10 artists representing 8 countries in a project of contemporary printmaking - old and new techniques: etching, lithography, gum bichromate, serigraphy, photoengraving, cyanotype, linocut and digital drawing are represented.
Art and science have had a relationship of mutual influence for centuries. Artists and scientists explore and discover new technologies in their fields. Engravers comfortably adapt media technologies to their ideas, combine old traditional techniques with new ones, and clearly demonstrate the convergence of art and science.
The participants in the project are famous artists and engravers, conservators who do a lot to popularize engraving:
Lars Malmquist (Sweden)
Juhani Järvinen (Finland)
Gudrun Koppel (Estonia)
Inga Heamägi (Estonia)
Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė (Lithuania)
Eugenia Jaeger (Germany)
Alexey Veselovsky (Russia)
Konstantin Kornakov (Russia)
Juri Jakovenko (Belarus)
Valery Ruppel (Kyrgyzstan)
The special project: projection of ethnovideo of the director Umida Ahmedova on the traditions and customs of Uzbekistan.
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