AT FESTIVAL
Vanna Vinci is one of the most meaningful and distinctive voices in Italian comic landscape, able to tell stories in the middle between reality and elsewhere, present and past, the quick and the dead, before and after adolescence.
The exhibition Sulla Soglia shows her approach to graphic novel language from Aida al confine (Kappa publishing, 2003) so far, and explores the recurring themes and atmospheres faced by the author in a complex game of variations and deviations.
Topics and roles become more and more elaborate, with characters experiencing different emotive states: Vinci’s protagonists are always in the middle between an inner tension towards change and the attraction for a condition of melancholic isolation, constantly connected with the secret veins of the cities they go through (be they Trieste or Paris) and a past that emerges like a ghost embodying sometimes the family world, and sometimes a wider sent of History.
Book after book, Vanna Vinci follows a specific narrative research, digging and going into depth the path from childhood to adulthood, focusing on transition spaces, the period in someone’s life when everything is still to understand and to decide and fundamental choices that determinate the future are made.
The exhibition Sulla Soglia shows her approach to graphic novel language from Aida al confine (Kappa publishing, 2003) so far, and explores the recurring themes and atmospheres faced by the author in a complex game of variations and deviations.
Topics and roles become more and more elaborate, with characters experiencing different emotive states: Vinci’s protagonists are always in the middle between an inner tension towards change and the attraction for a condition of melancholic isolation, constantly connected with the secret veins of the cities they go through (be they Trieste or Paris) and a past that emerges like a ghost embodying sometimes the family world, and sometimes a wider sent of History.
Book after book, Vanna Vinci follows a specific narrative research, digging and going into depth the path from childhood to adulthood, focusing on transition spaces, the period in someone’s life when everything is still to understand and to decide and fundamental choices that determinate the future are made.
BIOGRAPHY
Vanna Vinci - born in Cagliari but currently living in Bologna - publishes in the early 90s her first imaginary short stories with gothic atmospheres for Granata Press. In these years she also starts to collaborate with scriptwriter Giovanni Mattioli and with Kappa publishing (Bologna), giving birth to Guarda che Luna in 1998, to Una casa a Venezia in 1999 – published by Tokyo-based publisher Kodansha – and to L’Età Selvaggia in 2001; while in Lillian Browne (2000) and Viaggio sentimentale (2002) she holds the role of author of both, texts and images. The protagonists of these stories are teenage girls hanging between every day life and emotive growth, and always in connection with a super-natural world. In 2003 with Aida al confine the author achieves a full development of her narrative skills. The same maturity and consciousness emerge from the two books dedicated to Sophia la ragazza aurea published in 2005 and 2007, and from Gatti neri, Cani bianchi published in France by Dargaud and translated in Italian by Kappa publishing in 2009. Vanna Vinci wins the “Yellow Kid” prize in 1999, and the “Gran Guinigi” prize for best drawer at Lucca Comics in 2005.