Angelo Ruta

Angelo Ruta (* 1967 in Ragusa ) is an Italian caricaturist and illustrator , writer and director.

Life

Ruta graduated as a scenographer from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera after laying the foundations as a draftsman at the “Tecnica Cinetelevisiva” and attending the master course in illustration and caricature at the Castello Sforzesco . Then he worked for various magazines ( Il Corriere della Sera , Il Sole 24 Ore , Panorama , Il Mondo , Leggere , Riza psicosomatica , La Gazzetta dello Sport ) and publishers ( Usborne , Lion Hudson , Mondadori , Einaudi , Giunti , E. Elle , Zanichelli ), for which he drew on cultural, current and psychological topics. He often and happily created illustrations for children.

In 1992 Ruta exhibited at the Mostra Internazionale degli Illustratori in Bologna ; Numerous similar projects followed in Japan and his home country Italy.

He made his cinema debut in 1993 as co-director of the medium-length Epitaffio , which was followed three years later by the short Gli occhi aperti shown at the “Festival Cinema Giovani” in Turin (and which has won several awards) . In 1999 the full-length animated film Animali felici was released, about life in chaotic Milan . In 2001 Ruta staged the self-written plays Il mio posto è in un campo di grano e In pietra mutata ogni voce at the theater . In 2006 and 2007 he tried his hand at dance theater when he wrote and staged two plays for Maria Carpaneto , one of them based on letters from Dino Campana and Sibilla Aleramo . In 2008 he supervised the production of Il poeta volante with Pietro Pignatelli in the lead role. This was followed by Vincent's own piece , again with Pignatelli.

In 2003 Ruta was awarded the Premio Solinas Prize for Literature and Cinema .

Web links

• Angelo Ruta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website of the artist

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 376