The purpose of Tapirulan’s contest is not only to give an award to an author, but is to produce an exhibition that can intrigue, attract visitors and focus attention on the illustrations.
An exhibition full of images and colors that consists of three elements: on the one hand, the 52 works selected with the competition and the exhibition of the guest author – the president of the jury of the competition itself; finally, the exhibition of the winner of the previous edition. This results in an exhibition of about 300 works. Every year we take steps to create new exhibition opportunities, in addition to the established one at the Cremona venue (first at Santa Maria della Pietà and then at the Violin Museum) between March and June. In the past, the exhibition has been “exported” to Mantua, Ferrara and Parma. For over ten years Tapirulan has collaborated with the City of Genoa and the Museums of Genoa by setting up the exhibition at the Raccolte Frugone and the Museum of Modern Art in Nervi, then at the Castello D’Albertis – Museum of World Cultures.
We try to take care of the layout as much as possible because we believe it is important for illustrations to have a proper display as well. For several years, moreover, the contest exhibition and the special guest exhibition have been joined by an additional exhibition: that of the contest winner. The winner (here is thegolden roll of the contest), in fact, in the edition following the one he got the first prize, is invited to exhibit his works in the Tapirulan Space (Cremona – Corso XX Settembre). In this section we publish some photos of the exhibits from previous editions.
Exhibition at the Violin Museum
Exhibition at Santa Maria della Pietà
