The Exhibition has always offered a broad overview of the world ofillustration for children, proposing outstanding artistic expressions, for aesthetic innovation and narrative richness.
On display this year are more than thirty books from the world of editorial Panorama, fairy tales from Scotland and their imagery and the meeting with the Florentine artist Giovanni Manna, Guest of honor, who has published several books on tales of Scotland.
Panorama 2014 is the central corpus of the exhibition which looks at international publishing and sees the participation of 30 worldwide illustrators and their books: Jorge Gonzalez, Mariana Ruiz Johnson (Argentina), Anton Van Hertbruggen (Belgium), Yara Kono, Renato Moriconi (Brazil), Cho Won hee (Korea), Isabelle Arsenault, Delphine Chedru, Gaetan Doremus, Vanessa Hie, Magali Le Huche, Frederick Mansot (France), Satoe Tone (Japan), Bhajju Shyam (India), Nooshin Safakhoo (Iran) , Gianni De Conno, Marina Marcolin, Eva Montanari, Giulia Orecchia, Arianna Papini, Maurizio Quarello, Giovanna Ranaldi, Giulia Sagramola (Italy), Andre Letria (Portugal), Jesse Hodgson (UK), Emilio Urberuaga (Spain), Erin E Stead, JooHee Yoon (USA), Piet Grobler (South Africa), Adrienne Barman (Switzerland).
With the theme of the 32nd edition, this year we celebrate a goal achieved together with the publisher Franco Cosimo Panini. In fact, the editorial series The images of the imagination publishes its tenth volume: The Song of the Cliffs, fairy tales and legends from Scotland, with illustrations by Anine Bösenberg, Philip Longson, Lizzy Stewart (United Kingdom, Scotland), Clotilde Perrin (France), Miguel Tanco (Spain) Aurora Cacciapuoti, Giovanni Manna, Marina Marcolin, Marco Paschetta, Marco Somà (Italy), with the collaboration of the Edinburgh College of Art and the Scottish Storytelling Center of Edinburgh.
The thematic section is renewed in content, starting with Twelve months in Scotland, in collaboration with the Edinburgh College of Art and the Scottish author Vivian French to meet Scotland and its traditions in an exciting year-long journey, with the illustrations by: Anine Bösenberg, Laura Clark, Laura Darling, Hannah Foley, Jonathan Gibbs, Alexander Jackson, Cate James, Amy Johnston, Philip Longson, Kasia Matyjaszek, Kate McLelland, Eilidh Muldoon; Long live Scotland, dedicated to Scottish landscapes and atmospheres with Anine Bösenberg, Anna Forlati, Jonathan Gibbs, Philip Giordano, Kate Leiper, Giovanni Manna, Marina Marcolin, Kate McLelland, Domenica More Gordon, Lucie Müllerová, Marco Paschetta, Marco Soma, Emily Sutton Francesca Zoboli.
With the participation of the artists of theEdinburgh Printmakers, center specialized in screen printing techniques: Mina Braun, Laura Davis, Catherine Hiley, Keith Thompson, Gerry Turley.
A series of illustrations dedicated to fairy tales and legends from Scotland completes this section of the exhibition, also giving space to the most interesting voices of the Štepan Zavrel International School of Illustration.
La Magpie, the masterpiece of Italian animation by Giulio Gianini and Emanuele Luzzati, born in 1964 to music by Rossini, celebrates its fiftieth birthday and the Gazza Ladra dances in the House of Fantasy after having been to the Turin Cinema Museum. "Assisted by a young Štepan Zavrel, for whom this experience was an indelible memory and a source of inspiration for his future works, and with whom Gianini and Luzzati formed a lasting friendship," says Carla Rezza Gianini, "they created a work by tightrope walkers, in which we follow in enchantment the spectacular evolutions of a small black bird, through which the authors reveal their soul, affirming the value of freedom and justice. […] Gianini and Luzzati considered La Gazza Ladra their most successful work: looking at it again and again they could not find any faults. On the other hand, how can you blame him? It is enough to attend a single screening to realize that you are in front of a total work of art, in a crescendo of joy for the eyes and for the mind.” On display are the cels from the dance of the Gazza Ladra restored by Antonella Abbatiello.
Also in Sàrmede will be presented Il ladro di colori, a masterpiece by Mafra Gagliardi and Štepan Zavrel from 1972 to date published only in Japanese fresh off the press for Bohem Press Italia.
This year, for the inauguration of the exhibition, in addition to some cultural personalities from Edinburgh, two Scottish pipers will also arrive in Sàrmede with their bagpipes, thanks to the collaboration of the Municipality of Cappella Maggiore, twinned with the town of Earlston.
For the entire duration of the exhibition, a rich program of meetings with illustrators and authors who present books and talk about how to tell stories with illustrations and words; also overwhelming animated readings to indulge in listening to ever new stories, and then workshops, music, tours among the frescoes, specialized illustration courses and workshops for adults, in the House of fantasy.
With Antonella Abbatiello and Carla Rezza Gianini, Ass. Maga Camaja, Luigi Dal Cin, Eleonora Cumer, Marta Farina, Dino Maraga and Mary Dal Cin, Marco Paschetta, Giulia Sagramola, Marco Soma, Giovanna Ranaldi, Ilaria Tontardini, Marina Marcolin and Silvia Vecchini .
In the House of fantasy every Friday radio appointment with Radio Magica, the first online radio-library, with readings from the book Il Canto delle Scogliere, fairy tales from Scotland.
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