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International Mini Print Cantabria

The International Mini Print Cantabria is a proposal of SM Pro Art Circle organization directed by Andrea Juan and Gabriel Penedo Diego.

Our passion for printmaking and especially for the format, our desire to make contemporary artists from all over the world converge in an exhibition in our land and that our people have the possibility to enjoy it, have made us to develop it and work to incorporate Cantabria to the international Mini Print circuit.

The incredible growth, in the fifth previous editions, of the number of participating artists and works presented tells us that we are on the right way to achieve it.

In 2018 we proposed to the Port Authority of Santander (Cantabria - Spain), director of the Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center, the joint realization of the first edition of the Mini Print Biennial under the postulate "The Sea & the Lighthouses” within the framework of Impact 10 - Encuentro, International Multidisciplinary Printmaking Conference that we organize in the city of Santander.

Although it was born as a Biennial, the immediate success of the call, the excellence of the works presented and the wonderful reception of the public generated the desire to transform it into an annual event, in which the world of printmaking meets in Santander guided by the light from its most emblematic Lighthouse, the Faro Cabo Mayor.

For this reason, from 2019 and again together with the Port Authority, we began to walk the path of making the International Mini Print Cantabria ever larger and more ecumenical.

The second, third, fourth and fifth editions - despite all the inconveniences created by the pandemic - have seen constant growth both in the number of artists and works presented.

The sixth edition, in 2023, set a new participation record: 329 artists from 50 countries submitted 850 wonderful works of very diverse and refined techniques and different aesthetic visions, but always beautiful, regarding the theme of the contest.

We are already in 2024, opening the call for the VII Edition of the Contest, again together with the Port Authority of Santander and with the support of El Diario Montañés and the Nueva Dársena Group, at the Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center and, again, under the precept, The Sea and the Lighthouses.

We hope to have your works in the VII Mini Print Internacional Cantabria and, above all, we hope that you can come visit the exhibition and enjoy, with us, the iconic space that houses it.

Andrea Juan & Gabriel Penedo Diego
Directors of SM Pro Art Circle

February, 2024
Awarded Sixth Edition
2023
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