"MOVING SPIRIT"

Dear participants and visitors of the exhibition. Hanse art works. Moving spirit.

It is the first time when Russia and Veliky Novgorod host the participants of Hanseatic New Time’s Days. Representatives arrive to get acquainted with the history and culture of Veliky Novgorod and its contemprorary mode of life.They will tell us about their cities and countries.

From our point of view, art is the most simple and accessible language which can help people from different countries to communicate. Real art does not require any translation. It is the illustration how people from different Hansa cities can find the common language in other spheres such as economics, business, science, trade and human’s relationships.

I wish to all the participants of vernissage Pierian spring. I hope Veliky Novgorod will become the muse for artists of Hanseatic cities. Visitors will open the new talents. All participants will find the new cooperations.

Yury Bobryshev
Mayor of Veliky Novgorod