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Senior painter wins UOB painting competition
Winning artist: Indonesian painter Anggar Prasetyo (center), who won the 2015 UOB Painting of the Year Award, strikes a pose after an award presentation ceremony on Tuesday
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Winning artist: Indonesian painter Anggar Prasetyo (center), who won the 2015 UOB Painting of the Year Award, strikes a pose after an award presentation ceremony on Tuesday. (Courtesy of UOB Indonesia) (center), who won the 2015 UOB Painting of the Year Award, strikes a pose after an award presentation ceremony on Tuesday. (Courtesy of UOB Indonesia)
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span class="inline inline-center">Winning artist: Indonesian painter Anggar Prasetyo (center), who won the 2015 UOB Painting of the Year Award, strikes a pose after an award presentation ceremony on Tuesday. (Courtesy of UOB Indonesia)
Senior painter Anggar Prasetyo, 42, who had exhibited his paintings in more than 200 cities, won the 2015 UOB Painting of the Year Award on Tuesday.
In the competition held by private lender PT Bank UOB Indonesia (UOBI), Anggar won the award for the Established Artist category with his painting entitled Exploitation of Fish.
Anggar's work depicts environmental consequences of over fishing, which caused ocean resources to be depleted. For his painting, Anggar used a combination of spray and acrylic paint, resulting in an embossed design and effect on the painting's flat canvas.
'The ocean provides vast resources of biological diversity for mankind and it is everyone's responsibility to preserve it. We must not allow exploitation of the ocean and its ecosystem to happen as our future generations deserve to enjoy a clean ocean and we should not leave them with a mere memory of it,' Anggar said.
Anggar got Rp 250 million (US$18,352.7) for winning the competition. As the winner, he will compete against three other UOB Painting of the Year winners from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand to win the regional prize, namely the UOB Southeast Asian Painting of the Year Award. He also gets a chance to win a one-month residency program at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan.
In the Emerging Artist category, Dian Pramana Putra Wijaya won the Most Promising Artist of the Year Award for his artwork titled Place of Farming.
Dian's painting shows how technological advancements and the impact of social media have fueled mankind's greed and appetite for destruction.
UOBI president director Armand B. Arief said that UOBI was committed to supporting art because it played a vital role in the development of a vibrant and creative society. He said amid the emergence of technological and societal advancements, art remained an important medium to educate the public on different issues affecting our world.
'We are proud that the UOB Painting of the Year competition will continue to encourage Indonesian artists to produce outstanding paintings that can inspire and unite the community. Indonesian talents have increasingly been recognized across the region,' Armand said.
The winning artworks were selected by a panel of judges, comprised of Agus Dermawan T, an art consultant at the Presidential Palace; Kuss Indarto, a curator and chief editor at media publications such as the Indonesia Art News and Berita Nasional daily newspaper in Yogyakarta; and Edwin Rahardjo, the chairman of the Association of Indonesia Fine Arts Gallery (AGSI) and owner of Edwin's Gallery. (ebf)
