2015 CADAQUES MINI PRINT INTERNATIONAL

For 35 years the Mini Print International of Cadaqués
has offered the visitor an extensive panorama
of the different printmaking techniques that
artists all over the world currently use to freely express
their diverse and imaginative ideas. This allows
thousands of spectators in Cadaqués, Pineda
de Mar, Wingfield and Bages to enjoy a visual and
aesthetic knowledge that is difficult to repeat.
This year, for its 15th anniversary, the art magazine
Bonart has granted various prizes in recognition
of artistic trajectories of success and commitment.
The Mini Print has received an award
for the promotion of printmaking during more
than three decades from Cadaqués and Barcelona
to the world with an innovative and plural crossborder
spirit. We are grateful to the editors Anna
María Camps and Ricard Planas for the attentiveness
with which they always publish news about
the Mini Print, and especially and with much
emotion, the concession of this cultural prize,
given the importance and repercussion of Bonart
in Catalunya. It has known how to value the
significance and continuity of the Mini Print International
of Cadaqués and what it represents in
Catalan culture. We want to put this recognition
on record in the name of all the artists who have
participated throughout so many years, of the galleries
all over the world that have welcomed them,
and of the organization that receives, with this
prize, a boost of morale and optimism which encourages
us to strive to successfully continue the
Mini Print International of Cadaqués. Thank you!
The solo shows of the previous year’s winners
have, as always, aroused much curiosity in our
Cadaqués gallery. This summer the artists Aidan
Flanagan of Ireland, Tanya Yordanova of Bulgaria,
Yosuko Tachi of Japan, Irene Podgornik Badia of
Italy, Rosemary Mortimer of New Zealand and
Hortensia Pérez Cuenca of Spain visited us.
The presence of the artists at their openings leads
to an intense communication about the knowledge
of their techniques and the artistic and creative
motives that make them possible. They all
have left us a taste, including gastronomic, of
their countries.
The Mini Print International has travelled to the
Wingfield Barns art centre in the United Kingdom
thanks, as always, to the interest shown by Ian
Chance. There the exhibition is eagerly awaited,
visited and praised in the media.
The Mini Print International of Cadaqués was also
exhibited, as it is every year, in the Tharrats Printmaking
Foundation with the approval of the Pineda
del Mar City Hall and the special interest of its
mayor Xavier Amor. The show in the Foundation
– which is located in the Maresme, the coastal
region that hosts many interesting printmaking
workshops – is visited by the inhabitants as well as
by many of the participating artists.
From the middle of November to the middle of
January the exhibition is received by L’Étangd’Art
Gallery in Bages, France where it is much visited
because it coincides with the Christmas holidays.
The prestige of the gallery, directed by Sophie Espagno-Cassard
honours us with its collaboration.
As always, I would also like to express my admiration
and appreciation to the participating artists
who are the principal authors of the cultural
adventure that is the Mini Print International of
Cadaqués.
All together we will achieve it again. We await you!
Mercedes Barberá Rusiñol
Director of the Mini Print International of Cadaqués