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All-Ukrainian scientific and practical conference "Erdeli Readings"

In 1945 Adalbert Erdeli with his own hand attached a plaque with the inscription "Academy of Art" on one of the buildings in the present Voloshyna street. It has taken almost 60 years to realize the dream of the coryphaeus of the Transcarpathian art school. Transcarpathian Art Institute, founded on the base of the A. Erdeli Uzhhorod College of Arts, gained its status in 2003.

The international scientific and practical conference ”Erdeli Readings” is held every year at the beginning of May in Uzhhorod at Transcarpathian Art Institute. The aim of the conference is the scientific analysis of the theoretical and practical investigations in the field of pictorial and applied art, design and art education in Ukraine and also the mutual influences of different European cultures in this sphere. The rector of the Transcarpathian Art Institute professor Ivan Nebesnyk says that every year "Erdeli Readings" embrace a wide scale of problems: from the study of the heritage of the past to the present state of art. The conference was named after Adalbert Erdeli who was the leading figure in Transcarpathian painting and also the first art critic.

Artist Tiberiy Silvashi Artist Tiberiy Silvashi gives a lecture "Modern Ukrainian art in the context of the world innovatory search".

Among the guests of honour were the president of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine A. Chebykin, the rector of the Lviv National Academy of Arts A. Bokotey, academician and art historian O. Fedoruk, academician M. Mushynka (Slovakia), museum historian F. Hibl (Czech Republic), artist from Kyiv T. Silvashi and others.

 According to Ivan Nebesnyk, the rector of the "Transcarpathian Art Institute" "Erdeli Readings" every year embrace a wide layer of problems: from the study of the inheritage of the past to the present state of art. Conference was named after Adalbert Erdeli, one of the coryphaeus of Transcarpathian painting and one of the first art critics.

 Art historian, teacher of the Transcarpathian Art Institute Mykhailo Syrokhman (Uzhhorod) and Frantisek Hibl, director of J. A. Komencki museum in Prerov (Czech Republic). Mr. Hibl spoke about his research of the history of Czech school. He has studied the unique collection of didactic materials which contains 18 paintings of Y. Bokshay, oredred by Ministry of education.