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istvan-madacsy-falsa-3

István Madácsy
Hungary

Imago Falsa III
100×70 cm
charcoal, 2006

Prize
– Grand Prix

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István Madácsy
Hungary

Imago Falsa II
100×70 cm
charcoal, 2006

Prize
– Grand Prix

pawel-frackiewicz

Pawel Frackiewicz
Poland

Déja vu I
98×62 cm
pencil, 2006

Prize
– The Prize of the Lord Mayor of Pilsen

jiri-jun

Jiří Jun
Česká republika

Quest for Matter, Shape and Light
80×60 cm
pen drawing, 2005

Prize
– The Prize of President of The Region of Pilsen

renate-behla

Renate Behla
Germany

Berenice’s Hair
40×30 cm
brush on oiled paper, 2005

Prize
– The Prize of the Union of Visual Artists of the Czech Republic

jolanta-wagner

Jolanta Wagner
Poland

Plan of Place F.
60×84 cm
ink on old tracing paper, 2006

Prize
– The Prize of The International Association of Art – Europe

rigmor-dahlqvist

Rigmor Dahlqvist
Sweden

Witness III
41×29,5 cm
graphite, 2006

Prize
– The Prize of Hungarian Association of Graphic Artist

emma-robertson

Emma Robertson
Australia

The Archaeology of Absence
38,5×58 cm
pencil, 2006

Prize
– The Prize of Students of Institute of Art and Design of University of West Bohemia in Pilsen

List of Artists
The Honorary Certificate of the Highest Quality – Short List

Biennial of Drawing Pilsenwas started on the initiative of the Union of Visual Artists of Pilsen Area in 1996. The first Biennial was announced for artists – citizens of the Czech Republic. Since the second Biennial artists from the whole Central Europe have been taking part in it and so the Central European Biennial of Drawing Pilsen was born. The Biennial is to demonstrate the visual arts culture belonging within Central Europe and its liaison with European culture.

Held under the auspices of Czech Committee for UNESCO and The International Association of Art – EUROPE.

Founders of the Professional Association of Legal Entities The Biennial of Drawing Pilsen

Honorary Board

Organizers

The Professional Association of Legal Entities The Biennial of Drawing Pilsen

General Partner

Partners

Media Partners

Art Committee

Audit Committee

The Awards

List of Artists
The Honorary Certificate of the Highest Quality – Short List

Jiří Eliška, Jan Forsberg, Gyöngyi Gallusz, Slawomir Grabowy, Zdenka Hušková, Péter Balázs Kovács, Tomáš Krampl, Marcela Kubíková, Bialas Marcin, Vladimir Martynov, Marianne Ogilvie, Jerzy Rojkowski, Eva Sebök, Kate Seržáne, Stefan S.Schmidt, Valéria Sóváradi, Vojtěch Šeda, Miloš Ševčík, Milica Vergot, Klaus Waschk

International Jury

Technical Jury

The Biennial of Drawing is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
Since the first exhibition in 1996, the project has established itself as a significant event of the European cultural scene.

The fact that the jury has been presented with 1,765 works confirms the widespread reputation of the Pilsen Biennial among artists in Europe and overseas.

The large number of the submitted works as well as the surprisingly high quality of most drawings represent the necessary condition for achieving the intended goal, which is to promote this artistic technique – drawing, already described by Leonardo da Vinci as the creation of all artistic innovation.

Therefore, in selecting the drawings the jury attempted not to prefer one style, but to set up an exhibition vividly documenting the variety of contemporary artistic possibilities of expression, yet taking into consideration the representation of the numerous countries involved.

As a result, Pilsen will permanently become a truly international cultural centre owing to the Biennial.

Werner Schaub
President of IAA Europe

An ordinary line drawn by a pencil or a pen – and so many quality art works can be built upon this simple human act. As children, we found it joyful and natural to take up the pencil to express our feelings, to capture the reality around us or simply to experience the pleasure of leaving a visible trace, of creating something and taking hold of the sheet of paper before us. In this respect, I regard drawing as the most basic form of human expression, as the most natural creative act given to us. Someone was given more, someone less, and for those endowed with talent as well as the necessary will to express themselves in this way into their adulthood there is the international festival Biennial of Drawing, now taking place in Pilsen for the fifth time. It is remarkable and encouraging to see how many quality drawings have been collected by the organizers. It is obvious that drawing still plays a unique role in visual art and that this festival is gaining an undisputable place on the map of visual art presentations – even on the international scale, given the participation of artists from various corners of the world in the Biennial.

I am glad that the City of Pilsen and the Pilsen Region can play host to this festival, that they take part in its support and, last but not least, that they represent its spiritual as well as organizational home. Needless to say, the festival also contibutes to their good name.

The Pilsen Region also lends significant support to the presentation of the Biennial of Drawing outside the limits of Pilsen and the region, in the form of travelling exhibitions across Europe – Warsaw, Sopron, Brussels, Bergamo — with presentations planned in more European cities in the years to come. The Biennial of Drawing thus actively spreads the good reputation of Pilsen and the Pilsen Region as culture-friendly places.

I wish the authors of the exhibited drawings every success in their future careers. I also thank the organizers for their demanding work and, with respect to myself, I can only add, ‘I wish I could draw…’

MUDr. Petr Zimmermann
President of the Pilsen Region

The fifth year of the International Biennial of Drawing in Pilsen represents a small jubilee. The competition came into existence, established its focus, asserted its face and attracted interest. This year’s event has seen 442 applicants from 41 countries.

The Biennial is dedicated to monochrome drawing up to the 100×70cm format, i.e. classical in technique yet not in ideas and expression. It maps the contemporary face of the discipline in a broad generational and creative scope. The oldest author in this year’s collection selected by the international jury was born in 1925, the youngest in 1985. The collection consists of works by 130 artists from 29 countries of four continents.

The works prove how much the world has changed and how close together it has grown. Although the works from some countries have more distinct features, the drawings share similar messages and views, both from the human and artistic standpoint. They manifest themselves in several lines of content. They cut across generations of the exhibiting authors, gaining a variety of evolutionary characteristics.

The expressive figural and figurative compositions of the human world and the landscape drawings are filled with being, sometimes with an existential sentiment. In the works of other authors they continue with hyperrealism and photorealism. In some authors they display neo-conceptual thinking with a more marked sophisticatedness of reality. At the same time, there prevails a meditative and narrative experiencing of themes, an illustrative development of the story, including even comic-style depiction. The drawings working with a distinct contrast of light and shadow bring a magical effect of the reality and materiality, signs and symbols, the overlapping of the present and the past, the silence of loneliness. Surreal tendencies are almost an exception.

Many authors dealing with the theme of landscape do not portray it, but view it with inner vision. In the poetic, ephemeral and fragile depiction they express the atmosphere of an experience, a feeling and a memory, sometimes in an abstract way. Some authors have put forward their landscape and urbanistic visions.

The collection as a whole contains drawings as an independent ultimate goal of creation. Spontaneous records or sketches of the reality are almost not encountered. In the choice of techniques there prevails charcoal, pencil, pastel, ink; the less common techniques include sepia, colour pencils, paints. There also appear their combinations. The artists work with a brush, a pen, they use the techniques of waterbrusch, spreading and collage.

The exhibited drawings confirm the breadth of possibilities and the expressive richness of the classical drawing techniques and the chosen monochrome drawing – its original values and place in the context of visual art, its constant attractiveness for the creators and, we believe, also for the visitors of the Biennial.

Dana Doricová
Commissary of the Biennial Exhibition

V. International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2006 participated in by 442 artists who have submitted 1765 drawings.

Besides visual artists from the Czech Republic they included artists from the following countries:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Israel, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Norway, Panama, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States of America.

The session of the Jury was opened by the President of the Biennial Jaroslav Zapletal on the morning of 12 July 2006. Werner Schaub from Germany was elected Chairman of the Jury. The seven-member Jury was also working on 13 July and finished its work on 14 July 2006.

The Jury awarded the GRAND PRIX of the V. International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2006. In addition, 20 artists were awarded the Short List – the Honorary Certificate of the Highest Quality.

Another six prizes were awarded by the representatives of the Pilsen Region, the City of Pilsen, the International Association of Visual Artists – Europe, the Hungarian Association of Graphic Artists, the Union of Czech Visual Artists and the students of the Institute of Art and Design of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

222 drawings by 130 artists were selected for exhibition.

The glass sculpture for the Grand Prix holder was designed by the sculptor Bohumil Eliáš and created by Bohumil Eliáš jr. The Prize of the Lord Mayor of Pilsen City and the Prize of the Prezident of Pilsen Region were designed and created by the sculptor Ludvík Kovář.

Exhibition Halls

The Organisers would like to thank those who have participated in the realization of this year´s Biennial: