AntonelloSilverini
He was the first illustrator to be awarded the MAM – Maestro d’Arte e Mestiere (Master of Art and Craft) prize in 2016, and he is one of the leading illustrators for ‘La Lettura’, the cultural supplement of the Corriere della Sera. He also collaborates with Il Sole 24 Ore, La Repubblica, Panorama, L’Espresso, The Boston Globe, The Economist and The Washington Post. He has designed the covers for Ian McEwan’s novels for Einaudi and for Philip K. Dick’s novels for Fanucci. He created the image for the 2012 Rome International Film Festival.
In 2017, Prof. Carmelo Occhipinti dedicated the volume ‘Antonello Silverini. Quello che si vede’ (‘Antonello Silverini: What You See’) to his work, Quello che si vede’ (‘Antonello Silverini: What You See’), part of the Monografie series published by Horti Hesperidum, under the patronage of the Department of Literary, Philosophical and Art History Studies at Tor Vergata University of Rome.
In 2023, he illustrated ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ by Edgar Allan Poe (Fanucci Editore), ‘Bartleby the Scrivener’ by Herman Melville (Neri Pozza Editore) and ‘Fritz & Nanà’ (Carthusia Editore).
The Illustration course explores every stage of the creative process, covering all the technical and theoretical aspects aimed at enhancing and developing students’ expressive and stylistic skills.
From semiotic analysis to experimentation with techniques and their application in various artistic and professional contexts, the development of students’ personal style and language will be explored in depth, with the aim of achieving an original interpretative voice.
Students will be prepared to manage the relationship with the client at every stage: from the critical analysis of the text through to the development and realisation of the artistic proposal.
Students will be taught about the history of illustration, its relationship with other artistic forms of expression, and its independent and original language. The aim of the course – which will be delivered through professional exercises, exploring illustration in its various forms and applications (book covers, images for newspaper articles, cinema and theatre posters, etc.) – is to develop students’ professional, stylistic and artistic autonomy, enabling them to produce illustrations by strengthening their connection with their own sensibility towards the contemporary world.