For the reason that starting of the commercial revolution and particularly since its globalisation, humanity has needed to face challenges like inequality, demographic change, migration, poverty, pandemics, wars, energy struggles, nationwide and worldwide hegemonies, dictatorships, fanaticism and disinformation. Such challenges stay, and might shortly produce international upheavals that change the course of human historical past.
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With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, there may be the specter of a 3rd world warfare, or worse, a nuclear warfare, and the return of ideological, financial and geopolitical conflicts between two antagonistic hegemonic blocs. This state of affairs jeopardises the survival, if not of humanity, at the least of our societies and the cohesion of the European Union.
The Libex 2022 competitors
Press cartoonists taking part within the fourth worldwide political satire competitors organised by the Centre Librexpression had been requested as an instance this tragic scenario graphically.
281 contributors from 63 international locations submitted 490 works to the jury. The jury was composed of Fabio Magnasciutti (Italian cartoonist), Marilena Nardi (Italian cartoonist), Tom Janssen (Dutch cartoonist), Jaume Capdevilla or KAP (Spanish cartoonist), Raffaella Spinazzi (Italian blogger), and chaired by Thierry Vissol (director of Libex). Primarily based on 4 standards – approach, originality, relevance and irony – the jury chosen 55 works by artists from 30 international locations, the ten finalists and three winners.
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The primary prize went to Jitet Kustana (Indonesia), the second to Cristina Sampaio (Portugal) and the third to Niels Bo Bojesen (Denmark). The opposite seven finalists are, in alphabetical order: Apolo Doroteo Guerra Mechain (Peru), Ilya Katz (Israel), Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine), Paolo Lombardi (Italy), Elena Ospina (Colombia), Gatis Šļūka (Latvia), TRAX (Christine Traxeler – France).
Exhibition and catalogue
Inaugurated on 19 September, through the 18th version of the LectorInFabula competition (of which Voxeurop is a accomplice), the exhibition of the 55 chosen drawings is open to the general public till December 2022, within the cloister of the San Benedetto monastery in Conversano (BA). A listing reproducing the works on show and postcards of the ten finalists can be found to the general public.
The Libex 2022 competitors was organised by the Euro-Mediterranean Librexpression Centre of the Giuseppe di Vagno Basis (1889-1921) in collaboration with Lectorinfabula, Pagina’21, Voxeurop, Fany Weblog, Dibujantes Sin Frontieras. Primarily based in Conversano (BA) on the Basis’s headquarters, the Centre promotes freedom of expression, political satire and dialogue on these themes throughout each shores of the Mediterranean by means of publications, conferences, workshops for college kids and lecturers, exhibitions and the Basis’s internet journal. An intensive Group Library, I Granai del Sapere, is out there to college students and researchers on the Basis’s headquarters.
