Sara Fratini

Sara Fratini

Sara Fratini (born in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, in 1985) is an illustrator, artist, feminist, mural painter, and cofounder of La Guarimba International Film Festival.

Biography

Fratini was born in Puerto Ordaz (Venezuela) in 1985. She moved to Spain to study fine art at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2012, she moved to Italy to continue drawing. She co-founded La Guarimba International Film Festival where she organized exhibition of posters of artists from all around the world each year. ^[1] Since 2016, Fratini has promoted the festival Cinemambulante in Amantea. ^[2] Due to social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, she received popularity and sufficient interest in her illustrations to obtain her first contract with a publishing house, Lumen. ^{[3] [4]}

Artistic style

Fratini's artwork features black lines on white backgrounds with touches of pinks or reds. In her illustrations she utilizes female figures with curvy figures and messy long hair. ^[5] Through her artworks she opts for a social critique of beauty standards and the pressure imposed by the public; she draws "real women" with curves, joys and fears, from the standpoint of a feminist who fights against inequality. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Work

In 2015, the publishing house Lumen launched Fratini's first illustrated book La buena vida, in which her iconic character is a curvy woman in black and white with a touch of pink who flirts with her fears, without losing her enthusiasm for life. ^[9] Sergio Andreu, from La Vanguardia, defines her work as "girls like swirls covered with a skein of hair, images of women with uninhibited attitude and optimistic view".^{[ citation needed ]}

In 2016, Fratini published Una tal Martina y su monstruo. In this book, she named her character Martina Rossetto (inspired by her friend). ^[10] The protagonist is a young voluptuous girl who faces her fears: a monster walking beside her who represents the insecurities and internal conflicts of people. ^[11]

In 2019, she released an illustrated book for children African-meninas Liderazgo Femenino en el continente Africano (African-meninas Women's leadership on the African continent), coordinated with Karo Moret Miranda, who authors the biographies of African women leaders. ^{[12] [13]}

In addition to her illustrations, Fratini also painted numerous murals in places such as Madrid, Málaga, La Palma, Ciudad of Soria, Sicily, Treviso, Puglia, Calabria, Saint Louis and the island of Ngor. ^[14] Her murals are part of several art projects in which she was invited to participate. At the request of Amnesty International, she painted the side of the faculty of fine arts building at the University of Málaga. . One mural was 18 meters long and 1.5 meters high therefore qualified her to become a finalist in the World Illustration Awards of the Association of Illustrators in 2017. ^{[15] [16]}

In 2019, Fratini was invited by the street art project Muros Tabacalera of Madrid for the co-directing of the promotion of plastic arts of the Ministry of Culture and sports of Spain. She drew one of the murals of Tabacalera de Madrid. ^[17]

• (2013). Letters from my own room: collection 2013. Madrid: Ed. Verkami. Authors: Irusta Rodríguez, E. et Fratini, S. ISBN   978-84-942279-1-2.
• (2015). La buena vida. Barcelone: Ed. Lumen. Author: Fratini, S. ISBN   978-84-264-0191-5.
• (2016). Una tal Martina y su monstruo. Barcelone : Ed. Lumen. Author : Fratini, S. ISBN   978-84-264-0292-9.
• (2019). African – Meninas: women's leadership on the African continent. Barcelona: Ed. Wanafrica. Authors: Moret Miranda, K., et al. Illustrations: Fratini, S. and Cebrián, A. ISBN   978-84-17150-77-8.

References

1. "Associazione Culturale La Guarimba – Qui Sommes-Nous" [Associazione Culturale La Guarimba – Who We Are] (in Spanish). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
2. "Cinemambulante – 2016 Edition" (in Spanish). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
3. "Sara Fratini: casi me desmayo al saber que compartiría editorial con Mafalda" [Sara Fratini: I almost fainted when I learned that she would share an editorial with Mafalda]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). February 21, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
4. Gomez, Gema (February 26, 2015). "Las sirenas de tierra y mar de Sara Fratini" [The Mermaids of Land and Sea by Sara Fratini] (in Spanish). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
5. Abella, Anna (February 22, 2015). "Cotidianidad ilustrada" [Illustrated everyday life]. El Periódico (in Spanish). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
6. Jiménez, Jesús (February 19, 2015). "Las mujeres sin complejos de la ilustradora Sara Fratini" [The unapologetic women of illustrator Sara Fratini]. RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
7. Delgado, Isbel (February 28, 2015). "Sara Fratini y sus mujeres sin complejos" [Sara Fratini and her unapologetic women] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 9, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
8. Jiménez, Jesús (April 27, 2016). "Fratini: "Martina es una joven que ha logrado superar sus miedos"" [Sara Fratini: "Martina is a young woman who has managed to overcome her fears"]. RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
9. "Sara Fratini debuta en el catálogo de Lumen con una oda a la feminidad" [Sara Fratini debuts in the Lumen catalog with an ode to femininity]. europapress.es (in Spanish). Europa Press. February 21, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
10. Mendoza, Daniella (April 28, 2016). "Martina, la gordura sin complejos" [Martina, the fat without complexes]. La Razón (in Spanish). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
11. "Martina o cómo hacerte amiga de tu monstruo (para dejar de boicotearte)" [Martina or how to make friends with your monster (to stop boycotting you)]. Divinity (Blog) (in Spanish). April 25, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
12. Soto, Rosa (March 4, 2020). "African-Meninas, un libro ante 'la falta de representación de afrodescendientes en los cuentos'" [African-Meninas, a book in the face of 'the lack of representation of Afro-descendants in stories']. Cuarto Poder (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 9, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
13. de Vicente, Eduardo (March 3, 2020). "Un festival muestra las películas de las nuevas directoras africanas" [A festival shows the films of the new African directors]. El Periódico (in Spanish). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
14. "Murales" [Murals] (in Spanish). Sara Fratini. Archived from the original on 2015-09-14. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
15. Jiménez, Jesús (May 30, 2017). "Los murales artísticos y solidarios de Sara Fratini" [The artistic and solidarity murals of Sara Fratini]. RTVE.es (in Spanish).
16. "Sara Fratini: The Sea". The AOI. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
17. "→ Muros Tabacalera 2019 | Azar | La crónica" [Tobacco Walls 2019 | Chance | The chronic]. Madrid Street Art Project (in Spanish). Retrieved June 9, 2021.