About the Festival
Book
Illustration Festival "BookILL Fest" is organized for the seventh time
by the Banat Cultural Centre and Novi Sad Fair. Book Illustration Festival is
going to take place at the Novi Sad Fair, during the International Book Fair,
and in the Banat Cultural Centre Gallery in Novo Miloševo.
"BookILL Fest" includes internet
competition for the best illustration of the book, exhibition of selected
works, the announcement of winners, and exhibitions and lectures related to the
book illustration.
"BookILL Fest" will be opened on the
8th of March 2018 at the Novi Sad Fair (during the Book Fair which
will be held from the 7th to 12th March) when two exhibitions will also be
opened: "Awards of the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava 2017" and
"Awards of the Book Illustration Festival BookILL Fest 2012-2017".
The announcement of winners and the award ceremony will be held in May, 2018, at
Banat Cultural Center in Novo Milosevo, as well as the opening of the
exhibition of selected and awarded works.
The Aim of the Festival
The
book illustration is important, but also specific area in the process of
graphic designing of books, which is why "BookILL Fest" seeks to draw
attention to illustration and illustrators in public, but also to publishers
who care about the equipment of their books.
Illustrated book is
an art object that is signed by the co-authors: the writer and illustrator. Organizer
affirms the principle that the text of the book and its visual component –
illustration – are both equally important and valuable.
Contests
for book illustrations are very rare in the world, and thus, this festival is
more important.
Registration for the Contest:
The
contest is open for the authors from all over the world.
Each
author submits at least 4 illustrations of the book: illustration of the cover
page and illustrations from the inside of the book, in digital format (JPG,
TIFF format, RGB mode, 300-600 dpi, up to A4).
Send
everything to the e-mail address: bookillfest@gmail.com
Deadline
for submission is: the 20th
of March, 2018.
Authors
can send illustrations done in all artistic and graphic techniques. The
photographs which illustrate books will be also accepted. Authors can send
illustrations incorporated into book design with the text, or separated. Authors
can send more illustrations created for different books. Authors can send cover
illustrations only, if the inside of the book is not illustrated. Unpublished
illustrations will be accepted as well as published. Illustrated books that are
published must not be older than two years.
The authors must also send their personal data by e-mail
(name,
surname, address, phone number, a short professional biography) titles of the
works, and the specific category for submission. They should indicate whether
the book was published or in the project.
If the
author wants, he/she can send his/her book and CD with drawings and data, to
the following address: Banatski kulturni centar, JNA 35, 23 273, Novo Miloševo.
The categories for submission are:
1.
Illustration
of the poetry book
2.
Illustration
of the fiction book
3.
Illustration
of the book for children
4.
Photo-illustration
of the book
Illustrations
of books out of these categories may also be sent, and the jury will evaluate
them separately.
Jury / Arts Council
The
selection of works and awards – one for each category – is going to be done by
the following members of the jury: Slobodan Ivkov, president, Sibila Petenji
Arbutina and Senka Vlahovic.
*The organizer reserves the right to
present works from this year's and previous competitions and exhibitions in
other towns and countries. It also reserves the right to print thematic
publication (catalog, monography, flyers, etc.) of the received works in propaganda or
retrospective exhibition purposes, or for the affirmation of the "BookILL
Fest" competition project and to have the possibility of scientific
research analyzes of illustrations as artistic discipline in the light of this
project.
By submitting their works, the authors
accept the above mentioned items.
Calendar
February 9, 2018 - Opening of the competition
March 8, 2018, International Book Fair, Novi Sad - opening of the
festival (presentation "Bibiana", opening of the exhibition "Awards
of the Biennial of Illustration Awards Bratislava 2017", opening of the
exhibition "Awards of the Book Illustration Festival BookILL Fest 2012-2017",
duration of the exhibitions: from the 7th to 12th of March, 2018)
March 20, 2018 - closing of the competition
April, 2018 - jury sessions
May, 2018, Gallery
of the Banat Cultural Center, Novo Miloševo - the announcement of winners,
awarding of awards and the opening of the exhibition of selected and awarded
works (the exact date will be published later)
March, 2019, International
Book Fair, Novi Sad - exhibition of selected and awarded works on the
"Bookill Fest" 2018 competition.
Guest exhibition from Bratislava
Exhibition of
illustrations "Awards
of the Biennial of Illustration Awards Bratislava 2017" is a Guest exhibition of the Festival
and it is organized by the Banat Cultural Centre and Novi Sad Fair, in
cooperation with "Bibiana", International House of Art for
Children from
Bratislava (Slovakia) and Foundation "Babka" Gallery from Kovačica
(Serbia). The exhibition contains illustrations from the previous biennial that
received prizes that went to illustrators from the Netherlands, Japan,
Slovakia, South Korea, Iran, Denmark, Russia, Mexico, Ukraine... in competition
with thousands of illustrations from 50 countries around the world.
Exhibition "Awards of the Book Illustration
Festival BookILL Fest 2012-2017"
The
exhibition contains illustrations by all award-winning authors in the past six
years of the Book Illustration Festival "BookILL Fest". On the occasion of this exhibition, which
was previously exhibited within the framework of the event "Bookill Fest
in Focus" in April 2016, in the Banat Cultural Center, a bilingual book
entitled "Illustration speaks all languages: Awards of the Book
Illustration Festival BookILL Fest 2012-2017" was edited by Senka
Vlahović.
"BookILL
Fest"
2017
At last year's
competition over 2000 illustrations were received from 27 countries. The jury
selected about 150 works by 150 authors that were exposed at the Book Fair in
Novi Sad.
How last year's festival looked can be viewed here:
On-line
exhibition "BookILL Fest" 2017. can be viewed here:
Contact
For
additional information, comments and suggestions, contact us via email: bookillfest@gmail.com