Locarno: Artist Wolfgang Tillmans Designs Official 2025 Festival Poster

Locarno: Artist Wolfgang Tillmans Designs Official 2025 Festival Poster

Veteran German artist Wolfgang Tillmans has designed the official poster for this year’s Locarno Film Festival, which runs August 6-16.  The poster features Locarno’s customary leopard on a tree branch amongst an acid trance of yellow and purple abstraction. Tillmans produced the poster using his experimental Xerox technique, which blurs an image.  Discussing the poster, Tillmans […]

Locarno’s Wolfgang Tillmans Poster Offers “Image of a World in Which We Can All Live, Work Together”

The "tapestry of hope,” says the film festival's artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro, "reminds us of all the unexplored potentialities of the film medium and cinema."

The German artist designs the 78th edition of the poster of this year's Locarno Film Festival. The motif: a leopard lying on a branch.