2022 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts
Image: Ian Wallace, Who Will I Become?, 2010. Photolaminate and acrylic on canvas.
Collection of the Audain Art Museum. Courtesy of the artist.
ART
Ian Wallace
Audain Prize for the Visual Arts
Ian Wallace, Vancouver-based photo conceptualist, is known for exploring and juxtaposing the boundaries of monochrome painting and photography while referencing aesthetic and social issues via the subjects of the studio, the museum and the street. He was an early proponent of incorporating the art of the recent past, including film, photography and contemporary painting, into the art history curriculum. Ian Wallace is considered by many to be the progenitor of the Vancouver School of photo-conceptualism, whose practitioners include his former students Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham and Jeff Wall.
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2022 Royal Academy Dorfman Award
Image: Wallmakers, Pirouette House, Trivandrum, India, 2020.
ARCHITECTURE
Wallmakers
Royal Academy Dorfman Award
Vinu Daniel founded the architecture firm Wallmakers in 2007. Based in India, they are constantly looking for ways to make construction more sustainable, from building with mud blocks to using urban waste as a material to reduce the embodied energy in construction. One of their most known projects is the IHA Residence in Trivandrum, where they used base plates of washing machines as scrap grills. Other projects such as St. George Orthodox Church in Mattancherry or Pirouette House in Trivandrum showcase their use of Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks (CSEB) and how it can maintain a balance between innovative and utilitarian design.
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Prix Viviane Esders 2022
Image: Mario Carnicelli, Era Togliatti, 1964. © Mario Carnicelli
PHOTOGRAPHY
Mario Carnicelli
Prix Viviane Esders
The Italian Mario Carnicelli won the first edition of the Prix Viviane Esders, dedicated to independent professional European photographers over 60 years old who are still active. Born in 1937, Mario Carnicelli took up photography at the age of 14 in the photo studio run by his family. He has covered numerous events such as demonstrations or political and trade union meetings, with an approach that he describes as "humanist". He then worked as a freelancer and correspondent for magazines and newspapers. In 2014, he presented a major solo exhibition at Palazzo Fabroni (Pistoia, Italy) and published C’era Togliatti then American Voyage Photographs by Mario Carnicelli in 2018.
Roswitha Haftmann Prize
Image: Gülsün Karamustafa, Double Reality, 1987-2013.
Fabric, iron, and polyester, 192 x 170 x 171 cm.
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
ART
Gülsün Karamustafa
Roswitha Haftmann Prize
Gülsün Karamustafa (born 1946 in Ankara) is a visual artist and filmmaker recognised as "one of Turkey’s most outspoken and celebrated artists." Using personal and historical narratives, Karamustafa explores socio-political issues in modern Turkey and addresses themes including sexuality-gender, exile-ethnicity, and displacement-migration. "Hailed as one of Turkey’s most influential contemporary artists," her work reflects on the traumatic effects of nation building, as it responds to the processes of modernization, political turbulence, and civil rights in a period that includes the military coups of 1960, 1971, and 1980.
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Mentorat Les Filles de la Photo
Image: In Between © Sarah Braeck
PHOTOGRAPHY
Mentorat Les Filles de la Photo
The association Les Filles de la Photo has unveiled the names of the winners of the second edition of mentoring who will benefit from follow-up with two professionals from the photography sector for a period of fifteen months. A restitution of their projects will be organized in November 2023 on the occasion of PhotoSaintGermain, a mentoring partner event. The five winners are : Sarah Braeck, Orianne Ciantar, Celeste Leeuwenburg, Anaïs Oudart and Pauline Rousseau.
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2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Image: East Architecture Studio / Nicolas Fayad, Charles Kettaneh,
Renovation of Niemeyer Guest House, Tripoli, Lebanon, completed 2018.
ARCHITECTURE
Aga Khan Award for Architecture
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) announced the six winners for its 15th cycle (2020-2022). While many interesting projects were brought to the forefront through the awards, the projects which showed commitment toward communities, innovation and care for the environment were named the winners. The winners are : Argo Contemporary Art Museum & Cultural Centre; Banyuwangi International Airport; Community Spaces in Rohingya Refugee Response; Kamanar Secondary School; Renovation of Niemeyer Guest House and Urban River Spaces.
