Saturday, March 25, 2017
Turkish Artist Zehra Doğan Sentenced to Prison for Painting of Kurdish Town Attack
Zehra
Doğan. Courtesy the Voice Project.
The Turkish-Kurdish painter and
journalist Zehra Doğan has
been sentenced to 2 years, nine months, and 22 days in prison for creating a
painting which depicted the destruction caused by Turkish security forces in
the Nusaybin district of Mardin province, a Kurdish region in Turkey.
According to Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, the Mardin Second High Criminal
Court in Turkey handed down the sentence because she drew Turkish flags on
buildings destroyed by Turkish forces. However, according to Artforum, the court
expressed that Doğan’s sharing of the image of her work, featuring current
military operations, was the cause for her prison sentence.
Work by Zehra Doğan. Courtesy the
Voice Project.
“I was given two years and 10
months [jail time] only because I painted Turkish flags on destroyed buildings.
However, [the Turkish government] caused this. I only painted it,” Doğan posted
in a now-deleted tweet as reported by online Turkish journalism and human
rights platform Turkey Purge.
According to the Art Newspaper, authorities
arrested Doğan at a cafe late July, claiming that her artworks proved that she
was connected to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is considered a
terrorist organization by the Turkish government.
“Art and paintings
can never be used in such a way,” said Doğan’s lawyer, Asli Pasinli,
according to Voice Project, an international
organization committed to freedom of expression and creative activism. “This is an attack on art and artistic expression.”
FaceMi Humor Cartoon Exhibition (04,2017)
1,Theme:
A) Cartoon
Section: Better Internet, Better Life
(Computer,Mobile Phone,WiFi,Robot,Tablet PC,Unmanned
Plane,Network Shopping,Games,etc.)
B) CaricatureSection: World Internet
Leader:
Steve Jobs,Bill Gates,Tim Cook,Mark Zuckerberg,Larry
Page,Elon Musk,Jeff Bezos,Eric Schmidt,etc.
Chinese Internet
Leader:
Ma Yun(Jack Ma):Founder and Chairman of Alibaba Group
Liu Chuanzhi:Founder of Lenovo
Wang Jianlin:Founder and Chairman of Dalian Wanda
Group
Ren Zhengfei:Founder and President of Huawei
Technologies Co., Ltd
Ma Huateng:Founder and Chairman of Tencent
Li Yanhong:Founder and Chairman of Baidu Inc
Dong Mingzhu:President of Gree Electric
Lei Jun:Founder and Chairman of Xiaomi Inc
Liu Qiangdong:Founder and CEO of JD.com
Jia Yueting:Founder and CEO of LETV
2,Deadline: April 5, 2017
3,PC Entries:
1) Size: Min:A4(210mmx297mm),
Max:A3(297mmx420mm).Vertical figure, not horizontal figure.
2) Quantity: Unlimited .
3) Please send digital original drawings to this
contest. Black & white or colored, any style, any technique will be
accepted.
4) Participants are requested to send together with
their cartoons, an entry-form with digital signature, a photograph or
caricature. The form can be downloaded at FreeCartoonsWeb.
5) Titles or entry-form must be filled out in
understandable English or Chinese.
6) All cartoonists can participate in festival through
your own E-mail by submitting your cartoons to: freecartoons@126.com
Format:JPEG Size:max.4M per cartoon Resolution
ratio:200dpi-300dpi
7) The excellent cartoons will be published in
Chinese website,newspaper and magazine.
4,Prize:
Excellent Prize (3 works):
Certificate+Catalogue(PDF);
Fans Prize (50 works): Certificate+Catalogue(PDF).
5,Exhibition:
Venue:Shanghai Wujiaochang Circular Plaza,China
Venue:Shanghai Wujiaochang Circular Plaza,China
Time:April 10-30,2017
6,Facemi Portrait Art Union:
Facebook (@fcwfcwcom)
Facebook (@fcwfcwcom)
Search Group: Facemi Portrait Art Union
Twitter (@fcwfcw)
Build Homepage: www.facemi.com
Mobil: http://fcwfcw.kuaizhan.com
English: http://www.fcwfcw.com
Chinese: http://www.fcw.cn
FaceMi Humor
Cartoon Exhibition
(ENTRY-FORM)
Full Name:___________________________________ Photo/
Caricature
Birth:__________________________Sex:_________
Address: ______________________________________________________________
Tel:_________________________________________ Fax:____________________
Hompage: _____________________________________________________
E-mail: ________________________________________________________
Cartoon Quantity__________________________
Title:
1____________2____________3_____________4____________5___________
6____________7___________8____________9___________ 10___________
Caricature Quantity__________________________
Title: 1____________2____________3_____________4____________5___________
6____________7___________8____________9___________ 10___________
Biography_____________________________________________________________
Biography_____________________________________________________________
Signature_____________________________________________
Friday, March 24, 2017
Marcin Bondarowicz – exhibition in the European Cartoon Center Kruishoutem - Belgium from the 28th of January till the 2th of April 2017.
Marcin Bondarowicz - introduction to his exhibition
My works reflect the
sensitivity of a child who is first astonished by the world around, then starts
asking many questions, and eventually attempts to answer them through the
creative process. The road to truth is full of dramatic questions: razor sharp
and extremely precise, uncompromising, sometimes also drastic. I take up those
questions with no hesitation; I observe, and consequently I comment on what I
see. I make use of a wide array of symbols and metaphors which are the building
blocks of my surrealistic world – so different, and so close to us at the same
time.
Hard work began with my
incurable passion for painting. I fell in love with painting as a little boy,
and it has led me to the place where I am now. It is only the beginning of the
road for me, and I can see no final point of destination. I am always driven by
the urge to become better and better in what I do.
My works draw on the
traditions of the Polish School of Posters. It was a philosophical, telegraphic
type of poster, economical to the point of becoming abstract, but at the same
time – aiming to exert a wide social impact. Time and the exploration of the
various fields related to painting and graphic design have inspired the idea of
creating functional art representing an individual type of artistic expression.
The first commissions that I received for posters, and my desire to comment on
some key social issues – brought me in contact with the field of illustration,
and later press illustration, which has now very largely dominated my
professional activity. The vast majority of the works presented at this
exhibition have already been published.
Even though my illustrations
have been published both in Poland and abroad, sometimes in magazines
representing radically different political standpoints, what always comes first
for me is “my comment on the matter”, and this is also how I approach my work.
I attach great importance to
the emotions that appear between the author and the audience, at the meeting
point of these two worlds. These emotions frequently provide the incentive for
further explorations. Even though I cannot be present today at the vernissage
of my exhibition, you will be able to feel my presence in my works, with which
I am inextricably linked – I am one with them. I feel very honoured to be able
to present them in Belgium – in a place from which I have received so much
support. It is very important for me that I can thus share with you the world
of my imagination.
Marcin Bondarowicz
FENAMiZAH EXTRA no: 5m March, 2017 • DONALD TRUMP CARTOONS by worldwide cartoonists.
You can read it online or download the PDF file.
> https://issuu.com/fenamizah_e-
• FULLY 130 CARTOONS
from 63 cartoonists !
Thank you all participants.
Best regards.
- - -
aziz yavuzdoğan
graphic designer & cartoonist
editor in chief of the FENAMIZAH e-magazine
-
www.azizyavuzdogan.com
www.fenamizah.com
OSTEN is inviting you to participate in the 49th WORLD GALLERY OF CARTOONS Skopje 2017
Download the APPLICATION FORM, fill it, submit
it along with your works and you can win one of the following awards:
FIRST AWARD for
Cartoon
FIRST AWARD for
Satiric Drawing
FIRST AWARD for
Comic / Strip
10 SPECIAL AWARDS
CICO AWARD (for
Macedonian cartoonist)
Reminder:
following our principle of creating and preserving art on paper, only ORIGINAL
WORKS (hand-drawn cartoons, satirical drawings, and comics) will be
considered in the selection process. They should be sent no later than 31st March
2017 to our address:
OSTEN WORLD
GALLERY OF CARTOONS
8.Udarna Brigada
2, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
The jury
activities will take place in April 2017, and the official opening of the 49th WORLD GALLERY OF CARTOONS
Skopje 2017 and the announcement
of the awards will take place on 25th May 2017 at the OSTEN Gallery, Skopje.
Download the APPLICATION FORM, fill it, submit
it, follow us on FB, and do not
forget to share this information with your colleagues and friends. For
additional information, you can always contact us oncartoons@osten.com.mk
We are expecting your participation!
Monday, March 20, 2017
International Cartoon Contest - Alexandar KLAS 2017
International Cartoon Contest - Alexandar
KLAS 2017
After a
few years break ILUSTROVANA POLITIKA magazine again invites international
cartoon contest under the name Alexandar KLAS, cartoonists who faithfully acted
on the first issue of the ILUSTROVANA
POLITIKA magazine 1958. He drew cartoons under the motto ALEKSANDAR KLAS LINES
TO YOU. As the most award-winning cartoonist in the world in 1990, entered the
Guinness Book of Records.
So he went to a legend, especially ILUSTROVANA POLITIKA magazine, which is now back on the world stage cartoons, where it has always belonged.
So he went to a legend, especially ILUSTROVANA POLITIKA magazine, which is now back on the world stage cartoons, where it has always belonged.
A.
Participation. - The competition is open to all cartoonists of the world
regardless of nationality, religion, age, sex and education.
B. The
theme of the competition. Free.
C. Sending
cartoons. - Accepting exclusively original
works and signed digital prints. Papers should not have been previously
awarded. Sends the maximum 5. cartoons A4. In addition to the works send a
photo, Curriculum Vitae (CV), and on the back of the works basic information
(name, surname, address, e-mail address and telephone number).
Works
can be sent by post to the following address:
ILUSTROVANA POLITIKA
Cetinjska 1
11000 Beograd
Serbia
ILUSTROVANA POLITIKA
Cetinjska 1
11000 Beograd
Serbia
D.
Deadline - Cartoons will be accepted until 1 September 2017.
E. Awards.
- The first financial prize money and diplomas.
The
second financial prize money and diplomas.
The
third financial prize money and diplomas.
The
total prize money amounts to 2,000 (two thousand) euros.
Will be
allocated and several special prizes and diplomas.
F.
Exhibition - The award ceremony and exhibition will be held in Belgrade for a
day ILUSTROVANA POLITIKA magazine of November 11th 2017.
G.
Catalog. - All cartoonists whose cartoons
are selected in the catalog and the exhibition will receive a free copy of the
catalog.
H.
Other Provisions - Arrived works remain the property of ILUSTROVANA POLITIKA
magazine. The organizers reserve the right to use them without financial
compensation to the authors. By entering the contest is considered that the
authors accept the proposition as a whole.
Špiro
Radulović
Editor
of competition
cartoonist
spirorad@gmail.com
No dia 21 de Março celebramos o aniversário de Bordalo Pinheiro com a inauguração da Exposição Lisboa de Bordalo.- Museu Bordalo Pinheiro (Campo Grande - Lisboa)
Um passeio sobre a Lisboa do fim do século XIX, com todos os condimentos que Bordalo sabe tão bem usar: informação, talento, humor.
Venha até ao Museu 3a feira, dia 21 de Março, às 18.30, ajudar a celebrar o 171º aniversário de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro!
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Xavier Bonilla gana el Sombrero de Oro del 56 Festival de Knokke Heist, Belgica Por Francisco Punal Suarez
¿Quién no se ha hecho un selfie, y ahora más con la facilidad de los teléfonos
inteligentes y la difusión que permiten las redes sociales? El selfie está de
moda, desde hace años. Es una forma de relacionarse y mostrar al mundo un
instante de nuestras vidas, un estado de ánimo, un grito contra el pudor, una
manifestación narcisista. Pero desde luego, el autorretrato tiene también su
vertiente artística, y su presencia en la historia de la fotografía es muy
antigua. Se considera al francés Hippolyte Bayard, con su famoso “Autorretrato
de un hombre ahogado”, donde se hace pasar por muerto, y realizado en
1840, un elemento temprano e inquietante en la historia del arte. En este caso, el cuerpo se
convierte en una herramienta de trabajo.
Como indica Susan Bright, en su
libro "Autofocus, the Self-portrait in Contemporary
Photography", Edit. Thames and Hudson, London, 2010, un autorretrato es
mucho más que una representación visual mimética del artista. Realmente es una narrativa
abierta a la interpretación del observador donde el artista propone su propia
auto-revelación, auto-preservación y en última instancia auto-creación.
Ahora, en la 56º edición del Concurso
Internacional de la Caricatura de Knokke Heist, Bélgica, el evento de
humor gráfico más antiguo del mundo, el dibujante ecuatoriano Xavier Bonilla ha
ganado el Sombrero de Oro, con una viñeta de humor negro que parodia los
autorretratos. Según el jurado, “la obra aborda, desde la exageración,
la macabra cultura del selfie. Es una visión crítica sobre la falta de empatía
contemporánea en la búsqueda de gustos. Literalmente va sobre cadáveres”.
El Sombrero de plata correspondió a un dibujo
del polaco Zbigniew Wozniak, donde predomina el absurdo, con una
mirada divertida sobre el decoro.
El Sombrero de Bronce lo ganó un trabajo del
ruso Vasiliy Alexandrov , con una broma original, con una cuota de dolor,
que critica la mezquindad y el machismo.
El premio de Davidsfonds fue a parar a las
manos del belga Luc Descheemaeker, por una imagen que ya es emblemática del
siglo XXI, un diseño fuera de serie, una caricatura que es un soplete: El pelo
de Hitler, es un icono, y su bigote ahora se convierte en el perfil de Donald
Trump. Toda una advertencia a la humanidad en este mundo convulso en que
vivimos.
Al premio Sombrero de Oro le corresponde un
premio en metálico de 5000 euros y fue otorgado por un jurado encabezado por su
presidente Chris Dusauchoit, junto a los caricaturistas Fleur Van Groningen,
Inge Heremans (Ilah), Katrien De Vreese, de Davidsfonds y Tanja Vrancken
(director de producción de Bl!ndman) quienes tuvieron la difícil tarea de
elegir entre los 1754 dibujos presentados a concurso, enviados por cerca de
500 dibujantes de 60 países.
Se pronostica, como cada año, que miles
de personas asistirán a la exposición de la 56º edición de este concurso, que
permanecerá abierta al público del 1 de julio al 4 de septiembre, en un
pabellón del distrito Heist, muy cerca de la playa, con entrada gratuita. La
inauguración de la muestra, con el nombre de Eureka, tendrá lugar el 28
de junio con la asistencia de los dibujantes premiados, invitados,
organizadores del Festival y autoridades locales.
En la pasada edición del Festival de Knokke
Heist el Sombrero de Oro también le correspondió a un autor latino, el caricaturista
brasileño Dalcio Machado. Con su historieta, que tiene una fuerte
carga crítica y social, aborda, mediante el contraste, el tema de los
miedos, imaginarios y reales. En el primer cuadro, en una situación cotidiana,
un niño mira debajo de su cama, pues teme que existan monstruos imaginarios. En
el segundo dibujo, en un país en guerra, el niño tiene miedo de un peligro
real, las bombas, y usa la cama como un abrigo para protegerse del peligro que
le viene encima. Sin lugar a dudas es una historieta gráfica excelente, bien
desarrollada y donde Dalcio demostró una vez más su calidad como dibujante.
Este era el reconocimiento número 116 de su amplia trayectoria artística.
