Dacos Award

Dacos, who was a professor of engraving at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège and the co-founder of the Biennial of Engraving, the “La Poupée d’Encre” association, Dacos is ubiquitous when it comes to engraving.

He launched a project to create an award, which would support and encourage young engravers. In addition, the City of Liège, in close collaboration with the artist’s family, is organising the first edition of the Dacos Award this year, 2015.

The Dacos Award selection jury has finished examining seventy applications from 21 different countries. After its deliberation, it chose the winner of the 1st edition: the Belgian Simon Defosse.

A selection of the winner's work will be exhibited at the Grand Curtius museum, alongside works by Dacos.