Sean Scully wins international artist of the year awardMarch 22, 2016 - 09:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Leading artist Sean Scully is the recipient of this year’s Harper's Bazaar Art International Artist of the Year Award. The prize which was awarded for “the artist’s outstanding performance in contemporary art over the past year” will be presented at a Gala Dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on Tuesday 22 March 2016. Harper's Bazaar Art promotes artistic dialogue between the east and the west, Art Daily reports. Following the unprecedented success of Sean Scully’s recent career-length exhibitions in Shanghai and Beijing, the artist’s work will be shown in a second wave of exhibitions across China opening on 8 April 2016. His previous exhibition Follow the Heart: The Art of Sean Scully was selected as the Exhibition of the Year by the Beijing News and the Global Times referred to its success as ‘a Sean Scully hurricane… blowing through China’. Scully’s new exhibition for China, Resistance and Persistence will be shown in: • Art Museum of the Nanjing University of the Arts (8 April – 8 May 2016) • Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (6 September – 9 October 2016) • Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan (10 January – 12 March 2017) Showcasing more than 60 works by Scully, the exhibitions will focus on his paintings and works on paper – as well as providing a stage for Sean Scully’s extraordinary sculpture China Piled Up. The works have been borrowed from public and private collections and do not overlap with the works previously seen in China. This second wave of exhibitions by Scully will travel to three of the great cities of modern China, its former capital Nanjing, the most powerful city in Southern China Guangzhou and Wuhan, where art is increasingly becoming a major preoccupation, as it is clear from the opening of a new private museum, to complement the important Hubei Museum of Art. The tour of exhibitions is organised by Made in China in association with Kewenig Gallery and the British Council. Photo: Guardian Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Macron says France commemorates 109th anniv. of Armenian genocide Today France commemorates the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide of 1915, Macron says. Freedom House concerned by mounting reports of police violence in Armenia Freedom House urged Armenian authorities to investigate this pattern of excessive force and inhumane treatment. |