CALL FOR ARTISTS / BUDAPEST

Call for artists: PRESENT graphic art exhibition

The PRESENT is looking for artists for its next exhibition entitled Unaffordable art that will be a Christmas/Chanukkah art market at the same time.

Pablo Picasso: the owl

This time the site will not be the Gallery in the Prater street as usual. We have found a new place, an old bourgeois salon in the Sip street, next to Astoria, where, although the wind of the past has blown through it, it still can remind us (if not by its outside appearance) of the bustling artistic life of erstwhile art salons of the past.

We are organizing this exhibition with multiple ends. On the one hand we would like to continue the tradition of Present Gallery where we regularly give opportunity to exhibit for contemporary Hungarian and foreign artists. On the other hand we would like to create a meeting point, where not only artists and the regular art fair visitors can feel at home, but anyone from among the Christmas costumers, or anyone who is interested in contemporary culture and art.

We would like to prove, that although contemporary art seems to be unaffordable, as its worth is on a different plane than the price of any other consumption good, still it is not unaffordable, neither in spirit, nor in price.

This is why we decided that we maximize the prices in 25 000 HUF – to make it similar to the amount of money an average family spends on presents at this time of the year. The PRESENT wants to set an example by granting 75% of the income through the art works to the creators.

We do hope that by this maximized price we may inspire the artists and the customers to participate; we hope to draw in potentially new customers into the art market, popularizing contemporary art, that may thus gain a more prominent role in our everyday life. Let us not forget that most people do not know neither the artists of our days, nor the prices, and this lack of information repels many future collectors or buyers.

So we are calling all artists, who want to participate in this effort, to please send us his or her graphic art works, which he or she would like to exhibit and to sell.

The exhibition and the art fair will await the interested public all along December.

The mode of application:

• You may inform us about your participation only in email at this address : presentexhibit@gmail.com

• From all artists we await a photo that makes it possible for the Jury to ascertain the art work.

• Members of the Jury: David Geshem, Katja Melzer, Paksi Endre Lehel, Sárvári Zita.
• The email must contain the data of the art work: the name of the creator, the title of the work, year, measurements, materials, technique, in case of serial works the number of items and its price (max 25000 HUF).
• One artist may apply with several art works.
• We do not set formal or thematic boundaries. Due to this concept we expect the artists to decide about the cadres themselves and we would like to get the works already encadred.

The remaining details will be negotiated with the artists personally.

The applications, with a short CV should be sent till the 15^th of November at the email address: presentexhibit@gmail.com . Naturally all the questions pertaining the exhibitions can be sent to this mail address.

Best wishes:

David Geshem & Katja Melzer

PRESENT Gallery, 28 Práter utca, Budapest 1083