2024 Olympic Games Commission
Image: Alison Saar, Cache, 2006. Wood, ceiling tin and wire, 28 x 26 x 90 in. Collection of the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
ART
Alison Saar
Olympic Games Commission
The Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar has been selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Ville de Paris to create a new public artwork for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The commission marks Saar’s first public project outside of the United States. The sculpture will be officially unveiled and inaugurated in Paris this summer and will focus on themes of international diversity and equality. It will also link Paris to Los Angeles, which will host the next summer games in 2028. The work will be produced in France under Saar’s supervision, as part of the artist’s commitment to sustainability.
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2024 Hasselblad Award
Image: Ingrid Pollard, Pastoral Interlude, 1987, Victoria and Albert Museum Collection
© ADAGP, Paris, 2022
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ingrid Pollard
Hasselblad Award
Ingrid Pollard, an acclaimed photographer associated with the British Black Arts Movement of the 1980s, is the winner of the 2024 Hasselblad Award, the world’s biggest photography prize. Born in Guyana and based in Britain, Pollard is known for photographs that draw out connections between British landscapes and Black people posed within them. With these images, Pollard draws out forms of Black British history that are not always immediately visible, a form of inquiry that she has continued in photography and in other genres as well.
2024 Governor General’s Awards
Image: Louise Lemieux Bérubé, La course, 2011. Tencel, stainless steel, copper, linen, wool, dye, 149x216 cm. Photo credit: Louise Lemieux Bérubé
ART
Louise Lemieux Bérubé
Sayidye Bronfman Award
The winners of this year’s Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, one of Canada’s most prestigious cultural honours, were announced by the Canada Council for the Arts. Louise Lemieux Bérubé, who works with textile and printing techniques often producing multidisciplinary installations incorporating weaving, printing and poetry is this year’s winner of the Sayidye Bronfman Award, which recognises achievements using craft techniques and materials.
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Prix Emerige-CPGA 2024
Image: Felipe Romero Beltrán, from Bravo series, 2021-ong. © Felipe Romero Beltrán
ART
Felipe Romero Beltrán and HATCH
Prix Emerige-CPGA
The Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art and Emerige have awarded Felipe Romero Beltrán and his galerie HATCH the Prix Emerige-CPGA 2024 at Arco Madrid. "We have decided to reward the work of Felipe Romero Beltrán for the complexity of his depiction of migration from a critical and human perspective. This artist powerfully reflects the social, cultural and political aspects of migration on the border between Mexico and the United States. We also wanted to support the work of a young Parisian gallery run by two women. This prize, awarded to a Colombian artist living in France, also confirms that the French artistic scene is diverse, far beyond nationality." said jury member Julia Morandeira, director of Kadist.
Madrid Design Festival Awards 2024
Image: Miguel Milà, Silla Salvador chair.
DESIGN
Miguel Milá
Outstanding Achievement Award
Born in Barcelona in 1931, at a time of austerity and scarcity, Miguel Milá was guided by the motto "be useful and you will be used". This search for practicality and simplicity has guided him throughout his extensive career. His approach is based on saving resources and rejecting ostentation and waste. For Miguel Milá, designing means simplifying the complex to make it beautiful. Each piece, apparently simple in its image, conceals ingenious resources that reveal the depth of his creative thinking.
Image: Irma Boom, Book Manifest, Buchhandlung Walther König, 2022.
DESIGN
Irma Boom
Outstanding Achievement Award
Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom, born in 1960, founded Irma Boom Office in 1991 and gained international notoriety. She carries out commissions ranging from posters to art books in a constructivist spirit. Irma Boom is honored for being one of the best book designers in the world. With her out-of-the-box understanding of editorial design as an art object, she is a trailblazer and a key figure in the world of graphic design.
Image: Piet Hein Eek, waste waste fauteuil, custom made for Roberto Polo.
DESIGN
Piet Hein Eek
Outstanding Achievement Award
Dutch industrial designer Piet Hein Eek is a world authority on sustainable and conscious design. His career is characterised by the use of recycled and waste materials, with which he generates a dialogue between the applied arts, design and craft. His work embodies the concepts of transformation and reinvention through the use of discarded materials, which he gives a second life and transforms into objects of great beauty.
