One of the most talented Italian artists, Andrea Bruno was born in 1972 in Catania. Since the early 1990s he has published comics in his uneasy black and white drawing in many magazines in Italy and abroad. Up to now five collections of his stories have been published.
The most famous Israeli graphic designer was born in 1944 and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and at the London College of Printing. Since 1973 he has worked in his own studio in Tel Aviv on various fields of visual communication, focusing on culture and politics.
A talented painter and illustrator, Biancuzzi was born in1970 and studied in the School of Fine Arts, Venice. Her work includes illustrations for books and magazines, record covers, animated shorts, set designing, underground comics.
A great animation artist, the Swiss Georges Schwizgebel was born in 1944. He studied painting and graphics, and in 1971 he co-founded the GDS Studio with the directors Claude Luyet and Daniel Suter in Geneva.
In 1986 the Italian publishing house Comic Art in collaboration with the Italian section of Amnesty International published an album with comics stories based on nine articles of the Human Rights Declaration.
Mario Dalmaviva, born in 1943, was active in the mass movement in Italy during the 70s; he became well known for his cartoons from prison, where he was imprisoned in 1979 together with hundreds of other people, as the result of the huge anti-terror campaign.
Bernhard Willem Holtrop was born in 1941 and studied Fine Arts (1962-1967). During his studies he was engaged in Provo movement and for a while he published the satirical newspaper “God, Nederland & Oranje” most of its issues were forbidden due to provocative content (e.g.
The exhibition is a part of the major exhibition simultaneously presented in Paris, to accompany the publication of the book “Fabuleux Furieux!: Hommage en Freak Style – A Gilbert Shelton Tribute”, a Libération offer for its subscribers.
The Swiss M. S. Bastian was born in 1963 and is an artist with the ability to move freely between comics and high-brow art; he is accepted by gallery crowds as well as by comics funs.
