Irudika presents the award-winning projects with their 2022 residencies in an open talk on Saturday March 5 in Vitoria-Gasteiz

The international professional illustration fair Irudika presents the two projects that will form part of the artistic residency program in the disciplines of illustration and animation. On Saturday, March 5, the illustrator Beatriz Lozano and the visual artist Santiago Colombo will be at Zas Kultur Espazioa in Vitoria-Gasteiz to talk about their work and their goals in the two months of work in the artistic centers of La Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image and Fundación Bilbaoarte Fundazioa, ending with an exhibition at the Fundación Vital Exhibition Center in the capital of Alava.

 The residencies allow the two selected artists to develop their work in addition to each of their personal projects: “Alleluias” and “Caminantes”, giving rise to the creation of the illustration that will form the Irudika 2022 poster and the promotional animation for the sixth edition of the international professional illustration fair.

 The work carried out during the stay at the creation centers in Angoulême and Bilbao will give rise to an exhibition that will open on April 6 at the Fundación Vital Exhibition Center in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Irudika will launch its 2022 activities next Saturday, March 5 at 12 noon with a meeting at the ZAS Kultur Space in Vitoria-Gasteiz (San Antón Plaza, 2) where the two selected artists will present the projects they will develop during the artistic residencies of Irudika 2022. Residences returned to their usual format after the exceptional situation caused last year by the pandemic.

Beatriz Lozano and Santiago Colombo will participate in an open talk directed by the cartoonist and part of the Irudika organization, Kike Infame, in which we will be able to learn about the work that both will develop for two months between La Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l' image and Bilbaoarte Fundazioa Foundation. During this time, each artist will develop a personal project and will create the illustration that will be the image of Irudika 2022 and the animation that will serve as a promotional clip for the fair. The residencies will culminate with an exhibition at the Fundación Vital Exhibition Center that will open on May 6.

This fifth edition of the Irudika residency contest aims to support the creation and internationalization of professional illustrators and animators. An open call during 2021 and that received international proposals in the illustration category and national proposals in the animation category. The residences have an financial endowment and a bag for diets, equipment and transport of 2100 euros for each.

resident, in addition to covering space and accommodation during their respective residencies. The Irudika Residencies program can be carried out thanks to the contribution of the Basque Government, Fundación Vital Fundazioa and Euskal Irudigileak in the illustration section and Acción Cultural Española in the animation section. Irudika also has the collaboration of the Angoulême City Council, the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image, the Bilbaoarte Fundazioa Foundation, the Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council, the Araba Provincial Council and the Spanish Government.

We leave here the CVs of both artists:

BEA LOZANO (Salamanca, 1986) | Residence Illustration | Hallelujah Project 
In the illustration section, the selected artist is Bea Lozano. In 2017 she was selected for the Ibero-American Catalog of Illustration. In 2018, she was also selected at the Ilustrarte International Biennial 2018 and won the IX edition of Iberoamérica Ilustra.

The jury determined the selection of her 'of her for the message that combines tradition and modernity using elements of folklore and native oral narration. A proposal full of strength that fits perfectly with the purpose of the Residences, their times and technical means. A reading of illustration based on narration, documentary value and satire'.

SANTIAGO COLOMBO (La Plata, Argentina. 1992) | Animation Residence | Project: Walkers 
The project selected in the animation category is that of Santiago Colombo. An independent visual artist, filmmaker and animator, he has exhibited his works individually and collectively in spaces in Argentina, Latin America and Europe.

The jury's decision highlighted the artist because: 'as a creator, he has a very wide range of resources, which allows him to mix, in a very harmonic way, video images, stop motion, collages, drawing and traditional animation. In his pieces there is an important component of experimentation, focused mainly on the exploration of matter, the visual result of which is of great interest.