The IDF PRIZE 2010 was awarded to Kristina Heckova a student of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The artist of 25 years of Slovak origin, draw around the white. Her line is simple, precise, stripped. It addresses the essential detail that is often an animal, suspended in dialogue. She says that “like men, animals have faces. While men are violent animals that I draw, even tortured, remain calm.”

The winner is invited to exhibit his drawings in Beijing, during the year 2010 at the Gallery Hadrien de Montferrand. A first professional experience except for an art student!

Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, located in the heart of the Art District in Beijing is China’s first gallery exclusively devoted to artworks on paper. The gallery was founded at the end of 2009 by Hadrien de Montferrand, former Markting Director of Artcurial, with the support of Laurent Dassault, President of the Studies and Development Committee of Artcurial.

The International Fair : 21st Century Drawings takes its bets by bringing in Week Drawing a breath of originality through the youth exhibitors and casual style and accessibility of the event which aims to serve as a springboard for students of art schools, artists of tomorrow!

The jury, chaired by the Director of IFD Serghei Litvin, is composed of the following personalities from the art world:
• Camilla Adami – Artist
• Christian Depardieu – Director of Galerie Depardieu
• Pierre Durieu – Mazarine bookstore (Modern and Contemporary Art)
• Pantelis Makkas – Video artist
• Hadrien de Montferrand – Director of Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery
• Charles Penwarden – Writer and collector of contemporary art
• Alice Pfeiffer – Journalist
• Vladimir Velickovic – Member of the Academy of Arts