The decision of the president, Enrique de Ybarra, was supported by Carmen Iglesias, Luis María Anson and Tomás Paredes
The jury of the BMW Painting Awards resigned en bloc shortly after the verdict on the participants in this edition, the thirty-seventh. The jury, chaired by Enrique de Ybarra, consists of three other members: the secretary, Tomás Paredes, the director of the Academy of History Carmen Iglesias and the journalist and academic Luis María Anson. The decision to end their responsibilities was taken unanimously due to disagreements with the new rules for the selection of the works.
The jury meeting took place today and during the session, the BMW Prize for Painting, endowed with 25,000 euros, and, among the youngest of the finalists, the Mario Antolín Scholarship (8,000 euros), was chosen, as well as the new Digital Art Prize (6,000 euros) and the Young Talent Prize (4,000 euros), which went to Andrea Hernández Indurain, 14, from Navarra, with an acrylic on canvas entitled ‘Self-portrait with float’. The names of the remaining winners will be announced at a special gala at the Teatro Real on November 22, in the presence of Queen Sofia.
At the same award ceremony, the president of the jury, Enrique de Ybarra, resigned from the post he had held for 12 years, because of “disagreement with the new methods imposed for the selection of works” . Ybarra’s resignation was accompanied by the other three members of the jury, who have expressly expressed their decision to resign and their support for the outgoing president’s arguments.
Source: La Verdad
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