The Istituto Italiano di Cultura and The Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2016 present FIOR, an art exhibition by Paris-based Italian comic artist Manuele Fior. The exhibit features 30 original illustrations from Italian and French newspapers, and 12 original illustrations from Fiors graphic novel 5000 KM per second, recently translated into English and published by Fantagraphics Books.

ABOUT MANUELE FIOR:

Born in Cesena in 1975. After getting a degree in architecture Venice, 2000, Manuele Fior moved to Berlin, where he worked until 2005 as a cartoonist, illustrator and architect. In 1994 he won the first prize at Bienal do Juvenes Criadores do Mediteraneo, Lisbon comics. His collaboration with the German Avant-Verlag publisher Began in 2001 with the Plaque magazine, Which brings together a wide range of Italian authors, among them Mattotti, Igort, and Giandelli. Since then he Began an intense work on comic short stories written by His Brother Daniel, Which Appeared in Black, Bile Noire, Stripburger, Forresten, and Osmosa. He published the graphic novels C inq Mille Kilomtres Par Seconde Atrabile 2010 Fauve dOr Meilleur Album Festival International de Angoulme in 2011, Grand Guinigi Prize Author Unico, Lucca 2010, Mademoiselle Else Delcourt 2009 Prix de la ville de Genve 2009, Icarus Atrabile 2006 Prix A. Micheluzzi Meilleur Dessin, Comicon 2006, Les Gens Le Dimanche Atrabile 2004.

He collaborates with his illustrations for The New Yorker, Le Monde, Vanity Fair, Feltrinelli, Einaudi, La Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore, Edizioni EL, Fabbri, International, Il Manifesto, Rolling Stone Magazine, Les Inrocks, Nathan, Bayard, Far East Festival.

Manuele lives in Paris.