Celebrating Print Magazine 2.2 Launch Party

NEW YORK - Oct. 3, 2016 - PRLog -- KADS New York is pleased to announce a launch party for the October 2016 issue of Celebrating Print, the magazine that covers fine art print and printmaking in Central and Eastern Europe. The event will take place on Friday, November 4, at Manhattan's Bohemian National Hall during New York Print Week.

Celebrating Print 2.2 Launch Party honors the dedication of the magazine's writers in their efforts to research and evaluate developments in printmaking as an autonomous art discipline. The contributing art historians, curators and educators craft critical written analysis as part of their ongoing efforts to inform the public about the values of printmaking and its significance in Central and Eastern European visual culture. Organized by KADS New York in partnership with the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, the launch party also celebrates the writers' strive to elevate the status of the art medium by emphasizing its long tradition of excellence and interdisciplinary crossovers.

KADS New York has also partnered with the Consulate General of Slovakia in New York and Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association to create this one-time opportunity to engage the public in a discussion on Central European culture during New York Print Week.

In the freshly published October issue, art historian Julia Meszaros offers a survey of modern Hungarian printmaking, which encompasses early forms of narrative works as well as the radical trends of 1980s and 1990s, when artists defied the medium's traditions by experimenting with Xerox technology and other devices. Curator Barbora Kundracikova explores the aesthetic nature of prints in Sensing Beyond Seeing by applying theory to the works of Alena Kucerova, Marie Blabolilova and Romana Rotterova—three Czech printmakers who continuously translate their personal experiences into digestible pictorial content. The October issue also delves into the realm of fantasy art, a phenomenon typically associated with Central and Eastern European print. Art historian Eva Trojanova's Carousels of Life focuses on the expansive oeuvre of Slovak artist Vladimir Gazovic and his "efforts to reveal the truth" by combining astute observations of reality with phantasmal motifs. Fluctuations between dreams and reality find a fixed state in the works of Kamila Stanclova, another Slovak artist interviewed by editor Katerina Kyselica. Stanclova's line-based etchings come interlaced with sublime shapes generated by her imagination and subconscious. You are invited to read the transcribed accounts of her dreams in order to grasp the poetic side of her imagery. Croatian artist Ana Vivoda, whose project Traces is presented to shed light on the printmaking process, reflects on her interactions with the environment as she marks the matrix.

date: Friday, November 4, 7:00 - 8:30 PM

venue: Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021

Registration is recommended. Register for free at: http://celebratingprintlaunch.eventbrite.com.

If you would like to support Celebrating Print's mission to present the rich culture of Central and Eastern European fine art print and printmaking, please consider subscribing to Celebrating Print Magazine or purchasing individual issues at http://www.celebratingprint.com.

Celebrating Print is a full-color magazine about fine art print and printmaking practice in Central and Eastern Europe. Curators, scholars and printmaking educators contribute articles, essays and interviews that profile modern and contemporary print across the region. Celebrating Print was founded as an information platform for collectors, scholars and print enthusiasts to navigate the culture of Central and Eastern European print as well as discover works by present-day creators that reflect the region's rich tradition. Launched in 2015, the biannual magazine is published in October and April by New York–based creative studio KADS New York in both print and digital format.

KADS New York is an art dealership with consulting practice specializing in European modern and contemporary fine art prints and other works on paper. Based in New York City, the dealership offers collectors a wide range of works created by renowned artists and emerging talents. KADS New York is the publisher of Celebrating Print Magazine.