Manuele Fior
Manuele Fior (* 1975 in Cesena , Emilia-Romagna , Italy ) is an Italian comic book artist and illustrator who lives in Paris . He is internationally known for his comic albums and graphic novels , which have brought him numerous awards.
Live and act
Fior graduated from the IUAV Institute of the University of Venice in 2000 with a degree in architecture . He then lived initially in Berlin , where he kept himself afloat with commissions as an architect and illustrator. Comic book publisher Johann Ulrich from Avant-Verlag was so pleased with the work samples he submitted that a fruitful collaboration emerged. First he published a few short works, including the drawn short story Giorgio in the publisher's comic magazine Plaque . After that, works appeared in quick succession in the comic magazines Black , Bile Noire , Stripburger , Forresten and Osmosa .
Fior's debut graphic novel Menschen am Sonntag (avant 2005) describes the “story of a typical group of Italians abroad - with some autobiographical features”. The protagonist hesitates to leave Berlin behind because a love affair is not really over yet.
Fior's graphic interpretation of Schnitzler's novella “ Fräulein Else ” (avant 2010) was based in part on portraits of women by the painter Egon Schiele . The publishing house of the Süddeutsche Zeitung launched a licensed new edition in 2012 as Volume 9 of its library graphic novels series . In the newspaper Le Monde diplomatique of January 14, 2011, Fior got a full page for his drawn story The painter about Arnold Böcklin and his inspiration for the painting Die Toteninsel .
In 2011, the draftsman was awarded the main prize in Angouleme in particular for his color dramaturgy at five thousand kilometers per second . It tells the story of a love triangle that is shaped and made impossible by spatial separation. Lucia studies in Norway, Piero works as an archaeologist in Egypt and Nicola goes into his father's shop in Italy.
Sven Waskönig and Änne Seidel filmed a feature for the arte show Journal about the award-winning album Five thousand kilometers per second , which was broadcast on June 13, 2012.
In 2013 he was a member of the jury for the award The Extraordinary Book of the children and youth program of the Berlin International Literature Festival .
In 2005 Fior first moved to Oslo , soon afterwards to Paris, where he lives and works to this day (2013).
Press review
5000 kilometers per second (2011)
"Fior works masterfully with the color moods that his watercolor technique creates in the most splendid way."
The Transfer (2013)
“These characters, Raniero and Dora, are neither particularly beautiful nor particularly intelligent, successful or personable. But: They are complex and realistic. He wanted to create realistic figures about which the reader could not give a final judgment. A final judgment about their relationship is also not easy: it is intense, touching, full of tension and without a real future. In this rapidly changing society, the gap between the generations is too deep. Manuele Fior skilfully and in always unexpected ways links the different levels of his story: the extraterrestrial contact, the critical social vision and the love story. Much he only hints at, some he leaves unsaid, and repeatedly leads us astray. And he only tells us about the effect of the extraterrestrial phenomena at the very end. This is what makes The Transfer a comic novel that is open on many sides, uncomfortable at times, but always fascinating. "
"Oppressive and moving."
“Manuele Fiors graphic novel masterpiece The transmission tells of coming and going, encounters of the uncanny nature and the identification of a woman. [...] It's a nice slow book, not pushy like most graphic novels. There is a magical shimmer over the pictures, as we know it from the old nitrate films - the silver screen, lost forever, through the hard security film, now through digitization. "
“The Italian comic artist Manuele Fior manages to surprise his readers. So this time too, solely in the form of the presentation, because his new graphic novel The Transmission he presents in the classic album format - unfortunately now unusual for a graphic novel - and in black and white. [...] But Manuele Fior remains true to himself. No story is like the other, he looks for a form for each of them - but the style of the young artist remains unmistakable. [...] Although it is a science fiction story, the first impression is completely different: the obviously spectacular is missing, the narrative starts very quietly. This time, too, Fior proves his mastery in carefully empathizing with moods and the inner workings of his characters. The floating lightness of the narrative and the ambiguity of the events stimulate the reader to think, to interpret the calm images that develop their own tension in the course of the action. The story alternates between real-life and supernatural events, each of which remains a mystery. [...] The result is a lively, unpredictable story that is nonetheless well structured. Manuele Fior succeeds in creating similar subtle images in black and white as in his colored works. And it proves that science fiction can also work beyond clichés. "
" The broadcast is a comic, which is extremely exciting despite the complex subject matter and which is characterized in particular by the demonstration of the specific possibilities of the medium."
Works (selection)
- 2005: Menschen am Sonntag , avant-verlag, Berlin (French: Les gens le dimanche , Atrabile, 2004)
- 2006: Icarus . Translation from Italian by Julia Schwebel, avant-verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-939080-14-4 (French: Icarus , Atrabile, 2006)
- 2010: Fräulein Else , avant-verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-939080-43-5 (French: Mademoiselle Else , Delcourt, 2009)
- 2011: Five thousand kilometers per second , avant-verlag, Berlin, 143 pages, ISBN 978-3-939080-54-1 (French: 5000 kilometers par seconde , Atrabile 2010)
- 2013: The Transfer , ISBN 978-3-939080-78-7 , avant Verlag (French: L'Entrevue , Futuropolis, 2013)
Awards
- 2007 Premio Micheluzzi , category Best Design - Naples Comicon for People on Sunday
- 2009 Prix de la Ville de Genève pour la bande dessinée , Geneva
- 2010 Premio Gran Guinigi - Lucca
- 2011 Main Prize Prix du meilleur album of the 38th Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême for Cinq mille kilomètres par seconde
- 2011 Premio Micheluzzi, category Best Album - Naples Comicon
Web links
- Web presence , Facebook presence and Flickr presence of Manuele Fior
- Reviews, critical voices in the archive of the tag 'Manuele Fior'
- The colors of life , review by Waldemar Kesler on literaturkritik.de at five thousand kilometers per second
- Video review (ARTE) at 5000 kilometers per second
- Literature by and about Manuele Fior in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Manuele Fior in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c see review by W. Kesler
- ^ Exhibition catalog of the Comic Festival Lausanne from September 2007, published in 2007 by Verlag Atrabile ISBN 978-2-940329-51-9 ( online )
- ↑ Ljubljana Comic Magazin ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (Slovenian)
- ↑ Forresten magazine in Jippicomics-Verlag, Oslo
- ↑ Review by Martin Boehnert Menschen am Sonntag - A love story , March 2006, accessed on June 17, 2012
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Manuele Fior dissects love: The beginning of something - and the end , N-TV text review by Markus Lippold of September 3, 2011, accessed on June 17, 2012
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://blogs.faz.net/comic/2011/08/01/kuk-darf-s-auch-mal-poetisch-traurig-sein-181/
- ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendung/corso/2106330/
- ↑ http://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/
- ↑ Fritz Göttler: In the flow of narration. In: sueddeutsche.de . June 19, 2013, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/Comic-Kunst-aus-Italien/!121253/
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/manuele-fiors-die-uebertragung-der-kosmos-der-liebe/8656400.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fior, Manuele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian comic book artist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cesena , Italy |