ILLUSTRATIVE 16
THE BIENNALE OF ILLUSTRATION &
GRAPHIC ART
14 – 23 OCT 2016
A project by
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ILLUSTRATIVE 16 BERLIN
Illustrative is the international festival
of contemporary illustration and
graphic art.
Since its beginnings in 2006, Illustrative has established its position as
the one of world’s most important
platform for this genre. Each edition
presents new artists and their unique
works of illustrative and graphic art.
The exhibition takes place in Berlin –
hometown of Illustrative and
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conglomerate of artists from all over
the world. In October 2016, the eighth
edition of Illustrative will bring to
Berlin 32 appreciated illustrators and
graphics from different countries.
During 10 days of Illustrative 16,
Direktorenhaus (festival’s venue) will
welcome artists, collectors, galerists,
visitors and agencys discovering new
trends and young talents, exchanging
opinions and admiring the unique art
of illustration.
PARTICIPATING
ILLUSTRATORS
Andrey Remnev (RUS)
Shae DeTar (USA)
Tom Dearie (UK)
Mathieu Wernert (FR)
Mark Gmehling (GER)
Joe Cruz (UK)
Anton Hjertstedt (UK)
Cripsta (ITA)
Rune Fisker (DK)
Justyna Stasik (PL)
Finn Campbell-Notman (UK)
Benjamin Courtault (FR)
Mat Maitland (UK)
Yukai Du (CN)
Björn Griesbach (GER)
Nancy Liang (AUS)
drømsjel (GER)
Daphne Christoforou (GRE)
Mad Bu (UK)
Jack Fletcher (UK)
Gosia Herba (PL)
Carla Fuentes (ES)
Alma Charry (FR)
Dane Patterson (US)
Maria Midttun (NOR)
Éi Kaneko (JP)
Sergiy Maidukov (UA)
Inka Järvinen (FIN)
Tim Romanowsky (GER)
Mari Kanstad Johnsen (NOR)
Daniel Clarke (UK)
David Szauder (HUN)
1 David Szauder, Ungarn
2 Éi Kaneko, Japan
3 Maria Midttun, Norwegen
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PERIOD
14th October – 23rd October 2016
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OPENING TIMES
Monday - Sunday 2pm – 8pm
VERNISSAGE
(by invitation only)
Thursday, October 13th, 7pm
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ENTRY FEES
Day Ticket: 4 EUR
LOCATION
Direktorenhaus
Am Krögel 2, 10179 Berlin
www.direktorenhaus.com
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1 drømsjel, Germany
2 David Szauder, Hungary
3 Nancy Liang, Australia
4 Anton Hjertstedt, UK
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1 Mark Gmehling, Germany
2 Finn Campbell-Notman, UK
3 Yukai Du, China
4 Inka Järvinen, Finnland
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1 Inka Järvinen, Finnland
2 – 3 Gosia Herba, Poland
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MARIE DUVAL
LAUGHTER IN THE FIRST AGE OF LEISURE EXHIBITION
The Illustrative 16 will be completed
by a single exhibition of Marie Duval.
It is the first ever exhibition dedicated solely to Duval’s work as a nineteenth-century pioneer of the art of
comics.
Isabelle Émilie de Tessier (1847 – 1890 ?)
was a London actress, cartoonist
and illustrator who worked under the
pseudonyms ‘Marie Duval’, ‘Noir’ and
‘S.A. The Princess Hesse Schwartzbourg’.
Marie Duval’s work first appeared
in a variety of the cheap British
penny papers and comics of the
1860s–1880s, or the First Great Age
of Leisure, for urban working class
people. An actress as well as a cartoonist, she lived and worked in a
London environment of music halls
and unlicensed theatres, sensational
plays, serials, novels and comic journals. Her drawing style was theatrical, untutored and introduced many
techniques that only became common
in much later cartooning.
Between March 1869 and July 1885,
Duval drew hundreds of comic strip
pages and vignettes for the magazine
Judy or the London serio-comic
journal and spin-off compilations,
focusing on the humour, attitudes,
urbanity and poverty of the types of
people she knew.
Her masterstroke was the development of the character Ally Sloper,
a ne’er do well London ‘everyman’,
resulting in dozens of strips that
were collected into books. Under her
influence, Sloper was to become the
comedy icon of his age.
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The exhibition and Archive have been
produced by the University of Chester,
in partnership with Guildhall Library
and with the support of the British
Library and the London Library. It is
made possible by a grant from the Arts
and Humanities Research Council.
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CONTA CT
CURATORS
Pascal Johanssen
+49 (0)30 27 572 019
[email protected]
PRESS
Claudia Holzknecht
+49 (0)30 48 491 929
[email protected]
AD DRESS
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Am Krögel 2
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2 Anton Hjertstedt, UK
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