Thursday, 28 April 2016

Sudarsan Pattnaik Wins Gold Medal At Moscow Sand Sculpture Championship

Moscow: Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the Gold Medal at the ninth Moscow Sand Sculpture Championship “The magical world of sand” 2016.
Pattnaik won the competition for his 15 feet high art work “Mahatma Gandhi’s sculpture for non-violence and peace”. Post his win, he said: “I am very happy to have won the title for my country. The director of sand art festival PaveI Minilkov presented the gold medal and the trophy at the ceremony today. I have tried to show through my sculpture how Gandhiji’s non-violence concept will bring global peace around the world.”
After winning the award, the 39-year-old sand artist called on India’s ambassador in Russia Pankaj Saran, who congratulated him on his accomplishment.
A total of 20 top sculptors from different countries competed at the championship, which was held from April 21 to 27 at Kolomenskoye in Moscow.
Pattnaik has participated in more than 50 international sand sculpture championships across the world and won many awards for the country.
In 2008 he won the World champion title at USF World sand sculpture championship in Berlin. Apart from this he is a five-time winner of people choice award at Berlin, which is a record. In 2009 Won the Korea sand Sculpture award. In 2010, he won the gold medal for people choice award at third Moscow World sand sculpture championship. He also won three medal in North American solo sand sculpture championship, People choice prize in Canada and Moscow. In 2011, he won the first prize and public prize at Denmark and also won double medal at Solo International sand art contest in Mervala 2012. In 2013, he won the first prize (Gold Medal) at Saint Peters Burg in 12th International sand sculpture competition at Russia, Danish grand prizes at International Sand competition Championship, Denmark and won Moscow museum prize at Russia. He has also got the fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri in 2014.

His sand sculpture on Black Taj Mahal earned him accolades all over the world. Pattnaik runs a sand art school at Puri beach in Orissa.

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