The Aesthetica Art Prize Now Open For Entries: Maria Hinze, Painting & Drawing

Hosted by Aesthetica Magazine, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world. It offers both emerging and established artists the opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience, and further their engagement with the international art world. The Judging Panel enhances its position in the industry, bringing together specialists from leading cultural institutions.

The award attracts thousands of entries in a range of innovative media from locations as diverse as Australia, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA. Previous finalists include John Keane, former official British war artist, currently represented by Flowers Gallery in London; Julia Vogl, shortlisted for Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4′s New Sensations; Ingrid Hu, former designer at the Lubetkin-winning Heatherwick Studio; Marcus Jansen, a leading modern expressionist; and Bernat Millet, shortlisted for National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.

Longlisted and shortlisted artists have gone on to achieve success around the globe, including Jason deCaires Taylor, creator of the first underwater sculpture park in Grenada and recently the artist behind an environmental installation on the banks of the River Thames. Chilean-born photographer Carolina Redondo has since been selected for In Search of the Miraculous at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange and French photographer Noémie Goudal has had solo shows at FOAM in Amsterdam and The Photographers’ Gallery in London.

Enter now for the Art Prize 2017: www.aestheticamagazine.com/art-prize.

We rediscover artist Maria Hinze, whose work featured in the Painting & Drawing strand of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015 Longlist:

Hinze’s entry o.T. surveys themes of presence and permeability, conspicuity and invisibility, and disappearance. Through structural exploration and the excavation of space, a visual narrative is developed using the metaphor of heaven and earth as directions for orientation that form a frame of reference vertically and horizontally, in interior and exterior spheres, and on an image carrier. The work differentiates three dimensions of space: first, the physical, which can be experienced in its materiality and sensuality. The second and third dimensions are immaterial; individual ideas, beliefs and knowledge are juxtaposed collectively. o.T. is part of a drawing series that appropriates surrounding areas through one’s own physical radius. The permeability of boundaries in the social space of action and the potency of the drawing form a central question from which to expand Hinze’s exploration of being human, unfolding an atlas of inner experience.

www.mariahinze.com.

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Credits
1. Maria Hinze, o.T., 2014. Photo documentation 4 pieces DIN A 3, 297mm x 420mm. Courtesy of the artist.