Mészáros Júlia, N.: 35 éves a Győri Művésztelep. Történeti áttekintés, művek, életrajzi adatok, beszámoló a jubileumi találkozóról - Győri művészettörténet 4. (Győr, 2003)

N. Mészáros Júlia: A Győri Művésztelep működésének és alkotótevékenységének 35 éve

elaborated and laid the foundations of new international symposium of open attitude, concentrating on works and creation, keeping pace with contemporary universal art. Essentially this is what the activity of the last creative period is based on and brought to fullness.

The 5-member leadership consisting of an art historian and artists (artistic director Júlia N. Mészáros, artists Károly Selényi, Attila Radosza, Tibor Budahelyi and István Ézsiás), assessing the available financial and material conditions and evaluating the earlier experiences of operation, drew up new rules of organization and operation which contained the symposium’s system of concrete aims and tasks, method of professional organization, optimal order of financing, infrastructural system of conditions, inner operation, ideas of development and publication of the symposium’s collection according to expectations of time. They announced a public international competition for participation in the creative work at the symposium which differed from the practice of competitions of the late 80s referring to Hungarian participants by breaking the practice of twin towns „to send artists” and also deciding directly about the persons of the Hungarian and foreign artists applying from the twin towns and elsewhere.

The Graphic Workshop became the main basis of the artists’ symposium, renovated and enlarged with a silkscreen workshop in voluntary work and winning over free offers of material as well as competitions and sponsors. With the aim of easing the difficulties of financing, they made every effort to establish a foundation, which, however, was not set up in the short period. They preserved the relationships developed with factories, organized the creative work there, purchasing the necessary materials and financing the costs of the use of machines and technology for the execution of metal sculptures. Similarly, they purchased the materials and means necessary for creation. They drew up a plan of the loft conversion of the workshop, which would have been destined for serving considerable qualitative improvement of board and lodging, radical reduction of cost increasing in inverse proportion to deterioration in quality of the board in halls of residence and transformation of the four-week summer symposium to a professional, continuously operating symposium likewise. (The implementation is topical even today.)

The new leadership also dealt with the future of the symposium’s collection and set themselves the aim of presenting it regularly, publishing it as well as erecting in a central park for good the sculptures for public sites banished to the outskirts. (The latter was realized - little too hastily - by István Ézsiás in the narrow square behind the Sándor Petőfi Community Centre in 1997.)

In the interest of assuring continuous high standard and work creating values, the artistic director wished to involve internationally known graphic artists in the creative work at the symposium, relying on sculptors and painters as well as the participants of the International Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Arts since

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