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“the colours of the wind” by alessandro sanna blow tHROUGH the 2014 calendar BY BURGO GROUP

Friday 06. December 2013 - Six "caresses of time", carried by the wind that blows from one season to the next. The watercolours of the drawer and illustrator Alessandro Sanna, author of the images which mark the passing of the months in the 2014 calendar by Burgo Group (www.burgogroup.com, are animated by delicate silhouettes.

“The colours of the wind” is the title of the artwork which continues the tradition of Burgo Group to involve the world’s most famous illustrators in the creation of their calendar.
Alessandro Sanna was born in 1975 and has illustrated books written by David Grossman, Italo Calvino, Gianni Rodari, Beppe Fenoglio, Cervantes and Lewis Carroll. Award winner of the Andersen Prize in 2009 for best illustrator of the year and author of illustrated books for which he has written the texts and drawn the images, Sanna works with numerous Italian and international newspapers such as Il Corriere della Sera, The New York Times and The New Yorker and, since 2013, he has been the official illustrator of Vanity Fair France. For Rizzoli, he has just published Fiume Lento, a novel in images dedicated to the River Po, which will also be published in 2014 in the United States and in Germany.
For Alessandro Sanna, who also wrote the introductory text for the calendar, 2014 opens with “a postman on a bicycle like Jacques Tati in colours sending mail flying free”. Spring arrives and a magician challenges the change of seasons with card-tricks. A kite flies gracefully to leave space to thoughts which fly away from a piano immersed in the strong summer colours. Autumn observes two lovers chasing a secret letter, to return to the cold silence of winter on which a light crescent is silhouetted.
In the illustrations, created exclusively, “leaves, petals and sheets of paper float through the seasons like thoughts and mood swings”. Evocations which seem to come to life on the paper chosen by Burgo Group to print the 2014 calendar: Burgo Respecta satin, 250 gsm, coated paper for fine prints is FSC certified and designed to enhance environmental communication at its best.
The cover is printed on Prisma Silk 2SC, 500 gsm, SBS board FSC certified, which ensures perfect colour yield and excellent performance in the post-printing treatments for luxury graphic products.