Monday, January 11, 2010

Dr. Gilad Fiskus, chairman of Quality dentist committee,and The Israeli Cartoon Museum, have teamed up together and produced an outstanding caricature exhibition, named- 'MY COMIC DENTIST'.


In the past 6 month we received some 800 caricatures drawn by artists, from over 50 countries. Due to the fact that very few drawings could have being classified as caricature and be differentiated from the cartoons, the judging committee decided to judge all the art works in one section.The amount of medals is the same as promised for the 2 sections. One gold medal, two silver,f our bronze and five honorable, all together 12 medals.
The winning artwork grant its artist with a 500$ first prize bonus.


The winning caricature artwork are:


1-Gold Medal and 500$ bonus- Angel Boligan-Mexico Title-The Time
2-Silver Medal- Boris Erenburg-Israel Title- Donation
3-Silver Medal- Milenko Kosanovic-Serbia No Title
4-Bronze Medal- Rene Bouschet-France Title- Sweet Extraction
5-Bronze Medal- Rumen Dragostinov-Bulgaria No Title
6-Bronze Medal- Natalia Varchenko-Russia No Title
7-Bronze Medal- Axinte Doru-Romania No Title
8-Honorable Medal- Seyran Caferli-Azerbaijan No Title
9-Honorable Medal- Lou Peidong-China Title-Assemble
10-Honorable Medal-Sun Shen Ying-China Title-Encouragment
11-Honorable Mentioned-Mahesh Nambiar-India Title-Dentist in his duty
12-Honorable Medal-Goran Celicanin-Serbia No Title


The members of the judging committee are:
Dr. Gilad Fiskus-Chairman of Quality dentist, and initiator of the competition
Ms. Galit Gaon- Director and chief curator of The Israeli Cartoon Museum.
Mr. Michel Kichka- Chairman of the Israeli Caricature Organization.
Ms. Maya Dvash-Editor in chief, the Israeli Cartoon Museum
Ms. Galit Oz- Producer manager, the Israeli Cartoon Museum
Mr. Liav Tzabri-Caricature and comics' artist
Mr. Aviho Egozi- Caricature expert


The exhibition will be displayed at the Museum's web site- www.cartoon.org.il
In March 2010 the city of Holon will host an exhibition of the 45 top caricatures in an outdoors exhibition.