Previous winners of Martell Outstanding Artistic Figures Award

Martell's Outstanding Artistic Figures in 2004:

Fang Shicong (a painter who traveled in France and perfectly integrated the essence of western painting with the profoundness of China culture)

Michel Audiard (French sculptor, changing the traditional meaning of writing tools)

Gala (photographer who created the concept of trendy visual books)

Tony Leung Ka Fai (starring in the French film "Lover", a famous Hong Kong actor in the international film industry)

Martell's Outstanding Artistic Figures in 2005:

Wang Xiajun (known as the first artist in china glass, who combined China's classic traditional culture with glass craft to form a unique style).

Jia (created a new pattern of China's film language with his unique "personalized interpretation")

Shui Hetian (from Hong Kong, he interprets art from many angles such as painting and photography, and is a veritable all-rounder of visual arts)

Sarah Moon (French female photographer, her unique style is considered to be painting with light and shadow, and the lens language has aesthetic feeling and soul power that spans time).

Martell's Outstanding Artistic Figures in 2006:

Marc Rib (French photographer)

Zhang Xiaogang (China oil painter)

Prospect (China Sculptor)

Wang (China New Media Artist)

Lin (China female artist)

Martell's Outstanding Artistic Figures in 2007:

Ceng Hao (oil painter, keenly aware of the changes of the times, made a profound metaphorical criticism of the relationship between human nature and material desire in the commodity society).

Shi Hui (a space artist who pays attention to nature and humanity, has a simple and pure oriental spiritual background, and his works show extraordinary creative framework and sensitive and skillful skills in the use of materials in the sense of modern art).

Paul Lowe (master photographer, delivering beauty and light, his works are humorous, bright and not flashy, and he captures the pure and moving beauty in the glamorous fashion world sensitively and naively).

Miao, a conceptual photographer, has amazing creativity, and integrates China's cultural heritage into the new artistic conception of contemporary art. His works show the passage of time and a deep sense of space. )

Martell's Outstanding Artistic Figures in 2008:

Liu Ye (oil painter)

Hong Lei (surrealist photographer)

Xia Xiaowan (3D installation artist)

Mario Sorrenti (fashion photographer)

Martell's Outstanding Artistic Figures in 2009:

Ceng Fanzhi (an abstract oil painter who paints everything in the world)

Gu Wenda (an avant-garde conceptual artist who deconstructs multiculturalism)

Jie Jiang (a sculptor who knows the true meaning of life)

Suowei Sambo (dynamic contemporary image innovator)

20 10 Martell's extraordinary artistic figure;

Zhou Chunya (an oil painter who combines the essence of Chinese and Western art)

Liu Jianhua (a post-modern sculptor with a thorough understanding of the transitional society)

Feng Hai (a photographer who combines ancient and modern and magical realism)

Bettina remus (a pioneer photographer who shows his true self)

Martell's extraordinary artistic figure 2011;

Sui Jianguo (a sculptor who insists on idealistic creation). His works full of vitality bring a wonderful collision between tradition and rebirth, and are also a clever complement of Chinese and western art and culture.

Li Songsong (as one of the hottest oil painters in contemporary China, his works depict historical moments with unique formal language and give people a platform to re-examine history with calm and simple brushstrokes).

Haibo (a photographer, who is good at using simplicity to interpret every constant change from a constant and static perspective, so that every viewer will have a * * * voice about the passage of time and the disappearance of history)

Inez von Rumsfeld and Vinod Madadin (photographers from the Netherlands, whose works have successfully crossed the fields of art and commerce, and conveyed their analysis and insight into human nature under the glamorous lens language).

20 12 Martell's extraordinary artistic figures:

Wei Liu (constantly subverting the inherent limitations to explore the beauty of order and truth, as one of the most important conceptual artists in China, with his outstanding creativity and extensive use of artistic language forms, let us intuitively and profoundly understand his thinking and subversion of order)

Xiang Jing, a sculptor, has attracted the attention of contemporary art circles by creating natural forms and shaping the true nature of human nature with classical and simple artistic techniques. She traces the purity of human nature through her unique perspective and expression of returning to nature.

Ye Yongqing (an oil painter who depicts the essence of life through simple and pure brushstrokes, as one of the hottest oil painters in China, perfectly interprets the oriental aesthetic charm through western artistic language, and profoundly depicts the true colors of life with seemingly humorous and casual brushstrokes).

Philip-lorca Ducorps Cia (created a real photographer through light and shadow, played an important role in the international photography field, knew the subtle relationship between art and life, used the sense of separation between stages to break the simple reproduction of life by ordinary photography, and finally told the essence of the two in a tone of combining reality with reality).