5º INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF GRAPHIC WORKS EXHIBIT AT THE PORTUGUESE CENTER OF SERIGRAPHY

With the title “Belgrade Encounters”, the international and traveling exhibition of the 5th International Meeting of Graphic Work whose activity took place over ten days, from the 1st to the 10th of September 2009, meets at the CPS Gallery at the CCB in Lisbon, from the 17th of October to the 17th of November,  works by six artists from Serbia, seven artists from Spain and one artist from Portugal.

As Ljiljana Tasic, responsible for the exhibition, highlights, previously mentioned in Belgrade (2010) and Málaga (2011): “the works denote spontaneity and freshness and differ from each other based on the concepts and themes, in relation to the theme. sensitivity and character, confirming that contemporary visual arts are truly very complex. The possibilities for communication and exchange that current technology offers, make obstacles and territorial limitations fall to the ground, thus leading to fusion of local and international elements, which in turn allows even more possibilities to be opened up individually to carry out the most varied investigations and give shape to pioneering expressions within the cultural context of our days. ” Diversity does not exclude, but rather favors, dialogue, revealing that “the work of art today functions as the convergence of different languages, ideas and themes, preserving each author their own identity. ” Meetings like these show, on the other hand, the vitality of art and graphic work in our time and their capacity to innovate.

Representing Serbia will be works by artists Velizar Krstic, Zoran Dimovski, young Lidija Antanasijevic, Marija Ilic and Nada Stamenovic and young Nikola Korac. The Spanish artists represented are Bernardo Sanjurjo, Francisco Velasco Fernandez, the young Isabel Cuadrado, Marta Fermin and Nuria Blanco and also Paco Aguilar and Ricardo Mojardin.  The young Alexandra Barbosa, for her part, represents Portugal, evoking the traditional filigrees in her silkscreen printing. Whether in a figurative expression or in an informal way, aspects of contemporary imagery are evoked, including naivety, humor, lyricism and sometimes an atmosphere close to drama, but always denoting a Great rigor and technical mastery make this exhibition not to be missed, a European reference for graphic work.