The Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2018 Illustration Brazilian Nomination
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20 Presents Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil • Brazilian Section of IBBY The Hans Christian Andersen Awards 201820 Illustration Brazilian nomination CIÇA FITTIPALDI Summary Biographical information on the candidate 7 A statement on the candidate’s contribution 13 to literature for children and young people Exhibitions, awards and other distinctions 15 Complete bibliography 24 Translated editions 29 Five of the most important titles 32 List and reviews of the books submitted to the jury 38 Appreciative essays 48 Ciça Fittipaldi Tel: +55 62 3206-0226, +55 62 8138-6676 Av. Floresta, Qd. 41, Lote 13-A, Residencial Aldeia do Vale. Goiânia – GO – Brasil CEP 74680-210 [email protected] cicafittipaldi.com Biographical information on the candidate Maria Cecília Fittipaldi Vessani ‒ Ciça Fittipaldi ‒ was born in São Paulo, in 1952. Paulo Municipal Theatre Company (1966 to 1970). Then, at the University of Brasília, She studied classical ballet between 1958 and 1971, when she danced with the São researcher of electronic music, until 1975. she worked with contemporary body expression in collaboration with Conrado Silva, There, she was motivated for drawings while working at the school graphic workshop. She started her studies in Architecture at the University of Brasília in 1972. She majored in Fine Arts. in 1976, at the University of Brasília. She accomplished her MA in Arts and Visual Culture (2005), at the National in contemporary Brazilian art from the 1980 till now a days. University of Goiás, researching the indigenous feather art and its presence and influence Her professional career, as illustrator, started in 1973, working for the newspaper Jornal de Brasília and she was also a free-Iancer for the São Paulo publishing market. of Brazil and by her interest in art and popular culture of the following Brazilian states: The first ten years of her career, have been marked by trips all over the inland Mato Grosso, Rondônia, the hinterland of Bahia. Goiás and Amazônia. ln 1975, she started to work with the Brazilian Indigenous theme, when she lived among the Nambiquara this matter and with Brazilian indigenous communities. Indians. Since then, she has kept contact with professionals and entities working with 5 back to summary 7 in video for the project Video in the Indian Establishment: “Visual Anthropophagy”, She has produced images for the Cultura TV in São Paulo (1984) and animation produced among the Enauene-Naue people, collaborating with Vincent Carelli in 1995. Besides children’s books which focalize this theme, she has also illustrated The Brazilian Indigenous Rights Book, written by UNI - Indian Nations Union (SP, 1984) the 1985), to be used by the indigenous community. Yanomami Health Leaflet. made by CCPY - Yanomami Park Creation Commission (SP, Between 1980 and 1983, living in Goiânia, in the center-west of Brazil, she used to be illustrator for the O Popular newspaper and worked at TV Anhanguera telling stories for children: using different visual language resources, making known authors and children’s literature books. In Goiânia, she joined the group from the City Center of Culture - Bosque dos Buritis. There, she was in charge of the Fine Arts workshop and has participated of the MAG – Goiás Art Museum, as Member of the Board of Directors. 5 back to summary 8 Lampião” (Paulinas Publishing House), where she points out traditions from the state of Back to São Paulo, in 1984 she published her first text for children literature “João Goiás which was, up to this moment, unknown in the rest of Brazil. being a plastic artist, painting and drawing, a designer, making institutional campaigns, Since then, she is creating texts and illustrations for children’s books besides visual identity for enterprises and posters. She was invited to do the poster for the 41 st Children’s Book Exhibition international campaign Interculturalidade e Livros Infantojuvenis, developed by the at the Youth International Library in Munich in 1990 and the catalogue cover of the same institution in 2002. In 1992, she went back to the center-west of Brazil working as a teacher of contemporary art, at the Universidade Federal de Goiás (National University of Goiás), university level in Brazil, inserted in the curriculum of graphic design. Art Institute. In the years 2000 she created the discipline of “illustration”, the first in the Participates as a member of the Curatorial Board of contemporary art gallery – National She was coordinator of Fine Arts and Graphic Design between 2010 and 2012. University of Goiás since 2000, working as chief curator and director, from 2008 till 2016. 5 back to summary 9 Communication for Indigenous Education, working with indigenous teachers of Tocantins She is consultant of MEC – the Education Ministry – in the area of Art and University of Roraima, Boa Vista (Amazon), from 2002 till 2011. State from 1992 to 1998 and with Superior Indigenous Education at the UFRR – Federal 5 back to summary 10 She was invited to present her work on a round table in the University of Stocolm, 1996; Conference in the International Seminar of Illustrators in the Banco del Libro, Caracas, 1996. She lectured in the COLE, Congress about Reading in Brazil, 1998; Children’s Book Fair in Bogotá, 2012, in the Literature Festival for Brazilian Children and lectured in the Book Fair of Porto Alegre, 2004, 2006 and 2008. She also lectured in The Literature – FNLIJ, 2014 and the round table in the Café degli Illustratori in the Bologna Young People in Cologne, Germany, 2013, in the Seminar of Children and Young People Book Fair, 2014. She was invited to present her creative process on a round table in the She was nominated by FNLIJ to the Hans Christian Andersen Awards – Illustrator CILELIJ 2016 – Fundación SM, at Mexico City. in 19961996, and 2016 2016. and Currently, 2018. Currently, she lives she and lives works and in works Goiânia, in Goiânia, Goiás. Ciça Goiás. Fittipaldi Ciça Fittipaldi teaches She was nominated by FNLIJ to the Hans Christian Andersen Awards – Illustrator Dteachesrawing, Drawing, Illustration Illustration and Book and Design Book at Designthe National at the University National Universityof Goiás. Her of booksGoiás. andHer illustrationsbooks and illustrations are published are publishedin various in countries: various countries: Venezuela, Venezuela, Argentina, Argentina, Mexico, Mexico,United United States and Germany. States and Germany. 5 back to summary 11 A statement on the candidate’s contribution to literature for children and young people The interdisciplinarity in the work of Ciça Fittipaldi Few artists have so many cultural intersections in his graphic work as illustrator culture. This cultural interdisciplinary core of her work, represented by Indigenous, Ciça Fittipaldi. Her images fold some confluence, a real diverse estuary of the Brazilian African and Iberian sources, results in an amalgam, a fact very different from simple folk or primitive settings. Her illustrations refer us, at the same time, a profound individuality and universality. In other words: we are not in front of the uncanny. Her work is deeply heuristics, in other words, it was built patiently over the years. There is neither a simplification, direct use, dogmatics and superficial sources to which I referred above. books, our eyes must be facing the phenomenon mainly as an artistic awakening. The She originates, but is not situated in the past. By analyzing the contemporaneity of her exotic looking inward is not part of the foundations of her work. And it is therefore with this approach that the narrative images of her books should be examined. What enchants the reader in her works is the process, this passage of the essentially cultural in our people to the essentially aesthetical. This is the point of departure and arrival in the enjoyment of her work — the harmony between the meaning At the end of this short text, we cannot fail to mention that her research and and the signifier. experiments on the origins of her works were performed in locu, in physical contact with the sources. And, in this sense, in a way she is a Niemuendaju and a Verger in our illustration. Finally, it is with great pleasure that I write this small text on the vast work of this great artist of the Brazilian book for children and young people. Rui de Oliveira Illustrator – Professor DsC – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 5 back to summary 13 Exhibitions, awards and other distinctions Exhibitions 1982 - IV Modern Art Document. Brasília, Brazil. 1983 - VI Fine Arts Exhibition Brazil-Japan. Mokiti Okada Foundation. Modern Art 1985Museum, - BIB Rio – Biennial de Janeiro. Illustration Itinerant: of São Bratislava. Paulo, Tóquio, Kyoto and Atami. Brazilian Book Chamber. 1986 - Brazilian Illustrators Exhibition – International Book Biennial of São Paulo. 19871986 - FablesIllustrations and Legends for Children – Illustration – Rio de Exhibition Janeiro Illustrators - São Paulo Association. Cultural Center. Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro. Itinerant: Mexico City and Caracas. 1987 - BIB – Biennial Illustration of Bratislava. Children’s Book Fair. 1989 - White Havens Exhibition – International Young People Library. Bologna 1991 - A Thousand Words – First Mix of the Brazilian Illustration. 1992Box Blue - Illustration Gallery. São Exhibition Paulo. - Brazilian Culture Festival. Zurich. 5 back to summary 15 1994 - The Book For Children in Brazil – Illustration Exhibition. Frankfurt Book Fair. 1995 - Brazil! A Bright Blend of Colours – Brazilian Illustration Exhibition. Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Itinerant: Lisbon. 1996 - Brazil, a Feast For The Eyes. Brazilian Illustration Exhibition. Gottemburg Book Fair, Sweden. Museu do Indio, Rio de Janeiro. 2000 - Amazonia – Time and Space - Exhibition about Waiapi Culture. 2003 - Myths and Territories. Installations. Contemporary Art Museum, Goiás. Itinerant: Contemporary Art Museum São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Brasília. 2004 - Drawing Stories. Brazilian Illustration Exhibition. Porto Alegre Book Fair. de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Brasília. 2005 - Illustrating for Magazines. MAB – Brazilian Art Museum, São Paulo.