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The John Moores Critics Award is founded by its committee members including College of Fine Arts in Shanghai University, International Association of Art Critics (United Kingdom), Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) and Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom) . On February 22nd in 2013, RAM is about to hold the John Moores Critics Award Seminar to announce the winners and to make a review and summary for the first John Moores Critics Award. Honorary President of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) Henry Meyric Hughes and other specialists or award winners are going to deliver statements and discuss issues about contemporary art in the question and answer section with the public.
It is co-organized by Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General, Liverpool Biennial and John Moores Foundation (United Kingdom), also sponsored by the DSL Collection (France). The Award as an inauguration is designed to review paintings shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in UK and China，which owns a history of more than fifty years.
The 2012 John Moores Critics Award has finished the selection process through submissions, shortlists and selections. All the shortlisted works would be published along with the award-winning works, to be the relative archive for the catalogue of the 2012 John Moores Painting Prize.
Arrangement
Theme: How critical thinking expressed in writing affects exhibition making... Read More
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The John Moores Critics Award is founded by its committee members including College of Fine Arts in Shanghai University, International Association of Art Critics (United Kingdom), Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) and Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom) . On February 22nd in 2013, RAM is about to hold the John Moores Critics Award Seminar to announce the winners and to make a review and summary for the first John Moores Critics Award. Honorary President of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) Henry Meyric Hughes and other specialists or award winners are going to deliver statements and discuss issues about contemporary art in the question and answer section with the public.
It is co-organized by Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General, Liverpool Biennial and John Moores Foundation (United Kingdom), also sponsored by the DSL Collection (France). The Award as an inauguration is designed to review paintings shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in UK and China，which owns a history of more than fifty years.
The 2012 John Moores Critics Award has finished the selection process through submissions, shortlists and selections. All the shortlisted works would be published along with the award-winning works, to be the relative archive for the catalogue of the 2012 John Moores Painting Prize.
Arrangement
Theme: How critical thinking expressed in writing affects exhibition making
Time: 7pm-9pm
Chair: Henry Meyric Hughes
Key note speakers: Fei Dawei, Bao Dong
Participants for discussion: the 3 winners of John Moores Critics Award, Henry Meyric Hughes, Lewis Biggs, Fei Dawei, Bao Dong
Related event: John Moores Critics Award Symposia
About the Speakers
Henry Meyric Hughes is an independent curator and writer on art. He is Honorary President of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), in Paris and General Co-ordinator of Council of Europe exhibitions.
Lewis Biggs was the curator and artistic director of Liverpool Biennale, the director of Tate Liverpool. He has long been dedicated to promote the interchange between art and urban culture. Now he is a member of the Advisory Committee of Rockbund Art Museum since 2011, also aninternational advisor to Shanghai University.
Fei Dawei is one of the most important curators and critics for contemporary art in China. Since the later 1980s, he has curated series of exhibitions and it was him that first promoted Chinese contemporary art forward an international arena. From 1995 to 2003, he was one of the jury for the UNESCO Art Foundation. He chaired the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation and turned to be the first director of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art from 2002 to 2008. He resigned from the position in 2008 and became an independent curator and critic.
Bao Dong (b. 1979, Anhui province) is an art critic and independent curator. He graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Academy in 2006 with an M.A. in Art History and has curated exhibitions for a wide range of art organizations since 2005. In contributing essays to the artistic dialogue and other forms of involvement, Bao has established himself as a leading curator and critic of work by the “new generation.”
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