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LIMITS XXVIII INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SATIRE AND HUMOR “CITY OF TRENTO“

XXVIII INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF HUMOR AND SATIRE “CITY OF TRENTO“ On 23rd June 2020 at 8.30am took place a video-conference held by Studio d’Arte Andromeda (via Malpaga 17, Trento, Italy) to start the work of the jury for the above-mentioned contest. This year’s theme was:

LIMITS JURY MEMBERS: Marilena Nardi, cartoonist Luigi F. Bona, historian of visual communication Roberta Opassi, historic cultural functionary PAT Assunta Toti Buratti, cartoonist Luigi Penasa, painter and illustrator Umberto Rigotti, illustrator and caricaturist Giulia Pedrotti, President of Studio d’Arte Andromeda

Assunta Toti Buratti, representing Studio d’Arte Andromeda, opens the jury work for XXVIII International Festival of Humor and Satire “City of Trento” proposing the nomination of a president and a jury’ s secretary. Online at the video conference are present: Assunta Toti Buratti, Marilena Nardi, Luigi F. Bona, Roberta Opassi, Luigi Penasa, Umberto Rigotti and Giulia Pedrotti. Marilena Nardi is voted as President of the jury and Luigi F. Bona as Secretary, unanimously. The jury takes in consideration the big participation of the authors: this year we received artworks from 539 authors, for a total of 1255 artworks coming from 65 countries. We feel like the level and quality of each work was very high. This year’s theme, ambiguous and interpretable in different ways, has maybe helped everybody’s creativity and has allowed the creation of powerful works both on graphic level and originality. In many of the works authors reached a poetic level of expression through graphic and pictorial media. The jury proceeds with the analysis of the field comics and then to the field satire and humor. Each artwork is discussed by every member of the jury. The selection work takes place through the morning and the first part of the afternoon, without interruptions or problems, despite the new element of the video-conference. The analysis of the artworks received for comics category takes the jury to the selection of the 16 artworks that will join the exhibition; between them, the jury selected the first prize, 2 artists worth of mentions and 1 special mention. The jury then proceeds with the satire and humor category and selects 135 artworks that will join the exhibition, 3 prizes, 7 mentions and 4 special mentions. The prize assignment, approved unanimously after discussion, is the following:

SATIRE AND HUMOR FIRST PRIZE 'RàDQ $UVODQ (Turkey) “For having synthesized, in a single image built with perfect technical knowledge, many perceptions and interpretations of the limit, perceived as an inescapable rule, a helpless state, while concern is amplified by stillness, by suspended time and by the apparent absence of violence.” SECOND PRIZE Mojtaba Heidarpanah (Iran) “For giving an original and effective version to the sense of limitation represented simbolically as the building of a wall, stopping the playing moment and walling in the playing itself, with a violation of the rules of time, space and movement that enhances its irrationality and horror.” THIRD PRIZE Raffael Blumenberg (Switzerland) “For the graphic and essential clearness in the representation of the extreme limit, with the powerful contrast between man’s determination that keeps going in his progressive isolation and the lack af awareness about the unescapable conclusion of a definitive cancellation of himself.” ARTISTS WORTH OF MENTION (equally) Musa Gumus (Turkey) Neltair Santiago (Brazil) Oleksy Kustovsky (Ukraine) Ross Thomson (United Kingdom) Vladimir Semerenko (Russia) Vojtech Krumpolec (Slovenia) Yu Liang (China) SPECIAL MENTIONS: Mikhail Zlatkovsky (Russia) Mojmir Mihatov (Croatia) Omar Alberto Figueroa Turcios (Spain) Pawel Kuczynski (Poland)

COMICS The artworks received in the comics category have offered a wide range of interpretations on the festival’s theme, with a great and original variety of forms of expression, making a real debate difficult. After the discussion, the jury gave this prizes and mentions: FIRST PRIZE Clement Thiriet (France) “For the great ability in creating a short surreal story that breaks the structural limits of comics, beyond the narrative logic, the space and the matter, in a short but powerful experience of graphic storytelling, showing a great control of the medium and of his technique.” ARTISTS WORTH OF MENTION (equally) Mansoure Dehghani (Iran) Silvia Detassis (Italy) SPECIAL MENTION Athos Careghi (Italy)

The jury works are closed at 14.45 pm.

The president Marilena Nardi

The secretary Luigi F. Bona

XXVIII INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF HUMOR AND SATIRE “CITY OF TRENTO“ HUMOR AND SATIRE First prize

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XXVIII INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF HUMOR AND SATIRE “CITY OF TRENTO“ HUMOR AND SATIRE Second prize

Mojtaba Heidarpanah (Iran)

XXVIII INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF HUMOR AND SATIRE “CITY OF TRENTO“ HUMOR AND SATIRE Third prize

Raffael Blumenberg (Switzerland)