The special award of the organising museum was won by Károly Kelemen, and the public collection purchase award went to Finnish artist Eeva Liisa Isomaa. Slovak artist Robert Makar received the award of the Hungarian Ekectrographical Society. Certificates of merit went to Tibor Kiss Somorjai from Hungary, Annu Vertanen from Finland, Saeko Hanji from Japan and Wayne Crothers from Australia.
The central theme of the biennale was the presentation of space in graphic works. In addition to traditional graphic works, photography-based computer-generated works were also on display.
Works were submitted from by 50 artists from18 countries, including Argentina, the USA, Australia, Japan, Finland and Slovakia. Several artists were invited whose works were featured at previous biennales.
Works by the main award winner of the previous biennale, Kim Djang-Su from South Korea, were shown as a separate exhibition. Works by the Russian artist Eugenia Gortshakova, who lives in Germany, as well as the Austrian artist Emil Siemeister, Scottish artist Lennox Dunbar and Hungarian graphic artist Gyöngyi Gallusz were also shown in separate sections.
Coinciding with the biennale, the public collection launched a free graphic arts training course for secondary school and college students, financed partly from European Union funds. Part of HUF 7 million received from the Operative Programme for Social Renewal will be used to finance the ten-part course.
The awards of the 10th biennale will be presented at the Esterházy palace on Saturday.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
