The 7th Biennial showed that the core within contemporary graphic art creativity had shifted from Europe to America and Japan. Young artists were at the forefront, whose work was technically sophisticated and interesting in content. The expression of abstract art became a classic notion, with symbols and depictions of objects, as well as the figurative, becoming more widespread. The appearance of expressive figuration (new image painting) can be noted within European printmaking. In technical terms, however, the Biennial highlighted the screen printing technique and its expressive effects filtering through from comics, newspapers, commercials and posters.
The 7th International Exhibition of Graphic Arts
Grand Prix:
Antoni Tàpies
Grand Prix d’Honneur:
Hans Hartung
International Jury Prizes:
Jasper Johns, Dževad Hozo, Alfred Hrdlicka, Albín Brunovský, Otto Piene
Number of artists in the main exhibition: 317
Main exhibition venues:
Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
Artists
- Kerstin Abram-Nilsson
- Livio Abramo
- Poul Agger
- Borislav Aleksić
- José Luis Alexanco
- Menhat Allah Helmy
- Getulio Alviani
- Kunihiro Amano
- Kazumi Amano
- Mohamed Amar
- Jiří Anderle
- Antonio Andivero
- Kosta Angeli Radovani
- Horst Antes
- Geneviève Asse
- Ethel Baias-Lucaci
- Jiří Balcar
- George Baldessin
- George Ball
- Yannick Ballif
- Georges Behrakis
- Edith Behring
- Gabriel Belgeonne
- David Ben-Shaoul
- Anthony Benjamin
- Mersad Berber
- Rudolf Bergander
- Anna-Eva Bergman
- Antonio Berni
- Janez Bernik
- Roger Bertemes
- Natyar Bhavsar
- Bengt Böckman
- Janez Boljka
- Giorgio Bompadre
- Paolo Boni
- Alexandre Bonnier
- Maria Bonomi
- Bogdan Borčić
- Vesna Borčić
- Bořivoj Borovský
- Erich Brauer
- Margaret Breindel
- Anne Breivik
- Miguel Bresciano
- João Brites
- Zofia Broniek
- Albín Brunovský
- Wolff Buchholz
- Carlos Alberto Cabé
- Antonio Calderara
- Giuseppe Capogrossi
- Glauco Capozzoli
- Eugénie Caracalos
- Bruno Caraceni
- Aida Carballo
- Eugenio Carmi
- Raul Cattelani
- Patrick Caulfield
- Vasile Celmare
- Monique Charbonneau
- Anna Chou Ying Wong
- Jaime Cruz
- Kálmán Csohány
- Slavoljub Čvorović
- Stojan Ćelić
- Allan D'Archangelo
- Zlatka Dabova
- Francis De Bolle
- Frédéric de Guide
- Roberto De Lamonica
- Riko Debenjak
- Barbara Dębska-Narębska
- Mario Decleva
- Lucio Del Pezzo
- Robyn Denny
- Juraj Dobrović
- John Drawbridge
- Günther Drebusch
- Albert Dumouchel
- Božidar Džmerković
- Viktor Efimovič Popkov
- Avraham Eilat
- Omar El Nagdi
- Merlyn Evans
- Eugen Feller
- Ladislau Feszt
- Stanisław Fijałkowski
- Gurij Filipovič Zaharov
- Jürgen Fischer
- Jan Forsberg
- Christian-Jean-Roger Fossier
- Sam Francis
- Wil Frenken
- Adolf Frohner
- Yukio Fukuzawa
- Mladen Galić
- Anna Bella Geiger
- Jóseph Gielniak
- Gordon W. Gilkey
- Juan Giralt
- Luis Joaquim Gonçalves
- Leonilda Gonzales
- Sergio Gonzales-Tornero
- Johnny Gotthard Friedlaender
- Carmen Gracia
- Hap Grieshaber
- Ilarion Grigorjevič Nekrasov
- Jan Grimsrud
- Ev Grüger
- Lea Grundig
- Giuseppe Guerreschi
- Corneille Guillaume Beverloo
- José Guinovart
- James Guitet
- Jiří Hadlač
- Karl Erik Häggblad
- Hideo Hagiwara
- Einar Hákonarson
- Yozo Hamaguchi
- Patrick Hanly
- Pedro Hanne Gallo
- Simo Hannula
- Hans Hartung
- Shoichi Hasegawa
- Henry Heerup
- Karl Heinz Droste
- Jean Hélion
- Erkki Hervo
- Anton Heyboer
- David Hockney
- Alfred Hofkunst
- Rudolf Hoflehner
- Adi Holzer
- Jože Horvat Jaki
- Dževad Hozo
- Alfred Hrdlicka
- Masuo Ikeda
- Yukihisa Isobe
- Seund Ja Rhee
- Božidar Jakac
- Andrej Jemec
- Jiří John
- Jasper Johns
- Allen Jones
- Manuela Jorge
- Vira Jothaprasert
- Avo Juliusovič Keerend
- Vitautas Kalinauskas
- Amin Awad Kamal
- Mitsuo Kano
- Boško Karanović
- Hanns Karlewski
- Pentti Kaskipuro
- Bogdan Kiar Meško
- Ingo Kirchner
- Per Kleiva
- Danuta Kluza
- Misch Kohn
- Lájos Kondor
- Giovanni Korompay
- Radovan D. Kragulj
- George Krallis
- Janina Kraupe
- Marko Krsmanović
- Alena Kučerová
- Ante Kuduz
- Vłodzimierz Kunz
- Kenji Kusaka
- Barbara Kwasniewska
- Roland Laforcade
- Tadeusz Lapinski
- Mauricio Lasansky
- Julio Le Parc
- Greta Leuzinger
- José Lima
- Gösta Lindqvist
- Gerard Lommen
- Antonio Lorenzo
- Bernhard Luginbühl
- Pentti Lumikangas
- Jorge Guillermo Luna Ercilla
- Bertil Lundberg
- Zbigniew Lutomski
- Heinz Mack
- Louise-Zizi Makris
- Vladimir Makuc
- Elga Maly
- Adriana Maraž-Bernik
- Leonard Marchant
- Gustave Marchoul
- André Marfaing
- Wilma Martins
- Gregory Masurovsky
- Jean Messagier
- Lucjan Mianowski
- Ileana Micodin
- Fred Micos
- Eugen Mihaescu
- Vitalij Mihajlovič Volovič
- France Mihelič
- Branko Miljuš
- Kurt Moldovan
- Mordecai Moreh
- Richard Mortensen
- Zoran Mušič
- Miodrag Nagorni
- Euelia Medina Navarrete
- Michelle Nédélec
- Virgilije Nevjestić
- Chalood Nimsamer
- Yoshiko Noma
- Kazunari Ogata
- Evald Okas
- César Olmos
- Ankica Oprešnik
- Hans Orlowski
- Fayga Ostrower
- Klavdij Palčič
- Todor Panajotov
- Victor Pasmore
- Gábor Pásztor
- Martin Pat Bates
- Luca Patella
- Luis Francisco Paz Sanchez
- Henry Pearson
- Zoltin Peeter
- Bruno Pelz
- Umberto Peña Garriga
- Achille Perilli
- Karl Pfahler
- Otto Piene
- Juan Hernandez Pijuan
- Arthur Luis Piza
- Marjan Pogačnik
- Clayton Pond
- Isabel Pons
- Hannes Postma
- Marij Pregelj
- Lubomir Přibyl
- Alfonso Quijano Acero
- Alf Ragnvald Olsson
- Ulf Rahmberg
- Arnulf Rainer
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Omar Rayo
- Robert Rehfeldt
- Nikola Reiser
- Augusto Rendon Sierra
- Paul Revel
- Tamara Rikman
- Larry Rivers
- Sergio Romiti
- James Rosenquist
- Bru Roser
- Sydonn Rothenberg
- Reidar Rudjord
- Kamel Saad
- Margret Sander
- Pasquale Santoro
- San Sarakornborirak
- Abdel Rasoul Sayed
- Marianna Schmidt
- Rudolf Schönwald
- Emil Schumacher
- Hans Schweizer
- Peter Sedgley
- Antonio Seguí
- Luis Seoane
- Yvan Sers
- Aldona Skirutyte
- Krystyna Smiechowska
- Leszek Sobocki
- Alfredo Sosa Bravo
- Jesus R. Soto
- Nyung Souk Kwon
- Lojze Spacal
- Klaus Staeck
- Andrew Stasik
- Tinca Stegovec
- Ion Stendl
- Nils G. Stenqvist
- Borislav Stoev
- Guido Strazza
- Kumi Sugai
- Adriena Šimotová
- Miroslav Šutej
- Antoni Tàpies
- Arunas Tarabilda
- Par Gunnar Thelander
- Joe Tilson
- Yeu Ting Kwong
- Zdravko Tišljar
- Oddvar Torsheim
- Miloš Urbásek
- Victor Vasarely
- Anatolij Vasiljevič Borodin
- Barry Vickerman Cleavin
- Teresa Vila
- Eduardo Vilches
- Antonio Virduzzo
- Carel Nicolaas Visser
- Marjan Vojska
- Andrea Volo
- Hans D. Voss
- Goranka Vrus-Murtić
- Lazar Vujaklija
- Mieczysław Wejman
- Edwin Wenger
- Irena Whittome
- Kenji Yoshida
- Hideo Yoshihara
- Marcos Yrizarry
- Julio Augusto Zachrisson
- Ossip Zadkine
- Enrique Zanartu
- Daniel Zelaya
International Jury
- Oto Bihalji-Merin
- Walter Koschatzky
- Jiří Kotalik
- Zoran Kržišnik
- Jacques Lassaigne
- William S. Lieberman
- German Aleksandrovič Nedoshivin
- Werner Schmalenbach
Other Exhibitions and Projects
Publications
Biennale Organisation
Organiser: Moderna galerija, Ljubljana.
Director of Moderna galerija: Zoran Kržišnik.
Preparation committee of the exhibition: Zoran Kržišnik, Majda Jerman, Breda Misja, Riko Debenjak, Aleksander Čolnik, Sergej Pavlin, Viktor Polak, Jaka Štular.
Secretary General of international graphic arts exhibitions in Ljubljana: Zoran Kržišnik.
Committee for the Selection of Works Submited for the Competition: Špelca Čopič, Vera Horvat Pintarič, Zoran Kržišnik, Miodrag B. Protić, Boris Vižintin.
Arrangement of the exhibition: Sergej Pavlin, Zoran Kržišnik.