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5/9/2007

27th Biennial of Graphic Arts

International Centre of Graphic Arts MGLC, Ljubljana

A variety of art forms

The 27th Biennial of Graphic Arts brings eight views on art prints, the common thread of these different exhibitions being reproducibility of art. As its specific characteristic, the reproducibility of art, first occurs with the first prints in the Renaissance, becomes a decisive influence on twentieth century art, and is also relevant today. The 27th Biennial of Graphic Arts is comprised of the main Biennial exhibition, the already traditional exhibition of the artist awarded the Grand Prize at the previous Biennial, and six accompanying exhibitions prepared by various galleries in Ljubljana.

The Unbound Eyes of Anxiousness

The main exhibition of the Biennial is not thematic, but rather presents artists who have left their mark on the art of recent years. Their works will be on view in the galleries of the International Centre of Graphic Arts, in private residences around Ljubljana, and in the public and media spaces of Slovenia. This wide range of venues, from those intended to showcase art to those in which art acts merely as intervention or memorial, speaks of the significance of the spatial context as an integral part of every work of art.

Stigma

It is a tradition of the Graphic Arts Biennial to present a solo exhibition of work by the artist who won the Grand Prize at the previous Biennial. At the 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, the Grand Prize was awarded to the organizers of the San Juan (Puerto Rico) Poly/Graphic Triennial of Latin America and the Caribbean. An exhibition of the art of Puerto Rico, in the Cankarjev Dom Gallery, presents contemporary reproducible art from Latin America and the Caribbean, and illustrates a politics of validating art outside the centers of capital and political power.

From the Sternens to the Comic Strip

Accompanying exhibitions present reproducible art through a selection of work that extends from the first prints made during Slovene early modernism (the Slovenska moderna) - by Matej Sternen and Rozalija Klein-Sternen, as well as the so-called Vesna artists - all the way to contemporary artists who work in the genre of the comic strip. The exhibitions are conceived and prepared by cooperating galleries in Ljubljana: Alkatraz Gallery, City Art Museum Ljubljana, Kapelica Gallery, Kresija Gallery, P74 Center and Gallery and National Gallery of Slovenia.

Helena Podgorelec: graficni.bienale@mglc-lj.si
Lili Šturm: lili.sturm@mglc-lj.si
http://www.mglc-lj.si

Opening: september 6 2007

International Centre of Graphic Arts
Grad Tivoli, Pod turnom 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
Free Admission

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