Mazányi Judit: Egytől egyig szita. A Szentendrei Grafikai Műhely 30 éves jubileumi kiállítása, 2010. július 9 - augusztus 22. - PMMI Ferenczy Múzeum kiadványai 30. (Szentendre, 2010)
Screen Prints: Each and Every One The idea of founding the Szentendre Graphic Workshop dates back to the end of the 1970s. Originally, this initiative started from local art circles. They intended to establish a multifunctional contemporary art institution which would give on one hand opportunity for experiments, creation and encounters for artists living in or related to Szentendre, and on the other, with the supervision of the creative community, ran a modern place for exhibitions and merchandising. Imre Kocsis, painter and graphic artist living in Szentendre, played a significant role in establishing the workshop, which was suitable for making screen prints. He was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, and, as one of the originators of serigraphy, helped to initiate the creative work with his advice. After long preparatory discussions led by Ádám Farkas, sculptor, the workshop began to function in January, 1980. At the first time the workshop was financially supported by the Art Fund of the People's Republic of Hungary, the Council of Pest County, the Town of Szentendre, and the Directorate of Pest County Museums. In the beginning, the Workshop was maintained and supervised by the Pest County Cultural Centre and Library, and from 1982, keeping its full artistic autonomy, the supervision was taken over by the Directorate of the County Museums. The Workshop Gallery opened in 1981 in the Museum's historic building in Fő tér, the main square of Szentendre which gave place for the Workshop as well. The prints made on the first floor were available for the public on the ground floor. The technical knowledge and creative ideas of the typographer Mihály Lipták contributed to the high artistic level of the production of the series. In 2003, the Workshop moved to the area of the ancient Roman Castrum, where a separate building was renewed for it by the Directorate of Pest County Museums. In 2004 and 2005, important developments took place with the support of the Advisory Office for Fine Arts. The procurement of the materials used for the prints are regularly financed by the sources of the National Cultural Fund. Series of 30-50 pieces are printed in the workshop. The prints made here are often featured in graphic exhibitions in Hungary and abroad, attracting the attention of art historians and art traders. The Directorate of Pest County Museums receives one obligatory specimen each series made in the Workshop from its foundation up to this day. Thus the Ferenczy Museum keeps a collection of some 700 serigraphies, which is a cross-section incomparable with anything else of the past 30 years within the art of Szentendre. The material includes graphic sheets from classics of the twentieth century Hungarian art, such as Jenő Barcsay, Endre Bálint, György Kepes, Dezső Korniss, Erzsébet Vaszkó, and also features prints from eminent contemporary artists, such as László Balogh, Pál Deim, Adám Farkas, Hona Keserű, Imre Kocsis, Tamás Konok and István Nádler. Besides painters and graphic artists who are members of the Old and New Artists' Colony, or the Vajda Lajos Studio, quite a few sculptors living in the town also made prints in the Workshop too. The pieces featured not only give a summary of the main artistic endeavours at Szentendre, but of the development of art styles in Hungary as well. 28
