Gianluca Costantini


Gianluca Costantini in Ravenna, Italy, is a cartoonist, artist, Comic journalist, and activist.

Biography

Gianluca Costantini he graduated from the Art Institute Gino Severini of Ravenna in 1991 in Applied Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna in Decoration in 1995. He began exhibiting in the historic gallery La Bottega artist engraver Giuseppe Maestri in 1990 in the company of photographer Alex Majoli. His work continues between contamination ranging from mosaic to cyberpunk.
He attends the Academy of fine Arts in Ravenna, whose teachers are Fabrizio Passarella, Vittorio D'Augusta, Guido Guidi, Antonio Violetta, Carlo Branzaglia e Claudio Spadoni.
In 1993 he published the first comic strip magazine Schizzo n°5, curated by Massimo Galletti for the Center Comics Andrea Pazienza of Cremona. In 1994 he began his collaboration with the newspaper Il manifesto and the magazine Neural cyberpunk and contemporary art magazine Museo Teo Art Fanzine. In 1994, he knows the artist graffiti Marco Teatro and collaborate with the Happening of comics and illustration in Milan, Bologna, Rome, Turin and Lugano.
Publish for Underground Comics Magazine Interzona, Katzyvari, Alter Vox Magazine, Tribù Magazine d'urto, Fagorgo, Stripburger, Milk and Vodka, laikku, Kerosene, and Garabattage.
His political comics are much appreciated in Italy and have gained him respect in cultural circles, has published in 2009 "The Turtle Tamer of Istanbul " written by Elettra Stamboulis. A graphic novel that recounts the life of the intellectual Osman Hamdi Bey.
In 2009 he exhibited at the Lazarides Gallery in London in 2010 at the :fr:Drawing Now Paris|Salon du dessin contemporain and at the Carousel du Louvre in Paris. In 2014 he exhibited at Dox Centre for the Contemporary Art of Prague and at the Humor Graphic Museum of Diogenes Taborda in Buenos Aires. In Italy he exhibits together with the works of Alighiero Boetti at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lissone in 2013.
In 2016 Gianluca Costantini was accused of terrorism by the Turkish government for his drawings.
In 2016 he has accompanied the activities of DiEM25 Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, movement founded by Yanis Varoufakis and actively collaborates with Ai Weiwei.
Gianluca Costantini is a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna since 2009, Macerata and Ravenna in 2012.

Publications

Gianluca Costantini his latest graphic novels include Dinner with Gramsci, Julian Assange Wikileaks hacker ethics. Founder of the magazine inguineMAH!gazine and G.I.U.D.A. Geographical Institute of Unconventional Drawings Arts. Costantini contributes to Courrier International, Internazionale, laLettura, Pagina99, World War 3 Illustrated and Le Monde diplomatique.

Graphic novels

Italy

Brazil

Human Rights

Gianluca Costantini has worked with the Festival on Human Rights in Tokyo, Milan and Geneva.
He actively collaborates with ActionAid, Amnesty, Cesvi, ARCI and Oxfam organizations.
In 2013 he made drawings for the Occupy Gezi protests in Istanbul.
In 2016 the campaign "Aleppo is Hell – We do not exist" for Amnesty Italy, the draw in journalism portal Drawing The time and The New Arab.
In 2016 he made drawings for the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy in Geneva
In 2018 he made drawings for:
In 2018 a graphic journalist, Gianluca Costantini, illustrated tributes to the Capital Gazette shooting victims.
In 2019 he received the "Art and Human Rights" Award from Amnesty International

Sport

In 2018 he made drawings for CNN sport:
Gianluca Costantini founding member of Mirada, an association involved in planning curating of cultural events.
Since 2002 he has headed the Italian comic magazine inguineMAH!gazine and graphic novelists such as Phoebe Gloeckner, Danijel Zezelj, Ramize Erer, Max Andersson, Felipe Abrances, Carlos Latuff, Gord Hill and James Kochalka.
2003–2009 by the magazine inguineMAH!gazine in collaboration with Paper Resistance, Marco Lobietti and Elettra Stamboulis. Editions: :it:Coniglio Editore|Coniglio, :it:Fernandel |Fernandel and Comma 22.

G.I.U.D.A. Geographic Institute of Unconventional Drawings Arts

2009–2015 by the magazine G.I.U.D.A. Geographical Institute of Unconventional Drawings Arts in collaboration with Elettra Stamboulis and Marco Lobietti. Giuda Editions, Italy

Personal Exhibitions

Personal Exhibitions Art Galleries