The festival will take place September 7 – 10.
36 Mountains is a festival dedicated to illustration, the aim of which is to bring illustration and drawing closer to the public, and also to present the best of the local and global illustration scene and to recognise young and new artists. The form festival tries to move away from the typical gallery approach.
The festival will take place September 7 – 10 at the Bačva Gallery of the Meštrović Pavilion.
The festival organiser Jelena Bando said the following for Vizkultura on August 28, 2017:
“I’m extremely happy that the public has also shown a great interest for 36 Mountains in the past years, and I am very proud of its success. The third edition of the festival will bring together many Croatian, regional and European illustrators and give a chance to emerging artists to showcase their work. I try to take the festival to a new level each year, and this year’s topic is black, which I’m sure will attract new visitors as well.”
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The jury, consisting of Jelena Bando, Bojan Krištofić and Davor Gromilović, has chosen 26 artists whose works will be presented at the festival, in addition to 10 artists who have been invited to join, such as Ivo Matić, Stipan Tadić, Artu Ditu Group, Tomislav Lončarić (Lonac), etc. The artists come from Croatia, Serbia, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, Australia, Argentina, the UK and Sweden.
The exhibition consists of illustrating concertina notebooks that are given to each artist that was chosen by the jury. The artists were selected and are free to express themselves in their 1.8-meter long concertina notebooks specifically designed for this project, but only using black colour.
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Friday, September 8, will be dedicated to five lectures, with guests from Sweden, representatives from Nanobit, designer Nebojša Cvetković, and last year’s laureates Klara Rusan and Tea Jurišić.
Saturday, September 9, will be dedicated to creative workshops, for which you can apply here.
36 Mountains Illustration Festival is sponsored by Jagermeister, Adidas, Cerovski Print Boutique, Beck’s, the Ministry of Culture, the City of Zagreb, the Embassies of Sweden and Denmark, Agencija 404, Broj 42 and 7of9, and the entrance is free.
Find out more on the Festival’s website and like it on Facebook here, where you can also find out more about the artists.
