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The Jury will be under no obligation to filter out the art galleries that will intend to exhibit their items and that will fail to comply with the required standards: that is what the organisers will want to achieve and that is what they will be tasked with. The Jury will not make a judgement as to whether the prices of the individual items are commensurate with the current market prices. Instead, the Jury will give their opinion on the items without making a professional judgement about them or certifying their authenticity. Whatever the Jury will decide will be of informative nature.
The Jury will examine each and every item with meticulous care prior to the opening of the exhibition. Accordingly, all items will be put on display with the approval of the Jury. Any decisions made by the Jury will be binding upon all the exhibitors agreeing to the jurying process.
In the event that the Jury recommends that an item should not be displayed, the exhibitor of the item concerned will have to remove the said item from the Budapest Art Fair. The exhibitor of a disputable item has a right to produce the proofs, documents as well as judgements that can help the Jury make a resolution in the given case.
To secure unrestrained judgement and avoid preferential treatment, neither the exhibitors nor their representatives will be allowed to attend the jurying process. On the day of the jurying process, the security personnel at Műcsarnok will grant entry into the exhibition halls only and solely to those who can produce an admission card reading ’Jury’. Only those not exhibiting any exhibits at the Budapest Art Fair will be allowed to be on the Jury.
Every exhibitor shall compile and submit a typewritten list of exhibits with the following information:
The Jury will validate each list and certify that they have examined the items and that they have declared the items worthy of being exhibited. Those exhibitors who will avoid going through the jurying process this year shall hand in the said list, which will be returned to them with the Jury’s judgement subsequent to the jurying process.
Partner’s 2000 Ltd will retain the duplicates of the validated lists as long as the Budapest Art Fair lasts and will destroy those duplicates immediately after the exhibition and fair.
In accordance with the practice established worldwide, those arranging for the exhibition and fair have set the following criteria for declaring the items worthy of being exhibited:
Concerning paintings and graphics, the following information shall be indicated on the list:
The list must not contain misleading information of any sort. Neither the paintings nor the graphics that have been restored to such an extent that the severe damage to them has been covered can be exhibited.
Only and solely the pieces judged by the Jury to be authentic will be allowed to be displayed. Not a single work of art can be exhibited in the event that its authenticity is disputable or the Jury decides against declaring it worthy of being exhibited on the grounds that it is against the interests of the exhibition. The organisers have set time limits to the exhibits. Accordingly, modern Hungarian paintings that date back to the 1960s or 1970s, i.e. works of art having become practically classic items, can be exhibited whereas contemporary works of art can be put on display exclusively in the PLUG Tent.
As to sculptures, the list shall have the following information:
No works of art of disputed authenticity can be put on display. Neither decorations nor alterations can be approved. The Jury will be in a position to accept only and solely slightly restored sculptures. As far as 19th and 20th-century bronze sculptures are concerned, exclusively authentic pieces and castings created in the times of their authors can be admitted.
Taking into account the destiny of works of art in Hungary, restoration affecting at most 30 per cent of a work of art can be approved. Re-varnishing can not be declared restoration. The Jury can make concessions as to furniture executed prior to the 1800s. In case a leg or another essential part of a piece of furniture is severely damaged or missing, it can be restored to be like the original piece.
The following items can not be accepted: those completely re-veneered or re-supplied with marquetry or otherwise altered, thus having lost their authenticity. The Jury will be in a position to grant permission to exhibit the pieces whose basic nature has not fundamentally been transformed as a result of alterations. Accordingly, a showcase made out of a wardrobe must not be exhibited. Any furnishings made subsequent to the year 1950 are ineligible.
Not a single factory-manufactured rug can be displayed. The Jury recommends that neither rugs nor woven pieces of fabric nor curtains executed subsequent to the year 1945 should be put on display. Exceptions to the rule will be authentic tribal and folk art rugs as well as other woven pieces of fabric of acceptable standards containing no synthetic dyes.
As regards firearms, only those neutralised and defused in compliance with the currently applicable rules and regulations can be admitted. As to no-firing arms, their blades and hilts shall be homogeneous. Miscellaneous armour is acceptable. Accordingly, although their various parts do not necessarily have to display homogeneity, they shall appear homogeneous and be approximately the same age.
The works of folk art shall be of both a traditional nature and an original religious or cultural function. Each piece shall represent a particular epoch and meet artistic standards. With regard to tribal works of art, only authentic high-quality sculptures and sacred objects can be admitted.
As far as the above items are concerned, both the repairs and restoration made to them shall reflect the styles of the original pieces. It is permissible to restore painted parts providing that restoration is performed with due skill and taste, based upon the originals. Re-gilding is allowable to some extent. Furthermore, the parts, including the hands that have undergone wear and tear, can be replaced with the stipulation that all replaced parts shall fit and suit the originals. As regards restoration to boxes and cases, kindly refer to the section on furnishings.
No works of art with falsified trademarks can be exhibited. All repainted and redecorated objects will be unacceptable. Not a single item will be allowed to be misleading in appearance. Rather, objects shall appear to be what they are indeed. Pieces restored to the point of having lost their nature and original style can not be accepted. Any restoration work shall be indicated on the list.
As to jewellery, the organisers have set no time restrictions.
Prohibition applies to the following cases:
As far as pieces of historic value are concerned, their authenticity and attribution to certain periods of history shall be unambiguously proved. The Jury will perform random checks.
Icons shall be proved unmistakably authentic. The age and significance of the icons as well as the artistic standards that they meet shall be taken into consideration over the checking process. Items from Greece and the rest of the Balkans can not date back to later than the year 1900. Furthermore, icons from Russia can not date from later than the year 1917, the time of the October Revolution. The degree to which restoration work is permissible will be determined by the Jury on the basis of the age and significance of the items.
As far as books are concerned, the following rules shall be obeyed:
Incomplete pieces can be put on display only if their significance accounts for exhibiting. Minor restoration to books is permissible as long as it does not affect the artistic or second-hand value of the items. No time restrictions have been set by the organisers. The Jury will check books at random.
Silver objects with subsequently set or planted hallmarks or those that do not meet further hallmarking standards can not be admitted. Items considerably altered to the point of having lost their original functions must not be accepted either. Re-gilding, re-silvering, re-enamelling or re-chroming shall be shown on the list of the exhibits.
Since the 1960s, there has been a substantial increase the world over in art galleries specialising in 20th-century decorative art. Some of those art galleries restrict collecting works of art to the acquisition of pieces representing particular epochs or styles, while some of them confine the process to the acquisition of items of one branch of decorative art, i.e. the art of creating sculptures, furnishings, ceramics, glass, metal, textile pieces or jewellery. Due to the fact that the art market in Hungary follows this trend, those arranging for the Budapest Art Fair have set no restrictions on exhibiting by art galleries of the sort mentioned above.
It goes without saying that dated single pieces, items of limited series or rare mass-produced objects can be displayed. Neither reproductions nor replicas can be exhibited.
The Jury will consider the following points:
The exhibitors referred to above must not use their stalls for being engaged in the art trade. Accordingly, they will be allowed to exhibit works of art exclusively for the purpose of decoration.