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

Operation of the artists’ symposium to the Municpal Museum of Art founded five years before and working with greater and greater intensity, involved in some phases of work previously (from 1997 onwards): right of proposal for the selection of artists, care of the collection as well as documentation and realization of the symposium’s exhibitions.

Through this decision they also renounced the symposium’s direct supervision and vested the museum with full professional and operational responsibility.

The International Artists’ Symposium integrated into the Municipal Museum of Art and so perhaps definitively institutionalized, supplied with the clearly insufficiant cost aid and extended by the tasks of operation, and maintenance of the Graphic Workshop transferred from 2002 in the same financial conditions functions according to the organizational, operational and conceptional plans elaborated between 1991 és 1993. With the knowledge of achievements of contemporary art, as a result of its practice of organizing regular international exhibitions and wide-ranging artistic relations, it extended the range of participants to artists creating in any country of the world, among whom now we can find one or several prizewinning artists of the International Drawing and Graphic Biennial „Masters of Graphic Arts” as well as other similar international large-scale event of graphic art, furthermore gifted creators of twin towns and outstanding representatives of contemporary art of Hungary and Győr (Jenő Lévay, El Kazovszkij, Péter Molnár, Péter Orosz, Károly Szálkái, Imre Tolnay, Dezső Váli, Yuriko Miyoshi, Farouk Shehata, Robert Jancovic, Constantin Jaxy, Eugenia Gortchakova, Jan Meficka, Jana Sindelova, Beatrix Eitel, Toshimi Kitano, Claude Sinte, Helga Cmelka, Vicky Tsalamata, Pavel Makov, Carla Neis, Riitta Rönkkö, Susan Leask, etc).

In the paper restoring workshop with modern equipment, purchased on competition supports, the museum extended the possibilities of creation with a new workplace, also encouraging the artists to create paper works lacking in the symposium’s collection. Its different buildings serve as permanent venues for organizing its programme. In its conception of exhibitions and museology, the systematic and high-standard extension of the artists’ symposium, regular presentation, professional elaboration and publication are given a top priority. Through its lively artistic activity of contemporary art and events of related arts as well as the professional level of work going on here and careful selection of invited artists, it made the creative activity at the artists’ symposium attractive for the participants again.

It won the regular support of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage to operate the artists’ symposium, so it can assure undisturbed work for 10-12 persons for three weeks every year. Between the symposia it mounts a number of individual and group exhibitions, widening the possibilities of the creative activity going on here, of getting to know the participating artists and the works made by them, the reception of creations by the greatest possible public.

85