, which has produced a short story on texts by Edo Chieregato. It is just come out Strawberry for Edizioni del Vento, by Mennillo on the text of Salvatore Cacace. This is a story that sees a borderline personality, a magician dressed in black who sees his dreams lost because of heroin and whose anchor of salvation is indeed “the ultimate magic”.

Emanuele Rosso

Born in 1982, he graduated to the DAMS of Bologna. He also attended several workshops held by important cartoonists. He has done illustrations and posters for public and private. It has been reported in the 2007 Iceberg comics section, in the 2003 and 2004 editions of Baraccano Bologna and 2001 and 2002 of PierLambicchi of Prato. In addition to its auto productions (special mention for Schnell! Like teen spirit, and Anemic Cinema), he took part in the volume Resistance (2007) published by Beccogiallo and a piece can be found in the catalog of Futuro Anteriore for the Festival Comicon in Naples with the story Se un lontano giorno tutti leggessero fumetti l'enigmistica dovrebbe adeguarsi?.

Info:

Associazione Mirada

Via Mazzini 83 Ravenna

Tel +39 0544 217359

info@mirada.it

www.mirada.it

Friday, September 19 2008

KOMIKAZEN: 4th INTERNATIONAL REALITY COMIC FESTIVAL

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IN RAVENNA ON 10 AND 11 OCTOBER 2008

EXHIBITIONS IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS UNTIL 7 JANUARY 2009

Ravenna once again will become the centre of reality comics and experimental comics with the Komikazen Festival. Two days of exhibitions, meetings and workshops with a final performance on the occasion of the “notte d’oro” in Ravenna.

In this fourth edition of Komikazen, the International Festival of Reality Comics, Ravenna is happy to host the first exhibition of Lebanese artists in Italy – who will meet the public and schools of the city among others – and in particular it is honoured to have as one of its guest Anke Feuchtenberger, who will not only do two exhibitions, but also a seminar with the women of the shelter of the prostitution project in Ravenna.

Another guest of the Festival will be Federico Del Barrio, another unquestioned master of comic art from Spain together with Raùl and the writer Felipe Cava who has already been a guest in previous editions.

In addition to the German artist and Del Barrio, the young Lebanese author Zeina Abirached will also be present: the new Satrapi, acclaimed at the last festival of Angouleme, tells with delicacy and irony stories of a Beirut that has disappeared with a naïf and calligraphic style.

Another guest from the Near East will be the Palestinian artist Samir Harb: architect by profession (on the staff of the Riwaq Biennial, the only international contemporary art event in the Palestinian territory) who loves graphic novels however. Palestine had a great artist, Naji al Ali, who was killed in mysterious circumstances in London in 1988. Samir used the same disenchanted approach and proved how the weapon of caricature can be effective in revealing hypocrisy and injustice but also the joy of everyday life.

For the second year the best talents in comic art from the Region of Emilia-Romagna will be awarded prizes; in fact on the occasion of Komikazen there will be a presentation of two books by the winners of the last edition, Leonardo Guardigli (for Centro Andrea Pazienza) and Marino Neri (Kappa Publishing).

The exhibitions will be held in various locations in the city and will be open to the public for a longer period: some until 7 January 2009 (consult the detailed calendar in the site).

IN RAVENNA ON 10 AND 11 OCTOBER 2008

EXHIBITIONS IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS UNTIL 7 JANUARY 2009


For the detailed biographies of the authors exhibited and the guests visit the site www.mirada.it/komikazen

For information info@mirada.it tel. +39.0544 217359 or +39 346 4925633

Press office: Marcella Matacena 338.2028579 marcella.matacena@libero.it

Sunday, November 4 2007

Komikazen, all the pictures

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Hi all,

just a quick post with the link of the complete Komikazen festival pictures slideshow.

Hell, I must confess: right now I am not able to embed all the flickr stuff here!

By the way, above you can see a piece of the collective Le dernier cri,. Go here for the complete set.

Sunday, October 28 2007

Monipodio's Comic Battle

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Sharpen the pencils, now!

The Comic Battle rages soon. It is a challenge between cartoonists create by the group of artists Monipodio. A battle where you hit your contender with balloons and cartons.

1st Novemeber to 4th November: four days long, only one will stand up at the end.

Everyone can join the battle. You don’t have to be author. All you need are smart ideas, the ability to improvise and react promptly to the moves of your opponent.

Battle field: Area Self of the Lucca Comics&Games Festival 2007, the most important Italian festival on comics.

Subscriptions: iscrizione-comicbattle(at)monipodio.net

Feel free to ask if you want to know more!

Sunday, October 7 2007

Komikazen: 3rd International Festival of Reality Comics

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On Friday, the 12th of October, the 3rd International Festival of Reality Comics Komikazenwill open with a workshop involving authors and promoters coming from all over Europe. Authors of well-known magazines like Strapazin (Svizzera), Babel (Atene), Glomp (Finlandia), Chili Com Carne (Portogallo), and new self-productions coming from new members of the EU, like Romania, active with the magazine Hard Comics, and with various festivals, will participate at the meeting. For the first time in Italy, there will be the young authors of Stripoteka, a Bosnian collective based in Sarajevo.

The Festival highlight will be on Saturday the 13th of October, with the opening of the collective exhibition European Comics Cartography - an exhibit of about 50 European authors - at the Museo Nazionale of Ravenna. The exhibit opens up to a virtual journey, through the youth imaginary, in Europe, a country that widened its borders allowing the flow of comics’ styles and stories.

At 3.30 p.m. there will be the meeting with the author of “Martin Luther King”, Ho Che Anderson: this Canadian author will present the book, published in Italy with Becco Giallo in the Mirada gallery, and will show his original plates at the Biblioteca Classense. A masterly biographical work, which closely follows the light and shade of the Afro-American leader and points out how everyone seems to have forgotten about the political lab of non-violent conflicts. Considered the most important Graphic Novel after Maus, it is a book that touches the boundaries of the political essay, the annotated biography and the novel.

More? The exhibition Honey Talks organized by the Slovenian magazine Stripburger, the collective from Marseilles Le Dernier Cri, Stakhanovites of limited (and expensive) edition books, the winners of the contest promoted by the region Emilia-Romagna, Stefano Ricci and much more…

The exhibitions will stay open until the 15th of November, except for the Dernier Cri that will close the 6th of November.

Detailed info here.

Festival curators Elettra Stamboulis and Gianluca Costantini.

Festival poster by Armin.