INTENGRUM Grafikai Biennálé
Graphics Review 3rd Szekler’s Graphic Art Biennial Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania, 2014
Publikáció: 2014. szeptember 14. vasárnap
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INTEGRUM
Completeness is a creative power
The County Councils of the Szeklerland and the Cultural Center of Covasna County together are organizing the Graphics Review, the 3rd. Szekler’s Graphic Art Biennial between September 5 - December 20, 2014, with the theme INTEGRUM.
The main patron of the biennial is Kelemen Hunor, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Culture, Romania.
The organizers of the biennial festival have defined two categories:
I. Traditional Graphics Category
II. Experimental Graphics Category
Terms and Conditions of
Participation on the Biennale:
I. Traditional Graphics
1. Participants:
Any professional artist or art university student may participate from any country if their application are in conformity with the Terms and Conditions mentioned in the Call for Application. All applicants are requested to attach their Curriculum Vitae to the application form.
2. Information related to the submitted graphic works:
All traditional graphic works created with multiplying procedure are accepted in this category, that are comprised in the definition of traditional graphics in high-, low- and plain press (wood- and linocut, aquaforte, aquatint, mezzotint, lithography, silk screen, etc. – Drawings, pastel drawings, paintings are not be accepted). Applicants shall specify the details concerning the works of art on the back of each submitted item in conformity with the attached table. These details shall be annexed to the Application Form as well.
3. Each artist may participate with maximum 3 artworks.
4. The smallest size of the artworks in the category of Traditional Graphics is 30x30 cm, and the biggest accepted size is 100x100 cm.
5. Location and deadline of sending the artworks:
5/a: Pre-selection:
For the pre-selecting phase of the Graphics Review, the 3rd Szekler’s Graphic Art Biennial, all participants are kindly requested to send the perfect reproductions of their artworks in digital format, according to the following parameters:
digital photos with *.tiff or *.jpg extensions and resolution of 300 dpi (the longest side of the image should be minimum 2500 pixels) to one of the following e-mail addresses:grafikaiszemle@grafikaiszemle.ro or grafikaiszemle@yahoo.com.
Application forms and data of the artworks must be enclosed to the digital reproductions.
Deadline for sending the digital reproductions is 20th of November 2014, 12 p.m.
Important to know!!!: for the pre-selecting phase don’t send the original works by post! (nevertheless, if this is the case, we are very sorry to inform the authors that we are unable to send their original works back).
All participants will be informed about the decision after the pre-selection via e-mail.
5/b: Selection and evaluation by the Jury:
On the basis of the decision made at the pre-selecting phase, we kindly require the participants remained in the competition to send us their original artworks by post.
Deadline for sending the original works is 12th of December 2014 (date of arrival) by post, or handling them personally at the following location:
Centre of Culture of County Covasna, RO- 52008 Sfântu Gheorghe, Libertății Street, nr. 2, County Covasna, România.
Please mention the following on the postal package: Graphics Biennial, 2014.
Artworks sent after the deadline will be excluded.
6. The theme and concept of the Biennale is INTEGRUM, completeness is a creative power. The theme of the works can also be chosen freely, the only condition is that the woks have been created during the last 2 years.
7. All works must be numbered and signed according to international graphic standards. .
II. Experimental Graphics
1. Participants:
Any professional artist or art university student may participate from any country if their application are in conformity with the Terms and Conditions mentioned in the Call for Application. All applicants are requested to attach their Curriculum Vitae to the application form.
2. Information related to the submitted graphic works:
In this category all works are accepted which have been created with the help of non-traditional multiplying graphic methods that correspond to the following: individual printing, C-print, offset, electro-graphics, etc. – Drawings, paintings are not accepted. Here the jury will award works that have more graphical motivations. Applicants shall specify the details concerning the works of art on the back of each submitted item in conformity with the attached table. These details shall be annexed to the Application Form as well.
3. Each artist may participate with maximum 3 artworks.
4. The biggest accepted size of the artworks in the category of Experimental Graphics is 100x100 cm.
5. Location and deadline of sending the artworks:
5/a: Pre-selection:
For the pre-selecting phase of the Graphics Review, the 3rd Szekler’s Graphic Art Biennial, all participants are kindly requested to send the perfect reproductions of their artworks in digital format, according to the following parameters:
digital photos with *.tiff or *.jpg extensions and resolution of 300 dpi (the longest side of the image should be minimum 2500 pixels) to one of the following e-mail addresses:grafikaiszemle@grafikaiszemle.ro or grafikaiszemle@yahoo.com.
Application forms and data of the artworks must be enclosed to the digital reproductions.
Deadline for sending the digital reproductions is 20th of November 2014, 12 p.m.
Important to know!!!: for the pre-selecting phase don’t send the original works by post! (nevertheless, if this is the case, we are very sorry to inform the authors that we are unable to send their original works back).
All participants will be informed about the decision after the pre-selection via e-mail.
5/b: Selection and evaluation by the Jury:
On the basis of the decision made at the pre-selecting phase, we kindly require the participants remained in the competition to send us their original artworks by post.
Deadline for sending the original works is 12th of December 2014 (date of arrival) by post, or handling them personally at the following location:
Centre of Culture of County Covasna, RO- 52008 Sfântu Gheorghe, Libertății Street, nr. 2, County Covasna, România.
Please mention the following on the postal package: Graphics Biennial 2014
Artworks sent after the deadline will be excluded.
6. The theme and concept of the Biennale is INTEGRUM, completeness is a creative power. The theme of the works can also be chosen freely, the only condition is that the woks have been created during the last 2 years.
7. All artworks must be signed.
Jury and awarding:
The members of the jury are internationally acknowledged art historians and graphic artists.
Awarding of the Graphics Review, the 3rd Szekler’s Graphic Art Biennial is conceived in two phases:
1. Pre-selection:
For the pre-selecting phase of the Graphics Review, the 3rd Szekler’s Graphic Art Biennial organized in Sfântu-Gheorghe, all participants are kindly asked to send the perfect reproductions of their works in digital format, according to the following parameters:
digital photos with *.tiff or *.jpg extensions and resolution of 300 dpi (the longest side of the image should be minimum 2500 pixels) to one of the following e-mail addresses:grafikaiszemle@grafikaiszemle.ro or grafikaiszemle@yahoo.com. Application forms and data of the artworks must be enclosed to the digital reproductions.
2. Awarding:
Prizes are awarded by the Jury to the works of art selected from among the works that have passed the preliminary selection phase. The works of graphic art selected by the jury shall be exhibited in the course of the Biennial – in accordance with the available exhibition surface. During the biennial, the artworks will be exhibited in the Gallery of Transylvanian Center of Fine Arts.
• The official opening of the Biennial is on 21st of January 2015, 5 p.m. The participating artist will be informed in time about the decision made by the jury and the about the details of the opening ceremony.
• The awarded works will become the property of the Gallery of Transylvanian Center of Fine Arts.
• The exhibited artworks will be returned to their authors by post within maximum a year.
• Photos of the artworks will appear in the Biennales catalogue
• Organizers are entitled to plan the exhibition of the Biennale
• The application forms may be multiplied on personal decision.
Participation fee:
The participation is free of charge.
General information:
No associations or professional organizations are not eligible to apply; only those individual authors may send in their works who comply with the above mentioned criteria.
Original graphics woks are to be sent in without their frames or mat boards by post, in portfolios or carton reels, or delivered personally to the given address. Possible damages that might occur during transport cannot be compensated.
Prizes:
1. Main prize of the Biennale: 2000 Euro
2. Nagy Imre prize: 1000 Euro
3. Plugor Sándor prize: 1000 Euro
4. Nagy Pál prize: 1000 Euro
The Awarding Ceremony will be held in the Tamási Áron Theatre in Sfântu-Gheorghe on 21st of January 2015, 5 p.m. The exhibition will be held in the Gallery of Transylvanian Center of Fine Arts, Sfântu-Gheorghe.
