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Locarno: Artist Wolfgang Tillmans Designs Official 2025 Festival Poster
Locarno Film Festival runs August 6-16.
The poster features Locarno’s customary leopard on a tree branch amongst an acid trance of yellow and purple abstraction. “At the end of a long night session at my studio this January I felt happy that I answered the brief with an even more specific cocktail of three ingredients: On the glass window of my old color laser photocopier I brought together a photograph of a leopard lying on a tree, which I had taken in Kenya seven years ago, with two fake leopard fur mittens, which I had sewn myself as a sixteen years old teenager,” Tillmans added. Giona A. Nazzaro, Locarno Artistic Director added: “Wolfgang Tillmans’ sensual artwork reminds us of all the unexplored potentialities of the film medium and cinema, while imagining a new landscape where creativity unfolds in new forms, shapes, and colors.
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