On the occasion of the first edition of “Giornate del Contemporaneo-Italian Contemporary Art” (October 8-13, 2018), the Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal will present the exhibition project entitled “Shout: il tratto della leggerezza“, a personal exhibition of Alessandro Gottardo, aka “Shout“.
The exhibition will be inaugurated on October 10 at the Galerie Gora at 6pm, a contemporary art space located in Montréal (279 Sherbrooke West Suite 205), where it will remain open to the public until the 27th of the said month. The exhibition collects fifty works, including prints, engravings and serigraphs, by the young illustrator.
Alessandro Gottardo, in art Shout, was born in Pordenone in 1977. Now he lives and works in Milan, where he cooperate with publishing houses, magazines, journals, animation studios, brand designs and advertising agencies, like: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Esquire, Newsweek, National Geographic, Wired, The Saturday Evening Post, Le Monde, The Economist, Financial Times, Random House, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Penguin Books, Simon & Shuster, GQ, BBH UK, DDB, Young&Rubicam, Fallon, BDM, TWBA, Minimum Fax. Thanks to his work he has received plenty of international awards, such as three Gold Medals and three Silver Medals by the Society of Illustrators NY and one Gold Medal by The Society of Publication Designers. His works have been exhibited in Milan, Naples and Los Angeles. In 2010 he published Mono Shout (27_9 ed.), that is a monograph constituted of almost 200 illustrations. They are the result of ten years of work. with 279 he published also Jetlag V.1 (2006), Jetlag V.2 (2007) and Dazed (2011). Recently there has been the release of C’era una voce (Topipittori, 2012), that won the Naples Prize for Children’s Literature in 2012.