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Raimundo Folch

Filipino, Artist of Kulay-Diwa

Won the Baumel-Schwenck prize in sculpture

Three spanish artists awarded at the Carrousel du Louvre 2011 International Painting and Sculpture Exposition , Raimundo Folch won the”Baumel-Schwenck” prize in sculpture, Pepe Madrid, the ADAGP prize in painting and Marta Solsona, the “Bronze loungel” in sculpture.

The fourth edition of the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris was held last december 8 to 11 of 2011, a very  important and prestigious international art fair in France, sponsored by the French Republic President Nicolas Zarcozy  and organized by the National Society of the Fine Arts of Paris (S.N.B.A) whose famous founders are August Rodín, Manet etc.

The seat of the expositión is located at the explanade of the Louvre museum where the famous crystal pyramid that appeared in the film Da Vinci Code lies at the middle. Down below is an elegant comercial center of high standing stores, an arqueological ruins of what has been a defensive wall of ancient Paris, several enormous halls that leads to varios entrance of the Louvre museum and a widespaced chamber where the Carrousel du Louvre International Art exposition is annually held.

Like every year, a number of six thousand artists from all parts of the world like Korea, China, Japan, United States, Canada, Brazil, Turkey and european countries gather together to exhibit their artworks and fortunately the possibility to receive a prize of some of the awards the jury of the S.N.B.A. delivers 

Some members of the artists representing Spain came from Valencia where Raimundo Folch, sculptor from  Mislata belonging to the group “ Contemporary Spanish Artists“ was born in Manila in 1960 of a filipina mother and a spanish father who´s infancy  and early youth was spent in Manila, studying at the Paco Catholic School upto highschool before his family left for Spain by a twist of fate in 1976. 

After the sculptor from Zamora, Spain  Daniel Lorenzo Goñi won the prize in  2009, history repeats itself again when saturday december 10, 2011  Raimundo Folch is awarded the “Baumel-Schwenck” prize of 2011 in sculpture. This condecoratión is considered as the highest distinction award in sculpture, by the S.N.B.A. jury of the Carrousel du Louvre. In Spain the “Baumel-Schwenck” prize is comparable to the "Premio Velásquez” or  "Lobo" according to Donato Ruiz, a well known spanish sculptor based in Paris and a member of the S.N.B.A. 

Together with the sculptor Raimundo Folch, also was awarded the painter Pepe Madrid  with the“ADAGP” prize which meant to be the French General Society of Authors and the sculptor Marta Solsona with the “Bronze Lounge” in sculpture both of them coming from Barcelona and total to three the spanish artists awarded at the Carrousel du Louvre edition of this year.



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Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art is a privately owned venue for artistic expression. It is strategically located within a cluster of progressive communities South of Manila. It has an independent exhibition area able to accommodate large-scale works, and a spacious garden ideal for outdoor programs, performances and sculpture installations.

Goals of Kulay-Diwa:

To discover and promote the works of talented, young and deserving Filipino Artist;

To serve as a cultural outpost and make the arts more accessible to the fast-growing communities South of Manila; and

To foster cultural interaction and exchanges with the local regions,Southeast Asia and other countries.

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