Alessio Trabacchini
Alessio Trabacchini has worked for some of the most important comics publishing houses in Italy: Coniglio Editore, NPE, Castelvecchi, 001 Edizioni. He currently works as an editor for Coconino Press - Fandango. He has collaborated with several other Italian publishers (Utet Grandi Opere, Coconino Press - Fandango, ComicOut, Edizioni dell'Asino, Lavieri, GRRRžetic) and with cultural and visual arts magazines, including "Lo Straniero," "Blow Up," "Gli Asini," "Hamelin," and "Il Tascabile." He was one of the curators of BilBOlbul International Comics Festival and is currently one of the curators of Passaggi festival. He co-edited many academic publications and essay collections about comics and graphic novels.
DAS – Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali
Exposing to the landscape
chair Alessio Trabacchini
with Joe Kessler, Maria Nadotti
In The Gull Yettin by Joe Kessler the loss of a home coincides with the expansion of a boundary and the discovery of a larger world, which was previously hidden to sight and body, made of violent colors and marks. The child that undertakes this journey isn’t just a wanderer in an exploration that is also an experiencing of a continuous dynamic between inward and outward, between domestic and “wild”, he is also the eyes through which the story is given to the reader. Shapes in The Gull Yettin are sometimes ample blots of primary colors, and sometimes violent pen and sharpie marks resembling doodles, symbolizing the deformed landscape of a childhood gaze, through which the unknown invades every panel.
Maria Nadotti, Journalist, Editorial Consultant, Translator and Editor in Italy for John Berger’s works, will dialogue with Joe Kessler about his artistic endeavor.
Entry: libero
Part of Conversazioni a vignetta, in collaboration with Erasmus Mundus in Culture Letterarie Europee – Università di Bologna, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, with the contribution of Wallonie – Bruxelles International