9th International Festival of Graphic
Humour Art Museum

Theme:
The 9th International Itinerant Festival of graphic humor prefixed humor art museum creation.
It is the only museum in the world that can house the greatest works by artist of the past and present simultaneously, in the same space, thanks to the best humor pencils of the five continents. They're not author's fakes, in many cases they are revised and corrected versions of the great works of the great painters and sculptors of the world.
The art in the museums not always suggests feelings of serenity and solemnity. Behind every work there has always been another interpretation very different to the one the artist wanted to give.
How many times have we wondered which would be the problems of Rodin's Thinker, with his head always downwards in position of eternal meditation, or the reason of the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa, or the reason of the two hands almost in contact in Michelangelo's Creation, or the reason of the obesity of Botero's characters, etc. It is possible that the great artist of humanity would have never imagined that one their works could have been re-created by humor graphic artists from all around the world, seriously and with respect, preserving their eternal quality and value of cultural treasures of humanity.
If necessary, we apologize since now for the sound irreverence of the humor artists, but first of all their intention is not the lack of respect of the great artists' works, on the contrary, the spirit is that of giving the opportunity to all the people who have never entered into a museum to see the great masterpieces, even through the humor.
Museums as the Louvre, the British Museum, the Metropolitan, the Hermitage will never have the opportunity to house at the same time works by Monet, Goya, Picasso, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Botero, Modigliani, Dali, Siqueiro, Rodin, Gauguin, Wharol, Lautrec, Van Gogh, Magritte, etc.
In this Festival the humor pencils from all over the world allow us to virtually visualize the unique and unrepeatable HUMOR ART MUSEUM characterized by a sincere and real love for art.
Convocation
The festival is open to all the professional cartoonist. Works must be presented with the author participation form (name, address, country, photograph or caricature of the author).
Dimensions: cm. 20 x cm. 30 – cm 30 x cm 40.
The works can be in black and white or with colors and the authors are free to choose all techniques they prefer for the realization. The drawings must be original, photocopies won't be accepted.
Quantity: no more than two drawings.
1. The authors must indicate behind the drawings if they want to participate to the competition or just require to participate out of the competition.
2. A jury composed by painters, journalists and personalities in this sector will assignee the following prizes:
• First prize: 1000,00 euros
• Second prize: 500,00 euros
• Third, forth and fifth prize will receive a special medal of the international fest The choice of the winning works will be communicated after the last date of presentation of the 9th international festival of graphic humor edition 2006.

3. After the final scrutiny, the festival direction will communicate to the authors the final choices on the festival website:
www.festivalhumorgrafico.com
www.festivalhumorgrafico.it .
4. Each author is responsible of his own creation so the copyright of the eventual texts, titles and images belong to the creators.
5. All the received works will not be returned and will be part of the “international festival of graphic humor museum”
6. The organization has no responsibility for any eventual damage during the sending of the works.
7. The festival has the right to expose the works in the exhibitions and to publish them on the catalogue or on any article concerning the festival.
8. The festival web site will keep you updated with news and images about the event.

9. The participation to the event implies the acceptance of all the above-mentioned points.

Date of expiration: April 30th 2006

Date of exhibition opening in preview: June 2006

Itinerant exhibition: July – December 2006

Works must be sent to:
9 festival internazionale di humor grafico/itinerante
C/ direttore artistico Julio Lubetkin
Casella postale 52
00045 – Genzano di Roma
Italia

E-mail: festival@virgilio.it
Web site: www.festivalhumorgrafico.com
www.festivalhumorgrafico.it