Exhibitions

Batia Kolton
GROUP

An avant-garde group of Israeli comics artists and illustrators, and an independent publishing house founded in 1995 by Rutu Modan and Yirmi Pinkus, who studied together at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.

Amir Idrizovic
TRIBUTE

In a country ravaged by wars between its ethic groups, the creative people survived and recorded their experience from those terrible times, trying to communicate their reality to the rest of the world.

Moebius
GROUP

BIG Torino 2000 (Biennale Internazionale Giovani – International Biennale of New Artists) was a big event organized under the Municipality of Turin scheduled for the Spring of 2000 covering every aspect of contemporary art including comics, architecture, fashion, and communications.

Brent E. Anderson
Comics
SOLO

He was born in 1955, in California, and started drawing comics for fanzines and underground magazines in 1975. Later he worked for many Marvel titles, in collaboration with Kurt Busiek, and for the graphic novel “God Loves, Man Kills” of the X-Men series.

David Carson
Graphic Design
SOLO

Born in Texas in 1954, David Carson is one of the most famous designers of the recent decades. He revolutionized the design of magazines—the most characteristic example being the legendary “Ray Gun”-and is regarded as the father of the “grunge typography”.

David Mazzucchelli
Comics
SOLO

One of the most important contemporary American artists, David Mazzucchelli, born in 1960, has been drawing comics since he was 6 years old. In the early 1980’s he started drawing “Daredevil” for Marvel, in collaboration with Frank Miller, and later on they created “Batman: Year One” for DC.

Giorgio Carpinteri
Comics
SOLO

One of the most well-known Italian artists, Carpinteri, born in 1958, was one of the founding members of the experimental group Valvoline together with Igort and Lorenzo Mattotti.

Σπύρος Βερύκιος
GROUP

“The Memory of the Past”: 13 Greek artists and one “Greek” Italian artist come up with original stories for the festival.
Spiros Verikios
Dimitris Vitalis
Spiros Derveniotis
Cornilios Diamantopoulos
Triantafillos Eleftheriou
Andreas Zafiratos

Savage Pencil
Comics / Illustration
SOLO

He was born in England in 1951 as Edwin Pouncey, and is the most characteristic representative of the punk generation in comics. He published in “Escape” and other underground magazines and his explosive style has influenced a lot of new artists.

Simon Bisley
TRIBUTE

A retrospective of British Comics from the 1970’s and onwards; original work by 21 artists, individual works or collaborations, that represent a wide range of techniques and styles.

“Hooligans”: Exhibition by young upcoming artists
GROUP

“Hooligans”: Exhibition by young upcoming artists, presented by Thanasis Moutsopoulos. Participations: Eva Vretzaki, Giorgios Kazazis, Apostolos Karastergiou, Polidoros Kariofillis, Stavros Koulas, Panos Liveris, Giannis Melanitis, Vasilis Balatsos, Katy Barba, Kiki Psarrou