04/23 – Participate! Sant Jordi 2025: XVI Artist Book Festival and the small edition

16 ° Festival of artist books and small editions

international • itinerant • inclusive

World Book Day of Unesco and Festival of Sant Jordi, April 23, 2025, Barcelona

Books of Joy

The ILDE Association organizes, in collaboration with the Pati Llimona Civic Center (Barcelona City Council), the UNESCO Club de Modena and the Editorial Consultation, the “Festival of the Book of Artist and the small edition” that is celebrated since Sixteen years ago, on April 23, in Barcelona. St. George’s Day and World UNESCO Book Day, Plaça de Sant Just (Gothic Quarter) hosts artists with their artistic work on books: prints, graphics, editions, artist books. This day also presents the exhibition, which then becomes traveling by other places until the next edition, in which you can participate presenting an unpublished work inspired by the theme proposed by the Ilde Association, which for the year 2025 is “Books of Joy” (“The Books of Joy”).

Concept

Falling in love every day, every day a love, be it a tree or the light of the morning (…). Fall in love. Then maybe peace comes, he comes in himself and he remains.
Mariangela Gualtieri

In dirty puddles / I also saw / the colors of the rainbow.
Rafael Cadenas

The proposal for the sixteenth edition of the artist book festival is a call to work simultaneously in February 2025 in a small book to explain what is good or beautiful that can offer everyday life, or to sublimate in creation Artistic what comes to us from a world at war, divided, from the expectation of a peace that continues without existing. The book can be composed day by day or being planned and created during February. Days between March 1 and 5 must be sent by post, or deliver it directly to the ILDE Association of Barcelona. The first exhibition will take place on April 23, in Barcelona. The maximum dimensions of the closed book must be 15x15x2 cm: Any size is accepted between them. Any structure and material that you want to use (folding, binding, grapped, combination of formats in the number of pages considered necessary, form of an object book, tactile, series, travel notebook) and any artistic language (may Be a unique copy or a small edition of which at least 5 copies must be presented).

The illustrated catalog of the exhibition, prepared with the works present at the Festival, will collect and multiply the commitment of the authors to participate in the events that the international community is experiencing, and will provide elements of judgment of the authors, the result of their creativity and the exchange of a perspective on the reality and expectations of a better future.