Born from the experience of the MOSTRO Festival, Graphic Portraits is the third book in the Quaderni series of the Formentini Laboratory. The book,  curated by Maria Angela Di Pierro and Marco Sammicheli, aims to represent a (necessarily partial) picture of the Italian graphic design community. At the same time it builds a space for debate between different schools of thought, an exchange of ideas and comparison between different positions and languages.

Parco Gallery hosts the dialogue between Maria Angela di Pierro and Marta Inversini. The book created the opportunity to reflect on the legacy of MOSTRO Festival, to talk about the current state of health of the Italian graphic designer profession and the need for moments of reflection, exchange and aggregation within the Italian graphic scene.

The event is organized together with Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori as part of the series that will also host the presentation of “Ostinata bellezza” written by Luca Pitoni

Maria Angela Di Pierro, journalist and publicist, lives and works in Milan. She deals with external relations, organization of events and exhibitions in the design field, promotion of the culture of the project and of the “designer” profession. From 2009 to 2015 she was general management consultant of Aiap. Since 2016 she has been collaborating with the Italian embassy in Copenhagen and the Italian cultural institute, promoting the culture of Italian graphic design. In 2019 you founded Meme Gallery, a mini show room-gallery in Milan, dedicated to designers, artisans, artists and photographers, original stylists who deal with micro-productions

Marta Inversini graduated from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Milan (supervisor Prof. Paola Dubini) and subsequently collaborated with the ASK research center of the Bocconi University on projects related to publishing companies and the media. At the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation, you hold planning, coordination and fund raising functions. Since 2019 she has been managing it.