APIV Associació Professional d'Il·lustradors de València

EIF		Cine de Papel		Animalada
	After the first meeting between European Professional Illustrators Associations organized in Valencia, the European Illustrators Forum will be presented in Bologna Children’s Book Fair.		Visit the whole exhibition! CINE DE PAPEL try to recuperate the cinema poster as a space for creative freedom. Enter the showing. illustration: Incha		A complete bestiary where 106 illustrators living and working in Valencia have offered their own personal visions on the subject. illustration: Micharmut

The Professional Association of Valencian Illustrators (APIV), a non-profit organisation, has the goal of representing, managing, promoting and defending the common interests of professional illustrators, most of whom are independent professionals.

In order to do this, APIV has developed several action programmes which allow it to work effectively towards the following objectives:

To promote the professional association of Illustrators.

To promote and dignify the Illustrator’s profession

To give support to a better management of the illustrators’ trade

To promote the awareness and defense of author’s rights, working especially in the area of Valencia, in order that Intellectual Property Laws are interpreted and applied correctly.

To bring about practical solutions to the principal problems faced by most illustrators in professional terms.

To establish networks for professional and entrepreneurial collaboration that facilitate the articulation of better commercial systems. This is to be done by the joining together of different efforts geared towards common goals in the entrepreneurial and professional sectors of cultural creation in the visual arts, specifically with regards to illustration.

Participation in Prizes, Contests and other Cultural Activities

Member of the Jury; Prize for Best Illustrations in Books for Children and Younger Readers, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, Sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Member of the Jury; Prize for the Best Books Published in the Comunidad Valenciana, 2000, 2001, 2002, Sponsored by the Dirección General del Libro de la Comunidad Valenciana.
Setting out of rules and Member of the Jury; Tombatossals Prize for Illustration, 1999, 2000, 2001, Sponsored by Tandem Ediciones, Fundación Bancaixa and the City Council of Castellón.
Participation in a round table discussion on illustration in books for children and young readers; Enric Valor Prize, 1998, Sponsored by Edicions del Bullent.
Partial Sponsorship of the Sambori Prize and the creation of the Cámara del Libro, 1999.
Organisation, design and Jury, Prize for Literature in Valenciano, Sambori, 2000, 2001.
Member of the Jury; Aspe Comics Contest, 1999, 2000, 2001.
Partial revision of rules according to the Intelectual Property Law; several Poster Contests.

Participation in Cultural Programmes, National and International Level

España en Venezuela, 1998, through the Spanish Ministry of Culture; organisation of an exhibition of original work by Spanish illustrators at the Biblioteca Nacional in Caracas, conferences, interviews with Venezuelan professionals within the Encuentros con ilustradores sponsored by the Banco del Libro de Caracas, donation of Spanish illustrated books to the Biblioteca Nacional’s documentary collection.
XI Festival "La Huella de España": La Comunidad Valenciana en Cuba, 1999, Generalitat Valenciana.
III Programa de Difusión de las Artes Plásticas, 1998, organised by the Cultural Assistance and Resource Service, Diputación de Valencia.
II Congreso de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, 1998, organised by the Asociación Amigos del Libro Infantil y Juvenil – Spanish chapter of IBBY – and the Organización Española para el Libro Infantil y Juvenil (OEPLI) of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
VI Jornadas de Historia y Fuentes Orales, Ávila, 1998.
II Encuentro de Editores del País Valencià, 1998.
Participation and attendance to the Bologna Book Fair, 2000, 2001, 2002.
Participation and attendance to various Book Fairs, for several years and in different cities of Spain.

Organisation of Exhibitions

Animalada, 1997, with illustrations and texts by 106 illustrators working mainly in the Comunidad Valenciana within various professional sectors. It opened at La Gallera with the collaboration of the Generalitat Valenciana.

It has travelled to:

The Comunidad Valenciana: Castellón, Ondara, Moixent, Torrevieja, Peñíscola, Calp, Burjassot, Alcoy and Alicante (1997-1998); Xirivella (1999).
Other Countries: Cuba, Puerto Rico.
Castellón Book Fair. Valencia Book Fair (1998)
Bologna Illustration Fair (1999)
Salón del Libro, Pontevedra (2000)
Salón del Libro, Valencia (2001)

Dibujos con cabeza, 1998, with illustrations by 50 of APIV’s illustrators, living in Valencia, for the most part. It opened at La Guillotina.

Dia de la Dona, 1998, with illustrations by 10 of APIV’s women illustrators. It opened at IVAM, in collaboration with the Generalitat Valenciana.

Cine de Papel, 1999, with illustrations on the most representative of Spanish cinema, by 123 illustrators, with texts by 123 writers, most of them living in the Comunidad Valenciana. It opened at the Fundación Bancaixa, in collaboration with the Generalitat Valenciana.

It has travelled to:

Valencia, 2000, to the Damià Forment Hall in the Centre Cultural Bancaixa
LIBER 2000, Barcelona
Bologna Book Fair (2000)
V International Film Week, Lorca, 2001
Centre Civic Antic Sanatori, Puerto Sagunto, 2001
Logroño Film Festival, 2002
The Cervantes Institute, Istambul, Cairo, Habana, 2002

A series of 6 exhibitions by illustrators at APIV, Valencia, 2001; Tebeo y República, Viaje a Bosnia by Sento Llobel (a good representative of the the Valencian school of comics); Colgados de papel by Txemacatropus; Procesos by Nacho Casanova; Pin-up años 30, by Charly; Ilustraciones de Prensa by Ajubel.

A series of 4 exhibitions by illustrators at APIV, Valencia, 2002.

Construction and updating of our website: www.apiv.com

In 2001 www.apiv.com was presented at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the most important event of its type in the world, and at the Madrid International Book Fair- Liber. For the occasion APIV published colour leaflets to be distributed at the Bologna Fair, and produced an information panel at Liber 2001, with the collaboration of the Association of Valencian Publishers. The website is included in the main search engines in the Internet. In the last few months, its international influence has become clear, especially in the United States, Europe and Latin America.

Publications and Book Presentations

La ilustración, a magazine, 1997
La i, a magazine, 2000, 2001; in collaboration with APIC (Illustrators from Catalonia) APIM (Illustrators from Madrid) and FADIP (the Federation of Illustrators’ Professional Associations)
Café, APIV’s flyer, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
El pes de la farina, APIV’s newsletter, 2001
El ABC del Ilustrador, 1999
La Escuela Valenciana de Tebeos, 1999, published by the Diputación provincial de Valencia and the Asociación Cultural Falla Molinell-Alboraia
Book presentation: El Arbol de las hojas Din A4, Kalandraka Editora, 2000
Animalada, Catalogue, 1997, in collaboration the Generalitat Valenciana (Dirección General del Libro)
Cine de papel, Catalogue, 1999, in collaboration the Generalitat Valenciana (Dirección General del Libro)
Illustrators’ Catalogue, 2001-2002, containing 1320 images by 132 illustrators; it is a useful tool for publishers, advertising agencies and graphic design studios; in collaboration the Generalitat Valenciana (Dirección General del Libro)

Auctions of original work by illustrators

Collaboration in and donation of works for Amnesty International’s annual fundraiser
Organisation of La gran subasta de APIV (APIV’s Great Auction), 2000

Organisation of Illustrators’ Conferences:
Networking for professional and entrepreneurial cooperation

First Illustrators’ Conference, 1997, La Gallera, IVAM, Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, Valencia
The Illustrators’ Meetings at APIV Series, 2001, five to date
Visual Artists and Copy Rights, 2000, in collaboration with the Union of Visual Artists’ Associations, the Association of Professional Photographers, the Fundación Arte y Derecho and FADIP.

ASSOCIACIÓ PROFESSIONAL D'IL·LUSTRADORS DE VALENCIA
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