Filipino Esquilo wins ASEAN arts award

Filipino Esquilo wins ASEAN arts award

JAKARTA (JP): In a ceremony attended by Indonesian First Lady
Tien Soeharto here yesterday, Filipino Alfredo Esquilo was
celebrated as winner of the ASEAN Arts Award 1995.

Esquilo's oil-painting, Ritwal, beat over 2,600 other entries
from six countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) to collect the US$10,000 prize along with a certificate
from Mrs. Tien Soeharto and a trophy.

Held at the ASEAN Secretariat building, yesterday's
presentation ceremony was also attended by Minister of Education
and Culture Wardiman Djojonegoro, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali
Alatas, ASEAN Secretary General Ajit Singh and Mrs. Susrinah
Sanyoto Sastrowardoyo, who chairs the Indonesian Fine Arts
Foundation.

The award presented yesterday represents the only region-wide
competition which involves six-separate competitions in six ASEAN
member states before finally culminating in the ASEAN Arts Award.

The second winner was an oil painting by Nawin Biadklang of
Thailand titled Female Display for Sale. Biadklang won an $8,000
cash award and a trophy.

Third place went to Indonesian Effendi for his Balbos-Kania
III, while Singaporean Wong Yean Yean and Filipino Ferdinand
Doctorelo came fourth and fifth respectively.

The winning entries will be exhibited at the ASEAN
Secretariat and later at TRESORS 1995 -- the Third International
Fine Art and Antiques Fair in Singapore from Sept. 15 to 20.(mds)