class a — Ateneo Art Awards 2017 shortlist announced

Now on its 14^th year, Ateneo Art Awards continues to recognize the talent of emerging visual artists and art critics in the Philippines.

Established to honor Fernando Zobel, the founding benefactor of the Ateneo Art Gallery, the Ateneo Art Wards 2017 – Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Art will be awarded to three Filipino visual artists below the age of 36, for outstanding works exhibited between May 2016 to May 2017.

From a shortlist of twelve (12), three (3) will be selected as winners. In alphabetical order, the 12 artists shortlisted for the Fernando Zobel Prize for Visual Arts are:

• Catalina Africa – Studies on the Movement of Water (Finale Art File)
• Charles Buenconsejo – Name, Kind, Application, Date Last Opened, Date Added, Date Modified, Date Created, Size, Tags (Artinformal)
• Gino Bueza – Systems of Control (West Gallery)
• Zean Cabangis – Echoes (Discoveries at Art Basel Hong Kong 2017)
• Cian Dayrit – Exposition (Group Exhibition at Lopez Museum and Library)
• Gale Encarnacion – Blow Me (UP Diliman College of Fine Arts, Thesis Show)
• Kitty Kaburo – Lifejacket Under Your Seat (Group exhibition at Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
• Doktor Karayom – Linya (Cultural Center of the Philippines)
• Czar Kristoff – Configurations (West Gallery)
• Leonardo Onia, Jr. – Microscopic Hysteria (West Gallery)
• Nicole Tee – Quiet Punctuations (UP Diliman College of Fine Arts, Thesis Show)
• Constantino Zicarelli – Prelude to a Billion Years (Artinformal)

The winning artists are contenders for international residency funded by the Ateneo Art Gallery and its partner institutions: La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo, Australia, Artesan Gallery + Studio in Singapore, and Liverpool Hope University in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Presented by Ateneo Art Gallery, the Kalaw-Ledesma FFoundation the Philippine Star, and ArtAsiaPacificMagazine, the Ateneo Art Awards – Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism aims to develop the genre of writing and to foster critical public discussion about art.

From a shortlist of six (6), two (2) will be chosen as winners. In alphabetical order, the six (6) writers shortlisted for the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism are:

• Christian Benitez – History is Form: On Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “The Serenity of Madness” (held at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design)
• Carlo Pacolor Garcia – Beaded Gesture (On Karl Castro’s Social Fabric at Vargas Museum)
• Arianna Mercado – Delana’s Curtain Call (On Last Full Show at the Cultural Center of the Philippines)
• Joth Kenneth Paranada – Tie a String but Cut it Right in the Middle (On Tie a String around the World at Vargas Museum)
• Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol – Equivocal Beliefs: ate Utarit at Ayala Museum (On Optimism is Ridiculous – The Alterpieces at Ayala Museum
• Josephine V. Roque – Transists of Meaning (On Almost There at Vargas Museum)

The winner of the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize – The Philippine Star will be given a regular column in the Arts & Culture section to be published twice a month, or a total of 24 articles in the span of one year; while the recipient of the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize – ArtAsiaPacific Magazine will be contributing a total of six (6) articles in a year in this publication.

The works of all the shortlisted artists and writers will be exhibited at Mid-Level 2/3 Shangri-La Plaza East Wing from 23^rd of August to the 4^th of September and at the Ateneo Art Gallery from the 1^st of October to the 2^nd of December. The awarding ceremony will be held at the Ateneo de Manila University campus on the 1^st of October 2017.