Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022
Image: Mimosa Échard, Escape more, exhibition view, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022).
Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Chantal Crousel.
Photo : Aurélien Mole. © Mimosa Echard / ADAGP, Paris (2022).
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Mimosa Échard
Prix Marcel Duchamp
Mimosa Échard's multidisciplinary practice bridges the surreal, mechanical, and terrestrial in pursuit of plant and human symbiosis. Échard has a research-led practice that spans assemblage, painting, ceramics, and video games. For the Prix Marcel Duchamp, she designed what she calls an "ambiguous architectural object," an uninterrupted water screen reminiscent of human liquids — blood, tears, and urine. "I’ve wanted to work with water screens for a long time, I’ve been thinking about this piece for a long time, you could say it’s a liquid painting, but it’s also an encrypted image, it’s also an inaccessible space," she said in a statement. A video of a woman, flitting in and out of frame, plays behind the falling water.
Turner Prize 2022
Image: Turner Prize 2022: Veronica Ryan.
Installation View at Tate Liverpool 2022.
Photo: © Tate Photography (Matt Greenwood).
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Veronica Ryan
Turner Prize
Veronica Ryan was awarded the Turner Prize 2022. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, said Ryan's work "lends new poetry" to materials that are "usually overlooked and usually thrown away." She was shortlisted for her exhibition Along a Spectrum, which took place at Spike Island in Bristol in 2021. The show featured forms cast in clay and bronze; sewn, tea-stained and dyed fabrics; and crocheted fishing line pouches filled with seeds, fruit stones, and skins. Similar forms and materials, which reference Ryan's Caribbean heritage, appeared in her contribution to the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Liverpool, which continues until 19 March 2023. These were displayed on the floor, on shelves, and suspended from crochet bags in a sunglow yellow room.
2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Image: Diébédo Francis Kéré, Léo Doctors’ Housing, 2019, Léo, Burkina Faso.
Photo courtesy of Francis Kéré and Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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Diébédo Francis Kéré
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Diébédo Francis Kéré, architect, educator and social activist, has been selected as the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Born in Gando, Burkina Faso and based in Berlin, Germany, the architect known as Francis Kéré empowers and transforms communities through the process of architecture. Through his commitment to social justice and engagement, and intelligent use of local materials to connect and respond to the natural climate, he works in marginalized countries laden with constraints and adversity, where architecture and infrastructure are absent.
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La Biennale di Venezia 2022
Image: Katharina Fritsch, Hahn und Podest / Cock and Pedestal, 2013/19. Polyester, steel, paint.
147¾ × 78¾ × 78¾ inches; 375 × 200 × 200 cm. Courtesy of the artist, VG Bild-Kunst,
Bonn and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York/Los Angeles. Photo by Ivo Faber.
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Katharina Fritsch
Cecilia Vicuña
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
The German artist Katharina Fritsch and the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña are the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia - The Milk of Dreams. Since 1979 Katharina Fritsch has worked on multi-scaled, boldly hued sculptures. Fritsch’s world is a place where realistic detailing and disorienting immaterial finish dissolves the edges between the ordinary and the uncanny, causing a sensation of surprise and astonishment. Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, filmmaker and activist. She coined the term "Arte Precario" in the mid 1960s in Chile, for her precarious works and quipus, as a way of "hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard." Her work is characterised by a desire to pay tribute to the indigenous history and culture of Chile.
Image: Pavilion of Great Britain. Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, 2022.
Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
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Sonia Boyce
Golden Lion for Best National Participation
Great Britain has received the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Created by Sonia Boyce, the pavilion, Feeling Her Way, features a sound installation of five Black British female musicians singing a cappella. Sonia Boyce is the first Black woman to represent Britain at the Venice event. "In working collaboratively with other black women, [Boyce] unpacks a plenitude of silenced stories," said the jury in a statement. They praised Boyce for her use of "a very contemporary language" that allowed the audience to piece together fragments, and for raising "important questions of rehearsal as opposed to the perfect attuned."
Image: Simone Leigh, Brick House, 2019, 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia,
The Milk of Dreams. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia. © Photography: Roberto Marossi
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Simone Leigh
Golden Lion for the Best Participant in the International Exhibition The Milk of Dreams
The Golden Lion for the Best Participant in the International Exhibition The Milk of Dreams, went to American artist Simone Leigh for her "powerfully persuasive monumental sculptural opening to the Arsenale," one of the two main exhibition sites. The artist presented her work, Brick House, a 16-foot-tall bronze of a Black woman with cornrows and a dome-shaped torso that combines the forms of a skirt and a clay house. It was first seen on the High Line in New York in 2019. Simone Leigh is also representing the United States at this year’s event.
RIBA Stirling Prize 2022
Image: Níall McLaughlin Architects, Magdalene College Library, University of Cambridge. © Nick Kane
ARCHITECTURE
The New Library, Magdalene College
by Níall McLaughlin Architects
RIBA Stirling Prize
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named The New Library, Magdalene College in Cambridge by Níall McLaughlin Architects, as the winner of the 26th RIBA Stirling Prize. The exquisitely detailed new building provides students at the 700-year-old University of Cambridge college with a new library – open 24 hours a day – incorporating an archive and an art gallery. Honouring the rich surrounding history, Níall McLaughlin Architects combines load-bearing brick, gabled pitched roofs, windows with tracery and brick chimneys that animate the skyline with contemporary sustainable design elements to create a building that will stand the test of time.
Prix AWARE 2022
Image: Laura Lamiel, 'Vous les entendez...', 2015.
Various elements: enameled steel chair and tables, spy mirror, metal, enameled steel, wood table, wood, glass, cooper, leather, paper, lamps. 2x (190 x 200 x 160 cm), unique.
Exhibition view 'Biennale de Lyon', 2015, photo: Blaise Adilon. Collection MAC Lyon.
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Laura Lamiel
Prix d'honneur
Laura Lamiel began working with enamelled steel modules in 1985. Her interest lies in the possibilities offered by small-volume white bricks, which she piles up or stands against walls. In the 90s, she combined these bricks with different materials and shapes, such as rolls of carpet, synthetic furs, used gloves, and ribbons. While industrially manufactured, these everyday objects stand out from their original inherent seriality in that they reflect life stories. The artist then moved on from soft, malleable objects to more rigid and fixed elements, arranging them into installations combining public space implements with geometrically shaped artistic objects.
Women in Motion Prize 2022
Image: Babette Mangolte, Lucinda Childs dancing her solo "Katima" in her loft on Broadway, 1978.
Courtesy of Babette Mangolte.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Babette Mangolte
Women in Motion Prize
Babette Mangolte has won the Women in Motion Prize for photography 2022. The prize is awarded by Les Rencontres de la Photoraphie d'Arles in partnership with Kering. Born in France in 1941 and based in New York since the 1970s, Babette Mangolte is a filmmaker, photographer, artist and author of critical essays on photography. As a director of photography, she worked with Chantal Akerman on the cult movie Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). She has documented the choreography and performances of Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Joan Jonas, Robert Morris, Lucinda Childs, Marina Abramović, Steve Paxton and the 1970s theater scene in New York City.
