WINNER OF SOVEREIGN ASIAN ART PRIZE ANNOUNCED
Last week, Korean artist Debbie Han was voted the winner of the sixth Sovereign Asian Art Prize by the jury for her piece Seated Three Graces, notes Wallpaper.
Han’s piece, which took two years to complete, portrays three nude women, seated as marble statues in a classical pose. Her method was to photograph real bodies of Asian women, add typically classical heads to their bodies, and then create a digital rendering to achieve the marbled sculpture effect.
Han was awarded $25,000 as the winner by the jury, which included Chinese artist Xu Bing, Fumio Nanjo, director of the Mori Art Museum, and curator David Elliott. The remaining twenty-nine artworks were auctioned off over the evening, raising more than $250,000, half of which goes to the artists, with the other half going back into the foundation.
In addition to the main prize, the public was also granted its say, casting votes through the foundation’s website. They chose Miguel Payano, an artist based in China, as the recipient of the Schoeni Public Prize for his painting Sha-Boy.
