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Marianne Wille Ogilvie - Parting III

Marianne Wille Ogilvie
Germany

Parting III
Pencil, charcoal, 2008

Prize
- The Grand Prix

Jiří Voves - From the Cycle Nature’s Memories – Ravens II

Jiří Voves
Czech Republic

From the Cycle Nature’s Memories – Ravens II
100×70 cm
Nail, putty, colour, 2007

Prize
- The Prize of the President of The Pilsen Region

Jacques Valot - Cinephilia

Jacques Valot
France

Cinephilia
40 × 50 cm
Pencil, 2006

Prize
- The Prize of the Lord Mayor of Pilsen

Rastislav Podoba - "That place"

Rastislav Podoba
Slovak Republic

„That place“
70 × 100 cm
Charcoal, 2008

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

Jarek Grulkowski - Experimental Laboratory IV

Jarek Grulkowski
Poland

Experimental Laboratory IV
98,6 × 68,6 cm
Graphite, charcoal, 2008

Prize
- The Prize of the Hungarian Association of Graphic Artist

John Jones - Untitled VIII

John Jones
Ireland

Untitled VIII
55,0 × 72,0 cm
Pencil, 2008

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

Pawel Warchol - Object I

Pawel Warchol
Poland

Object I
100 × 70 cm
Ink, 2008

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

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

Held under the auspices of:

Biennial date: 9. 10. 2008 – 16. 11. 2008

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

Honorary Board

Organizer

The Professional Association of Legal Entities The Biennial of Drawing Pilsen.

The Biennial is held with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of The Czech Republic.

Hlavní partner

Partners

Media Partners

Art Committee

Audit Committee

Management of Biennial of Drawing Pilsen

The Awards

The Honorary Certificate of the Highest Quality – Shor List

Stefan Berger, Dobroslava Broďáková – Urbanová, Rika Deryckere, Ursula Goeb, Ruth Esserman, Bahadir Gokay, Jaroslav Hamža, Jaroslav Jebavý, Paul Manfred Kaestner, Péter Balázs Kovács, Roswitha Josefine Pape, Manfred Riederer, Kate Seržáne, Dorota Szczepanowska, Marcin Szymielewicz, Zdeněk Tománek, Lenka Zajícová.

The Biennial of Drawing in Pilsen has found its place on the European cultural scene. This is attested not only by the large number of artists who have submitted their works but also by the quality of these works, which improves with every Biennial held.

The novelty is that the participants include well-known artists from the Czech Republic and Europe as well as the whole world. In this way, the Biennial has become a major event and joined the great biennials.

This development was also clear to the jury: more often than in the past, their decision-making was not easy; there were more and more close results in the final voting.

This is a very promising development. Let us hope that this persistent improvement of quality will continue in the future, the reputation of the City of Pilsen being henceforward connected with its well-known Biennial of Drawing.

Prof. Werner Schaub
President of International Association of Art – Europe

„Take a pencil, colour yellow, draw a nice pear and then, below, a round plate to put it on. What a painter you are, son!“
let me start by quoting a short nursery rhyme by the prominent Czech poet František Hrubín, remembered from my childhood and which connected my thoughts with Biennial of Drawing.

The participants of the Biennial of Drawing would hardly find it as easy as that. They have had to come a long way to attain their drawing or, if you wish, artistic attitude and expression. This journey was no doubt accompanied by many errors or false paths, as is usual in art, but in the end they were rewarded by unique and irreplaceable self-expression. This year we may yet again enjoy the results of this enduring effort and see works not only displaying artistic skill but also offering various views of the world, life, the things surrounding us and the testimony the artists bear of themselves. Such a comprehensive show makes it apparent how the individual artists differ from each other in their diversity, how different worldviews they hold, how differently they express themselves. Some, for instance, tend towards the realistic approach, others towards the more abstract.

This, however, is notrelevant. The important thing is the quality of the work, its message and the ability to capture the viewer’s attention. I believe that from this perspective, the Biennial is significant and inspirational – it shows the world on a small scale; practically on several tens square metres of exhibition area we have an opportunity to see it in all its complexity. Perhaps no field of human activity can express this better than art. The art of drawing in this case.

I welcome the 6th Biennial of Drawing, I welcome its visitors to Pilsen and the Pilsen Region, with which this unique art festival is inextricably linked. I wish the viewers profound and perceptive experiences; I congratulate the awarded authors as well as all those exhibiting their works. I thank the organizers of the Biennial for their work.

MUDr. Petr Zimmermann
President of the Pilsen Region

I am greatly honoured to briefly introduce the 6th International Biennial of Drawing 2008.

A pencil is probably the first object that little children reach for to express themselves artistically. Due to criticism and judgment by others, few persist in this interest throughout their lifetimes. Therefore, it is with thankfulness that we accept the opportunity to enrich our lives with the experience of the exhibitions by those who were able to develop their early childhood creativity to perfection. The Biennial represents such an opportunity.

It is marvelous to see that the original intention of raising the competition to the international level has been achieved and, simultaneously, that the event is proving its viability by its biennial continuation. I am glad that the Biennial of Drawing helps the City of Pilsen to become a permanent international cultural centre.

Ing. Pavel Rödl
Lord Mayor of the City of Pilsen

Do you know what it means when one says “the International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2008?

Observing the monochromy and format is supervised by a technical jury.

The sixth year has finished, let us wish success to the seventh.

Jana Potužáková

Exhibition Halls

9. 10. – 16. 11. 2008

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

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