UNESCO
PRIZES FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS 2000-2001
AWARDED TO FOUR ARTISTS IN HAVANA
Paris, November 21 – Four laureates share the UNESCO Prize for the
Promotion of the Arts, which was awarded within the framework of the Seventh
Havana Biennale (Cuba) on November 17.
The laureates are Diana Domingues (Brazil), two Cuban groups, Los
Carpinteros and Galeria Dupp, and Jean-Pierre Raynaud (France) for his life time
achievement.
The
Prize - created within the framework of the World Decade for Cultural
Development 1988-1997 to promote the arts - is now attributed within the
framework of international contemporary art biennales and festivals. It is
awarded in recognition of outstanding creative achievements by young artists, or
groups of artists, in the visual arts (painting, sculpture and graphics), the
new technologies and the performing arts, and aims to encourage their further
development.
While the Prize for the new technologies – the US$10,000 UNESCO Web
Prize - is awarded yearly, the five other Prizes, US$20,000 each, are awarded
every two years in the framework of five international cultural and artistic
events in the different regions of the world (three to visual artists, two to
performers).
The
other event chosen for the Prize-giving this year was the Third Shanghai
Biennale (China). The Prize was awarded to four artists: Hari Dono (Indonesia),
Huang Yung Ping (France), Yong Ho Chang (China) and Lee U Fan (Korea), for his
life time achievement.
The last Prize for the visual arts is scheduled for October 2001 on the
occasion of the Third Istanbul Biennale (Turkey). Another Prize, for the
performing arts, will be awarded at the Second Pan-African Music Festival
(Congo) in June 2001.
The UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts is financed by the
Higashiyama Fund, established in keeping with the wishes of the internationally
renowned Japanese artist, the late Kaii Higashiyama, and managed by the National
Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan.
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