
In the period between 30th-31st January, 2008 the Jury of the 13th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Poland – Łódź '08 held their meeting at the Municipal Art Gallery in Łódź, the Villa Gallery at 31, Wólczańska Street.
It consisted of:
Sepp Hiekisch-Picard – vice-director of Kunsthalle in Bochum – the chairman of the Jury
Jiři Brazda – graphic artist, Prague, the Czech Republic
Elżbieta Fuchs – director of the Municipal Art Gallery in Łódź
Zbigniew Purczyński – professor at Wł. Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź
Andrzej Węcławski – professor, Dean of the Department of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
768 graphic works of 342 artists from 50 countries were qualified for the exhibition.
Jury awarded Honourable Medals of the exhibition to the following artists:
1. Modhir Ahmed – Sweden
2. Shoichi Futami – Japan
3. Ryszard Gieryszewski – Poland (Warsaw)
4. Dušan Kállay – Slovakia
5. Jinan Kobayashi – Japan
6. Weliko Iwanow Marinczewski – Bulgaria
7. Christine Ravaux – Belgium
8. Shigeki Tomura – Japan
9. Anne Valkenborgh – Belgium
10. Majla Zeneli – Albania

Weliko Iwanow Marinczewski, Bulgaria
Sensing Nature II, 2007, etching, aquatint, 10,5 x 15,2
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The ceremony of opening of the Triennial is on 19th June, 2008 at the Villa Gallery, at 18.00. This exposition of graphic miniature will be accompanied by the following exhibitions:
1. Urbino citta degli incisori. L'attivita del Centro Internazionale per l'Incisione Artistica KAUS Urbino (Urbino – the city of graphics. The activity of the International Centre of Artistic Graphics KAUS Urbino) - Ośrodek Propagandy Sztuki (The Centre for the
Propagation of Art), 44 Sienkiewicza Street, vernisage: 20th June, 2008, at 14.00
2. Marek Basiul – linocuts – Galeria Bałucka (the Bałucka Gallery), Stary Rynek 2, vernisage: 20th June, 2008, at 12.00
http://www.miejskagaleria.lodz.pl/galeria/mfg.html

Shoichi Futami, Japan
Poem of the Sea, 2005, aquatint, 13 x 9,4
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