Illustrations/commissions
A selection of illustrations created for books, magazines, posters, editorial projects and cultural institutions. While made for clients or specific publications, each commission reflects the same visual language that characterises my personal work.
“Scandalous Practices: Homosexuality, Male Prostitution, and Sexual Citizenship in Post-Fascist Italy – Sexuality Studies” Alessio Ponzio
From the 1940s to the 1970s, homosexual men in Italy began to express themselves authentically after years of silence under Fascist repression. In Scandalous Practices, Alessio Ponzio deftly recounts the socio-cultural shifts that occurred for queer Italians during this period. In tabloids and other publications, journalists sensationalized same-sex male prostitution, dramatized scandalous homosexual murders, and portrayed homosexuality as devious, dangerous, and threatening to the “new” post-war masculinity.
Homosexual Italians responded to this public shaming and these negative stereotypes through resistance. As part of an ongoing struggle for gender and sexual equality, they established networks and created public discussions that engendered pride, rights awareness, and a political commitment to emancipation. Ponzio meticulously details how Italy as a nation and culture dealt with emerging representation of queer sexuality through a reinvention that fomented self-understanding and self-representations.
Instead of marginalizing it, the popular media unintentionally made homosexuality understandable to many who did not know what it was or could not make sense of their own desires. Scandalous Practices illustrates how this new sexual knowledge spread publicly across social classes and fostered the development of positive queer identities and communities. In the series Sexuality Studies
Corps perdus
À la suite d’un défi lancé par sa nièce, un jeune danseur en fin de carrière décide de s’isoler dans une ville de l’Est au nom imprononçable. Flottant dans l’espace étranger et dans une langue mystérieuse, il observe, prend des notes dans son carnet, rêve et dérive. La solitude à laquelle il s’abandonne est lumineuse et obscure à la fois. Peuplée de frôlements, d’émois, de réminiscences, elle draine les blessures et les joies, s’ouvre peu à peu à une liberté nouvelle.
Illustration de couverture : Nicoz Balboa
2025
Di Isa Borrelli Illustrazione: Nicoz Balboa Marchio: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Data d’uscita: 1 Ottobre 2024 Collana: Tagli Pagine: 224 Prezzo: 15,20 € ISBN: 9788807730764
LGBTQ+ History Month / 7 aprile 2025
STONE BUTCH BLUES Di Leslie Feinberg
Traduzione di Bea Gusmano e Matu D’Epifanio
Sensitivity reading di Irene Villa
Immagine di copertina di Nicoz Balboa
Prima Edizione Stone Butch Blues, Firebrand Books 1993
Seconda Edizioni Stone Butch Blues, Alyson Books 2003
Auto-pubblicazione online in versione libera Stone Butch Blues, 20th Anniversary Author Edition 2014
Prima Edizione italiana Il Dito e La Luna Edizioni, gennaio 2004
Seconda Edizione italiana Asterisco Edizioni, gennaio 2024
Pagine 420
ISBN: 9791280227164
Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 6-8 p.m. – University of Verona, Santa Marta, room SMT01
NO TO BULLYING, YES TO LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS: A PUBLIC COMMITMENT.
Moderator: Lorenzo Bernini and Irene Villa, PoliTeSse UniVr Research Center. Promoted by LGBTQIA+ associations and groups in Verona.
“SBAM! stagione adolescenza: l’adolescenza nei fumetti / fumetti per adolescenti in italia” 2022
“SBAM! stagione adolescenza: l’adolescenza nei fumetti / fumetti per adolescenti in italia” 2022
“SBAM! stagione adolescenza: l’adolescenza nei fumetti / fumetti per adolescenti in italia” 2022
November 18, 2022
Gender R-Evolutions
immaginare l’inevitabile, sovvertire l’impossibile
Pietro Demurtas e Caterina Peroni parteciperanno al convegno Gender R-Evolutions che si terrà a Trento, organizzato dal
Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale (DRS)
&
Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia (DLF)
presentando una relazione sul tema:
“I rifugi LGBT in Italia: prospettive di intervento e dinamiche di sviluppo“
Cheap poster Bologna 2023
SABOTATE con grazia
un’infestazione di CHEAP al MAMbo
dal 6 Ottobre al 17 Dicembre 2023
opening 5 Ottobre ore 18.00
MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna | Via Don Minzoni 14
“gender illustration she/they/he” a cura di Bande De Femmes per DRAG ME UP Queer Art Festival 2021
LA LOTTA È FICA | UN PROGETTO FEMMINISTA DI ARTE PUBBLICA DI CHEAP
18 Giugno 2020
“Metamorphose en Bord de Ciel” Auteur
Mathias Malzieu
Editeur
Flammarion
Date de parution
12/03/2011
Collection
Litterature francaise
“Metamorphose en Bord de Ciel” Auteur
Mathias Malzieu
Editeur
Flammarion
Date de parution
12/03/2011
Collection
Litterature francaise
KULT magazine 2010
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