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Meeting Point 2
The first serious fine arts exhibition of the European Capital of Culture year; Meeting Point 2 International Fine Arts Biennale started on 15 January.
The exhibition is organised by the cooperation of numerous European cultural institutions and artists.
The travelling exhibition Meeting Point 2 started in Arad on 13 November 2009 with its next stop being Pécs. The exhibition is the result of the cooperation between the Pécs Gallery and Visual Arts Workshop and some Romanian partner organisations. With Osijek and Plzen participating in the programme it became a real central European event including three EU member states and one non-member country. Another city that also joined the initiation was the Austrian ’Pöchlarn’ where the ’Kokoschka Documentation’ is to be found and where, by the ’Atalier An Der Donau’, one of today’s most important symposium of contemporary art is operating.
One of the main aims of the biennale is to save the methods for expressing the language of traditional painting, sculpture and graphics. The exhibition could be characterised by the subtitle: „The role of traditional conventional fine arts in contemporary arts”, and it was organised in this spirit the first time in Arad. As referred to in its name the Meeting Point 2 gives the opportunity besides the leaders of the countries and cities to the representatives of the profession (art historians, artists, critics) to meet each other and enrich the communication between their different cultures.
Some of the Hungarian artists:
Painters and graphic artists: Barna Benedek, Kálmán Bükösdi, Zsuzsanna Deák, Anita Egle, János Erdős, András Ernszt, Adrienn Farkas, Miklós Fejős, Ferenc Ficzek Jr., Pál Fodor, István Jarmeczky, Endre Kiss, Amarilla Knyihár, László Könyvásó, István Losonczy, Márta Nyilas, Tamás Odrobina, András Pinczehelyi, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Péter Somody, Dávid Szentgróti, Szilárd Szilágyi, László Valkó.
Sculptors, handicraft artists: Antal Dechandt, Foster Colin, Ágnes Kertészfi, Esztella Mányi, Gábor Miklya, Tamás Mosonyi, Pál Németh, Attila Pokorny, István Vanyúr.
Date: 15 January – 14 February 2010
Venue: Pécs Gallery – Széchenyi square