Press room
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Interview by Martin Salisbury, in his book Play Pen
(in English)The book Play Pen. New Children’s Book Illustration, edited by Laurence King Publishing Ltd. (160 pages, 24 cm x 28 cm) by researcher Martin Salisbury (Head of the Masters Program in Children’s Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University, and also author of the highly recommendable book Ilustración de libros infantiles [Children’s Books Illustration] published in Spain by Ed. Acanto) features 35 artists who are “setting trends in children’s book illustration”.
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Interview by Luciana Trocello in Palabra Tomada
(in English)Valle de las Sierras Chicas, the city of artists –Unquillo– is the perfect setting to meet with Istvansch, a multi-faceted artist. A swirl of readings and readers was the appointment he had before the interview at the Book Fair. Everything suggested that we were trapped in the plot of the next story. The beige hues of fall in the hills started to be painted with colors with each thought of our interviewee, who is a model to construct, reflect, and keep on constructing.
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Interview by Graciela Melgarejo in ADN Cultura
(in English)An article on Istvansch’s research into the history of illustration in Ibero-America –an issue that has not been examined in depth and on which Istvansch presented in February 2010, at the Ibero-American Conference of the Spanish Language in Children and Young People’s Literature, held in Santiago de Chile.
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Interview by Karina Micheletto in Página/12
(in Spanish)The publishing of the book Obvious is an invitation to think about far-from-obvious liaisons between story and illustrations, and between the work and its readers in the picture book. An album that goes beyond the album, where readers are invited –through humor and irony–, to create their own and original reading to set up the relationship between texts and illustrations that are almost an abstraction, and invitation to discover hidden forms, that re-signify time and again: in Obvious surprise and the unexpected await the reader at every turn of the page.
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Interview by Mirta Goldberg in Caminos de tiza, TV Pública
(in Spanish)The Picture Book, the Book-As-Object, the communication with the readers and might be seduced by books… topics dealt with by Mirta Goldberg in this interview. Another three segments of the show are available on YouTube; in them, Istvansch talks with María Teresa Andruetto and Francisco Moulia.
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Interview by Natalia Blanc in La Nación
(in Spanish)At the Filbita 2015 (International Festival of Children’s Literature of Buenos Aires), this interview gave Istvansch the opportunity to reflect about children’s books, together with the Colombian illustrator Claudia Rueda.
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Interview by Nora Lía Sormani, in La Valijita
(in Spanish)After the publication of Istvansch’s book Todos podemos dibujar [Everybody Can Draw] this interview reflected on the world seen as an abstract representation, from which standpoint –without the pressure of figurative drawing...everybody can draw.
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Interview by Interview by Fabiana Scherer in Revista La Nación
(in Spanish)An interview about words on words and on images, in which –together with Isol and Bianki– Istvansch talks about his contribution to Argentine children’s literature, and celebrates the acknowledgment of illustration as discourse within books.
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Interview by Valeria Sorín in Cultura LIJ
(in Spanish)Step-By-Step of the creation of the book The Sleeping Girl, made in collaboration with María Teresa Andruetto.
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Interview by Andrea Bernárdez in Kids News
(in Spanish)What was first –drawing, text or design? How did Istvansch start to draw and to publish? How did Istvansch draw as a kid? These and other questions are addressed in this interview so that kids know more about Istvansch.
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Interview by Marisa Rojas in Planetario
(in Spanish)In this article published by Planetario Istvansch talks about the dialogue between text and image in picture books, and about many other things that kids often want to know.
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Interview by Silvina Freire in Culture and Entertainment section of Página/12
(in Spanish)The creation of the Comprehensive Children’s Literature Training Program “Dijo Alicia...” (As Alice Said) at Casa de Letras, allowed us to reflect on how to teach children’s literature, in terms of text, image, and story.
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Interview by María Luz and Ana in Compinches
(in Spanish)The magazine Compinches is especially delightful: interviews are made by the kids themselves. They visited Istvansch at his studio and made lots of questions..
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Interview by Laura Demidovich and Valeria Sorín in Cultura LIJ
(in Spanish)The look, the authors, teaching, working materials –these issues were discussed in depth in this long and rich interview for the only paper magazine on children’s literature currently published in Argentina.
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Report for Imaginaria
(in Spanish)Istvansch in the Feature Author section of Imaginaria: “a comprehensive report on his career, articles written by him, comments on some of his books and, also, a transcript of his interventions at the Imaginaria and EducaRed forums, when he was invited to speak about the Argentine Illustrators’ Association.”
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Interview by Iris Rivera in Imaginaria
(in Spanish)“If you want to understand the world, you must read about everything,” says Istvansch. And –just as he did when he was a kid– he looks for what is not easy to see on the shelf. He knows that a good reader moves along without “indicators”. And that in this way the reader will move along his/her ideas: agreeing, disagreeing, reflecting. A reader does not accept that others think in his/her place.”
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Interview by María Emilia López in Punto de partida
(in Spanish)“How would you answer to the questions that children can make regarding images? In Istvansch’s opinion, the answer is “we are together.” The plurality of meanings; that is precisely the greatest wealth.”
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