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Dear colleagues,

World Ex libris competition with the topic Bread – cultural heritage is organized by BalkanKult Foundation in cooperation with EricArts Institute from Bonn, Turkish Ex libris Society, Museum of Bread in Ulm and Ex libris Association of Belgrade.

Bread is one of the greatest discoveries of mankind! There is no doubt that bread is the most common food found on dinner tables worldwide. But, Bread is not only a food, it is a symbol of spirituality and a reflection of cultural traditions. The secret of Bread lies in its true gastronomic, spiritual and cultural uniqueness.

We call you to take participation as representative of your own culture and encourage your members to send us their works that will be shown all round the world in an exhibition followed by the representative catalogue. The catalogue will gather the best works selected by quality criterion.

We would appreciate if you could animate the artists to participate in this intriguing Ex libris competition and disseminate this information through your newsletters.

More detailed information can be found on the official web site www.breadculture.net, contact address is contact@breadculture.net

We would be grateful if you could send us lists of your members as we would also like to contact them directly.

Thank you in advance!

Sincerely,

Sandra Markovic

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International ex-libris competition
on the theme
"BREAD - CULTURAL HERITAGE"

BALKANKULT FOUNDATION, ERICARTS INSTITUTE, ANKARA EX-LIBRIS SOCIETY, THE BREAD MUSEUM, Ulm and BELGRADE EX-LIBRIS CIRCLE, have decided to organize an international ex-libris competition on the subject of BREAD-CULTURAL HERITAGE, to support co-operation amongst persons active in culture and media, artists and entities world wide, and help develop communicational, professional and technical trans-border artistic and cultural ties and independent exchange of information.

Participation rules:

Article 1
This competition is open to artists from all over the world. No fee is required for participation.

Article 2
Artists are invited to make one or more ex-libris on the theme the BREAD – cultural heritage, as the most general and multisided symbol.

Article 3
All works submitted must be conceived as ex-libris, i. e. as small-format art graphics made to be pasted into books and to identify their owner. They must integrate within the image the words EX LIBRIS, or a similar inscription in the language of the participating countries and the NAME OF THE OWNER, who must be an existing person or institution.

Article 4
There are no limitations as to the number of different ex-libris which may be submitted. The maximum size of the printed surface must not be more than 13 cm. Participants must send FOUR prints of EACH work submitted. The ownership of the material sent will pass to the organizers of the competition, as well as the rights of reproduction.

Article 5
Ex-libris submitted must be printed original graphic works, drawings, sketches or photocopies will not be accepted. All graphic arts techniques will be treated equally.

Article 6
Each print of each ex-libris submitted must have, legibly inscribed in Latin alphabet, on the back of it in pencil, the artist's name and address, his year of birth, the technique used and the year in which the ex-libris was made. Each print must be signed or initialed by the artist. It would be appreciated if artists could send short curriculum vitae with the material for the competition.
Article 7
The international Jury will be composed of seven members: Dr Andrea Fadani, Director of the Bread Museum, Ulm, Germany, Prof. Dr Andreas Wiesand, Executive Director of EricArts Institute, Bonn, Germany; Prof. Hasip Pekta, graphic artist and President of the Turkish Ex-libris Society, Ankara, Turkey; Prof. Caslav Ocic, President of the Belgrade Ex-libris Circle; Arpad Salomon, graphic artist, Slovenske Konjice, Slovenia; Dimitrije Vujadinovic, president BalkanKult Foundation, Belgrade, BenoŢt Junod, collector and author of various publications on bookplates, Geneva, Switzerland. The president of the Jury is Caslav Ocic. The Jury will pay attention to the artistic and technical qualities of the ex-libris, as well as to its originality and its merit as a mark of possession integrating concept, image and text. The decision of the Jury will be final. The jury reserves its right not to award certain prizes or certificates if there are not enough works submitted of sufficient quality.

Article 8
The following prizes will be awarded by decision of the Jury a first prize of 1500 Euro, a second prize of 1000 Euro and two ex-equo prizes of 500 Euro. Individuals and institutions can give unofficial prizes.

Article 9
The deadline date for submitting works is 31 JANUARY 2007. Material for the competition must be sent to the address:
• BALKANKULT Foundation, Trg Nikole Pasica 1, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro with »EX-LIBRIS« noted on the envelope.
• Contact person: SANDRA MARKOVIC, BalkanKult Foundation, tel/fax: +381 11 322 9349;
• E-mail: contact@breadculture.net

Article 10
An illustrated catalogue of works submitted for the competitions will be prepared and will be sent free of charge to artists whose ex-libris are illustrated therein. The best ex-libris from the competition will be exhibited in Belgrade and various cities of the region.

Article 11
Participation in the competitions implies unconditional acceptance of the above rules.

Article 12
The results of the competitions will be sent for publication to all the associations which are members of the FŮdŮration Internationale des SociŮtŮs d'Amateurs d'Ex-libris (FISAE).

FOR MORE ABOUT BREAD: http://www.breadculture.net