Sunday 13 May, 2012, the exhibition of entries to the Awakening World Awards competition opened in the Imam Ali Museum of Arts. The exhibition consists of two sections. The main section is dedicated to the works of participants in the award. In the side section the award is honored to exhibit collections of works by Pekka Loiri, Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Hicabi Demirci.
Amir Abdolhosseini, Director of Awakening World Awards announced the statistics of AWA as follows:
Participated Countries: 59 countries
Received works: 3006 works
Received works in Cartoon section: 1438 works
Received works in Poster section: 981 works
Received works in Photography section: 587 works
Number of entries: 439 works
Cartoon section: 145 works
Poster section: 71 works
Photography section: 90 works
Number of invited works (in three sections): 80 works
Participating Countries:
Argentina / Azerbaijan / Germany / Albania /United States of America / Jordan / Uzbekistan / Spain / Australia / Slovakia /Slovenia /Afghanistan / Ukraine / Indonesia / Italy / Iran / Brazil /Bulgaria / United Kingdom / Belgium / Pakistan / Peru /Thailand / Turkey / Check Republic / China / Russia /Romania / Japan / Sudan / Syria / Serbia / Iraq / France /Palestine / Finland / Philippines / Cyprus / Kazakhstan /Canada / Croatia / Colombia / Cuba / Kosovo / Lebanon / Luxembourg / Poland / Malaysia / Morocco / Mongolia / Luxembourg / Poland / Malaysia / Morocco / Mongolia / Mexico / Macedonia / Moldova / Montenegro / Myanmar / Nigeria / Netherlands / India / Yemen / Greece.
Selected entries in the poster section:
Maryam Azad, Iran
/ Ahmad Aghagholi Zadeh Sayar, Iran
/ Vahid Asadi, Iran
/ Mohammad Afshar, Iran
/ Dariyoush Allahyari, Iran
/ Majid Bahrami, Iran
/ Fang Chen, Usa
/ Hou Chen, China
/ Ahmad Derakhshandeh, Iran
/ Hamid Dehdashti, Iran
/ Lex Drewinski, German
/ Amir Hossein Ebadian Dehkordi, Iran
/ Hossein Faqihi, Afghanistan
/ Mohammad Ghorbanali, Iran
/ Amir Hossein Ghoochibeik, Iran
/ Mahmoud Hosseini, Iran
/ Kai Huo, China
/ Zhu Junging, China
/ Ali Khorshid Pour, Iran
/ Seyed Naser Keshavarz, Iran
/ Mahdiyeh Kalantri, Iran
/ Adam Klasa, Poland
/ Sebastian Kubica, Poland
/ Majid Mokhtari, Iran
/ Mojtaba Mirza Mohammadiha, Iran
/ Maryam Manochehri Rad, Iran
/ Seyed Mahdi Moosavi, Iran
/ Ayda Nayeban, Iran
/ Ali Reza Nosrati, Iran
/ Somayeh Nikzad, Iran
/ Rasoul Parvari Moghaddam, Iran
/ Javad Pirmarzabad, Iran
/ Freddy Peralta, Mexico
/ Morteza Rahmati, Iran
/ Mostafa Soleimani, Iran
/ Masoud Shakibaei, Iran
/ Saeed Sheikh Beglou, Iran
/ Mohammad Saber Sheikh Rezaei, Iran
/ Babak Safari, Iran
/ Ali Seylan, Turkey
/ Ning Shen, China
/ Szymon Szymankiewicz, Poland
/ Parisa Tashakori, Iran
/ Hamid Vasfi, Iran
/ Joanna Wasiak-Bassa, Poland
/ Abner Wu, China
/ Guowei Wu, China
/ Zhonghao Wu , China
/ Tan Xiaofei, China
/ Lei Yue, China
/ Ali Reza Zakeri, Iran
/ Eddie Zhang, China
/ Yong Zhang, China
The closing date of exhibition is 11 June 2012. The names of the winners will be announced in the closing ceremony of the festival.
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