Manuele Fior – A Conversation

Manuele Fior

illustrator and cartoonist

in conversation with

Iuri Moscardi
Professor of Italian at Hunter College

Introductory video message

from the President of the Venice Biennale

Pietrangelo Buttafuoco

The Institute is pleased to host a conversation with Italian illustrator Manuele Fior, whose works often incorporate artistic influences from literature, cinema, painting, and architecture. The 82nd Venice International Film Festival, the Venice Biennale, commissioned Manuele Fior to design the festival’s official poster, which depicts an imaginary and fantastical Venice, where cinema soars above the rooftops and chimneys of the luminous lagoon city.

Manuele Fior

Born in Cesena in 1975, he has lived in Berlin, Oslo, Paris and Venice. He collaborates with his illustrations to magazines such as “The New Yorker”, “Vanity Fair”, to newspapers such as “la Repubblica”, “Le Monde” and “Il Sole 24 Ore”, to publishing houses such as Feltrinelli, Einaudi, EL. In 2017 he collected and commented them in L’ora dei miraggi (Oblomov Edizioni).

With the graphic novel Cinquemila cicli al secondo (Coconino press 2010) he won the Fauve d’Or award for Best Album at the Angoulême International Festival 2011. L’intervista (Coconino press 2013, Oblomov 2019) marks his debut in black and white. He has also published Celestia (Oblomov 2020), Le variazioni d’Orsay (Coconino press 2015), I giorni della merla (Coconino press 2016), a collection of short stories, La signorina Else (Coconino press 2009), an illustrated story based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Schnitzler, and Rosso Oltremare (Coconino press 2006). His latest graphic novel is Hypercon, released in 2022 by Coconino press.