Cartolina / Ísland / S

Summer postcard: Up ! North ! Wild ! > Iceland, by Sara (here her Pinterest, here the website).
Tags: Psychedelic; Independent People; Magic matter; Geologically young; You-never-know; Indefinite colours; Invincible light; Basics.

Cartolina / Venezia / C + V

Summer postcard: Venezia. Pictures by Caterina (she's Flickr-addicted, + here her personal Tumblr); analogue photographic film, nostalgic old camera and stuff.

Tell Me a Saga

Dear everybody, this life is strange and full of unpredictable opportunities: I'm in the amazing South Iceland, filing hundreds and hundreds of second hand books in the nicest Sunnlenska Bókakaffið in Selfoss. It is such an adventure, epic like a saga, only with less blood. You can find the ongoing selected book covers collection here.

Fludd Interviews / 26. Mari Kanstad Johnsen

A) nome / name: Mari Kanstad Johnsen

B) nazionalità / where are you from?: Bergen / Norway

C) età / how old are you?: 30

D) area d'azione (disegno, pittura, fotografia, animazione, ...) / your sphere of interests: Drawing, painting (ink!) animating, collaging, all kinds of visual experimentations.

The Shape of Things to Come

Some time later, few pictures from events during the last Salone del Mobile in Milano. These are mainly from the great exhibition Paradis / Royal College of Art (London) in Ventura Lambrate. Just for introducing our next moves

Family Album

Dear readers, there's new stuff online by Fludd's members Caterina and Sara. Please check it out. Comments are more than welcome. 

Fludd Interviews / 25. Michael Redmond

A) nome / name: Michael Redmond

B) nazionalità / where are you from?: U.K., Manchester.

C) età / how old are you?: I just turned 25 last week.

D) area d'azione (disegno, pittura, fotografia, animazione, ...) / your sphere of interests: Ummm drawing, comics, painting, I'm interested in so many things.

Svolte Celesti / Lab + Party

We organized a collective decoration lab inside the historical quirky space of Venetian circle Metricubi.  Explosions of silver + glitter + neon, meters of aluminium foil and small celestial bodies. Many thanks to our cooperators. To follow a * galactic dress up  P A R T Y !  *
(More backstage pics here. Fiesta-pics soon !)

The Future ?

Guess what? Yesterday in Venezia (!) there was the Italian premiere of the last Miranda July's movie The Future.* We liked it. * Metricubi wanted this (grazie Annalisa & Paolo!). To celebrate the event, we arranged a cozy Pesca / Lucky dip - inspired by Miranda's oracle. And, for a few extra-lucky people, mysterious Fludd's prizes to gain. Pink ! Fun!

Ex Ovo Omnia

Buona Pasqua / Happy Easter everyone!

"Primavera non bussa / lei entra sicura / come il fumo lei penetra / ogni fessura"
Un chimico, F. de André
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"Relegata per lunghe ere in nascondigli appartati, da quando era stata spodestata dal sistema delle specie ora estinte, l'altra fauna tornava alla luce dagli scantinati della biblioteca dove si conservano gli incunaboli, spiccava salti dai capitelli e dai pluviali, s'appollaiava al capezzale dei dormienti.

Music Explosions

Two illustrations for two concerts by The Bony King Of Nowhere from Belgium, and Making Marks (former / a.k.a. Mylittlepony) from Norway. This was our first collaboration with the nice, bustling and high-quality circle La Mela di Newton in Padova. La-la-la-laaaaa.

Fludd Interviews / 24. Malin Gabriella Nordin

A) nome / name: Malin Gabriella Nordin

B) nazionalità / where are you from?: Sweden.

C) età / how old are you?: 23.

D) area d'azione (disegno, pittura, fotografia, animazione, ...) / your sphere of interests: Painting, collages, drawing, building, sleeping and dreaming.

Bologna & Bologna / 2

On our last day in Bologna we visited a nice exhibition about the city itself, curated by Hamelin with the drawings of the hyper talented Bernardo Carvalho (Planeta Tangerina). And some ochra tone pictures of the Archiginnasio (16th century), once the site of the first University in the world.

Books & Bologna / 1

We're back from the massive Bologna Children's Book Fair. Interesting chats and meetings. Many thanks to our hosts! / Among the best stuff, in our opinion: the collective stand of funky Polish books (so gooood - from WY Twòrnia, for example); éditions MeMo; illustrators: Marta Ignerska; Katrin Stangl, André Da Loba; Roxane Lumeret; Marc Boutavant; ... 

My Fair Lady

Hey! We are going to Bologna Children's Book Fair (March 19th-22nd). Can't wait: lot of events, illustrators, illustrations and pages to see. On our return, a chubby post about the-best-of. / Ci vediamo lì? * See you there? 

Fludd Interviews / 23. Katie Harnett

A) nome / name: Katie Harnett

B) nazionalità / where are you from?: England.

C) età / how old are you?: 23.

D) area d'azione (disegno, pittura, fotografia, animazione, ...) / your sphere of interests: Usually my illustration works are based in drawing and painting, but I’ve been recently trying out animation, so I’m still experimenting.

Fludd Interviews / 22. Klara Persson

 

A) nome / name: Klara Persson

B) nazionalità / where are you from?: Sweden.

C) età / how old are you?: 27 (I've been longing for this age!).

D) area d'azione (disegno, pittura, fotografia, animazione, ...) / your sphere of interests: I work with graphic design, books, concepts and illustration, but my sphere of interests is much wider!

Art Atak

So nice going to BilBolBul, international comic festival in Bologna! We went to a conference with the beloved Blexbolex and Atak, followed by the brilliant exhibit Mirabilia showing Atak's impressive corpus of work. He shares his vision of a booming chaotic world, extremely rich in visual quotes, with a fascinating mixture of old & new languages and media: screenprinting, chromolitography, cartoon, American pop culture, cinema and advertising, kitsch toys and traditional painting.