Review：Call For Submissions - International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2020 R.O.C.

Review

International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2020 R.O.C.
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Gold Prize

Peru

Luis Antonio TORRES VILLAR

Luis Antonio Torres Villar exploits the narrative qualities of printmaking in a claim of trade and craft, highlighting the rhetoric and historicist pressing the graphic image and constructive presence in American pictorial imagery. His woodcuts discuss colonialism, otherness and native peoples in a global contemporary context.　　　　—Aizicovich/Sulman

Silver Prize

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Poland

Magda SZPLIT

Linocut technique is suitable for me because it enables me to control even the smallest trace which I curve. My designs arise from photographs, sketches and different techniques, mainly graphics and drawings. I take advantage of monotype, cliché-verre etc.

Bronze Prize

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Turkey

Kübra GÜRLEŞEN

Kübra Gürleşen focuses on the existential dilemma of the human being in her artistic practice. She mostly expresses it by way of body images, blurring the boundary between physical and virtual world.

Special Jury Prize

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Colombia

Orlando MARTINEZ

Composition of Sixteen Figures in an Interior and a Cauca Landscape Stage"Anything can happen, everything is possible and plausible. Time and space do not exist. Upon an insignificant background of real life events the imagination spins and weaves new patterns: a blend of memories, experiences, pure inventions, absurdities, and improvisations." -August StrindbergMany different interests overlap in this work: the picture raises the simultaneous circumstances of chance, meetings and actions, signs and resistances, anecdotes and occurrences that take place in an ambiguous space. It is a twofold scene, in which an absurd story emerges, like some sort of trap to the logic of representation. The composition deals with a treatment of space and figure between freedom and restraint, and it is always siding with transgression. It relies on the experience of drawing the human body in order to emphasize the tension between the identity of the character, a young model, and the position of the artist. It plays with the representation of Renaissance space, the transgression of scale, and the study of woodcut technique

Special Jury Prize

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Japan

WATANABE Kanako

Each of my works is produced by printing 20 or 30 times on both the surface and reverse side of washi paper. The process is very much like compressing something little by little and keeping a record of the result. The tonal gradation produced by multiple layering of prints gives a mysterious sense of depth. Seeing this, I can't help but imagine a time long before I was born, and the joy that my forebears must have felt in the fragrance of flowers or being touched by the wind. I can also imagine that familiar places and old friends are hidden there within.

Merit Prize

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Norway

Tomasz BONCZA-OZDOWSKI

When people migrate, thoughts, ideas, dreams and objects travel with them, all of which are important links with the past. Migrants become strangers to those they leave behind, and are strangers on arrival at their destination, since migration produces loneliness. Migrants do need their own space, a secure place. Is it always secure…?

Merit Prize

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Poland

Marcin HAJEWSKI

As an artist who identifies himself for over a decade with the technique of lithography, I consider last 15 years as a process of searching my own artistic language and craftsmanship. As an assistant professor in my alma mater, I have had the privilege to analyse not only my own art problems, but also those of young artists. For several years I have been leading a research project dedicated to different printing techniques: lithography, algraphy and offset. My works from the past few years deal with personal memory. I am fascinated by how the human mind chooses to hide away certain experiences in life, most often experiences with a negative tinge. As a result I am able to bring events back from memory, revealing and defining the whole cycle of life as presented in Personal Scar.

Merit Prize

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Republic of Korea

KWON Hyejeong

My work gets a spiritual pleasant sensation by radiating the different kinds of feelings that occur during the process of living at present and desires spurted from the unconsciousness as images. Such series of working action can be a way of managing myself and a process of finding the true self by getting out of the distracting thoughts and fixed ideas that appeared from social action effects by expressing the oppressed emotions extemporarily. The characteristics shown on works as the expression of emotion are extremely private and show the autobiographic state by approaching the inner language in metaphorical situation. This is how I communicate with the world through the works by unfolding and showing the residual products of the emotions obtained from my private life. Thus I express myself through the human figures, animals and other images in my drawings, and express thoughts that are inherent in the consciousness of me. They represent common emotions such as fears, depression, happiness and sadness, as well as others that are experienced in the present society. Eventually these images, reflecting one’s major problems in life, slowly seep into the depths of mind.

Merit Prize

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Japan

SAWADA Yuichi

None

Merit Prize

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Taiwan

WANG Yun-Ling

Drastic changes are taking in our living environment. No matter the technological advancement, we are anxious about the future. And nature fights back as we exploits it. I named my artwork Paradise on Earth to suggest a Utopia of abundance, which stands in stark contrast to the dark reality we face. I want to dedicate an ode to nature through the mountains, forests and rivers presented in this artwork. I also want to lament over the wounds of our precious environs through the strange rocks and steep valleys in this “paradise.” Ephemeral is our world; it is full of fleeting things. Eventually we will be so miserable as to be going up and down with the currents of garbage we created on our own.

Honorable Mention

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Poland

Paweł DELEKTA

I am very pleased to participate in this artistic project. These graphics present an expression of my personal thoughts and the impact of the situation, with which I had contact with as an artist, who creates messages addressed to people living in large urban areas.

Honorable Mention

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Taiwan

LIN Shan-Yang

It is passion that keeps the old farmer in this artwork going—growing pineapples is his purpose of life. Other than this, the farmer leads a rather simple life. But I can see that he has truly found his own worth. I have learned from him that one must cling hard to his or her dream if this person wants to see it come true someday. I believe this is the right attitude to take.

Honorable Mention

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Thailand

Praween PAINGCHOOMPOO

Sanctuary inside the Soul was created for a unity of aesthetics in a state of peace with the process of creative printmaking. It referred to the feeling of peacefulness installed by objects in light and shade in privacy, which become the symbol of thought and style via the process of woodcut using techniques such as scraping, scrubbing and carving. Through multi-color printing, the mind is purified, and an aesthetic unity is achieved softly. The light of intelligence points to the abandonment of suffering. Gradually we move toward peace.

Honorable Mention

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Poland

Monika PAŁKA

None

Honorable Mention

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Japan

SAKUTA Tomiyuki

I am living every day. I am thinking about something all the time. I often think too hard, so I am getting nervous and confused. No one likes these negative things. But you certainly have that. You cannot escape from them. If I should express something, it would be my own feelings. Because that is the only thing which I can believe. It is certain that there are sensitive feelings in the bottom of my heart.