Ladies and Gentlemen 

For the last ten years we have had an idea of organising a competition for satirical drawing on the subject of television. Thanks to our wonderful media partners such as BAUER Publishers and a weekly "Tele-Tydzień" and thanks to our personal contacts with Jerzy Weber and Tomasz Milowski, it is now finally possible to realise our idea. The best ideas without the financial support are just empty words. In our case it is differernt, because we have a reliable past sponsor of our ideas, Dominet Nank S.A. The director Sylwester Pacak  gave us the full access and financial support to realise our plans.

The competition results were known at the end of November 2004, and its positive results surprised all the members of the jury, chaired by Jerzy Gruza. We think that the visitors of our post-competition exhibition will experience similar feelings. We are showing 230 drawings of 123 authors. Among them such distinguished artists of Polish caricature as Andrzej Czeczot, Zbigniew Jujka, Tomasz Jura, Edward Lutczyn and Marek Raczkowski. We are very pleased that a lot of young people took part in the competion, among them meny art students.

The final decision of the jury was probably not met with approval by everybody. In our opinion it's a truly democratic verdict, since next to well known artists the prizes were awarded to young, unknown people, among them one student.

We are pleased that the majority of artists treat television as an important social phenomena, in a timeless, reflective way - critically looking at the powerful, sometimes even disempowering role of that media.

It doesn't mean however, that you will not find some light, gentle jokes, sometimes a bit naughty, about what the viewers like best - gossip about their favourites of the little screen.

Big thanks once again to all co-organisers and to all the sponsors of our project. We also thank the BAUER Publishers and weekly "Tele Tydzień", the sponsor of the competition and the exhibition Dominet Bank S.A., the main sponsor of the Museum of Caricature - Grupa Żywiec S.A. and to the sponsors of the opening of the exhibition - Unicom Bols Group Sp.oo, Coca Cola HBC Polska..

To all our visitors we wish lots of laughter and smiles, and we invite you to our museum to see the exhibition which will remain open for the first three months of the new year 2005.

Jacek Frankowski
Chairman
Association of Polish Artists of Caricature -SPAK

Marek Wojciech Chmurzyński
Director of the Museum of Caricature in Warsaw