Prix de Photographie William Klein 2023
Image: Graciela Iturbide, Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, Juchitán, Oaxaca [Our Lady of the Iguanas, Juchitán, Oaxaca], 1979, gelatin silver photograph, 22.2 x 15.6 cm, Brooklyn Museum. © Graciela Iturbide
PHOTOGRAPHY
Graciela Iturbide
Prix de Photographie William Klein
Graciela Iturbide, has been awarded the Prix de Photographie de l'Académie des beaux-arts - William Klein 2023. Graciela Iturbide, born May 16, 1942 in Mexico, is an icon of photography in Latin America. For more than five decades, she has created images that navigate between a documentary approach and a poetic sensitivity. Graciela Iturbide is particularly famous today for her portraits of the Seri Indians of the Sonoran Desert, the women of Juchitán, as well as for her photographic projects dedicated to the communities and ancestral traditions of Mexico. She always paid an almost spiritual attention to landscapes and objects. Photography is for her a "ritual" in which she strives to capture the most mythical part of man.
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Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid
Gold Medal
Image: Eduardo Souto de Moura, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009.
© James Florio Photography
ARCHITECTURE
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Gold Medal
The Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura received the Gold Medal from the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (CBA). Former recipient of the 2011 Pritzker Prize and the 2013 Wolf Prize, Eduardo Souto de Moura began his career working with Álvaro Siza, with whom he maintains a very rich professional relationship to this day. Often associated with a Miesian influence, his projects reveal a unique virtuosity in the choice of materials – granite, wood, marble, brick, steel, concrete and glass are just some of the textures that make up Souto de Moura's palette.
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Prix Pictet
Image: Gauri Gill, Jannat, Barmer, from the series Notes from the Desert.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Gauri Gill
Prix Pictet
Indian photographer Gauri Gill is the winner of the tenth cycle of the Prix Pictet whose theme was Human. Gill’s work emphasises her belief in working with and through community, in what she calls ‘active listening’. Her winning series Notes from the Desert examines the whole spectrum of life: the years of drought and the year of a great monsoon – when Barmer became Kashmir. "On my many visits to rural Rajasthan, I have witnessed a complex reality I knew nothing about as a city dweller. To live poor and landless in the desert amounts to an inescapable reliance on oneself, on each other, and on nature. These fragments of shared experience now inhabit a large photographic archive called Notes from the Desert, encompassing different narratives and varied forms of image making." said Gauri Gill.
2024 Wolfgang Hahn Prize
Image: Anna Boghiguian, A Play to Play, 2013 (detail). Exhibition view Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, 2017. Museum der Moderne Salzburg Collection. Photo: Renato Ghiazza.
ART
Anna Boghiguian
Wolfgang Hahn Prize
Anna Boghiguian, the Egyptian-Canadian artist of Armenian descent, has been awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize of the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst at Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Anna Boghiguian (b1946) interprets the world via the connections running through it: the flow of goods, ideas, capital and people. She reads and travels greedily, channelling her experiences into drawing and text before launching them off the page to create complex and evocative installations. Figure drawings and crowd scenes on paper perform like free-standing shadow puppets. Text, line drawings, rich inks, scraps of photographs and sculptures intermingle in a chorus of related stories.
Premiere Classe 2023 x Eyes on Talents Prize
Image: Studio Johanna Seelemann, room divider from five-part furniture series Potentials
commissioned by G-Star Raw for The Art of Raw.
DESIGN
Johanna Seelemann
Design Prize
Created in 2021, Premiere Classe x Eyes on Talents prize, symbolizes the shared commitment to "creativity, innovation and fashion". This year's Design Prize has been awarded to German designer Johanna Seelemann for her five-part furniture series Potentials commissioned by Dutch fashion brand G-Star Raw for The Art of Raw. Looking at the material properties and the hidden textile production processes of denim, the project proposes a series of office tools structurally dependent on the fabric. Wrapped, temporarily fixed, clamped onto wooden structures, or site-specifically filled, the denim, left in its raw state, is the main character of the project.
Image: Marie Bernadette Woehrl, waist belt, leather.
FASHION
Marie Bernadette Woehrl
Fashion Prize
Belgian designer Marie Bernadette Woehrl has been awarded this year's Fashion Prize for her artisanal collection of wearable leather goods. Marie Bernadette Woehrl's creations are entirely made by the designer in her workshop in Antwerp, using a weaving and knotting technique. Sometimes helped by creative friends, she managed to build a local support network. Longevity is a key aspect of her work: alongside the long lifespan of real leather, the surfaces gain in beauty with use.
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Villa Médicis
Image: Ismaïl Bahri, Revers, 2017, series of 16/9 HD videos, stereo sound, variable durations. Production of the Jeu de paume. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Ismaïl Bahri
ART | ARCHITECTURE
Villa Médicis Fellows
Like every year in September, the Villa Médicis welcomes 16 new fellows, housed for a year inside the French Academy in Rome. Among the candidates, six visual artists were selected: Ismaïl Bahri, Hélène Bertin, Madison Bycrot, Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Hamedine Kane and Kapwani Kiwanga. Also receiving a fellowship this year, the architect Ophélie Dozat, whose research on the retaining walls of the city of Rome, aims to reread these elements of architecture from an aesthetic angle.
2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund
Image: Oji Haynes, Lady in Red, 2022, from the series Drylongso.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Creator Labs Photo Fund
Google’s Creator Labs and Aperture announced the recipients of the second season of The Creator Labs Photo Fund—an initiative providing financial support to encourage artists at formative moments in their careers. This year’s winning artists are: Ramie Ahmed, Wesaam Al-Badry, Devin Blaskovich, Kierra Branker, Luis Corzo, Daniel Diasgranados, Lisa Elmaleh, Ryan Frigillana, Golden, Jeremy Grier, Avijit Halder, Oji Haynes, Jenica Heintzelman, Ramona Jingru Wang, Natalie Keyssar, Ryan Patrick Krueger, Xi Li, Ira Lupu, Yael Malka, Ashley Markle, Ashley McLean, Arlene Mejorado, Shala Miller, Clara Mokri, Colton Rothwell, Keisha Scarville, Tam Stockton, Jennifer Teresa Villanueva, Isaiah Winters and Zhidong Zhang.
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Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize
Image: Daria Blum, Not Something You Say, live performance, 30 min.
ART
Daria Blum
Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize
Daria Blum is the winner of the first Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize. The prize, which was presented to Blum by Marina Abramović, includes a solo exhibition at Claridge’s ArtSpace gallery. Daria Blum, (b.1992, Switzerland) previously studied at Central Saint Martins. She writes characters, music, and text, multiplying herself across video, vocal tracks, photography and live performance. Describing Blum’s work Eliza Bonham Carter, Curator and Director of The RA Schools said: "Daria’s ambitious performance work using multi-media installation brings us face to face with everyday dramas as told by her unlikable, hypercritical and emotional performative character. Absurd, messy, serious and funny in turns."
