Presentation of the Audience Choice Award for the City of Aschaffenburg Art Award

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in conjunction with INK’s donation of the prize money to the
Aschaffenburg and Gelnhausen Hospices

INK had the great honor of receiving the exhibition’s Audience Choice Award, as voted by visitors to the exhibition STEPS – CLIMBING. GROWING. at the Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche in Aschaffenburg, to be awarded the exhibition’s Audience Choice Award for the larger-than-life pencil drawing “Blick in die Ewigkeit” (A Glimpse into Eternity).

On the occasion of the award ceremony, INK donated the award money—in keeping with the artwork’s theme of the final stage of life—in equal parts to the hospices in Aschaffenburg and Gelnhausen. INK would like to thank these two institutions for their important work in places where family members can no longer provide full support. These valuable places make it possible to walk the final path with loving care, free from pain, and with dignity—even when facing a serious illness.

You can find more information about the work of the hospices here:
St. Elisabeth Kinzigtal Hospice, Gelnhausen
Hospice Group Aschaffenburg e.V., Aschaffenburg

About the Art Award:

Quote from the laudatory speech by PD Dr Thomas Schauerte, Director of the Museums of the City of Aschaffenburg:
“… a drawing in the style of the Old Masters, which you really have to look from very close-up to see that it is drawn in pencil.”

Quote from the laudatory speech by Johannes Honeck, Director of the Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche and the Christian Schad Museum, Aschaffenburg:
“In INK Sonntag-Ramirez Ponce’s work, we encounter the final stage of life. A face, drawn with great precision, that makes time visible. Ageing and dying appear condensed. The stage becomes a threshold that is not crossed, but consciously experienced.”

FAZ Rhein Main, Christoph Schütte:
“…a moving ‘Glimpse into Eternity’ – a title that is even more striking given its photorealism – as the portrait of an elderly lady in pencil is entitled.”

Quote from Main-Echo, Aschaffenburg:
“The new Albrecht Dürer.”