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Selected - 40th International Humor Exhibition Of Piracicaba/Brazil-2013
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Selected - 40th International Humor Exhibition of Piracicaba/Brazil-2013

he 40th International Humor Exhibition of Piracicaba will include 442 cartoons, caricatures, cartoons and strips / comics. The works were chosen by the selection committee, which met last weekend at Flat Service Center. This will be the largest event show, with opening and awards on August 24. The complete list of covered will be released this week, the site www.salaodehumor.piracicaba.sp.gov.br.

In greater quantities are the cartoons, 142, followed by 97 caricatures, cartoons 74 and 73 strips / comics. For the thematic category (football) will be exhibited 56 works. In 2013, the Hall of Humor received record entries, 4,180 works submitted by 966 artists from 64 countries.

Joined the selection committee of experienced professionals in salons Humor. They are the cartoonists Pryscila Vieira, Natalia Forcat, Gilmar Barbosa Machado, Paul White and Luke Leibholz, illustrator Rafael Latorre, and university professor Celso Figueiredo Neto.

In assessing the cartoonist Eduardo Grosso, the selection committee was consistent in the selection process. "The jury favored works with genuine jokes, funny, original and with excellent technical level. It will be a show accessible with a mood nearest public ", said Eduardo, who is director of the National Centre of Graphic Humor of Piracicaba, organ of the Municipal Cultural Action responsible for the event.

Jobs in the category charge confirms the political nature of the hall, created during the dictatorship in 1974, and to this day retains humor as a way of reflection. Among the topics discussed are the recent protests in the country with the slogan Come to the street, the denunciation of the U.S. spying program by Edward Snowden and social networks. Were also recurring jokes with sexual connotations, including those that address homosexual relationships and gay cure.

Brazilian celebrities and gringo's political landscape had distorted his features in the cartoons, as Presidents Barack Obama and Dilma Rousseff, Minister Joaquim Barbosa and former minister Marina Silva. The musical universe the jury included works depicting Dominguinhos, Roberto Carlos, Michael Jackson, Lobao and Caetano Veloso, and figures like Pope Francisco, Fernanda Montenegro, José Saramago, Ronaldinho, Messi, Neymar and Pelé

In cartoons, a category that traditionally receives much of the international work, artists criticized problems linked to U.S. supremacy, religion, environment and consumerism.

ANALYSIS - As a young man attending the Salon of Humor, Gilmar Machado Barbosa cited the contribution of Piracicaba graphic arts. "In Brazil, the halls of humor breathing apparatus for today. But the Hall of Piracicaba remains always active and keeping records ", said the cartoonist, to strengthen the opening of the Hall is in the tradition of artists.

To Pryscila Vieira, the Hall today is a great showcase for new talent in the mood. "Piracicaba is determinant in the professional career of many artists. Started sending work at the 24th edition and it was here that I decided to sign as a cartoonist, because until then I considered it a designer, to be formed in industrial design, "he said.

For the cartoonist Piracicabano Leibholz Lucas, who received a mention in the last edition, the design of the honorable Pope Benedict 16, the sum of several factors maintain the excellence of the show. "It is a Salon tuned, which can captivate and attract new artists without losing the tradition, the ties with the past," ranked by praising the quality of the work submitted.

JURY AWARDS - Chaired by journalist and publicist Carlos Colonese, editing 40 Hall will grant U.S. $ 47,000 in prizes to the sorted first. The choice is up to the awards committee, which meets on August 17. They are the Argentine Marlene Pohle, the Portuguese Carlos Brito and Antonio Moreira Antunes, and Brazilian Magno, Roberto Negreiros Junior Faria, Ciça Alves Pinto and Zélio Alves Pinto.

The geography of Humor Salon in 2013 is extensive. Read: the event recorded inscriptions of all Brazilian states and member and associated countries of Mercosur (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela). The North American continent are Mexico, the United States and Canada.

Europe was also present with works from Germany, Austria, Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Spain, Greece, Finland, France, Hungary, Czech Republic, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, United Kingdom and Sweden. Artists of the world's most isolated continent - Oceania - works sent from Australia and New Zealand. The mood in Russia is present and also its neighboring countries, such as Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China and Uzbekistan.

Traditionally, the Hall also received submissions from more conservative cultures of countries such as Armenia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, Slovakia, Slovenia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Kenya, Serbia, Sudan, Turkey and Ukraine.

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