La Biennale di Venezia
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Image: Katharina Fritsch, Hahn und Podest / Cock and Pedestal, 2013/19. Polyester, steel, paint.
147¾ × 78¾ × 78¾ inches; 375 × 200 × 200 cm. Courtesy of the artist, VG Bild-Kunst,
Bonn and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York/Los Angeles. Photo by Ivo Faber.
ART
Katharina Fritsch
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Katharina Fritsch (1956) lives and works in Wuppertal and Düsseldorf, Germany. Since 1979 she has worked on multi-scaled, boldly hued sculptures, which she says should instead be seen as three-dimensional pictures. Saints, mice, architectural models and plans, shells, snakes, umbrellas, human figures, the sound of frogs croaking, and objects of everyday life populate Fritsch’s world: a place where realistic detailing and disorienting immaterial finish dissolves the edges between the ordinary and the uncanny, causing a sensation of surprise and astonishment.
Image: Cecilia Vicuña, Boogie-Woogie Quipu, 2018. Unspun wool, bamboo, thread, and wire.
144 x 114 x 133 inches; 365.8 x 289.6 x 337.8 cm. Photo by Matthew Herrmann.
ART
Cecilia Vicuña
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Cecilia Vicuña (1948) is a poet, artist, filmmaker and activist. She lives and works in New York and Santiago. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago, she was exiled in the early 1970s after the violent military coup against President Salvador Allende. Vicuña coined the term "Arte Precario" in the mid 1960s in Chile, for her precarious works and quipus, as a way of "hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard." Her work is characterised by a desire to pay tribute to the indigenous history and culture of Chile.
About La Biennale di Venezia Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Frame Awards
Interior of the Month
Image: Hiba Restaurant by Pitsou Kedem architects, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, 2021.
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Hiba Restaurant
by Pitsou Kedem architects
Overall Winner
Interior of the Month for February
Hiba ("Halo" in Moroccan) is an intimate restaurant designed for only 40 diners, with no partition between the kitchen and the dining area. Upon entry, exposure to the restaurant space is done gradually. The visitor enters an arched corridor and walks through it alongside a perforated partition that provides glimpses into the active kitchen. "Hiba" functions as a home-like hospitality space, where the material integration between the refined and polished with the raw and natural, refers to the cooking method in the restaurant and resonates it in the design.
Image: HEYTEA Yongning Alley Store Xi'an by Leaping Creative, China, 2021.
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
HEYTEA Yongning Alley Store Xi'an
by Leaping Creative
Honourable Mention
Interior of the Month for February
Leaping Creative have created a "HEYTEA inspired flagship store" in Xi’an: a new experiential space located near the Xi’an City Wall of Yongning Gate. The designer conceived of a store facade that is light, transparent and as large as possible to match the city wall. The interior of the space is dominated by the sandstone yellow prominent in Xi’ an, which is then embellished with silver gray and bright yellow. The bright yellow serves as a metaphor for the ancient city wall and the royal capital, while the silver gray represents a keen sense of the future. At the entrance of the store, the order counter has a futuristic, metallic look and is placed in the center.
Image: Private Spa by Pitsou Kedem Architects, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, 2021.
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Private Spa
by Pitsou Kedem Architects
Honourable Mention
Interior of the Month for February
On a quiet street in a residential neighborhood, one catches a glimpse of a glass pavilion floating above ground and hovering over green vegetation to be glimpsed again in reflecting pools wrapped around the building’s perimeter. The intention was to create a structure that does not separate indoors and outdoors, making the structure an inherent part of the garden. The structure is divided into two wings: one serves as a residence while the other is a spa, complete with a jacuzzi blended into one of the wraparound reflecting pools.
About the Frame Awards Interior of the Month
Hasselblad Award 2022
Image: Dayanita Singh, from the book Go Away Closer, Steidl, 2007.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Dayanita Singh
Hasselblad Award
Dayanita Singh is the recipient of the 2022 Hasselblad Award. Based in New Delhi, she is the first artist of South Asian descent to win the award, which has previously gone to photographers such as Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Walid Raad, Cindy Sherman, and Wolfgang Tillmans. Known for her elegant black-and-white images, Singh has exhibited her photographs in styles that are unusual, such as folding wooden frames that she terms "mobile museums," as well as in the form of books. Her pictures are often conceptual in nature, using a spare visual language to explore how archives are constructed and how photographic images exist in relation to one another.
IWPA Award 2022
Image: Maryam Firuzi, from the series Scattered memories of a distorted future.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Maryam Firuzi
IWPA Award
Maryam Firuzi is the laureate of the 2022 International Women in Photo Association Award. Based in Tehran, affected by the tragic events that have hit her country since January 2020 - political turbulence, water crisis, recession, immigration - she questions how artistic creation can be healing, inspiring and effective. In cinematographic productions, Maryam Firuzi transforms the ruins of her territory into metaphors. In collaboration with other women artists, invited to paint whatever they wish on the surface of these abandoned places, she transforms her environment into a life-size painting, representing pain and loss.
