Results of 14th PortoCartoon World Festival /2012 ….النتائج الكاملة لمهرجان بورتو الدولي الرابع عشر في البرتغال

On 10 أبريل 2012

Results of 14th PortoCartoon World Festival /2012
النتائج الكاملة لمهرجان بورتو الدولي الرابع عشر في البرتغال

الفنان السوري رائد خليل ينال الجائزة الشرفية في مهرجان بورتو الدولي الرابع عشر في البرتغال
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Grand Prize – Alessandro Gatto – Italy
“La Scala” – Theme

2nd Prize – Felipe Galindo/ Feggo – E.U.A.
“ Global warming” – Free Theme

3rd Prize – Ex-aequo – Omar Figueroa Turcios – Colombia
Untitled – Theme

3rd Prize – Ex-aequo – Valery Doroshenko – Ucraine
Untitled – Theme

Honorable-Mention-Mohsen-Zarifian-Iran

Honorable-Mention-Raed-Khalil-Syria

Honorable-Mention-Toso-Borkovic-Serbia

Honorable-Mention-Antonio-Santos-Portugal

Honorable-Mention-Angel-Boligan-Mexico

Honorable-Mention-Plantu-France

Honorable-Mention-Ross-Thomson-UK

Honorable-Mention-Ba-Bilig-China

Honorable-Mention-Luc-Vernimmen-Belgium

Honorable-Mention-Vladimir-Kazanevski-Ukraine

Honorable-Mention-David-Vela-Spain

Honorable-Mention-Norbert-Sarnecki-Poland

Alessandro Gatto from Italy was the winner of Grand Prize of the 14th PortoCartoon-World Festival, organized by the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, under the theme “The rich, the poor, the protester.”

The second prize was awarded to Felipe Galindo, a Mexican living in USA, with a work for the Free Category section, and the third ex-aequo to Turcios, from Colombia, and to Valery Doroshenko, from Ukraine.

The quality of the works, led the international jury to award Honourable Mentions to 12 artists from different countries, such as: Belgium, Brazil, China, Spain, France, Iran. Mexico, Portugal, United Kingdom

In appreciation were about two thousand works, from hundreds of artists from all the continents. Iran is the country with more participants – 70 artists and 258 works – followed by Brazil, Turkey, Romania and Portugal.

With this participation, PortoCartoon reinforces its place on the podium of international contests of cartoon and gives more relevance to the classification of Porto as the “capital of the cartoon”, in 2008.

The international jury of 14th PortoCartoon was chaired by Georges Wolinski, (France) and the following members: Peter Nieuwendijk, President General of FECO (Netherlands); Xaquin Marin, former Director of the Museo de Humor Fene (Spain), Luís Mendonça, Representative of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto and Luis Humberto Marcos, director of the Portuguese Printing Press Museum.

The winners of the 14th PortoCartoon will receive their trophies and prizes during the opening ceremony of the exhibition to be held on the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, in 23 June, during the S. João of Porto festivities
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Several hundreds of thousands of visitors have seen the thirteen editions of PortoCartoon that took place on the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, and in the several cities where exhibited, including countries as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, France, Spain and Mexico.

This was the sixth edition of the “prize of the public” which began in 2006 and, like as the other editions, the winner will be invited to make an “anthological exhibition” about his work in the next PortoCartoon. In the previous editions won the Portuguese António Santos “Santiagu”; Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz (Poland), Guo Zhong (China), Ronaldo (Brazil) and Ludo Goderis (Belgium).
The anthological exhibition of the Brazilian artist will open by the end June, during the 14th PortoCartoon edition which theme is “The rich, the poor, the protester”.