The first prize winner of the Taitung Nandao International Fine Arts Award is Zhou Daixuan.

(Photo by reporter Huang Mingtang)

[Reporter Huang Mingtang/Taitung Report] The Taitung County Government specially organized the "2022 Seventh South Island Art Award" and held an award ceremony today.

This year, 159 works from 9 countries participated in the call for entries. The first prize was finally won by 3 people including Yin Zijie, Zhou Daikun, and Liao Zhaohao, each with a prize money of 400,000 yuan.

From now until January 29 next year, the exhibition presents the artistic creations of 10 groups of new generation artists.

Rao Qingling, the county magistrate, said that this year, in addition to changing the "resident village type" art award to a "submission type", it not only breaks the restrictions on media, contestants' ethnic groups and nationalities, but also increases the award and changes the first prize to three, encouraging artists Get creative.

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Liao Zhaohao, the first prize winner of Taitung Nandao International Art Award.

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The Cultural Office of the County Government explained that the three award-winning artists are also good at each field. In their creations, they show the local characteristics of Taitung and the mountain and sea landscapes, explore diverse topics, and interpret the environment, ethnic culture, and living memory from multiple perspectives. I look forward to continuing to exert the influence of the art awards in the future to promote the art and culture of the Austronesian language family.

Yin Zijie, the first prize winner of Taitung Nandao International Art Award.

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Yin Zijie's work "How to Reach Balance" was inspired by the aborigines who put traps to prevent crops from being destroyed, and the injured are often dogs; Zhou Daikun's "Island.

past and present.

"Looking Away" takes Taiwan's history and environmental issues as the research axis, collaging images of different time and space; Liao Chaohao's "The Texture of Stone: Collection Project" uses the modern river landscape of South Island as the data collection, and uses the space of work and investigation It is set on the riverbed to respond to the relationship between people and the river.

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