The 1st International Ceramic Triennial UNICUM 09 - Slovenia
15.may - 28. september 2009

ZDSLU, Komenskega 8, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
e-mail: unicum09@gmail.com
www.unicum.si
gsm.: 040 896 785

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL TRIENNlAL OF CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS UNICUM 09 set up by ZDSLU in cooperation with National Museum of Slovenia is organizing International triennial of contemporary ceramics and parallel events all over Slovenia. The emphasis is on presentation of contemporary ceramics as an independent area in the field of artistic creation. Its intention is to popularize ceramics art in Slovenia and wide international area. Triennial contains competitive part with central ceramics exhibition and accompanying events and exhibitions.

A. Competitive part of triennial
Call for applications is international and public.
Any individual artist or group of artists who work in this media (ceramics) may participate in the 1st International triennial UNICUM 09.

Members of the organizing committee, international jury and invited authors are not allowed to compete in the international triennial UNICUM 09.

Each individual or group is allowed to submit up to three entries in total among which the international jury will select.

Artworks without any ceramic techniques, technologies or approaches will be rejected. Ceramic artworks can include other materials which must not predominate and have to be sensible justified in the work.

With application the artist is assuring that each ceramic artwork was created within last three years and has never been exhibited or rewarded before.

Costs of sending and returning artworks are authors' responsibility.

Applications
Applications to the competitive part of triennial with all documentation required should be sent via post to the address:
ZDSLU, 1st International ceramic triennial Unicum 09, Komenskega 8, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia or to the
e-mail address : unicum09@gmail.com

Each author has to deliver:

• Correctly filled entry form;
• High quality photograph of the author;
• Three photographs of each ceramic artwork in required format and quality for printing.

All photos may be collected on a CD in JPG, TIF or RAW format. On each photograph or CD there must be the name of the author and the title of the artwork.

With application each author also allows the organizer to use all information from received documentation for promotion and the catalogue of the triennial.

The organizer will not return the material that will be sent with applications. All the material will be kept in the archives of the triennial as a part of applications documentation.

The organizer of the triennial also does not take any responsibility for information which will be sent with applications and will be published for promotion purpose of the triennial or the catalogue. The author is taking all the responsibility for correctness of the information about him/her and his/her artwork.

Artworks which will be selected on the base of received photographs authors can not exchange or replace with other artworks.

Deadline for applications
Final deadline for application is 30th October 2008. Each author has to send application with all required documentation and photographs to the address: unicum09@gmail.com or 1st International ceramic triennial Unicum 09, Komenskega 8, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The organizer will not consider incomplete applications.

Selection of artworks and informing the authors about classifications to the triennial
International jury will perform the selection untill 15th December 2008.

Authors of selected ceramic artworks will be informed in January 2009. List of selected authors will be announced on the web side of the triennial.

Delivery of selected artworks
Authors must deliver selected artworks from 5th until 8th may 2009 between 10.00 and 12.00 to the address: National museum of Slovenia, Metelkova, Maistrova 1 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, International ceramic triennial Unicum 09, by post or in person.

Together with artworks authors have to send or bring photocopy of entry form to triennial.

If selected artworks consist of several pieces the author has to add the plan for setting up the artwork at the exhibition.

In case any selected author will send or deliver any other artwork than the one on the photograph in application to the triennial, the organizer will disqualified the author and reject the artwork.

Artworks which will arrive damaged or ruined will not be exhibited and will be returned to the author together with note of the commission about the injury of the artwork. Costs of sending and returning artworks covers the author.

Returning artworks
At the end of exhibition each author can pick up his/her artwork until 29th of september 2009 at the address: National museum of Slovenia, Metelkova, Ljubljana. After this date artworks will be returned to the author on his/her expenses.

Insurance of artworks
Insurance of artworks during transport from author to organizer is authors responsibility.

International jury
The jury will consist of artists who enjoy international reputation and are experts in the field of contemporary fine arts directions all over the world. International jury will consist of 5 members, 2 from Slovenia.

International expert jury Unicum 09

• Slovenia
  Doc. Nadja Zgonik, regular professor of art history and theory in the Academy of fine arts in Ljubljana and also artistic reviewer. She prepares exhibitions and writes reviews, discussions and studies for exhibition catalogues.
  Darko Golija, academic sculptor, spec., regular professor for sculpture on Pedagogical faculty in Maribor. He received several rewards.
  
• Serbia
  Velimir Vukičević, academic painter, master of ceramics, member of International Academy of Ceramics AIC, professor in Faculty of arts in Belgrade in department for ceramics. He also received several international rewards.
  
• Austria
  Waltraut Geschiel, master of art, member of International Organization for Contemporary Ceramics ICCA with headquarters in Vienna. She is also the director of International biennial of ceramics in Kapfenberg.
  
• Italia
  Emidio Galassi, academic sculptor and ceramist, he gave lessons in ceramics in Art Institute for Ceramics in Faenza. He received several rewards, among which is also Premia Faenza Ex aeguo from 1983.

Organizing committee Unicum 09

Peter Vernik, academic painter, the president of ZDSLU
Nikolaj Beer, academic painter, the president of Art committee ZDSLU
Doc. dr. Mateja Kos, the director of Department for ceramics and glass in National Museum of Slovenia
Mojca Smerdu, academic sculptor, spec., the president of Section for ceramics ZDSLU
Iztok Maroh, master of ceramic art, professional cooperator of Organizing Committee Unicum 09
Ana Cajnko, professor of fine arts, coordinator of Organizing Committe Unicum 09
Professor Dragica Čadež Lapajne, academic sculptor, spec., the president of Organizing Committee

The jury will make a selection of artworks for the exhibition of the triennial on the base of received photographic material. At the selection of the artworks the jury will consider creativeness, the power of artistic expression and formative - technological qualities.

From among selected artworks the jury will choose artworks for awards and recognitions of the triennial.

The decision of the jury is final.

Awards and recognitions
Awards and recognitions will be conferred at the opening of exhibition. About receipts of the awards and recognitions all the winners will be duly informed.

Artworks that will receive money awards* and artworks that will receive recognitions will be with concordance of the author included into permanent collection of the triennial.

*Because the organizer does not know the fund for money rewards yet, it is impossible to define their amount. There certainly will be granted three money rewards, several redemption rewards and written recognitions. The details will be announced on our web pages during preparations for realization of the trienale UNICUM 09.

The exhibition of the triennial
The opening of the 1st International Ceramic Triennial Unicum 09 will be sometime in may 2009 in National museum of Slovenia -Metelkova. The closing of the exhibition will be at the end of September 2009.
The organizer will take care for the setting up, protection and insurance of the exhibition in National Museum of Slovenia - Metelkova in Ljubljana. In case of any damage of artworks during the exhibition authors will receive money substitute up to the worth of artwork declared in the application form.

Promotion
Along with the exhibition there will be printed the catalogue of the selected artworks. Authors of selected artworks will receive the catalogue free of charge.

At the same time there all accompanying events and exhibitions will be promotionally covered.

B. Accompanying events of the triennial
In the time of triennial there will be organized accompanying parallel events and exhibitions all over Slovenia.

• In cooperation with Festival Ljubljana there will be an exhibition of 5 selected Slovenian artist that work in the field of ceramic art. This exhibition will take place at Ljubljana Castle.
  
• Organizations in Slovenia that educate in the field of ceramic art will organize an exhibition of students artworks in National Museum of Slovenia - Metelkova in Ljubljana.
  
• In the castle in Slovenska Bistrica CDU will organize an exhibition of members of Slovenian ceramics associations.
  
• Provincial museum in Murska Sobota will organize an exhibition where will, beside rich potters heritage, show the remarkable white ceramics of potter Adolf Hašaj.
  
• Dolenjski museum in Novo mesto will introduce the development of industrial fine ceramics of Josip Klemenčič.
  
• In lapidary of Gallery of Božidar Jakac in Kostanjevica on Krka there will be the confrontation of the authorial research work in ceramic art.
  
• The Gallery of fine arts in Slovenj Gradec will organize the meeting that will connect neighbour countries of EU in the field of ceramic art.
  

All the addresses of locations where exhibitions and events will take places and all the timetables will be announced in promotion material of the triennial and.

The organizer of the triennial reserves a right to change the rules if that is in interest of quality course of events.

The organizer

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