Illustration section
Passion through music - Demonology

This year's edition of the Iceberg festival - illustration section has seen high participation of young artists from all over Italy with approximately 90 illustrators, presenting high quality works, carriers of an expressive and innovative sensibility, original and quite more courageous from the majority of the works that are being published by the mainstream publishing industry in our country.

Given this important result, the Office of Show and Young Artists from the sector of Culture and relations with the University of Comune of Bologna has decided to continue investing into this activity in order to stimulate the creativity of young illustrators and initiatives that will enable them also a visibility that would otherwise be very hard to achieve. The workshop 'Passion through music' and the publication of Demonology have been born as a result of the cooperation with Hamelin Cultural Association - with an intent to give to the participants an experience which would be extremely formative but also productive, hoping to establish their names in a way that will ensure them brighter future working experiences.

The workshop, conducted by Gabriella Giandelli, an artist and comics illustrator of international fame,was held from 9-11 March and has seen participation of winners and selectioned ones from the illustration section, a group of illustrators recommended by offices of young Italian and French artists, and some students from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna where the workshop with eleven participants has taken place.

Starting from listening of the works of some musical groups (Flim, Pan American, Godspeed Black emperor) that compose soundtracks of imaginary movies, a possibility to recreate the atmosphere through different ways of artistic expressing has been considered. In this case the students have started from illustrating pieces of the same story: as in a concept album each of them has worked on the creation of a collective narration through his/her contribution through images, interpreting a piece of the narration Demonology by Rick Moody, without knowing the whole story, but leaving himself to the suggestions and impressions of a single narrative part. The role of the artist was that one of a 'master': it wasn't about a workshop of technique of drawing and painting, but about a moment of transmission of experience and methodology, a mental opening of the professional and creative horizons of the students.
Demonology will be presented at the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean which will be held in September 2005 in Naples.

Gabriella Giandelli
Gabriella Giandelli was born in 1963, in Milan, where she now lives and works. She has started publishing comics in 1984 in "Alter Alter", "Frigidaire", "Dolce Vita", "Strapazin", "L'echo des Savanes", "Nova Express", "Frigobox", "Black". In the last two volumes published, Silent Blanket for Seuil and Sinsentido, and Hanno aspettato un po' poi se ne sono andate (They waited for a little while and then they left) for Mano and Seuil, she has participated also as the author of the texts. In France her new book Sous les feuilles, will be published in January by Seuil, while in Italy Coconino Press has already published her album Interiorae.
She has been at the same time carrying out illustrating activities, cooperating with magazines and publishing houses: Il Melangolo, Einaudi , Condè Nast, Il Manifesto, Linea d'ombra, Telema, Internazionale, Baldini& Castoldi, Art'è, Urban, MinimumFax, EditoriRiuniti, Mondadori.
She has recently started illustrating books for children. In 1997 she has published Fernando e l'uomo senza testa, (Fernando and the man without a head), Fernando e il vampiro trasparente (Fernando and the transparent vampire) for La Margherita Edizioni and some volumes for French publishing house Seuil Jeunesse : La femme qui a tué les poissons by Clarice Lispector, Le petit frere tombé du ciel by Jostein Gaarder and L'homme aux loups by Anna Jonas.
With Mondadori she created the character of Milo rabbit who became the protagonist of animated series in the program schedule in 2004 on Rai3 and in France on La 5e.

Participants:
Duccio Boscoli - Bologna - Italy
Brice Dominguez - Marseilles - France
Angelo Formica -Messina - Italy
Andrea Franzoni - Bologna - Italy, first prize winner at the Iceberg festival-Illustration section 2005
Julien Hippolite - Marseilles - France
Daniela Milone - Messina - Italy
Maria Pezzedi - Bologna - Italy
Raimondo Salvatore -Messina - Italy
Claudia Stefenelli - Lecco - Italy, recommended by Iceberg festival -Illustration section 2005
Amanda Vahamaki - Bologna - Italy
Martina Vanda - Roma - Italy, recommended by Iceberg festival - Illustration section 2005

Iceberg is an initiative that has been formed to conduct a census, supervise and promote young artistic talents. Created by a call for participants for the biennial and a festival, initially dedicated to young artist from Bologna and province, Iceberg has expanded itself during the last years to the territory of the whole region, and in some cases the whole county, establishing itself as an important display window for the selected and recommended artists. The manifestation includes many artistic disciplines (Architecture, Illustration, Cinema/Video, Industrial Design, Literature, Comics, Plastic Arts, Photography, XX, Music and Show), each of which is curated by the appropriate expert boards who offer their experience.