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EXPOSITIONS The European Prize for Applied arts 78 makers from 18 European Countries Opening of Friday 23 October at 7 pm At the Grand Hall of the « Anciens Abattoirs” of Mons At the opening of this third edition of the European Prize for Applied arts, we were pleased to welcome not less than 600 people. Many of the exhibiting artists were also present. M. Elio Di Rupo, Burgomaster of Mons,took the floor at the Prize giving ceremony, followed by Mrs Rosy Greenlees, Predident of the WCC-Europe Master Prize, Young Talent Prize and Special Prize Mons 2015 Awarding of the Mons 2015 Prize by Mrs Yesmine Lawton, Head of Fashion and Design at Mons 2015 Photos: JS HERMANT Introduction speech of M. Elio Di Rupo, Burgomaster of Mons Young Talent Prize awarded to Patricia Domingues by Mrs Rosy Greenlees, Président of the WCC-Europe Prizewinners Monika PATUZSINSKA, Polish artist, winner of The Master Prize , the prize of the Federation Wallonia Brussels This visually chaotic work belies a carefully conceived and premeditated approach to making. This contradiction speaks of the skill, ingenuity and mastery of an accomplished and disciplined craftsperson. TransForms Plus (Bastards series), 2013. Porcelain, slip cast from a modified plaster mould, parian ware.3 0 x 30 x 35 chacun. Photo : Monika Patuszynska Patricia DOMINGUES, Portuguese artist, winner of The Young Talent Prize, the prize of WCC-Europe The artist is engaged with exploring material and process. They push the material breaking it down then reforming it into a unified but fragmented whole. In this way the process is expressed in its finished form. When looking at these works you are dawn to the texture and form but also the internal space as much as the space filled by the object itself. They are small objects but have a depth and density suggesting monumental scale like a foreign body or alien landscape. Many & Deliberated, 2014. Necuron, steel. Each piece has been fragmented in small pieces, and put back again. 1 x 6 x 3 cm. Photo : Manuel Ocaña Tiphaine LEMONNIER, french artist, winner of the Prize Mons 2015 The artist work is strong, proud and contemporary yet the themes it deals with are centuries old- of gender and representation. Visually pure and simple, it uses contrasting materials that also express a sense of history and the contemporary of the personal, the public and of softness and rigidity. This clever combination of material and form results in a highly sophisticated and polished work. Venus studies 3, 2015. Marble, elastic band, carving, water cutting, neo-interpretation of fertility figure. 26 x 15 x 5 cm. Photo : Manuel Ocana, Stephanie Moravetz
