Small Graphics Exhibition First 75

The Graphic Collective

❗On Monday, December 23 at 7 pm, the Small Graphics Exhibition First 75 will open at the Gallery of the Graphic Collective. The Small Seal award for the best achievement in the field of small format graphics will be presented. In the year of its jubilee, celebrating its 75th birthday, this Collective continues part of the program under the theme Tradition for the Future. Since the founding members of the Graphic Collective in the 1950s, they organized sales exhibitions of graphics during the New Year holidays, thus alleviating the dominance of stereotypical kitsch versions of cards for housewives and sweepers on the market. The idea of the artists gathered around the Graphic Collective (and their continuity) to bring original artistic work into every home and as a suitable gift to animate, delight, educate, and cultivate new audiences has been followed for eight decades by new editions of the Small Graphics exhibitions. Over time, this intimate exhibition has become, along with the May exhibition, a significant point for presenting the real reach of contemporary graphic production and an opportunity for its critical assessment. The title of the exhibition text, 'For your home and those you love (and) in the new millennium. Because graphics are both a school of art/life and a fluid space of spirit sheltered from the hustle and bustle of busy times.', touches upon the identity and conceptual framework of this work.

The atmosphere of the new edition of the Small Graphics exhibition also reflects a great concentration of manuscripts from various poetic foundations; besides the bards of our contemporary scene (born in 1949) who maintain the tension of the exhibition, new authorial phenomena of the young (born in the new millennium) certainly renew its creative vitality. The catalog also includes remarks from the youngest participants, and one of the records: 'the artist's (small) world is much larger than the edges of that paper', testifies to the creative essence of the idea.
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