Karin van Ommeren receives Liu Kaiqu sculpture Award 2013

Dutch artist Karin van Ommeren lately travelled to China to receive the ''Liu Kaiqu Excellent Award 2013'' for her sculpture “Roots,” made in black Shanxi granite and with a total height of 5 meters. The sculpture is a stone that has roots; showing that all things and beings have roots. They connect us with the past, make what we are and give us life. So we worship the earth where life itself is born and the history we carry inside.

“Liu Kaiqu Award'' is nowadays the most important award of sculpture in China. It has been instituted to improve the quality of sculpture in public spaces and to stimulate the communication between Chinese and international art.

This year for the third time the Liu Kaiqu International Sculpture Exhibition is held in the Wuhu Sculpture Park in Wuhu city in east China’s Ahui Province, under the guidance of the China Sculpture Institute.  The  award is named after the Chinese sculptor Liu Kaiqu (1904-1993), founder of Chinese modern sculpture.

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