Milo Manara - Heart
DESCRIPTION:
Artist: Milo Manara
Title: Heart
Limited Edition
Size: 32 x 45 cm
Printed on High Quality Fedrigoni Cardboard, in 1999
Signature: Hand signed by the artist and Author's embossed stamp
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ARTIST
Milo Manara was born in Luson, a small mountain village in the province of Bolzano. His parents are both workers, so from an early age Milo and his brother found odd jobs to support themselves. Manara, for example, makes decorative pannels to order. His natural talent led him to study at a private art institute. He moved to Verona where he worked as assistant to the famous Spanish sculptor Miguel Ortiz Berrocal and, at the same time, he attended the Faculty of Architecture in Venice. During the '68 revolts, he contested the Venice Biennale with other artists. Manara wasn't indifferent to the changes in the world around him, he was inspired and thoughtful. Suddenly, thanks to his french wife Berrocal, Manara discovered comics, that he had never known as a child because of the strict rules of his mother. From Manara's point of view, the most interesting thing about comics is the serial nature of the medium which distances itself from the uniqueness of the painting and becomes something closer to literature, more accessible to the masses thanks to its affordability. Manara sees in the comic the possibility of building his own role in society, thinking also to the reasons just said about the retribution in the editorial field, more honest and adherent to the economic reality around it, Manara chose to try to express himself with this medium, taking distance from the classical painting to embrace the mass culture, close to the people (in this period he realised the painting where he portrayed himself kicking a cow, representing the traditional visual art) .
At the end of the 1960's, Manara was looking for a job as comic artist in Milan but with little success because the editors weren't open to hiring artists without experience. He overcame this problem thanks to his friend Mario Gomboli who introduced him to the editor Furio Viano with whom he began working in 1969. He made his debut with the erotic-detective stories for the collection Genius, one of the various dark comics born to emulate Diabolik. His works for Genius attracted the attention of the editor Renzo Barbieri (owner of the publishing house ErreGi with Giorgio Cavedon, famous for its erotic comics). Barbieri called Manara to realise some free stories and then he realised Jolanda de Almaviva, to follow the erotic genre. After a few work for young (Corriere dei ragazzi, 1974) Manara began prestigious partnerships, for example with Mino Milani. In 1978 he created his first successful character and, for the first time, he wrote the story too. It was published for the first time in France (in the magazine A SUIVRE): HP and Giuseppe Bergman, where “HP” is a clear reference to his teacher and mentor Hugo Pratt.
In the 1980's his publications reached France, the USA in the 1990's. During this period that Manara collaborated with Federico Fellini, Enzo Biagi and in 2000 with Alejandro Jodorowsky.
With the expansion of multimedia communication, Manara developed his work orienting towards the multimedia communication, creating storyboards and consulting for advertising campaigns, for Chanel, for the adv spot signed by Lucy Besson, Sisley, Fastweb, Eminence, Permaflex, Yamamay and Lavazza. We should not forget his contribution to projects for the Internet and computers, such like Gulliveriana, a cd-rom based on a story he wrote, followed by Il gioco del Kamasutra, an adventure
After receiving numerous awards and international recognitions, on 20 of February 2009 The Academy of Fine arts of Macerata awarded him with the academic title Honoris Causa.