The 22nd edition of the International Cartoon Exhibition will take place between October 16-29, 2016 and will be presenting, under the categories "Social and political processes in modern large cities" and "Free humor", works by artists from around the world, selected following a contest that took place this summer.
With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, artist Octavian Andronic has been a member in the festival jury, together with other 16 cartoonists, and will participate at the Award Ceremony, that will take place Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 18:00, at the Haifa Auditorium.
From Romania, at this edition, Liviu Stănilă has received the Special Prize at the category "Free humor".
The exhibition is open to the public free of charge, daily between October 16-29, 2016 at the Haifa Auditorium (HaNassi Blvd, no.142), between 10.00 - 22.00.
The Festival is organized by Haifa Municipality with the support of the Comission for UNESCO in Israel, Haifa Foundation, Israel Ministry of Education, Israel Painters and Sculptors Association, Journalists' Association in Haifa and the North and Cartunion International Cartoonists' Club.
With a career spanning over 40 decades, Octavian Andronic is a Romanian caricaturist, journalist and book author, born on May 2nd, 1946, in Sannicolaul Mare, Timis county. Since 1969 till the present day, he has created works that have been featured in major solo and collective exhibitions both in Romania and abroad, as well as in important Romanian publications and newspapers. In the same time, he is the recipient of several prizes at prestigious cartoon contests in Turkey, Cuba, Romania, Macedonia and Italy.
Under the series title "ANDOgrafia zilei", Andronic has created a new style of caricature - the video-cartoon, which is the reconstruction, through computerized technologies, of the creation process of a caricature. The caricature is created, under the eyes of the viewers and without the material participation of the artist, in a dramatic and impressive succession of frames.
Since 1995, he publishes daily a news cartoon, in several newspapers and magazines in Romania. He is a member of the Romanian Fine Arts Association and a former Honorary Consul of Uruguay in Romania (1992-2009).