gerrit benner prize 2017
pedro bakker
Frisian artist Pedro Bakker (1952) has been awarded the GERRIT BENNER Prize 2017. This biennial prize for visual art includes an exhibition at the Museum of Friesland. Bakker won the prize because of how his work has developed over the past two years. His colourful and challenging drawings, inspired by his stay in China, will be displayed in the museum from 4 November to 31 December 2017.
From the end of 2014, Bakker stayed in China for a long time to work on his project Madame Mao, a sequel to the work To Draw Politically. In the exhibition we follow Bakker's development from the last political work he made in the Netherlands about the murder of Theo Van Gogh to his more recent work, in which he explores themes such as Orientalism, cultural differences and the artist and his muse.