Awards

Sono Riccardo Arena, Ludovica Carbotta, Adelita Husni-Bey e ZAPRUDER filmmakergroup i finalisti della quarta edizione del Premio MAXXI, promosso dal Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo. La giuria 2016 composta da Anna Mattirolo, direttore MAXXI Arte e commissario del Premio, Hanru Hou, direttore artistico MAXXI, Matteo Garrone, regista, Helena Kontova, giornalista e critica d'arte, Francesco Manacorda, direttore Tate Liverpool, e Adelina von Furstenberg, curatore e direttore e fondatore di Art for The World, ha scelto i quattro finalisti tra i candidati proposti dai direttori dei musei di arte contemporanea che fanno parte dell'Associazione AMACI.

Roma, scelti i quattro finalisti del Premio Maxxi 2016 - News ArtEconomy24
 
questo riconoscimento me l'ero perso .... felice per FX Harsono, che ho in collezione da molti anni


Filipino artist Pablo Baen Santos was named as one of the nominees for the inaugural Joseph Balestier Award for the Freedom of Art 2015 jointly announced by Art Stage Singapore and the U.S Embassy in Singapore earlier this month. Indonesian contemporary artist FX Harsono was named the winner of the Award on January 20, 2015 in Singapore.

Santos joined six nominees from Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. The seven artists were shortlisted for nomination by Art Stage Singapore in consultation with advisors from the respective regional countries. All seven artists have been nominated based on their active commitment to the ideals of freedom of art, expression, and liberty, and through their work, continually seek to express these ideals.

Santos is one of the frontrunners of Philippine social realism. He is one of the founding members of Kaisahan (a subversive painting collective) during the political turmoil of the Marcos regime. In the period of martial law during the Marcos regime, Baen Santos wrote and did illustrations for an underground newspaper. In a 1975 gallery exhibition, he presented allegorical works which demonstrated against martial rule. As part of Kaisahan, he worked with its members who were secretly mobilized to create street murals and other popular forms of art to protest the dictatorial rule. The dark years of the dictatorship became a rich mine for artistic rumination and powerful protest by Filipino artists.

The Joseph Balestier Award for the Freedom of Art honors an artist or curator from the Southeast Asian region who is actively committed to the ideals of freedom of art, expression, and liberty, and through their work, continually seeks to express these ideals. The award is named after Joseph Balestier, the first American diplomat accredited to Singapore, appointed U.S. Consul to Singapore in 1836, and relative of American patriot Paul Revere. The Award is jointly presented by Art Stage Singapore and U.S. Embassy Singapore and will be awarded annually to a practicing artist or curator.

Here is the complete list of nominees for this year:

Aye Ko (Myanmar)
FX Harsono (Indonesia)
Lee Wen (Singapore)
Manit Sriwanichpoom (Thailand)
Nadiah Bamadhaj (Malaysia)
Pablo Baen Santos (Philippines)
Svay Sareth (Cambodia)

For more information, read U.S. Embassy Singapore’s press release:

http://photos.state.gov/libraries/singapore/231771/PDFs/PR_JospehBalestierAwardWinners_012015.pdf

U.S. Embassy News and Events 2015 | Manila, Philippines - Embassy of the United States
 
e quello 2016

Award for freedom of art

Jointly hosted by Art Stage Singapore and the Singapore US Embassy, the Joseph Balestier Award for the Freedom of Art honours an artist or curator from the Southeast Asian region who is “actively committed to the ideals of freedom and liberty, and through his or her work, continually seeks to express these ideals”. The prize is named after Joseph Balestier, the first Consul General of the US to Singapore, who served from 1836 to 1852.

Now in its second edition, the Award carries a grant of USD15,000 (up from USD5,000 from last year). The three artists were shortlisted from 22 artists and curators by a jury comprising Dr Ute Meta Bauer, Director of Singapore’s Centre for Contemporary Art; Ms Luckana Kunavichayanont, Director of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre; and Mr Enin Supriyanto, an independent art curator and writer from Indonesia. The finalists include:

Lee Wen (performance artist, Singapore)
Aye Ko (performance artist, Myanmar)
Nguyen Trinh Thi (filmmaker, Vietnam)

Bravery and personal risk

Both Lee Wen and Aye Ko are returning nominees from last year’s edition of the award. Lee Wen is “best known for his Yellow Man series”, a performance series tackling the issue of ethnic stereotyping, while Aye Ko comments critically on Myanmar’s authoritarian regime through body-based performances. Filmmaker and moving image artist Nguyen Trinh Thi explores censorship problems in Vietnam as well as issues surrounding the country’s marginalised communities.

The winner will be selected next week on 19 January 2016 by Lorenzo Rudolf, President of Art Stage Singapore and Kirk Wagar, US Ambassador to Singapore. In praise of this year’s finalists, Wagar said in a press statement, quoted by BlouinArtinfo:

"The three finalists have all shown bravery in their works and have taken personal risks in speaking truth to power"
 
India Habitat Centre is pleased to announce the 4 winners for Photosphere 2016-2017:

Shraddha Borawake
KR Sunil
Monica Tiwari
Harikrishna Katragadda

The jury meeting was held at 10am on 5th March 2016 at Open Palm Court Conference room, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Jury members present were: Aditya Arya, Bandeep Singh, Prabir Purkayastha and Parthiv Shah. This was held under the Co-chairmanship of Rakesh Kacker, Director, India Habitat Centre and Dr Alka Pande, Artistic Director of Photosphere. For the deliberation on films a Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) representative, Executive producer Tulika Srivastava was also present.

It has been proposed that Shraddha Borawake will be mentored by Prabir Purkayastha;
KR Sunil by Aditya Arya; Monica Tiwari will be mentored by Bandeep Singh and Harikrishna Katragadda by Parthiv Shah.

Please view the links to view their CV and concept note on our 4 winners.

India Habitat Centre - Visual Arts Gallery

http://artradarjournal.com/2016/03/15/indias-habitat-photosphere-award-2016-announces-winners/

PS Katragadda "I am interested in portraits of people, animals and various life forms affected by pollution. The aim is to pollute the photographic image like the landscape it represents"
 
Photograph by Harikrishna Katragadda. Image courtesy the artist and Habitat Photosphere Award | IHC, New Delhi.

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