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On the 27th of May start the third edition of Illustri, the Festival, set up in the most prestigious monuments of the city of Vicenza, born to celebrate the best of the international illustration.

500 illustrations and more than 100 artists will be involved in differents events that will last an entire month.

Ray Oranges, Jonathan Calugi, Simone Rea, Agostino Iacurci, Lucio Schiavon, Van Orton, Andrea Manzati, Anna Parini, Davide Bonazzi, Matteo Berton and Virginia Mori are the authors chosen for Illustri, the collective that gathers the best of the Italian scene organized inside the Palladian Basilica. Honorary guest of this edition Noma Bar, one of the world’s most famous illustrators.

Also in its interior, the flagship of this third edition of the Festival: Burgo Collection, the paper and the sign, a show that collects the precious artistic heritage of the historical archive of Burgo Group.

Space also to young talents with Saranno Illustri, to Things, an exhibition that wants to celebrate illustration as a form of design, and also to Milioni di Passi, a tribute from the Italian Illustration to Medici Senza Frontiere.

Palazzo Chiericati will be the seat of 30×30: thirty illustrations, one for each festival day, for a drawn album of the city of Vicenza.
While Galleria QuBi will be the protagonist of Characters, a journey to celebrate character design through the works of Zerocalcare, Toki Doki, Davide Toffolo and Giacomo Bevilacqua.

A rich calendar of workshops, public interviews and OFF events will enrich the program of the Festival, making Vicenza the neuralgic center of the Italian illustration.