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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" align="center"><font style="background-color:rgb(245,245,220)" face="Times New Roman" color="#7b847e"><span style="font-weight:700;color:red;font-family:Verdana"><font face="Arial" color="#f60f0f" size="6">iBIENNIAL 2009<br>
</font></span></font><span style="font-weight:700"><font face="Verdana" color="#c0c0c0" size="2"><font style="background-color:rgb(245,245,220)" face="Times New Roman" color="#7b847e" size="3"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#f60f0f;font-family:Verdana"><span lang="en-us">of </span>contemporary art</span></b></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font style="background-color:rgb(245,245,220)" face="Times New Roman" color="#7b847e" size="3"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana">24 months on display<span lang="en-us">, </span>award value EUR<span lang="en-us"> </span>8<span lang="en-us">,</span>99<span lang="en-us">0</span></span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana" color="#d71b22"><b>Guidelines</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><b><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana">Artoteque.com (</font><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana" color="#ffffff"><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.artoteque.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">www.artoteque.com</font></a></font><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"><span lang="en-us">)</span> is pleased to invite artists to 1st <font color="#fc032b">iBIENNIAL 2009</font> juried contemporary art competition 24 months on display online. iBIENNIAL 2009 is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place online at Artoteque.com once every two years. The call for entries for the 1st iBIENNIAL is open to works of any genre. </font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana" color="#d71b22"><b>The selection </b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"><b>Submitters whose entries pass the jurors screening are included online in <font color="#fa0526">iBIENNIAL 2009</font>.</b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana" color="#d71b22"><b>Size and Works to be received </b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"><b>In order to complete the inclusion in 1st iBIENNIAL of Contemporary Art of Artoteque.com you may submit as attachments or on-line 6 ~ 12 works /JP<span lang="en-us">E</span>Gs image files 72 dpi up to 600 pix (21x21 cm<span lang="en-us">.</span> /8,3 x8,3 ) and the works details: title, year, technique, size and price All submissions / JPEG s image files, must be mailed to <a href="mailto:submit@artoteque.com" target="_blank">submit@artoteque.com</a>. The works you submit can be sold during the exhibition.</b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana" color="#d71b22"><b>Application fee </b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"><b>There is a US$ 80 / EUR 50 entry fee for 6 works. and US$ 15 / EUR 10 for each additional work. Payment by Direct Transfer on account, by Money Order, by PayPal, by Western Union. (NOTE submitters whose pass the first screening only.)</b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana" color="#d71b22"><b>Awards </b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><b><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"> <font color="#c0c0c0"><u>Grand Prize </u></font>Award value EUR 4,900.</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"><b>One Artist will be awarded two-page in ART MADE ONLY ONCE Artoteque's Quality art book series for collectors, galleries, museums, dealers and art lovers.</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><b><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"> <font color="#c0c0c0"><u>Award of Distinction</u> </font>Award value EUR 2,450.</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"><b>Two Artists will be awarded one-page in ART MADE ONLY ONCE Artoteque's hardcover Quality art book series for collectors, galleries, museums, dealers and art lovers. Award value EUR 2,450 each.</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><b><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"> <u><font color="#c0c0c0">Honorable Mention</font> </u>(Honorable Award) </font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"><b>65 Artists will be selected for Diploma of Excellence</b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana" color="#d71b22"><b>Jury </b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:150%" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"><b>The selection panel for art in ONLINE 1st Biennial of Contemporary Art of Artoteque.com Awards nomination is: Andrea Pagnez, art critic, fine artist, editor, Venice Biennial curator (Florence, Italy); Christopher Chamber, art critic, fine artist, editor, (New York, USA); Marta Dimitrescu, fine artist, director of Artoteque.com (London, UK); Åke Wallén, director of BGAB, art collector, (Stockholm, Sweden); Andre Russu, fine artist (Stockholm, Sweden).</b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana" color="#d71b22"><b>Exhibition period </b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"><b>The event will run two-years 2009 -2011</b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"><b>Exhibition venue </b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" align="justify"><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana"><b>A major contemporary art exhibition that takes place online at Artoteque.com</b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" align="justify"><b><font style="font-size:9pt" face="Verdana" color="#d71b22">Deadline </font></b></p>
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</font></b></font><font face="Arial" size="1">Participants must affirm that submitted works are the original creation of the applicant, and that the participant holds all related copyrights and has not violated intellectual property rights. No commercial activities of any kind involving participating works may be undertaken during the duration of the exhibition. In the event of violation of this agreement, the organizations reserve the right to disqualify participants, reclaim prize and awards, and publicly announce any or all violations.</font></p>
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