The Centro Leon has announced the winners of the 24th prestigious Eduardo Leon Jimenes Art Contest. Winners of three equal awards are: <\/p>\n
Hulda Guzman (1984) for Fiesta en el Batey, for the way she captures the traditional landscape, portraits and references to the history of art, in a Dominican context. <\/p>\n
Carlos de Leon (1988) for Te Amo, for the way in which he converted a personal experience in an object full of meaning, as of gender violence to question this phenomenon in contemporary Dominican society. <\/p>\n
Raquel Paiewonsky (1969), Interlude. This is a performance that was awarded for notable development in the creation of the performance that has resulted in a sober and austere work that involves and empowers participants in the action by way of her own body and the stories she tells through her clothes. <\/p>\n
The Centro Leon also awarded three special prizes for artists on behalf of entities that are allies of the Contest. These are:<\/p>\n
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection Award: Yoel Bordas (1980), for his way of building narratives upon realities in different contexts, questioning the economic, socio-political and environmental system where the characters appear to have been rescued from a post-apocalyptic world. <\/p>\n
French Award to Young Talent granted by the Embassy of France: Francisco (Pancho) Rodriguez (1979) for his commitment to investigating Dominican-Haitian relations and the conflicts at the social and human level. <\/p>\n
City of Cadiz Award, granted by the City Government of Cadiz: Sayuri Guzman (1976) for the process achieved as from autobiographic elements to create a memory stick and generate a space of transit between the private and public spheres. <\/p>\n
The awards were decided by a jury made up of Maria Elena Ditren, Ivo Mesquita and Maria Ines Rodriguez in Santiago de los Caballeros. <\/p>\n
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The Centro Leon has announced the winners of the 24th prestigious Eduardo Leon Jimenes Art Contest. Winners of three equal awards are: Hulda Guzman (1984) for Fiesta en el Batey, for the way she captures the traditional landscape, portraits and references to the history of art, in a Dominican context. Carlos de Leon (1988) for … <\/p>\n