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In February this year, the International Centre for Graphic Arts issued a public call for participation in an exhibition of contemporary Slovenian graphic arts production from the last three years. Artists were invited to submit their works in the form of originals, photo documentation or in electronic form in any printmaking technique or combination of techniques and on any theme, created from 2018. We received approximately 500 original works from 113 Slovenian artists. The works were reviewed and selected by an international jury consisting of Mario 膶au拧i膰 (Republic of Croatia), Milo拧 膼or膽evi膰 (Republic of Serbia) and Barbora Kundra膷铆kov谩 (Czech Republic). This selection of 43 Slovenian artists is on view in the exhibition Prints and Impressions 2 at Tivoli Mansion from 5 July to 2 October this year. The exhibition was prepared by the curators of the International Centre of Graphic Arts, mag. Breda 艩krjanec and Bo啪idar Zrinski.The public call was open to Slovenian artists of all generations actively working in the field of fine art printing and printmaking and serves as a starting point for further research into Slovenian graphic arts production and its integration into the contemporary visual art practices. With this exhibition, the International Centre of Graphic Arts continues its ongoing presentation of what is happening in the field of the graphic arts and the art of printing, which it has been intensively researching and shaping since its foundation. In recent years, MGLC has organised several exhibitions highlighting the innovative power of Slovenia's diverse graphic arts production. The exhibitions organised on the basis of direct invitations to artists or as curatorial selections of artworks produced over a period of time usually involved younger artists, thus foreshadowing and demonstrating a continuing interest in this type of artmaking. In 1993, the exhibition Young Slovenian Printmaking presented a number of new artists who are now classics of Slovenian printmaking and at the same time well-known names in the field of contemporary art. Five years later, in 1998, the exhibition The New Generation again drew attention to the lively activity within Slovenian printmaking. The 2008 exhibition A Third Look, The Multiplicity of the Graphic Arts Today provided a detailed curatorial overview of contemporary graphic arts production in Slovenia. In 2012, following a public call, MGLC prepared the exhibition Prints and Impressions curated by mag. Breda 艩krjanec and Bo啪idar Zrinski.