Over the last few months, at Apart Edicions we have been shaping a new proposal that we are particularly excited about: a collection dedicated to illustration.
We are aware that the world of graphic arts has many possibilities and we want to keep exploring them. We like the multiplicity of voices and ways of seeing the world. The narrative possibilities of graphic work are broad and democratic, and can end up explaining many realities.
These are some of the qualities that illustration possesses, which is why we are launching a new collection of illustrators who bring new values to the publishing house. The world is heterogeneous, diverse, and curious. Illustration has this peculiar way of observing reality and transforming it through the gaze of each author. It helps us communicate stories and make them our own.
We want this collection to be a reflection of the richness of contemporary Catalan and international illustration. We are primarily interested in starting by representing female illustrators who, from their studio or during a visit to the workshop based in Verges (Baix Empordà), capture the diversity that can coexist in a single space.
In this new adventure, we are accompanied by four very different gazes, styles, and trajectories, but with one common point: the ability to convert their images into screen printing:
Olga Molina, linked to Sant Feliu de Guíxols, brings a very personal gaze, rooted in observation and the ability to find character in Mediterranean landscapes. Her work invites us to stop, observe, and discover the emotion of color and the simple forms of the elements in the coves where she spends her summers.
We also feature Laia Giménez, an illustrator linked to the publishing world. Her experience in this field allows her to explore illustration from a narrative and imaginative perspective, connecting with different stories and ways of portraying her characteristic characters.
From Tampa, Florida, Giselle Monzón brings us extensive experience in illustration and screen printing linked to the Cuban poster tradition, with a mature contemporary perspective that is committed to culture.
And completing this first selection is Irene Pérez, a multidisciplinary illustrator who moves between different digital techniques and formats. Her trajectory represents very well one of the aims of this collection: to understand illustration as a broad and symbolic territory, where each image, full of detail, hides a story to be discovered.
This diversity is precisely what we want to highlight with the collection: giving space to different sensibilities, styles, and creative processes, and discovering everything that can happen when illustration enters the screen printing workshop of Apart Edicions.
This is just the first step of a project born with a desire to grow, discover new talents, and bring illustration to new spaces and new audiences.
