2nd International Printmaking Triennale opens on Thursday

BELGRADE - The second International Printmaking Triennale will open in Belgrade's Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavilion on Thursday, and it will present the works of 209 artists from 40 countries.

In addition to the central exhibition in the Pavilion, a couple of accompanying Triennale exhibitions will open on the same day, including the exhibition of award-winning artists from the First Triennale in the Association of Visual Artists of Serbia (ULUS) Gallery and the exhibition of Michael Barnes in the Gallery of the Akademija - Centre for Graphic Art and Visual Research.

The winners of the First Triennale awards are Barbara Madsen from the U.S., Katarina Alimpijevic from Serbia and Mexico's Victor Manuel Hernandez Castillo.

The ULUS graphic section initiated the triennale in 2011 to provide the public with an insight into the contemporary global developments in this branch of visual arts and set up cooperation with a larger number of culture-oriented institutions in Serbia and the world.

In the course of this year's programme, exhibition entitled 'Vienna Graphic Art 2' will be staged in the Graphic Collective in September which was compiled by professor Philip Mauer, while the exhibition 'Artist's Book' will be featured in the Faculty of Fine Arts (FLU) Gallery Windows as the project conducted in collaboration between FLU and the Belgrade Faculty of Architecture.

The triennale will be opened until October 4.