International ex libris competition
"Bread - Cultural Heritage"
(from the press release)
Balkankult Foundation, Ericarts Institute, Ankara Ex Libris Society, the Bread Museum, Ulm and Belgrade ex libris circle, have decided to organize an international ex-libris competition on the subject of Bread - Cultural Heritage, to support co-operation amongst persons active in culture and media, artists and entities world wide, and help develop communicational, professional and technical transborder artistic and cultural ties and independent exchange of information.
Participation rules:
Article 1 - This competition is open to artists from all over the world. No fee is required for participation.
Article 2 - Artists are invited to make one or more ex-libris on the theme the BREAD – cultural heritage, as the most general and multisided symbol.
Article 3 - All works submitted must be conceived as ex-libris, i. e. as small-format art graphics made to be pasted into books and to identify their owner. They must integrate within the image the words EX LIBRIS, or a similar inscription in the language of the participating countries and the NAME OF THE OWNER, who must be an existing person or institution.
Article 4 - There are no limitations as to the number of different ex-libris which may be submitted. The maximum size of the printed surface must not be more than 13 cm. Participants must send FOUR prints of EACH work submitted. The ownership of the material sent will pass to the organizers of the competition, as well as the rights of reproduction.
Article 5 - Ex-libris submitted must be printed
original graphic works, drawings, sketches or
photocopies will not be accepted. All graphic arts techniques will
be treated equally.
Article 6 - Each print of each ex-libris submitted must have, legibly inscribed in Latin alphabet, on the back of it in pencil, the artist's name and address, his year of birth, the technique used and the year in which the ex-libris was made. Each print must be signed or initialed by the artist. It would be appreciated if artists could send short curriculum vitae with the material for the competition.
Article 7 - The international Jury will be composed
of seven members: Dr Andrea Fadani, Director of the Bread Museum,
Ulm, Germany, Prof. Dr Andreas Wiesand, Executive Director of EricArts
Institute, Bonn, Germany; Prof. Hasip Pektaþ, graphic artist
and President of the Turkish Ex-libris Society, Ankara, Turkey;
Prof. Caslav Ocic, President of the Belgrade Exlibris Circle; Arpad
Salomon, graphic artist, Slovenske Konjice, Slovenia; Dimitrije
Vujadinovic, president BalkanKult Foundation, Belgrade, Benoît
Junod, collector and author of various publications on bookplates,
Geneva, Switzerland. The president of the Jury is Caslav Ocic. The
Jury will pay attention to the artistic and technical qualities
of the exlibris, as well as to its originality and its merit as
a mark of possession integrating concept,
image and text.
The decision of the Jury will be final. The jury reserves its right
not to award certain prizes or certificates if there are not enough
works submitted of sufficient quality.
Article 8 - The following prizes will be awarded by decision of the Jury a first prize of 1500 Euro, a second prize of 1000 Euro and two ex-equo prizes of 500 Euro. Individuals and institutions can give unofficial prizes.
Article 9 - The deadline date
for submitting works is 31 JANUARY 2007. Material
for the competition must be sent to the address:
• BALKANKULT Foundation, Trg Nikole Pasica 1, 11000 Belgrade,
Serbia &
Montenegro with »EX-LIBRIS« noted on the envelope.
• Contact person: KSENIJA GRAOVAC, BalkanKult Foundation,
tel/fax: +381 11
322 9349; tel. + 381 11 322 7441
• E-mail: contact@breadculture.net
Article 10 - An illustrated catalogue of works submitted for the competitions will be prepared and will be sent free of charge to artists whose ex-libris are illustrated therein. The best ex-libris from the competition will be exhibited in Belgrade and various cities of the region.
Article 11 - Participation in the competitions implies unconditional acceptance of the above rules.
Article 12 - The results of the competitions will be sent for publication to all the associations which are members of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Amateurs d'Ex-libris (FISAE).
To learn more:
http://www.breadculture.net
Participation rules are available in English, Francais, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish.
To download the participation rules in PDF format,
click
here: http://www.breadculture.net/web/files/25/en/International_exEnglish.pdf
or
here: 2007_01_31_bread_english
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