BilBOlbul, international comics festival

Biography

Icinori is a project that brings together two artists, publishers and printers Raphael Urwiller and Mayumi Otero. Masters in the arts of screenprinting and pop ups, they are well known in Italy for their publications with Orecchio Acerbo (“Issun Boshi” 2014, “Jabberwocky di Lewis Carroll”, 2012). They are known internationally for their experimentation and innovation in illustration for children’s books. They have collaborated with Le Monde, New York Times and important museums, a list which now includes Palazzo Poggi in Bologna.

http://icinori.com/

21 NOVEMBER ~ 6 JANUARY
(Closed the 24-25 december and 1st january)
MUSEO DI PALAZZO POGGI

Inauguration
22 november ~ h14

In collaboration with
Institut Français Italia - Ambasciata di Francia e Alliance Française Bologne

At the festival

The illustration duo Icinori has been invited to Bologna to contemplate and elaborate upon the collection dedicated to the naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605). The great explorer, botanist and entomologist from Bologna, was also one of the founding fathers of a natural history museum, now held in the great halls of Palazzo Poggi in Bologna.

At a crossroads of science and art, Icinori will be inspired by Aldrovandi’s watercolors, reflecting upon his human monsters and fantastical animals.

Icinori is noted for fantastical and hyperdetailed screenprints, capable of carrying viewers into another dimenstion that are somehow also recognizable: tiny humans, bears, robots and devils. These images therefore continue along the path of naturalistic exploration (Explorer, 2013), in an intense dialogue, with reflections, study and images from a naturalist and doctor who lived five centuries ago.

Icinori

STUDIOLO ICINORI

Biography

At the festival