Winners of the Ateneo Art Awards 2017 announced

Costantino Zicarelli's Prelude to a Billion Years is one of the winners of this year's Ateneo Art Awards. All photos: Danny Pata

At its news space Arete on Sunday October 1, winners of the Ateneo Art Awards 2017 have been announced. The Jury selected three from a shortlist of 12.

Cian Dayrit for his works in "Exposition", Gale Encarnacion for her thesis exhibition "Blow Me", and Constantino Zicarelli for his solo show "Prelude to a Billion Years" won the Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Art.

All three received a residency grant: Cian at La Trobe Art Insitute in Australia, Gale at Artesan Gallery + Studio in Singapore, and Costantino Zicarelli at Liverpool Hope University in the United Kingdom.

Cian Dayrit's winning 'Exposition' was part of a group exhibit at the Lopez Museum and Library

Meanwhile, two winners were selected for the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism. Arianna Mercado, for her Dalena’s Curtain Call, was accorded the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - The Philippine Star award, which includes a bimonthly column in Arts & Culture section of the newspaper for a year.

Josephine V. Roque won the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize - ArtAsiaPacific Magazine prize for her Transits of Meaning. She will be contributing a total of six articles to ArtAsiaPacific Magazine for one year as well.

Gale Encarnacion's 'Blow Me' is a multi-media installation that approximates a clinical site

The Ateneo Art Awards 2017 exhibition is on view until December 2 at the Ateneo Art Gallery in Arete, inside the Loyala Campus grounds. — LA, GMA News

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