Elisa Talentino

She is an illustrator living in Turin. Her works, created by experimenting with various artistic printing techniques, in particular screen printing, are animated by sensual and mysterious figures. Elisa’s illustrations have been selected at the Children Book Fair in Bologna and at Ilustrarte – International Biennial of Illustration in Lisbon. She presented her work at BilBOlbul – International Festival of Illustration and Comics in Bologna. His book Le jardin d’hiver received an honourable mention at the Lidu Art Books Prize in Prague. In 2016, she published with the publisher La grande illusion and in collaboration with Goethe Institut Torino, Metamorphosis. The book won the Gold Medal in the 3×3 Mag Professional Show illustration competition in New York. Elisa has done illustrations for «The New York Times», «The Washington Post», «La Repubblica», «La Stampa», ADD Edizioni, e/o Edizioni, Einaudi and Mondadori.

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  • Magarìe
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    Magarìe IT

    € 28,00

    Magarìe is an illustrated book that tells a hundred years of family history through stories passed down by word of mouth: curses spoken in anger that came true, werewolves, the dead returning to the table on the night of October 31, spirits that lure travelers off the path, ancient rites passed down only among women and only on feast days.

    The narrating voice is the author’s own. She weaves together the stories of two families: one Calabrian, rooted in the villages of the Sila, the other Piedmontese, settled in the Canavese. Two very distant worlds, yet joined by an invisible thread made of beliefs, dialects, and the dead who never stop inhabiting the world of the living.

    The episodes unfold across a span from 1915 to the 1990s: a birth that may owe its being a girl to a grandmother’s curse; a magnetic great-grandfather who dies young, asking his wife to follow him into the afterlife; an uncle who cuts through the woods on the night of the feast and can never find his way back; deafness passed from mother to daughter like a silent inheritance. And finally the unraveling: the rite to free oneself from the evil eye, which the grandmother hands down to her granddaughter just before her own memories begin to fade too.

    Elisa Talentino’s illustrations, made in watercolor and pencil with touches of bright red, build a visual archive of this everyday supernatural: female figures in dark clothing, courtyards suspended in time, bleeding mushrooms, tables laid for the absent. Magarìe is a story of double roots and inherited wonders, a book that holds documentation and enchantment together.

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    Texts and illustrations
    Elisa Talentino

    Book design
    Bunker

    19 × 27 cm
    112 pages
    Paperback with a clear dust jacket

    Italian
    Isbn 978-88-98030-50-7
    First edition September 2026

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    Dandelion IT

    € 23,00

    In 2016, Elisa Talentino, an internationally renowned illustrator who lives and works in Turin, spent a month between the Hautes-Alpes department and the province of Cuneo thanks to the Borderscapes artist residency, visiting villages and valleys on the border between Italy and France and immersing herself in Occitan culture. The ancient dances of those places became the subject of his research, which led in 2017 to the creation of the animation Dandelion.

    The artist paints more than a thousand watercolour plates that are then assembled to bring to life two dancers who, as in a courtship ritual, approach, move apart and brush against each other to the notes of a two-step bourrée, specially written by cellist Julia Kent and inspired by traditional Occitan music. The only element appearing between the two dancing bodies is a simple and common flower: the dandelion or dandelion (in English Dandelion deriving from the French Dent-de-lion); popular tradition has it that scattering the seeds of this plant, contained in a dandelion, in the air can make a wish for love come true.

    An evocative and poetic animation, which strikes La Fabbrica dei Suoni and Espaci Occitan, who undertake the installation of the exhibition “Tempo di bourrée”. Some drawings and sketches made by Elisa Talentino for the animation have been collected in this delightful volume, edited by Melania Gazzotti and embellished with a numbered print signed by the artist.

    The animation Dandelion has been selected in animation festivals worldwide, winning the Gold Medal of “3×3 Magazine”. The soundtrack was recognised as Best original soundtrack at the Lago Film Fest and Wag Film Festival.

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    Edited by Melania Gazzotti
    Texts by Melania Gazzotti and Rosella Pellerino
    Book design Bunker

    13,5 × 19 cm
    80 pages
    Swiss-style hardback
    Italian/Occitan
    Contains a risograph print
    numbered and signed by the artist
    Isbn 978-88-98030-15-6
    First published July 2018

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