2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
Image: Anahuacalli Museum remodeling and expansion Taller | Mauricio Rocha, Mexico City, Mexico.
ARCHITECTURE
Taller | Mauricio Rocha
Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
The remodeling and expansion of the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City by Taller | Mauricio Rocha is the recipient of the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP). The winning work creates a sensitive, open dialogue with the existing Anahuacalli Museum, which was conceived by the artist Diego Rivera in the 1940s and realized over the following decades in collaboration with the architect Juan O’Gorman. The ecological and cultural significance of the surrounding volcanic landscape, in Mexico City’s Pedregal de San Ángel, were key considerations for the architects.
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Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award
Image: Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel. Installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 9-September 1, 2019. Photo: Jeff McLane.
ART
Sarah Lucas
Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award
The New Museum announced Sarah Lucas (b.1962, London, UK) as the inaugural recipient of the Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award, a biennial award supporting the production of new sculpture by women artists. The jury stated, "We selected Sarah Lucas’s proposal for its exuberance, vitality, and irreverence. Colorful, humorous, and radically joyful, Lucas's proposal imagines an unconventional monument—an ‘unmonumental’ monument—celebrating women claiming space in public life. The title Venus Victoria is just a perfect omen." Her selection follows her New Museum solo exhibition "Au Naturel" (2018), which travelled to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019). Lucas’s work has consistently been characterised by irreverent humour and the use of everyday ‘readymade' objects to conjure up corporeal fragments.
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Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2022-24
Image: Dominique White, Flag of Nowhere, 2017. Kaolin, calico, rotting dried palm leaves, raffia, buoys, cowrie shells. Courtesy the artist.
ART
Dominique White
Max Mara Art Prize for Women
Dominique White wins the 9th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. The prize awards White a six-month residency in Italy which will culminate in a solo exhibition in 2024, launching at Whitechapel Gallery and touring in Italy. Dominique White (b. 1993) lives and works between Marseille, France and Essex, UK. A sculptor and installation artist, she is interested in creating new worlds for ‘Blackness’ and fascinated by the metaphoric potency and regenerative power of the sea. She produces ghostly, seemingly fragile, yet highly physical works, often employing discarded and potent nautical relics and materials. Her practice weaves together theories of Black Subjectivity, Afro-pessimism and Hydrarchy with nautical myths particularly relevant to the Black Diaspora.
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Prix Sisley - Beaux-Arts de Paris
Image: Musik der Reformation, 2022, mixed media on panel, 200 x 160 cm (79 x 63 in.), (c) Barbana Bojadzi
ART
Barbana Bojadzi
Prix Sisley - Beaux-Arts de Paris
Barbana Bojadzi is the winner of the 4th edition of the Prix Sisley - Beaux-Arts de Paris pour la jeune création. Barbana Bojadzi was born in 1996, she lives and works in Paris and graduated in 2021 from Beaux-arts de Paris, studio Dominique Figarella, with honors. Her research focuses on the imprints of movement and the traces left by body gestures in the immediate environment. Her tools marked by use offer her a unique gesture. This conflict between gestures and materials results in a wound, revealing what is necessary in them and allowing balance. By introducing atmospheric scenes, fragments of the sky, photographic forms and symbols, Barbana Bojadzi creates a dialectical confrontation between different bodies of materials and signs.
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Prix DDESSIN {23}
Image: Ugo Arsac, Capture de IN-URBE : Haute Tension, sérigraphie blanche sur papier noir, 10 exemplaires numérotés signés, Print Dernier Cri, Marseille, 2022, 70x100 cm. Galerie Robet Dantec.
ART
Ugo Arsac
Prix DDESSIN
Ugo Arsac, represented by Galerie Robet Dantec, is the winner of the prix DDESSINPARIS/INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DE SAINT-LOUIS DU SÉNÉGAL – VILLA NDAR. Ugo Arsac is a digital and plastic artist. He is based in Marseille, France. He produces films, installations and immersive experiences that bring together the urban and the human, mythology and anthropology. His latest creation, IN-URBE, produced by Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, is a 3D drawing of the Paris catacombs. In this work, as visitors lose themselves within perpetually constructing and deconstructing architecture, they are able to peer into the hidden heritage of the French capital.
2022 Richard Mille Art Prize
Image: Rand Abdul Jabbar, Earthly Wonders, Celestial Beings (2019 – ongoing). © Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi Photo: Augustine Paredes – Seeing Things.
ART
Rand Abdul Jabbar
Richard Mille Art Prize
Rand Abdul Jabbar is the winner of the Richard Mille Art Prize, following ‘Art Here 2022’, a major exhibition at the Louvre Abu Dhabi showcasing work by ten GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) artists and celebrating the museum's fifth anniversary. The Baghdad-born artist, was one of ten artists shortlisted to exhibit her ceramic artwork, Earthly Wonders, Celestial Beings (2019 – ongoing). The work is an installation of sculptures that transcend geographic and temporal boundaries to compose a field of discoveries. It challenges notions of heritage as being ‘fixed’ and conceives of Iraq as a spatial, rather than territorial construct, setting up a conversation across the past and present in the language of reverberating forms.
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Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award 2023
Image: Installation view, Alia Farid, In Lieu of What Is, Kunsthalle Basel, 2022. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
ART
Alia Farid
Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter near Oslo, Norway, announced Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid as the recipient of the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award 2023. Her work brings together a variety of media including writing, drawing, film and sculpture, giving visibility to narratives obscured by hegemony. The jury said: "Her extraordinary practice across multiple media raises awareness of highly important topics in our time, whilst carrying a powerful aesthetic and an embedded materiality and sociality that often results in large-scale works. Alia Farid’s complex work mediates between the past and the present and, in a poetic processing, draws out omitted histories that push against standard narratives. She explores questions of conflict and control and how power and violence are inflicted on nature and people..."
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Prix PAD 2023
Image: Ajanta Daybed, Design: Valériane Lazard, Material: Teak wood and rice straw, Craftmanship: Wood carving - Bangalore, Straw weaving - Gadag, Karnataka, Edition: 11. Courtesy æquō
DESIGN
Prix PAD
The 2023 winners of the Prix du PAD (Paris Design + Art) have been revealed. Dimoregallery in Milano received the Best Stand Award, furnished with Italian creations from the years 1945-1960 signed Giò Ponti, Gabriella Crespi, Ignazio Gardella or Mario Bellini. The booth of the gallery æquō, created in Mumbai in 2022, combining Indian and international craftsmanship, was very noticed, especially the bench seat of Valériane Lazard, produced in 11 copies in teak wood and its rice-straw mattress, which received the Contemporary Design Object Award. Finally, the single modular sofa made in walnut in 1958-1959 by the Italian Studio BBPR, at the booth of Galerie HP Le Studio, received the 20th Century Design Object Award.
2023 Taoyuan International Art Award
Image: Delphine Pouillé, Pull Up (2020). Courtesy Taoyuan International Art Award.
ART
Delphine Pouillé
Grand Award
The 2023 Taoyuan International Art Award (TIAA), organised by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (TMoFA), Taiwan, awarded the Grand Award to Pull Up by Delphine Pouillé (France). French artist, Delphine Pouillé, has long developed a practice centered on the body, combining sculpture and drawing. The award-winning work Pull Up is a hybrid piece in which two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality coexist. The notion of exhaustion is at the heart of the project. If the voided figure of the suspended body is shown at full physical exertion, its "positive", puny counterpart lies wrecked on the ground, conveying a sense of derailment or crash.
