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(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 21 – The Italian illustrator and author Lorenzo Mattotti signs for the seventh year the image of the official poster, which depicts an Elephant in the Lagoon, and for the sixth year the opening credits of the Venice International Film Festival of the Biennale di Venezia, now in its 81st edition (August 28 – September 7, 2024). Lorenzo Mattotti writes: ”What is an Elephant doing in the Lagoon? It is certainly an unusual, unexpected image, but one that takes us back in memory, when, many years ago, an Elephant arrived in Venice and wandered through the narrow Venetian streets during a famous Carnival of the Biennale, that of 1981… This Elephant now crosses the Lagoon and travels the paths of Fantasy, Mystery and Magic that is discovered in Cinema. He himself is Memory and also History of Cinema: a celebration, a parade, a show! And this special colored Elephant also reminds us of the Exotic, the Faraway, the East, a look towards other civilizations, other cultures… At the Biennale Cinema other worlds, other languages, other imaginaries have always met, which for 92 years have been arriving in the lagoon. An Elephant that goes towards the East, but which has the ability to welcome.” Lorenzo Mattotti lives and works in Paris. He made his debut in the late ’70s as a comic book author and in the early ’80s he founded the Valvoline group with other artists. In 1984 he created Fuochi, which, welcomed as an event in the world of comics, went on to win important international awards. For the cinema, he collaborated in 2004 on Eros by Wong Kar-Wai, Soderbergh and Antonioni, taking care of the presentation segments of each episode. He was a creative consultant for Pinocchio by Enzo D’Alò. With Incidents, Signor Spartaco, Doctor Nefasto, L’uomo alla finestra and many other books up to Stigmate published in Italy by Einaudi, Mattotti’s work has evolved according to a constant of great coherence. Today his books are translated all over the world. He publishes in newspapers and magazines such as The New Yorker, Le Monde, Das Magazin, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Nouvel Observateur, Corriere della Sera and Repubblica. For children he illustrates various books including Pinocchio and Eugenio who won the Grand Prix of Bratislava in ’93. He has had numerous personal exhibitions including the anthology at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, at the FransHals museum in Haarlem and at the Porta Romana Museums. He creates posters, covers, advertising campaigns and he is the one who designed the poster for Cannes 2000 and the posters for the Estate Romana. In May 2019, he presented his first animated feature film as author and director, The Famous Invasion of the Bears in Sicily, inspired by the fable/fable by Dino Buzzati, to great success at Cannes in the Un certain regard section. From September 2023 to January 2024, the exhibition Lorenzo Mattotti. Stories, rhythms, movements was held in Brescia, at the Museo di Santa Giulia. Currently, the artist’s original drawings are on display at the major exhibition on the masters of comics at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, entitled La BD à tous les étages. (ANSA).
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