Apply for Billboard Art Competition Art Moves 2021. The purpose of the Competition is to propagate and popularize billboard art as well as to encourage artists to create art engaged in reality.

Theme

The work is intended to be a creative response to this year’s Competition theme: Getting infected with untruth. How can we find our path in a world full of contradictions, chaos and uncertainty?

Background

Billboard Art Competition Art Moves slogan can be treated as a metaphor of all the processes taking place in the world today. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that the notion of truth is a fundamental problem in the contemporary world, posing a challenge for individuals, societies and the globalised contemporary world.

Until quite recently, we did not notice this problem and it seemed to us that we could do without the concept of truth. The current global crisis connected with the pandemic has made us aware of the fact that our own subjective beliefs, opinions and feelings are not sufficient. In order to function properly, individuals and societies need something more, something that we have considered to be out of fashion and passé – objective truth.

Humans’ species name is homo sapiens, which means ‘wise man’. Sticking to objective facts and referring to objective reality help us function in this complex contemporary world. Is it worth taking up the challenge of reaching the truth? Is it at all possible? How can we recognise what is true and what is false? Who is a role model that we can trust, and who is a self-proclaimed internet ‘expert’? Does each person has his/her own truth, or is there objective truth? Who and what should we believe?

Benefits

• Total 6 most interesting works will be displayed on billboards in the city space during the Art Moves Festival in September 2021 in Torun, Poland.
• The author of the most interesting work will receive the Main Award in the amount of PLN 3.500 (about EUR 782.60, USD 952.15).

Eligibility

• Billboard Art Competition Art Moves is open and all artists interested in billboard art are invited to take part, however, the Competition is particularly addressed to young artists, who are usually most eager to face new themes and untypical ways of art presentation. There is no entry fee.
• The artists taking part in the Competition are invited to prepare an artwork (maximum three pieces), technique is up to you.
• Incorporation of the Competition theme in the work is not required and will not have any impact on the evaluation of the work by the jury. If some other slogan or phrase is used in the work, it should be expressed in either Polish or English language.
• The format of the competition work should be 498 cm x 243 cm (196 inches x 95.7 inches) in a horizontal layout, 100 dpi, cmyk, tiff.

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