BilBOlbul, international comics festival

Biography

Manuele Fior was born in Cesena in 1975.
In 1994 he won first prize at the “Bienal do Juvenes Criadores do mediteraneo” in Lisbon, comic section. After completing his degree in architecture in Venice in 2000, he moved to Berlin, where he worked until 2005 as a comics artist, illustrator and architect. He began collaborating with the German publisher Avant-Verlag in 2001with the magazine “Plaque.” Since then he has produced a great number of short comic stories written in collaboration with his brother Daniele, such as “Black,” “Bile Noir,” “Stripburger,” “Foresten,” “Osmosa.”
In 2005 he moved first to Oslo and then to Paris where he still lives today.

He published the graphic novel L’Intervista - Coconinopress 2013 (Premio Attilio Micheluzzi, Miglior Fumetto, Comicon 2014), Cinquemila Chilometri Al Secondo - Coconinpress 2010 (Fauve d’Or – Miglior Album – Festival Internazionale di Angoulême 2011, Premio Gran Guinigi – Autore Unico, Lucca 2010), La Signorina Else – based on a novel by A. Schnitzler – Coconinopress 2009 (Prix de la ville de Genève 2009), Rosso Oltremare – Coconinopress 2006 (Premio Attilio Micheluzzi, Miglior Disegno per un Romanzo Grafico, Comicon 2006), Les Gens le Dimanche – Atrabile 2004.
As an illustrator he has collaborated with “The New Yorker”, “Le Monde”, “Vanity Fair”, Feltrinelli, Einaudi, “Sole 24 Ore”, Edizioni EL, Fabbri, “Internazionale”, Il Manifesto, “Rolling Stone Magazine”, Les Inrocks, Nathan, Bayard, Far East Festival.

http://www.manuelefior.com/

21 NOVEMBER ~ 11 JANUARY
MAMbo

Inauguration
20 november ~ h 18.30

In collaboration with
Istituzione Bologna Musei | MAMbo

At the festival

How is a comic born? What is the creative process from the first ideas to a finished graphic novel? How much time is needed from the first steps to a finished work? Where does the artist get his inspiration and how does he turn it into something on the page?
To get some answers to these questions- answers, however, that are always extremely personal and unique to every artist, closely tied to the artist’s life experience- we delve into Manuele Fior’s studio.
Fior was awarded the Fauve d’Or 2011 at Angouleme for Cinquemila chilometri al secondo and he returned to comics last year with L’intervista, a story that unites science-fiction environments with a reflection on the passage of time and the endurance of emotional relationships.
L’intervista was immediately received as an important work for its reflections on language and emotional content which come from a wide array of images. We are lucky enough to be able to bring the public’s attention to these aspects through new concepts in the exhibition space, beginning with this show.
The show documents the methodical steps and the technical nature that carried the first ideas to finished storyboards. It seeks to reconstruct all of the stimuli, which inspired Fior’s imagination during the work process: recording all of the film references, photographs, and architecture that fill L’intervista and brings them to the audience.
There are also the original storyboards of the work, allowing the viewer to get an idea of work methods, seeing notes on the edges and seeing which images and pages were tossed out, as well as seeing the materials that helped the artist to create the final product.

Manuele Fior

L'INTERVISTA.STORIA DI UN FUMETTO

Biography

At the festival

L'INTERVISTA.
STORIA DI UN FUMETTO