Cartoon ’Oscar’ goes to Italian artist Gatto
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Dogan News Agency
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Haziran 03, 2009 00:00
ANTALYA - Italian artist Alessandro Gatto was announced the winner of the 26th edition of the Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Competition yesterday.
Kürşat Zaman from Turkey took second place in the competition, with Pol Leurs from Luxembourg, Cetin Cerchez-Abdula from Romania and Yuriy Kosobukin from Russia sharing third place.The Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Competition is regarded as the world’s top cartoon competition. This year’s contest drew entries from 1,114 artists from 85 countries, for a total of 3,127 cartoons. The Selection Committee picked the winners from among 145 cartoons by 125 artists from 37 countries and announced the results yesterday at the IC Green Palace Hotel in the Mediterranean city of Antalya.
Winner Gatto also received the Merit Prize for a different cartoon. He will be presented with $8,000, a plaque from the Culture Ministry and the gold plaque from daily Hürriyet. Zaman will receive $5,000 and the daily Milliyet bronze plaque, while Leurs, Cerchez-Abdula and Kosobukin will each be given $3,500 and the daily Radikal silver plaque.
A total of 10 artists, including Gatto, won a Merit Prize worth $500. The other winners were Mohammad Amin Aghaei (Iran), Horacio Cardo (Argentina), Angel Boligan Corbo (Cuba), Nikolay Ephremov (Russia), Ilya Katz (Israel), L’ubomir Kotrha (Slovakia), Arif Sutristanto (Indonesia), Didie S.W. (Indonesia) and Ross Thomson (Britain).
Zaman, who joined the competition from host city Antalya, is a graduate of the Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty and works as a designer for a private company. He also won a Merit Prize in last year’s competition.
This year’s Selection Committee was headed by Patrick Bruce Oliphant from the United States and included Ercan Akyol, Latif Demirci, Selçuk Demirel, Professor Hüsamettin Koçan and Tan Oral from Turkey, Roar Hagen (Norway), Mihai Ignat (Romania), Jerelle Kraus (U.S.) and Yaoning Zhang (China).
The cartoons selected by the committee will be exhibited starting today at the IC Airport Hotel at 6:30 p.m. The exhibition will be open to visitors free of charge through June 10. The awards will be presented at a ceremony to be held in Istanbul in October.
Winner Gatto also received the Merit Prize for a different cartoon. He will be presented with $8,000, a plaque from the Culture Ministry and the gold plaque from daily Hürriyet. Zaman will receive $5,000 and the daily Milliyet bronze plaque, while Leurs, Cerchez-Abdula and Kosobukin will each be given $3,500 and the daily Radikal silver plaque.
A total of 10 artists, including Gatto, won a Merit Prize worth $500. The other winners were Mohammad Amin Aghaei (Iran), Horacio Cardo (Argentina), Angel Boligan Corbo (Cuba), Nikolay Ephremov (Russia), Ilya Katz (Israel), L’ubomir Kotrha (Slovakia), Arif Sutristanto (Indonesia), Didie S.W. (Indonesia) and Ross Thomson (Britain).
Zaman, who joined the competition from host city Antalya, is a graduate of the Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty and works as a designer for a private company. He also won a Merit Prize in last year’s competition.
This year’s Selection Committee was headed by Patrick Bruce Oliphant from the United States and included Ercan Akyol, Latif Demirci, Selçuk Demirel, Professor Hüsamettin Koçan and Tan Oral from Turkey, Roar Hagen (Norway), Mihai Ignat (Romania), Jerelle Kraus (U.S.) and Yaoning Zhang (China).
The cartoons selected by the committee will be exhibited starting today at the IC Airport Hotel at 6:30 p.m. The exhibition will be open to visitors free of charge through June 10. The awards will be presented at a ceremony to be held in Istanbul in October.