Friday, January 23, 2015
46th WORLD GALLERY OF CARTOONS Skopje 2015.
Dear friends cartoonists,
2015
is very important year for OSTEN, as this year we are celebrating the 70-years
anniversary of its establishment (it was established 1st January 1945), while
last 2014 was the 45-years anniversary of the 1st World Gallery of Cartoons (20
August 1969). These are respectful jubilees, but therefore the responsibility
for running OSTEN and
the
World Gallery of Cartoons is huge…
Over the time, OSTEN has
experienced different fortune – from being completely supported by the community
and institutions, to transitional inability for realization of the basic
activities. In that transitional period, from 2005 to 2008 – three editions of
the World Gallery of Cartoons were not held, and that affects with disorder in
the years of its organizing. That is why, the last edition of the World Gallery
of Cartoons, instead of jubilee 45th, it was 42nd World Gallery of
Cartoons – Skopje 2014.
Last
year, 2014, on the occasion of the 45-year anniversary of the World Gallery of
Cartoons, OSTEN made a resolution to organize three thematic digital cartoon
competition, who will fulfill the missed editions and thus will ensure the
continuity of
the
World Gallery of Cartoons.
That was the intention for organizing:
43rd World Gallery of
Cartoons – Skopje 2014
(Digital Cartoons Competition on theme ‘Summer’)
Selector: Miroslav
Georgievski Miro, Macedonia (cartoonist)
Awarded cartoonist:
Ross THOMSON, United Kingdom
44th World Galley of
Cartoons – Skopje 2014
(Digital Cartoons Competition on theme ‘Wine’)
Selector: Dragan Popovski, Macedonia (cartoonist)
Awarded cartoonists:
Doru
AXINTE, Romania
Ilja
KATZ, Israel
Valentin
GEORGIEV, Bulgaria
45th
World Gallery of Cartoons – Skopje 2014
(Digital Cartoons Competition on theme ‘Football’)
Selector:
Mice Jankulovski, Macedonia (cartoonist)
Awarded cartoonists:
Seyran CAFERLI, Azerbaijan
Igor
SMIRNOV, Russia
King
Shan LI, China
For
eatch edition of the World Gallery of Cartoons (Thematic Competition of Digital
Cartoons), catalog will be published, where all participants of the competition
will be presented. The catalog will be sent to each participant via post
mail.
According
to the propositions, for the awarded artists an exhibition will be organized in
OSTEN Gallery Skopje.
To
all cartoonists who took part on
the
43rd / 44th / 45th World Gallery of Cartoons Skopje 2014
–
THANK YOU FOR THE PARTICIPATION!
And...
Follow us, other thematic competitions for digital cartoons will follow, as a
counterbalance to the established proposition on the World Gallery of Cartoons
from 2014 on – to be eligible only original, hand drawn cartoons, satiric
drawings and comic/strips with free theme.
This
year, as a result of the continual organization of the World Gallery of
Cartoons from 1969, we are announcing 46th WORLD GALLERY OF
CARTOONS Skopje 2015.
You
are very welcome to take part in this prestigious event!
(the application form is attached)
With respect:
Mice JANKULOVSKI, Director
OSTEN - art on paper
World Gallery of Cartoons
World Gallery of Drawing
World Gallery of Drawing
8.Udarna Brigada 2, 1000
Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
T +389 2 3213665
M +389 71 225950
E contact@osten.com.mk
www.osten.com.mk
Republic of Macedonia
T +389 2 3213665
M +389 71 225950
E contact@osten.com.mk
www.osten.com.mk
OSTEN is a recognizable brand in the field of art, emancipated
thought and liberated creation since 1945. Great art admirer and passionate art
collector, through the World Gallery of Cartoons and the World
Gallery of Drawing, OSTEN makes room for the artists of the world.
Museum of Drawing is the biggest achievement of OSTEN art
on paper.
Amanha, dia 24 lançamento do livro "30 Anos a dar Broncas" (edição Trevim - Lousã) de Zé Oliveira em Leiria
No âmbito da apresentação do livro "30
Anos a dar Broncas" (edição Trevim - Lousã), já pode ser visitada na
Arquivo (Leiria) a exposição de originais constantes do livro. Mas a
apresentação será no dia 24, com participações de Manuel Freire e Carlos Fernandes. Falar-se-á, naturalmente, dos... riscos do Humor Gráfico.
Hoje no Museu Bordalo Pinheiro de Lisboa mesa redonda sobre Cartoon e Liberdade de Imprensa
com a presença dos cartoonistas António, Bandeira e Nuno Saraiva
Je suis Charlatan cartoon de Yahhis Ioannou
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Contraprovocação cartoon de Rodrigo Matos
Charlie Hebdo por J.Bosco
Charlie Hebdo's last will and testament by Michel Kichka
Israeli
caricaturist Kichka, whose friends were murdered in Paris, says we owe them an
immense debt
I am trying to imagine the last seconds in the lives
of my Charlie Hebdo friends and colleagues - Jean Cabut, Georges Wolinski,
Stephane Charbonnier (Charb), Bernard “Tignous” Verlhac, Philippe Honore -
against the barbarians of the Buttes Chaumont neighborhood.
What did they think, a Kalashnikov pointed at their
temple, during the last moments of their lives?
I imagine it went something like this:
Cabu: It's hard to be murdered by idiots!
Wolinski: Go screw yourself, motherfucker!
Charb: Too bad I don’t have time to make a striking front
page!
Tignous: You're even more ugly in reality than in my
drawings.
Honoré: Obscurantists must be drawn in black and white.
I know their hand never shook when they drew a
caricature. They knew that the threats existed but they were not afraid. They
were aware of their role in the drawing battle. If all cartoonists are the foot
soldiers of democracy, Charlie Hebdo was the vanguard. We owe them an
immeasurable debt.
They defended freedom of expression until their last
breath. And they left us as heroes.
After a fire broke out in the paper’s offices in 2011,
the editor, Charb, said: "There is a greater chance of dying in a car
crash than being murdered by an Islamist". This sentence keeps ringing in
my head ever since the attack.
For me, Charlie Hebdo always represented the red line,
that famous line that everyone talks about without being able to define it:
that line that should not be crossed. But Charlie’s editorial cartoonists, by
crossing the line every week, made it more visible and tangible for us. And as
such, they forced me to re-examine my own limitations whenever I put pen to
paper.
They often went too far, but they were also often
right. If drawing is a fight, we must strike hard.
Israeli society is shocked by what happened in Paris.
It is difficult for Israelis to understand the terrorist’s choice of target - a
satirical newspaper - because, unfortunately, we in Israel don’t have such a
paper.
In the eyes of the French people, the attacks on
January 7 are symbolically equivalent to the September 11 attacks in the United
States. Two basic principles prevail in the secular French Republic: freedom of
expression, also one of the principles of the Charter of Human Rights, and the
separation of church and state. In Israel we do not have the same historical
tradition and principles do not have quite the same weight.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has long since
spilled over to the streets of France has been used by some in the media as a
pretext for the worst. At least that's what we thought. But the worst has just
taken place.
The French may have understood once and for all that
the whole of France is targeted. When only Jews were targeted it was presented
as anti-Semitic acts instead of terrorist acts. However, for these
fundamentalist terrorists, all "infidels" deserve to be murdered.
Even looking at the drawings of Charlie Hebdo - which sometimes could be quite
offensive - was a crime to be punished. Exercising freedom of expression and
criticism is to sign, in the terrorists’ eyes, one’s death sentence.
Can these events bring about change? Yes, as long as
we do it intelligently. By "we" I mean France, Europe, the Western
world of which we are a part. This attack was a rude awakening for us all.
This attack will remain forever etched in my
consciousness and so will the drawing of Cabu, Wolinski, Charb, Tignous and
Honoré. And if they could talk to us today from wherever they are, they would
tell us loudly and clearly: "Do not be afraid, continue the fight, we have
no regrets". As a member of Cartooning for Peace, as a draftsman in
non-satirical media, I have to push my own limits a little further. I am aware
of the educational impact of my work. But their work also had its impact with
sharpened pencils and without erasers.
Je suis Charlie and I sign Kichka.
(
Belgian-born Michel Kichka is a prize-winning Israeli
political cartoonist, lecturer and curator, an active member of “Cartooning for
Peace”.)
