Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022
Nominated Artists
Image: Giulia Andreani, Résidente (Allégorie de la sculpture), 2019.
Acrylic on canvas. 200 x 150 cm. 78 3/4 x 59 in.
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Giulia Andreani
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp 2022
Giulia Andreani was born in Venice, in 1985, she lives in Paris. She repurposes personal memorabilia and archival photographs through painting to address forgotten histories, often through a feminist lens. Working primarily in Payne’s Grey, a blue-grey hue at once warm and cold, she uses watercolour and acrylic to reproduce, alter and combine motifs from these photographs generating new layers of meaning. Themes central of her practice include women’s position in society, motherhood, trauma and forgotten figures in political and art history.
Image: Exhibition view, Iván Argote, A Place For Us, Perrotin, New York (17 June–13 August 2021).
Courtesy the artist and Perrotin. © Guillaume Ziccarelli.
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Iván Argote
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp 2022
Iván Argote was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1983, he settled in Paris in 2006. The artist creates videos, photographs, sculpture, public interventions and performances, as a way to explore our inextricable links to history, tradition, art, politics and power. Iván Argote investigates the city as a place of transformation and potentiality, traveling the world in search of vestigial signs of fallen power, studying the indirect manifestations of control, and observing the conventions that gain acceptance in order for one vision of history to become the official version.
Image: Philippe Decrauzat, A line is a line is a line (anti-museum), 2021.
Acrylic on canvas. 162x151cm. Courtesy of the artist. © Nacása & Partners Inc.
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Philippe Decrauzat
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp 2022
Philippe Decrauzat was born in Switzerland, in 1974, he lives in France. He is interested in cinema, architecture, music, literature and graphic design. It is on this last point that his works take on their full meaning in optical research and hypnotic atmospheres. Waves, visual rhythms, graphic painting and streaks characterize his production which tends towards a distortion - often monochrome - of the surface and the real.
Image: Mimosa Echard, Spit Chakra (1), 2019. Mixed media, 78 6/8 x 133 1/2 inches.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris).
Photo credit: Florian Kleinefenn. © Adagp, Paris, 2021.
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Mimosa Echard
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp 2022
Mimosa Echard was born in 1986 in an ecological community in the Cévennes. Her paintings create hybrid ecosystems where the organic and elements of popular and medical culture, the living and the non-living, coexist. Often considered contradictory, she infuses them to embrace the contradictions of the vitality of the body. "Mimosa Echard is an unbridled biologist. Or rather, a witch; understood as a political figure, feminist, environmentalist, refuting the capitalist system, the domination of bodies and nature." said Julie Ackermann in "Mimosa Echard, la sorcellerie du vivant", Beaux-arts Magazine, January 2018.
About the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022 Nominated Artists
Whitechapel Gallery’s
Art Icon Award
Image: Tracey Emin, It - didnt stop - I didnt stop, 2019. Acrylic on canvas. 152 x 183.5.
Xavier Hufkens © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2020.
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Tracey Emin
Art Icon 2022
Whitechapel Gallery in London named Tracey Emin their Art Icon for 2022. Her expressive and visceral work is renowned for its portrayal of personal experience and heightened states of emotion. Frank and intimate, but universal in its relevance, her practice draws on the fundamental themes of desire and grief, unravelling the constructs of ‘woman’ and ‘self’ through painting, drawing, film, photography, sewn appliqué, sculpture and neon. Tracey Emin plans to convert a former bathhouse and mortuary near her own studio into 30 studios for emerging artists. The development's name, TKE Studios, comes from Tracey Karima Emin's initials.
About the Whitechapel Gallery’s Art Icon Award
Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022
Image: Installation view, Objects of common interest, "Volax", Athens’ Carwan Gallery, 2021.
Low chair, side table, bench and arch in linden wood, "Inflatable Loop Large" and "Tube".
DESIGN
Objects of common interest
Designers of the year
Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis formed Objects of common interest with an emphasis on the creation of still life installations and experiential environments and objects, demonstrating a fixation with materiality, concept and tangible spatial experiences. "I love their capacity to use forms in an individual and coherent way," says Wallpaper* Design Awards judge Luca Guadagnino, who praises their ability to fill a space with objects, looking beyond their immediate function.
Image: Slak education campus, Kenya, by Francis Kéré/Kéré Architecture. © Kéré Architecture.
ARCHITECTURE
Slak education campus
by Kéré Architecture
Best Public Building
The design for this sustainable education campus, on the banks of Lake Turkana in Kenya, was inspired by the huge termite mounds dotted around the region. Its Berlin-based architect, Francis Kéré, first gained widespread acclaim a decade ago for a series of school projects in his native Burkina Faso, and is known for a site-specific approach that is sensitive to the needs of local communities. The Slak campus is composed of five main buildings arranged in a circular shape, around a clearing that allows students to gather.
Image: The Rock, Canada, by Gort Scott. © Rory Gardiner
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The Rock
by Gort Scott
Best Private House
Perched above Alta Lake in the Canadian ski resort of Whistler, The Rock makes the most of the surrounding views. Inspired by a quote from Frank Lloyd Wright "No house should ever be on a hill [...]. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it" the London-based practice Gort Scott designed a contemporary family home rising from a series of landscaped levels cut into and built out of the mountainside. Entering the house continues the feeling of passing through the landscape.
About the Wallpaper* Design Awards
Tokyo Contemporary Art Award
2022–2024
Image: Saeborg, Cycle of L performance at The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan, 2020.
Photo: Taisuke Tsurui.
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Tsuda Michiko
Saeborg
Tokyo Contemporary Art Award
Ishikawa-based artist Tsuda Michiko and Tokyo-based artist Saeborg are the winners of the Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (TCAA) for 2022–2024.
Tsuda Michiko's installations and performances explore the impacts of now ubiquitous cameras and screens. Recently, she has also analysed the body movements of characters in director Ozu Yasujirō's films in order to highlight hidden gender roles.
Saeborg is an imperfect cyborg that is half human and half toy. In performances and exhibitions Saeborg creates latex bodysuits of colorful and deformed representations of insects and livestock. These performances at first seem bright and playful, but they touch on issues of human cruelty and animal consumption as well as social issues like nursing and care.
