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Stefano Tamburini, "Snake Agent" - pag. 2 of the story "The Escape of Ronnie the Beast", from "Frigidaire" magazine #8-9, 1981

Artist: Stefano Tamburini (All)

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Stefano Tamburini, Snake Agent - pag. 2 of the story The Escape of Ronnie the Beast , from Frigidaire magazine #8-9, 1981 Comic Art

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Title:	Stefano Tamburini, "Snake Agent" - pag. 2 of the story "The Escape of Ronnie the Beast", from "Frigidaire" magazine #8-9, 1981
Artist:	Stefano Tamburini (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	4,438
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	6
Added to Site:	8/13/2016
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Stefano Tamburini (1955-1986) was one of the most outstanding comic-artists of the so called “Italian Alternative Comics Wave”. He was part of a large group grown as a consequence of the “1977 Movement” which, in Italy, was a kind of a second 1968 young revolution.
Tamburini together with Vincenzo Sparagna and Filippo Scozzari in 1980 founded a magazine titled “Frigidaire” which became the showcase of these young alternative artists, and where six stories of the comic “Snake Agent” were published between December 1980 and June 1984.
With this kind of comic Tamburini overcame the boundaries of the same comics concept. In fact “Snake Agent” must be considered as a “bridge” between Contemporary Art and Comics: quite an experimental work where the job of the comic-artist is mainly conceptual rather than physical.
Tamburini instead of the pencil used a Rank Xerox photo-copier and a book with the daily strips of “Secret Agent X-9” drawn by Mal Graff in the early 40s. He, Tamburini, added a dynamic effect moving the book while the Xerox was shooting. Moreover he deleted the original dialogues and fulfilled the blank spaces with new, alternative, ones, like in the “dirty comics” of the early 30s.
The result was such an “art-work” that, were it made by Andy Warhol, it would be now exhibited at Moma in NYC.
Unfortunately, at the time and even now, Tamburini was much less famous than Andy Warhol, so only today you can have the pleasure to see it exhibited here on CAF.
Enjoy this rare witness of the fusion between Art and Comics.

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Rob Pistella
Member Since 2005
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Posted on 8/13/2016

A fantastic and fascinating combination of art and artistry...I love it!

CIRO SCOGNAMIGLIO
Member Since 2009

Posted on 8/13/2016

Altro pezzetto di storia del fumetto!!

Jeff Singh
Member Since 2004

Posted on 8/13/2016

Fascinating from many perspectives. Reworking and reusing other's art to create a new series is a fun idea. Companies like Fiction House and other artists often reused panels but this is something quite different. I had not realized there was a copier called Rank Xerox which explains Liberatore's creations name in a way I was previously not familiar with.

Maurizio Scudiero
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/13/2016

Jeff Singh wrote:

Yes, because the character of Ranxerox was originally created by Stefano Tamburini, who drawn it in black and white, and only later Tamburini called Tanino Liberatore for the drawings while he curated the script. By the way, I thinl that "Snake Agent" was too ahead in time...

Saxa Luna Galianan
Member Since 2014

Posted on 10/7/2016

Bella bella

Max Comic Box .
Member Since 2006

Posted on 2/7/2019

The genius of Stefano, will always continue to surprise us

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