The Third International Mezzotint Festival Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts August 14 – September 30, 2015
Mezzotint
1642
Dutchman Ludwig von Siegen invented the mezzotint. Mezzotint (manera negra, or «black manner») is one of the varieties of the copper cutting engraving. Principles: • depth of velvety-black colors • subtlety and richness of shade gradation • pictorial softness of tone transitions Small editions: • 10–15 prints • Up to 40 prints (with exceptional skill)
Geography
95
artists from
35
countries
Chronology International Mezzotint Festival is a Biennale and happens every two years
2011
The First International Mezzotint Festival May 13 – June 26
2013
The Second International Mezzotint Festival May 18 – June 29
2015
The Third International Mezzotint Festival August 14 – September 30
… To be continued
Scale
more than 500 works 3 exposition sites Voyevodina st, 5 Vainera st, 11 Gorkogo st, 4a
2000 sq. m. of exhibition space
Exposition sites
Vainera st, 11
Voyevodina st, 5
Gorkogo st, 4Đ°
The Program of the Third International Mezzotint Festival
Expositions: Curator projects: • Modern Mezzotint of South Korea (Curator Seung Yeon Kim) • Selected Prints from the Collection of «Mission Gallery», USA (Curator Piper Jaramillo) • Mezzotint by Katsunori Hamanishi, Japan (Curator Andrei Martynov) • The historic project
Personal exhibitions of the Second International Mezzotint Festival winners: • Boonmee Sangkhum (Thailand) • Jukka Vanttinen (Sweden) • Martin Mitchell (England) • Guy Langevin (Canada) Open competition Non-Competition Section Selected mezzotint prints from the collection of the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
Special Program «Night in the «Black Manner»
August 14, 20:00–00:00 The Grand opening Open mezzotint workshops Authors’ excursions Night art-dispute
Guests of the Project. Artists
Boonmee Sangkhum Thailand
Guests of the Project. Artists
Martin Mitchell England
Guests of the Project. Artists
Guy Langevin Canada
Guests of the Project. Artists
Jorge Alberto Mateos Suarez Mexico
Guests of the Project. Artists
Kouki Tsuritani Japan
Guests of the Project. Artists
Aoife Layton Ireland
Guests of the Project. Artists
Caroline Koenders The Netherlands
Guests of the Project. Artists
Mikio Watanabe Japan–France
Guests of the Project. Artists
Marina Lazareva Russia
Guests of the Project. Jury
Ekaterina Klimova
Oleg Khromov
Xenia Bezmenova
Elizaveta Romanova
Saint-Petersburg Head of Department of Engravings of the XVIIIth– the Beginning of XXIth Centuries of the State Russian Museum
Moscow Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Doctor of Fine Arts, Head of the Department of the Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Arts
Moscow Leading Researcher of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Moscow Collector of prints
Guests of the Project. Jury
Kate Rutherford
Andrey Martynov
Nan Mulder
Mark Frising
Canada Graphic artist, member of the Artists’ Union of Canada, the International Society of Mezzotint
Moscow General Director of the “Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art”, Curator of the Novosibirsk Biennale of Contemporary Graphic Arts, independent curator of international art projects
Netherlands Graphic artist, member of the Professional Artists’ Unions of Scotland, the Netherlands and New Zealand
Luxembourg Graphic artist, painter, sculptor, winner of Grand Prix of the First International Mezzotint Festival (2011)
Guests of the Project. Curators
Seung Yeon Kim
Piper Jaramillo
Seoul, South Korea Professor of Engraving Department at the Hongik University, winner and jury member of international competitions of prints
USA Founder of Mission Gallery, California
The Team of the Festival
Marina Korneeva
Teena Garnik
Nikita Korytin
Ekaterina Korneeva
Yana Shlyahetskaya
Olga Permyakova
Lada Slobodyanik
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