Morte per Absentia

Morte per absentia (Death in absentia) is a series of illustrations I’ve made for the course of Calligraphy, directed by professor Monica Dengo at ISIA of Urbino (PU - IT). The final project will provide an illustration, which will communicate and interact with a specific font, suitably designed for the immage.

Hereunder you may find some basic informations (from Wikipedia) about death in absentia: 

A person may be legally declared dead (declared death in absentia or legal presumption of death) despite the absence of direct proof of the person’s death, such as the finding of remains (a corpse or skeleton) attributable to that person. Such a declaration is typically made when a person has been missing for an extended period of time and in the absence of any evidence that the person is still alive, or after a much shorter period, but where the circumstances surrounding a person’s disappearance overwhelmingly support the belief that the person has died. 

A declaration that a person is dead resembles other forms of preventive adjudication, such as the declaratory judgment. Different jurisdictions have different legal standards for obtaining such a declaration and in some jurisdictions a legal presumption of death may arise after a person has been missing under certain circumstances and a certain amount of time.

Morte per absentia

2017,

indian ink, écoline, pencils and markers on paper,

various sizes

Ciao_Sbirri

Here is my illustration for Tapirulan Contest: “Ciao”! 

Hereunder you may find the link to the association official website:

http://illustratorscontest.tapirulan.it/artwork/ciao_sbirri/

Ciao_Sbirri

2017,

gouache and wax pastels on acrylic paper,

30 x 30 cm

Breathe no more

It has been such a long time since I haven't posted some art pieces, but it doesn't mean that I haven't had the occasion to work on new illustrations or practice new techniques.

Here is my illustration Breathe no more for the Month of Fear 2017 challenge Breathless.

Breathe no more

2017,

gouache and wax pastels on paper,

21 x 29,7 cm.

Ogaki Matsuri Float Parade

This is my proposal for the Ogaki Matsuri Float Parade Poster Competition (the original sketch was on a 70 x 100 cm poster).
Here is the link to the Ogaki Poster Museum, Japan.

2017,
mixed media,
original sizes: 60 x 90 cm. 

Amour

Here is a series of three illustrations I have made out from Michael Haneke's movie Amour (2012).

2016,

watercolors and pencils on paper,

24 x 18 cm

Godot

This is a project for a little dictionary I've made a few months ago with my colleague Alessandro Gaspari during Silvana Amato's workshop Dizionari Essenziali (Essential Dictionaries) at Isia of Urbino (PU, IT).

The accomplished project is a leporello with two cardboard covers (they are adherent to the two terminal parts of the leporello). The book illustrates various scenes of the two acts of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot and a short dictionary of randomly selected words (in Italian language).
Here are some photos of the final work:

Godot

Alessandro Gaspari e Federica Faccin

May 2017

Brieve racconto di tutte le radici, di tutte le erbe e di tutti i frutti che crudi o cotti in Italia si mangiano

These are four illustrations for the book Brieve racconto di tutte le radici, di tutte le erbe e di tutti i frutti che crudi o cotti in Italia si mangiano by Giacomo Castelvetro (XIV century), made for the course History of the Book, with professor Luciano Perondi, during the first semester at ISIA of Urbino (PU - IT).

2017,
Mixed media on paper,
15 x 21 cm

The man who planted trees

I have such many things to do that I have completely forgotten to write something about my personal project on the illustrations for The man who planted trees by Jean Giono! It took me almost 5 months and 2 weeks to finish it (just in time for my admission test in Urbino).

After reading Jean Giono’s book The man who planted trees (1953), I decided to create a series of digital illustrations of the story. In particular, I intentionally masked the protagonist’s features, because I wanted to give the impression that anyone, with a strong will and patience, could do a similar masterpiece. In my interpretation of the text, I especially focused on the following expression (which is also the most known quotation from the book) and its effective meaning:

«When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable.»

[cit. Jean Giono, The man who planted trees, 1953]

The man who planted trees

2016

digital painting

various sizes