Ex libris competition catalogue Showcase
Gliwice 2005 - VI International Graphic Competition for Ex Libris
by GN
We just got the catalogue of the VI International Graphic Competition for Ex Libris, held in Gliwice (Poland) during this 2005.
According to Wladislaw Gebczyk, Competition Commissioner, who also took care of the catalogue editing and signed its foreword, «the Gliwice Municipal Library has been holding the Competition for ten years and the event has become the permanent item on the cultural agenda of the City of Gliwice, being the artistic event of international importance». Witness to this the «growing number of the contestants from many countries of five continents and the number of submitted works».
Again, according to the foreword, «the Gliwice Competition has become the review of current trends and directions of the ex libris art in the world».
To the Competition took part 542 artists from 47 different countries. They submitted a total of 2060 works.
Catalogue Competition Gliwice 2005 - front cover
Catalogue texts are in English and Polish. It consists of 150 pages, it has a number of colour illustrations. It is very well done and complete. The catalogue opens with the names of the persons involved in the projec (jury; editing, translation, lay-out of the catalogue; exhibition organization and so on); a page hosts the names of the artists included in the award nominations. The names of the winners of the first three prizes are clearly outlined: Jiri Brazda (Czech Republic), Andrej Zakoretsky (Ukraine) and Hanna Glowacka (Poland).
Honoured Prizes went to Marcin Bialas (Poland), Alexander Grigoriev (Bielorussia), Konstantin Kalinovych (Ukraine), Wojciech Luczak (Poland), Sergey Nesterchuk (Russia), Bogdan Pikulicki (Ukraine), Elzbieta Radzikowska (Poland), Peter Velikov (Bulgaria), Nedim Yalcinkaya (Turkey), Shen Yahxiang (China).
Special prizes have been awarded to Hanna T. Glowacka (Poland) e Elzbieta Radzikowska (Poland).
Members of the Competition Jury were: Tadeusz Grabowski (President), Mieczyslaw Bielen, Eugeniusz Delekta, Wladislaw Gebczyk, Pavel Hlavaty, Piotr Hordynski, Grazyna Lazar e Tadeusz Michal Siara. Competition Commissioner: Wladislaw Gebczyk, Competition Office: Jozefa Calka.
There are, in alphabetical order, the names of all artists that passed the preselection.
The catalogue reproduces the ex libris with care and in detail, although not in actual sizes.
In the end there are, sorted in order by country, then in alphabetical order, the names of all the participant artists. Many the Italian artists, a large part qualified for the Competition and have an ex libris reproduced. Among them: Nino Baudino, Maria Maddalena Tuccelli, Stefano Patrone, Paolo Rovegno.
To learn more: www.biblioteka.gliwice.pl
ISBN 83-904188-8-6
(Disclosure: Artifex got a free copy of the book reviewed)
