Libri Somari – Samuele Canestrari + Ahmed Ben Nessib Biographies: Samuele Canestrari Samuele Canestrari is an illustrator from the Marche region born in 1996. He studied at Scuola del Libro in Urbino. He works with the Malamente magazine. He published “Cartoline da Fano” and “Cartoline dal Monte Busca” for the Internazionale magazine. In May 2017, […]
IMPUBBLICABILE! is a photography project by Marco Criante and Francesco Torresi. It started in 2017 with the aim of becoming a record of the underground music culture in the Marche region and the social environment around it. This environment, far from the dynamics typical of larger cities, is home to national and international bands and […]
Flaccidia is 41 years old and currently lives in Macerata, where she was born, after many years spent in Rome to study and work. She graphic designs for a living. As a hobby, she draws, but also reads, looks out of her window, sleeps. She rarely cooks but eats compulsively. She loves cats, while loves […]
THE RAMBO is a trio from Lodi composed by J.Marsala (guitar, voice and samplers), Capa de Sangre (guitar) and Bang L.A. Desh (drums), producing a ferocious and frenetic cocktail of noise, garage-punk, no-wave and blues. THE RAMBO was founded in 2013 as a duo (guitar/voice and battery) but soon became a trio when Al-Funk (synth) […]
Noemi Vola – born in Bra (CN) in 1993, graduated in 2016 in the course of Comics and Illustration and in 2018 in the course of Illustration for the Publishing Industry at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. In 2014, she founded Blanca, a self-produced magazine for children, which includes illustrated stories and comic […]
bio: Anna Masina lives and draws in Milan, where she works on illustrations, books and fabrics. She works mainly with pencils, temperas, inks and manual techniques of printing. In 2014 she started playing with Red Boots, a label of small hand-bound illustrated books, with which she autonomously published some of her projects. Ninamasina is her […]
Short bio Losghi ( Ranieri Claudio ) ( Bari 1981) In 1997, he started drawing and self-publishing short mimeographed magazines: “Crno vino” and “Dis(d)egni”, filled with comics, illustrations, short stories and photomontages. In 2000 he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Bari, where he learned engraving techniques. In 2004 he started publishing illustrations […]
Enrico Pantani was born in Volterra in 1975. When he was 20, he enrolled in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Florence, where he graduated in 2002 with a thesis on Albert Camus. He starts painting towards the end of the 1990s, but he only has exhibited his works since 2008 […]
GEOMETRICBANG / he was born in Lodi in 1984 and now lives in Florence working as an illustrator and muralist. He exhibited his works in many parts of the world, such as Russia, China, Canada, Spain, Germany, and South Africa, and painted murals in Italy, France and Spain. All his works are based on a […]
Giulia Conoscenti is an authentic Palermitan born in 1991. She lived there, enjoying the sea and sunlight, until she moved to the North, where she got acquainted with the fog. At the moment, she lives in Bologna and works as an illustrator. She is the co-founder or the PELO independent magazine. She works together with […]
MuTT – Museo della Trappola per Topi (Museum of Mousetraps) Throughout history, mankind has always tried to limit the problems related to mice and rats. These little mammalian rodents can cause several problems for us bipeds willing to dominate the world: they invade places dedicated to food supplies, erode building materials, eat into books and […]
Inauguration: Friday, April 13th, 2018, at 6.30 pm Antichi Forni, via Piaggia della Torre, 4, Macerata OPENING HOURS: Saturday 14th and Sunday15th: 10.00 am – 8.00 pm / From 17th to 25th April 2018, 10.00 am – 1.00 pm / 16.00 pm – 8.00 pm Closed on Monday. The Autodafé exhibition is born from the […]
Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life – TINALS STIGMA This Is Not A Love Song in cooperation with Stigma Presents: Remake VHS 022 – Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life Graphic remake by VVAA Stigma Poster by: Cosimo Miorelli / Cover by: Stefano Zattera About the exhibit: Stigma artists summarize the 1983-cult movie directed by […]
This year We’ll not just celebrate Ratatà Festival’ 5th editon:2018 will also be the 10th anniversary of Strane Dizioni, the independent publishing house, one of the most important in Italy, deus ex machina of the festival itself. Along its long career has screenprinted,produced books and posters on limited edition of some of the most interesting […]
One of the festival’s silent rules is to avoid hosting the same artists repeatedly. We are hosting Simone Manfrini’s artwork for the third time in the upcoming edition because he is young, because he’s good and because every year he presents us with a new and increasingly powerful project. After all, we don’t care about rules. Simone Manfrini (Ancona, […]
BIOGRAPHY Matthias Lehmann lives and works in Parisian region where is born in 1978. Practising intensely etching technique ( but also drawing pen and crayon drawing and even painting), he started to publish sketches and some comics in more and more rampant trend of fanzines and graphzine of 90’s in France and abroad, like his […]
Gio Pastori was born in 1989 in Milan where he lives and works. He studied Art and Design and specializes in the Editorial Illustration. He expresses his creativity through the collage technique, using plain paper that carves without following a drawing,tracing forms with his paper knife like it was a pencil. Milan represents for him […]
FONTANESI Biography: (Fontanesi didn’t want to write it down, then he said “I’ll think about it”) About the exhibit: Fontanesi is a mysterious artist who uses photography to show the reality just as it is. In February, DE PRESS published a fanzine of his for the first time. This will be his first exhibit. www.instagram.com/fontanesi […]
EARL FOUREYES by STEFANO ZATTERA Stefano Zattera is a cartoonist, illustrator, painter and writer. He was published by “Centro Fumetto Andrea Pazienza”, “Stampa alternativa”, “Mondo Bizzarro Press”, “Comma 22”, “Coconino”, “XL di Repubblica”, “Il Male di Vauro e Vincino”, “Barricate”, “Linus”, “Corriere della sera”, “Frigidaire”, “Nerocromo” (with Earl Foureyes), and by “Il Manifesto” (for Alias […]
DE PRESS was established in November 2016. Its first publication was “Scusa” by Andrea De Franco. In 2017, Beatrice Bertaccini, Elettra Esposito, Lorenzo Matteucci and Chiara Polverini joined the project. Since then, they have been taking part in many festivals all over the Europe and have established collaborations with many artists, such as Michele Galluzzo, […]
Felipe Almendros (Badalona, 1976) is one of those genuine artists whojump the creative abyss without calculating nor the highness or longness of the jump, without planning theconsequences. It is, without a doubt, one of the most interesting authors of comics in Spain, with a personal and refined artistic universe. Almendros is a rare animal:reads very […]
