Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art
contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain
Image: Olga Chernysheva, Drawing with a crow, 2019. Charcoal on paper, 80 x 64 cm.
© Courtesy the artist and Iragui gallery, Moscow
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Olga Chernysheva
Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art
contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain
Olga Chernysheva was born in Moscow in 1962. She studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. She uses her paintings, watercolours, objects, videos and photographs to observe, interpret and recompose the everyday scenes she witnesses. Her palette of images captures daily life in Russia, placing the emphasis on ordinary scenes in particular. Olga Chernysheva draws on Soviet archetypal imagery and its visual canons but also on the chance events that unfold before her camera.
About the Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain
La Biennale de l’art africain contemporain
Dak’Art 2022
Image: Tegene Kunbi, Chemical +, 2017. Oil on canvas, 29 x 24 inches, 74 x 61 cm.
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Tegene Kunbi Senbeto
Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor
The 14th edition of La Biennale de l’art africain contemporain de Dakar, the continent's largest contemporary art event, opened Thursday in Senegal's capital with Ethiopian painter Tegene Kunbi Senbeto receiving the Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor from the hands of the President of the Republic, Macky Sall. The artist was awarded for his compositions of brightly colored geometric blocks on canvas. Born in Addis Ababa in 1980, Tegene Kunbi lives and works in Berlin, having left Ethiopia in 2008 to further his painting studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
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Prix de confirmation de la Fondation
Simone et Cino Del Duca
Image: Elisabeth Ballet, Travelling, Carrefour Unitec, Pessac, Bordeaux, 2003.
Stainless steel, reflective paint. © Adagp, Paris © Photo: Vincent Monthiers
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Elisabeth Ballet
Prix de confirmation en Sculpture
Elisabeth Ballet was born in 1957 in Cherbourg, she lives and works in Paris. Her sculptures are thoughts in action and compel the visitor to have a mental wandering. Her work is part of the natural and urban space with the installation of permanent works. In 1993, she designed the sculpture Trait pour trait, made of stainless steel, standing in the Domaine de Kerguéhennec. In 2003, she created Travelling for the Bordeaux tramway, a sculpture of metal letters in stainless steel which form a palindrome. In 2019, she designed Sortilèges, where a poem taken from Les Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud links the roofs of the 4 buildings of the Tertre campus of Nantes Université.
Image: Juliens des Monstiers, Fantôme III, 2020. Oil on canvas, 230x170x5 cm. Courtesy the artist and
Galerie Christophe Gaillard. © All rights reserved to the artist © Photo: Rebecca Fanuele
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Julien des Monstiers
Prix de confirmation en Peinture
Born in 1983, Julien des Monstiers lives and works in Paris, he is represented by the Galerie Christophe Gaillard. In his work, Julien des Monstiers experiments with the limits of painting, playing with depth, surfaces, colors, textures and folds and pushing the boundaries between fine and applied arts. From abstract motifs to references to past works and the history of painting motifs (hunting scenes, floral decors or tapestry), the artist works by transfer, a method consisting in painting a motif on a surface then transferring it by pressure while the paint is still fresh on another surface, then adds and removes creating a tangle of images and reliefs.
About the Prix de confirmation de la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca
A New Gaze 3
Image: Dongkyun Vak, Heatwave, 2021. Archival pigment print, 72 x 54 cm.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Dongkyun Vak
A New Gaze
Following North America and Africa, A New Gaze 3 is dedicated to contemporary photography in East and Southeast Asia: South Korean artist Dongkyun Vak has been awarded the Vontobel sponsorship prize. His project proposal on the topic of "Responsibility in the Anthropocene age" impressed the jury. Dongkyun Vak has brought his idea to life photographically in the project called Heatwave. Dongkyun Vak lives and works in Seoul, he is interested in the relationship between object and image in the digital era and in the role of technology in the Anthropocene.
Frieze New York
2022 Frame Stand Prize
Image: Tania Candiani’s installation El Sonido del Fuego / The Sound of Fire (2021) at Instituto de Visión,
Frieze New York 2022. Credit Charlie Rubin for The New York Times
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Instituto de Visión
Frame Stand Prize
Frieze New York has announced the winner of its Frame Stand Prize, which goes to a gallery and artist participating in the "Frame" section. For the section, galleries in business for 10 years or fewer create single-artist presentations in their booth. The Bogotá- and New York-based gallery Instituto de Visión was awarded for the second consecutive year, this time acknowledging a solo presentation by the Mexican conceptual artist Tania Candiani. As the centrepiece of the stand, Candiani presented a sculptural installation of vibrantly hued glass sculptures resembling a gramophone that emit a composition drawn from recordings as each sculpture was blown.
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MPavilion 2022 Architect
Image: MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand, designed by all(zone), 2015-16.
ARCHITECTURE
all(zone)
MPavilion Architect
Bangkok architecture studio all(zone) has been revealed as the next practice to design Melbourne's MPavilion, an annual architecture commission, following designs by Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and Spanish architect Carme Pinós. The pavilion will be installed in the Queen Victoria Gardens in Melbourne in November and will be used as the venue for events, talks, workshops and performances. all(zone), which is led by Rachaporn Choochuey, is best known for designing Thailand's first contemporary art museum – the MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai. According to the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, which funds the MPavilion, the studio was chosen for its focus on sustainability and commitment to using local materials to construct its projects.
About the MPavilion 2022 Architect
Joan Mitchell Center
2022 Artist-in-Residence program
Image: Details of artworks by the 2022 Joan Mitchell Center Artists-in-Residence.
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Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence program
The New York–based Joan Mitchell Foundation announced the 23 artists that will take part in its 2022 Artist-in-Residence program at the foundation’s center in New Orleans. This cohort includes artists whose residencies have been delayed by the pandemic, as well as five new recipients, all based in New Orleans: Jose Cotto, Josiah Gagosian, Gabrielle Garcia Steib, Karla Rosas, and Summer White. Divided into two sessions, one residency will run from May to July and the other will run September 2022 to February 2023. The residency comes with private studio space, studio assistance, prepared meals, and a monthly stipend.
About the Joan Mitchell Center 2022 Artist-in-Residence program
