It is useless to feign a modesty one does not possess-we are all highly successful people, we have launched careers studded with accomplishments, we live in dream homes, we take incredible vacations to beautiful places. On closer inspection, sometimes–certainly only…
Let’s start from the end to tell you about Saturday, March 15, that is, the award ceremony of the twentieth edition of the illustration contest: Voilà. In the Amati Pavilion of the Violin Museum, a good number of rabbits and…
It’s time to vote, we want to know which are your favorite illustrations among the 52 selected by the jury of this edition. Why do we want to know? Because we are simply curious? Yes, of course we are, but…
Finally, after many confrontations, decisions and second thoughts, the jury of the competition, chaired by Gilles Bachelet, has come to the conclusion of its work. We cannot avoid the rhetorical phrases of turn, such as that the choices were difficult…
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the gallery with all the participants of the twentieth edition of the contest: voilà! There are 795 illustrations by as many artists who have interpreted this widespread expression of the French language. When and why…
Voilà: the 20th edition of the Tapirulan Illustrator Contest is here! As usual, we poured our passion and dedication into it, and now it’s finally ready. The 20th edition, can you believe it? We want to highlight that because we…
The clock showed 4pm when the tandem set off. At that moment the doors of the Tapirulan gallery opened, where the first exhibition of the day was inaugurated, that of Ane Arzelus, winner last year of the eighteenth edition of…
Pedaling gently we reached the moment of online voting. What is it about? This is the vote that allows us to award the Popular Prize of the Tapirulan illustration competition, which this year, we remember, had “Tandem” as its theme.…
On the tandem you normally travel in two, maximum three, or even four. We have placed 52 seats on the Tapirulan tandem, they seem like a lot, but they are very few, because we would have liked many other travel…
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 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’
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
Nei mesi scorsi abbiamo sperato che la mostra si potesse aprire a maggio. Anche se la situazione sanitaria sta migliorando, abbiamo ritenuto di posticipare nuovamente la mostra, per garantirle maggiore durata e promozione, e dunque più opportunità di essere visitata. Una decisione particolarmente tormentata...
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…
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
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.…
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,…
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.
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Siamo al lavoro per catalogare tutte le immagini che hanno partecipato al concorso. Tra circa una settimana verranno messe tutte online. Intanto la giuria si metterà al lavoro per selezionare gli autori per la mostra e per il calendario. I…
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…
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…
