Successful Changwon City Dongseo Art Award Ceremony ... Honoring the Achievements of the Late Song Insik

Grand Prize awarded to artist Park Bong-gi, Creative Award to artist Kim Hak-il respectively

Changwon Special City, Gyeongnam, held the "31st Changwon City East-West Art Award Ceremony."

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Song Jong-gu] Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam held the ‘31st Changwon Dongseo Art Award Ceremony,’ a commemorative project honoring the achievements of the late Song In-sik, on the 8th.

At the main award ceremony held at the Citizen Hall of Changwon City Hall, artist Park Bong-gi received the Grand Prize, and artist Kim Hak-il received the Creative Award.

Grand Prize winner Park works with nature as his material, showing the cycle and breath of the great outdoors. He is interested in fallen trees, stones, soil, rice straw, or items discarded by civilization, selecting materials by exploring their physical properties and the temporality they possess. In the creative process, he directly engages with the body and nature?touching, refining, stacking, and weaving materials?long communicating with nature and embodying that value in his forms.

Creative Award winner Kim, a Korean painting major, has developed Korean painting in a modern way and received high praise from art experts both domestically and internationally. Recently, at the 2022 KIAF held together with Frieze at COEX in Seoul, he attracted significant attention from art professionals worldwide.

Jo Myung-rae, the second vice mayor, said, “This year’s award ceremony, hosted by Changwon City for the first time, makes the awards even more meaningful,” adding, “Our city will continue to do its best to widely promote the artistic world of the late Song In-sik through the Dongseo Art Award and to carve a new history for the Changwon Dongseo Art Award.”

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