Tapirulan
L'Associazione Culturale Tapirulan è stata fondata nel 2004 per promuovere gli artisti contemporanei
It is better to be 2 to watch the Tandem gallery
For us, it is always the most fun moment when the gallery with all the illustrations entered in the competition is released. How can we describe the pleasure we feel when we open each illustration? No, we cannot describe it,…
The 19th edition of the contest starts in tandem
The new edition of the Tapirulan Illustrators Contest is finally here!
We could say it in Latin: Tandem!, which in this ancient language means precisely ‘finally’, ‘after a long wait’
Inauguration and award ceremony of Tilt
The Tilt exhibition was inaugurated on Saturday 15 April. But let’s go in order, because so many things have happened. At 4 pm the meeting was set in our gallery for the inauguration of the Simone Rea exhibition, winner of…
Vote for your favourite Tilt
Voting starts today to award the Popular Prize of the 18th edition of the Tapirulan Illustrator Competition. You can vote for two illustrations among the 52 selected by the jury until 30 March 2023 at 12 am. The voting form…
Tilt – Selected illustrators
It would be easy, and perhaps obvious, to say that the results took a long time to come because the jury went haywire… Yes, it would be easy and obvious, but it would also be true, because when the level…
This gallery will send you in “tilt”
Like every year, we prepared the gallery collecting all the illustrations of the participants in the eighteenth edition of the competition. It was not easy because looking at them caused us severe dizziness and continuous tilting of our weak brain…
Go on TILT, join the 18th edition of Tapirulan Illustrators Contest
One shouldn’t shake the pinball machine too much, a little smack may keep the ball rolling, but if one pushes it too hard the machine goes haywire. The ball falls, and now the players despair and curse their fate, but…
Completely stopped for the inauguration of Stop
The popsicles distributed by the staff of the association were not enough to refresh the public who attended the inauguration of STOP – International exhibition of contemporary illustrators, who patiently waited motionless for the beginning of the ceremony, which began…
Stop – Exhibition and award ceremony
On 28 May at 5 p.m., the STOP exhibition will be inaugurated at Santa Maria della Pietà in Cremona. The works of the 52 selected artists and a monographic exhibition by Adelchi Galloni, special guest and jury president of the…
Stop and vote!
Stop, take your time to look at all 52 illustrations and then vote for your favourite… There is no hurry, think hard, you have until 30 March to vote. At the end of the voting, the Popular Prize of 500…
Stop – Selected illustrators
This would be the moment we would like to stop, that moment when we press the publish button on the article announcing the selected illustrators of the Tapirulan illustrators Contest… However, this is not possible, although Stop, as the theme…
Utopia – We have reached the horizon…
Abbiamo scritto tante volte, citando, Eduardo Galeano, che l’utopia è come l’orizzonte: quando ci si avvicina di 10 passi esso si allontana di 10 passi… E questo pareva essere il destino anche della 16a Mostra internazionale di illustratori contemporanei, il…
Stop! Stop and look at the gallery!
Perhaps some people were beginning to fear that everything had stopped, that STOP was not only the theme of the new Tapirulan Illustrators Contest but also its sad destiny… But here we are, after the time needed to catalogue the…
Stop! The 17th edition of Tapirulan Illustrators Contest starts…
“Don’t stop me now”, sang Freddie Mercury at the top of his lungs, “Cause I’m having a good time”. However, what we are asking you is just that, to stop for a bit and read these few lines. You’ll say…
Utopian updates, but not too much…
The online voting for the Popular Prize ended on 30 March 2021. Now the only thing left to do is the award ceremony and, above all, the exhibition! In recent months we had hoped that the exhibition would open in…
Utopia – Vote
The voting is open to award the Popular Prize of the 16th edition of the illustration competition! You can choose 2 illustrations among the 52 selected by the jury, to vote you can go to this page: illustratorscontest.tapirulan.it/vote
Utopia – Selected illustrators
We hate Mondays, especially when the results of the illustration competition come out on a Monday. As you know, in a utopian world there are no firsts or lasts, and we wish we could say that also in this case.…
Utopic Gallery
We told you that utopia is like the horizon, right? As Eduardo Galeano used to say: you walk two steps, and utopia goes away by two steps, you walk ten steps, and utopia goes away by ten steps… And so,…
Utopia, nothing will ever be the same
Nothing will ever be the same. Then we can imagine a new world. A utopia? Yes, utopia is the theme of the 16th edition of Tapirulan illustrators contest.
A super day
After endless days of work, inconveniences, frugal meals, sleepless nights, we arrived at the super day: Saturday 30 November. The starting point was set at 4pm with the inauguration of Joey Guidone’s personal exhibition – DRY -, a beautiful collection…
Super – Vote
The voting is open to award the Popular Prize of the 15th edition of the illustration competition! You can choose 2 illustrations among the 48 selected by the jury, to vote you can go to this page: illustratorscontest.tapirulan.it/vote
Super – Selected authors
Below are the 48 authors selected in the group of 804 participants. All 48 selected authors will be exhibited in Cremona between 30 November 2019 and 26 January 2020 (and subsequently in Genova Nervi until June 2020), together with the…
The super gallery
There is really everything in this super gallery: superheroes, of course, but not just the classic ones, because even a mother or a grandfather can appear as superheroes. There are supermarkets and various superstitions, old Super 8mm film and much…
The super stress of cataloging
Do you know when you decide to tidy your house from head to toe? When do you start to sift through every single crevice to put everything in the right place? Well, then you can understand how the days are…
Super competition for super illustrators
Tapirulan’s illustration competition is celebrating its first 15 years, so it is no longer a normal competition, but we can consider it, rather proudly, a super competition, open to all superillustrators, ready to surpass themselves and especially their competitors to…
Caos – The inauguration and the results of the competition
Between giraffes, sailors, cannons and a lot of chaos, Saturday, December 8 we spent a great day dedicated to illustrators. At 3.50pm we were still trying to clean up our gallery because at 16 it opened “More”, the personal exhibition…
Caos – Vota le tue illustrazioni preferite
The voting is open to award the Popular Prize of the 14th edition of the illustration competition! You can choose 2 illustrations among the 48 selected by the jury, to vote you can go to this page: illustratorscontest.tapirulan.it/vote
Caos – Selected authors
Many people have written to us, eager to know the results, and we apologize for making you wait one more day to know the results of the competition, but the choices when they are suffering and intense require time and…
Caos – Gallery of all the contestants
Dear friends, after unutterable efforts our brave cataloguers have completed their work and the gallery of all the participants to the 14th edition of our illustration contest is finally done! So brace yourselves and get ready to dig into a…
The chaos of cataloging
Surely the most chaotic moment of the competition is that of cataloging. Saturday, October 20th, the registrations for the fourteenth edition of the competition were closed and in these days we are opening packages, checking entries, digitizing illustrations … In…
14th edition at the start, it is already chaos …
For someone it represents the origin of all things, for others it is only the state in which they find their own desk; for someone it is a mathematical and physical theory that can understand only those who have an…
Goodbye to the Master Tony Wolf
Dear friends, this time we are writing you to communicate a sad news. Antonio Lupatelli, known to all as Tony Wolf, passed away on Friday 18 May. We are really sorry because besides being a great illustrator he was a…
Christmas drink with Tony Wolf
Christmas is approaching and with it the flourishing of aperitifs, business dinners, greetings among colleagues, exchanges of gifts among friends, etc. etc. … Yes, but a Christmas aperitif in the middle of 250 illustrations is not so frequent. Saturday, December…
Ciao – The opening and the results of the competition
Saturday, December 2, you really came in many. Thank you! It was a wonderful party in honor of the selected authors and a tribute of affection for Antonio Lupatelli, aka Tony Wolf, who presided over the jury and is the…
Ciao – Selected authors
Here is the first suffered verdicts of the jury. Out of over 850 participants only 48 will be shown an the exhibition in Cremona between December 2 20167 and Genuary 28 2018. These 48 authors are still in the race…
Ciao ciao…
The gestation of the 13th edition of Tapirulan’s illustration contest has been long, but finally we’re ready. We have a brand new website which we hope is clearer and will provide all the informations you need. We also have a…
Tony Wolf, special guest 2017
The special guest of this thirteenth edition of the competition will be Tony Wolf, one of the most loved children’s authors all over the world. His books are in the libraries of almost all families, but few know that behind…