9. International Triennale of Political Posters, Mons (BE) 2004
(Information is from the press kit)

Jury members Marc Becker, secrétaire fédéral, CSG , Marianne Blairon, graphiste, lauréate de la 8. triennale , Pierre-Jean Burrion, journaliste Télé MB , Henri Cammarata, directeur de la triennale , Caroline David, Lille 2004 , Catherine De Braeckeleer, directrice - Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimée de La Louvière , Michel De Reymaecker, conservateur - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons , Thierry Fiorelli, journaliste - Le Soir (Victor) , Ariane Fradcourt, représentante de la Communauté française , Marianne Jobst, Bibliothèque Nationale d'Autriche , Christelle Kirchtetter, les Silos/Chaumont, France , Alain Le Quernec, graphiste, France , Stéphanie Manfroid, attachée scientifique - Mundaneum Mons , Freddy Mathieu, secrétaire régional - FGTB , Valérie Pietryra, Les Silos/Chaumont, France , Jean-Pierre Scouflaire, plasticien , Martine Sneyers, Représentante de la Région Wallonne , Pierre Urbain, Service de la Culture de Mons , Anne-Thérèse Verschueren, secrétaire de la Triennale , Philippe Willam, le manège.mons , Diego Zaccaria, Centre du graphisme et de la Communication visuelle d'Echirolles, France The jury met early 2004 in Mons, and selected 143 from 955 posters submitted by designers from 46 countries. The award ceremony took place at the Mundaneum in Mons on October 14, 2004. Prizes 1. Prize: Prix de la Communaute francaise de Belgique Alejandro Magallanes, Mexico, for "Detras de la fantasia americana" 2. Prize: Prix de la Region Wallonne David Tartakover, Israel, for "35 years of occupation, 1967 - 2002" 3. Prize: Prix de la Province de Hainaut Leonel Sagahon Campero, Mexico, for "Rebel" 4. Prize: Prix de la Province de la Ville de Mons Andrei Logvin, Russia, for "Nul sera soumis a la torture, ni a des peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou degradants" Prize of the City of Lille 2004 Adela Vorbova, Czech Republic, for "Nato, fuck the others without risk" Honorable Mention Aurelie Gosselin, Belgium, for (No title) Ebrahim Haghighi, Iran, for "All men are equal" Yossi Lemel, Israel, for "Israel - Palestine 2003" List of selected designers ABBASI Majd / ANDRES MARIO Ramirez Cuevas / ANDREI Logvin / ARANDA Renato / AUBRECHT Karel / BAILLARGEON Claude / BERGMANS Benoit / BOBAN Jadran / BORZUNOVA Tatiana / BUDOWIECKA Karolina / BUSET Claudine / CARLIER Julien / CASALS Xavier / CASSELIS Clémence / CHAMBON Héléna / CHEN Zhengda / CHIEN-LUNG Chi / CHOJECKA Aleksandra / CHOJECKI Andrzej Kazimierz / COLE-ZIEKANSKI Trudy / COLRAT Pascal / COUVREUR Pierrick / CRAIN Brian / CURCHOD Ronald / DE SALLE Timothy / DEILLON Marie-Laure / DELTENRE Frédéric / DREWINSKI Lex / DRUEDING Alice / DVORAK Vojtech / FELOR ZABIHI Naghmeh / GIORGI Silvio / GOSSELIN Aurelie / GRAF Johannes / GROSSMAN Moshe Dina / GRUTTNER Erhard / HAGHIGHI Ebrahim / HAGNEBERG Helfried / HARBY Pedram / HARRISSON / HE Jianping / HEIDENREICH Dieter / HICKMANN Fons / HU Ke / HYRKAS Hilppa / LEMEL Jossi / LEMOINE Maxime / LOESCH Uwe / MAGALLANES Alejandro / SADA ROMERO Margarita / MASOUDI Morteza / MENA Belen / MESHKI Saed / MOMMAERTS Etienne / MUNDO René / NICOLAUS Sascha / NILLES Maxime / PARZYSZEK Ireneusz / PASZTURA Kajetan / PLAN FIXE / POELS Charlotte / PORADA Daniel / PRADA Sandro / PRANTAUER Christine Suzanna / PRESTA AIdo / RAJLICH Jan / RATAJSKA Weronica / ROBERTO Salvator / ROCCA Régis / SAEEDI Mehdi / SAGAHON CAMPERO Leonel / SAMOKHINA Alexandra / SANNETS Kebba / SCHOLZ Franz / SCORSONE Joe / SDRALEVICH Teresa / SHI WEI Cai / SKORWIDER Eugeniusz / SOLOMADINA Alyona / SONCK Olivier / SROKA Brogna / STREUER Chris / TARA Sorin / TARTAKOVER David / TECHMAN Marta / TENZER Aurélie / THILMANY Sébastien / TRIPKOV Laze / VLADAN Srdic / VON SIVERS Kathrin / VORBORA Adela / WELTSCHEW Hristo / YALOVEGO Alexey / ZEBROWSKI Leszek / ZHANG Xiaofrei / JUSTYNA Bista / KARCZEWSKI Piotr / KOSTOVIC Cedomir / KUHN Claude / KURAL Sukrïi / LAMY Sébastien / LAVALLEE Alexandre / LE QUERNEC Alain

Alejandro Magallanes Behind american fantasies

David Tartakover 35 years of occupation, 1967 - 2002

Leonel Sagahon Campero Rebel dignity - national identity

Andrei Logvin Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Adela Vorbova Nato, baisez les autres sans risque

Aurelie Gosselin no title

Ebrahim Haghighi Tous les hommes sont egaux

Yossi Lemel Israel - Palestine 2003

Some pictures from the award ceremony at the Mundaneum in Mons

The Mundaneum building is a three stories high giant card file cabinet with the walls completetly covered with wooden card boxes. I opened a few, and they are all packed with file cards, an estimated total of about 20 Millions of them. This corresponds to a storage capacity of about 1 Gigabyte, the same amount of memory that I have in my digital camera.

Alejandro Magallanes and jury member Alain Le Quernec

Adela Vorbova from Prague, a student of Karel Misek who also spent two years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with Lech Majewski. Adela told me that her winning poster was the first she ever sent to a competition, and also that she saw the "Call for entries" for Mons on the Poster Page.

Teresa Sdralevich, one of the top young belgian graphic designers, and Leonel Sagahon Campero, in front of Teresa's poster "Western Europe". Leonel is a partner with Alejandro Magallanes in the mexican design group "La maquina del tiempo", and made the winning poster to welcome the Zapatistas on their march to Mexico City on March 11, 2002.

Marianne Blairon, jury member and winner of the first prize at the 8. Mons Triennial 2001

and her husband Jean Pierre Scouflaire, jury member, painter, sculptor and poster designer.

The prize winners gave a presentation of their work on October 15, but this was a closely guarded secret and only a handful of people turned up for these world class talks, what a shame. I am grateful to jury member Marianne Jobst, curator of the poster collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna, for alerting me to this event at the last minute.

David Tartakover	David Tartakover talks about his posters
Carolina Rojas and Alain Le Quernec	Alejandro Magallanes and Leonel Sagahon introducing their group "Maquina del tiempo"
Alain Le Quernec points to his poster "My poster is what I feel"	After the symposium, I did a little praying at Mons Cathedral that attendance at the next symposium would be higher, and the Saint in charge of communication promptly forwarded my request to her boss.

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