Philip Hanson Hiss Award
Image: Toshiko Mori Architect, Fass School and Teachers’ Residence, Fass, Senegal, 2019.
ARCHITECTURE
Toshiko Mori
Philip Hanson Hiss Award
Architecture Sarasota has announced the recipient of its inaugural Philip Hanson Hiss Award: Toshiko Mori, an acclaimed architect known for her ecologically sensitive, site-responsive design philosophy and inventive use of materials. Her firm’s recent work includes master plans for the Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch and the Buffalo Botanical Gardens; "Thread: Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center" in Sinthian, Senegal; "Fass School and Teachers’ Residence" in Fass, Senegal; and the expansion of the Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
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FRAME Awards
Image: Lin WeiPing Interior Design Consulting, Tea Story, Dalenzhen, China, completion 2022.
DESIGN
Tea Story by Lin WeiPing
Winner of the Month for March
The adaptive reuse of a former deteriorating tea factory into a multi-purpose hospitality and living space in Dalenzhen, China, was recognized as the March FRAME Awards winning project. Lin Weiping Interior Design Consulting designed the multi-purpose space which is set inside a former tea factory. The client, Da Lan Tea Story, briefed the designer to preserve the original structure which was deteriorating. An ancient well, a remnant wall and a degrading staircase were incorporated into the new 4,000-sq-m structure paying homage to the tea house’s roots.
Prix des Partenaires MAMC+
Image: Anne Bourse, Une minute au-dessus de ma tasse de café je ne pense pas à toi, du tout, 2021. Fabric, mirror, alcool pencil, 40 × 120 × 90 cm. Exhibition view, There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in, Martina Simeti Gallery, 2022.
ART
Anne Bourse
Prix des Partenaires MAMC+
Anne Bourse is the winner of the Prix des Partenaires du musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+), dedicated to contemporary drawing and awarded by the Club des Mécènes. This prize is awarded every two years since 2009 to an artist who will then have a solo exhibition at MAMC+ (in 2024) supported by a publication. Born in 1982, Anne Bourse is represented by the Crèvecœur gallery, she lives and works in Paris. Anne Bourse creates installations using a wide variety of media (mattresses, lamps, bags, cushions, hanging fabrics, etc.) and embraces several mediums, such as painting, drawing, collage or even textiles.
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Maison&Objet 2023
Image: Muller Van Severen, duo seat + lamp, unlacquered or lacquered (red/white) steel and natural leather, 182 cm x 62 cm x 61 cm and 170 cm (with lamp).
DESIGN
Muller Van Severen
Designer(s) de l'année
Muller Van Severen have been named designer(s) of the year 2023 at Maison&Objet, which will take place from September 7 to 11. Muller Van Severen was founded in 2011 by the Belgian duo Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen. Coming respectively from photography and sculpture, they impose furniture with a unique style, marked by radical minimalism, combining simplicity, functionality and collectible design. During the next fair, Muller Van Severen will be presenting an exhibition, all in color, in resonance with Maison&Objet’s new inspirational theme ENJOY.
Gwangju Biennale
Image: Oum Jeongsoon, Elephant without trunk (2022). Iron sheet, wool and fabric. 300 x 274 x 307 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Commissioned by the 14th Gwangju Biennale
ART
Oum Jeongsoon
Park Seo-bo Award
South Korea’s just-opened Gwangju Biennale, has awarded its first Park Seo-bo Award to the Seoul-based artist Oum Jeongsoon for Elephant without trunk, a new work that furthered the artist’s prior pieces about the history of these titular animals. Previously, Oum followed the journey of one elephant species that had come to Korea six centuries ago from Indonesia. Ultimately, that species ended up in exile on the island of Jangdo. Part of the project from the Gwangju Biennale entailed staging performances with visually impaired students who lived in places where this elephant once visited.
2023 Artadia Los Angeles Awards
Image: Kang Seung Lee, Untitled 2, mixed media, 72.8 x 60.4 in (185 x 153.5 cm), 2021. Exhibition view, Briefly Gorgeous, Gallery Hyundai, 2021. Courtesy of Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
ART
Kang Seung Lee
Maria Maea
Sarah Rosalena
Artadia Los Angeles Awards
The New York–based nonprofit Artadia, which supports early-career visual artists through unrestricted grants, has named the recipients of its 2023 Los Angeles awards: Kang Seung Lee, Maria Maea and Sarah Rosalena. The Korean-born Lee has a multimedia, labor-intensive practice that often commemorates gay history, even as it probes the multiplicities of queerness. Maria Maea is a multidisciplinary artist working across assemblage, installation, performance and sound, her deeply personal practice explores themes of heritage, communal memory and sustainability. Finally, researcher and interdisciplinary artist Sarah Rosalena meets Indigenous traditions with emergent technologies to create fantastic, cosmic landscapes where the binary of human and nonhuman blurs.
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Young Climate Prize
Image: Pamela Elizarrarás Acitores Climate Words project.
DESIGN
Pamela Elizarrarás Acitores
Foday David Kamara
Namra Khalid
Aziba Ekio
Young Climate Prize
Non-profit The World Around has selected Pamela Elizarrarás Acitores, Foday David Kamara, Namra Khalid and Aziba Ekio as the winners of its Young Climate Prize. Mexican documentary photographer Acitores was named the winner of voice prize for her Climate Words project – an education initiative that uses a database to collect keywords around climate change to "promote climate literacy". The designer award was presented to 22-year-old Kamara from Sierra Leone, who created a method to turn plastic waste into bricks in an effort to reduce the reliance on concrete in the building industry. Urban researcher Khalid was awarded the visionary prize for her project addressing the flooding crisis in Pakistan. Finally, the jury prize was given for the artistic contributions of Ekio from Nigeria. Ekio's project aims to bring light on aspects of the climate crisis through spoken word poetry.
Frieze Artadia Prize
Image: Jessica Vaughn, The Internet of Things, 2020-2023. Digital latex inkjet prints on fabric.
Courtesy of the artist
ART
Jessica Vaughn
Frieze Artadia Prize
Jessica Vaughn is the recipient of the inaugural Frieze Artadia Prize, which will commission a New York-based past Artadia awardee to present a project at Frieze New York, which runs May 17–21, 2023 at The Shed. Vaughn’s commission will consist of images from her three-year mail art project, The Internet of Things (2020-23). For the project, the artist mailed letters to sites throughout the US affiliated with commerce, violence or leisure, from Brooklyn’s Prospect Park to offices in Silicon Valley and the gated community in Florida where teenager Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012. Vaughn deliberately mislabeled each envelope so that it would eventually be returned to her, baring the various marks, stamps and notes of the USPS.
