Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives 2022
Image: Pol Taburet, Anatomy of a Dead Tongue, 2021. Collection Pinault.
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Pol Taburet
Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives
From voodoo to Francis Bacon and Francisco de Goya, via video games and Atlanta trap, the multiple inspirations of Pol Taburet reflect all the syncretism of his plastic practice. At 23, he is already famous for his striking figurative painting which represents beings on the border between the human and the spectrum. From these canvases of disturbing appearance emerges a magical aura, conveyed in particular by bursts of light painted with airbrush. Pol Taburet pays homage to his mother as well as to the rites and figures linked to the quimbois, this set of voodoo beliefs and practices born in Guadeloupe, from which he partly originated.
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Architectural League Prize for Young
Architects + Designers 2022
Image: Casa Georgina, residential project, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 2018-2020,
designed by Departamento del Distrito.
ARCHITECTURE | DESIGN
Architectural League Prize for Young
Architects + Designers
The Architectural League of New York has announced the winners of the 41st cycle of the annual Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. This 2022 edition asked participants to reflect on the grounds upon which they design. This year's winners are Citygroup, an architecture collective founded in New York City; Departamento del Distrito, a Mexico City-based design practice; Dept., a landscape architecture and urban design studio based in Houston; Farzin Farzin, an Ithaca-based collaborative multidisciplinary design studio; stock-a-studio, an architectural design; and TO, a Mexico City-based architecture and design practice.
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Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
Image: Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning, 2020.
Marquetry hybrid (wood veneers, oil paint, acrylic paint, inkjet prints, shellac, and sawdust on wood).
Collection of the artist.
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Alison Elizabeth Taylor
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. has named the winner of its sixth Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Brooklyn-based artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor won for her 2020 painting Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning, which depicts Brooklyn-based hair stylist Anthony Payne giving a woman a haircut under the bridge overpass in front of an ornate mirror. Taylor came across Payne as he was giving outdoor donation-based haircuts during the summer of 2020 at the height of the pandemic and in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd.
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Prix MAIF pour la sculpture 2022
Image: Emilie Perotto, simulation of the Datasculpture project. Courtesy of the artist.
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Émilie Perotto
Prix MAIF pour la sculpture
Émilie Perotto is the winner of the Prix MAIF pour la sculpture. Each year, the prize is awarded to an artist who explores innovative technologies in his sculptural practice. For the prize, Emilie Perotto presented the Datasculpture project, a sculpture made in 3D ceramic from extracts of data allowing to compare, for example, the natural resources of a country and the income of its inhabitants. The prize will allow the work to be produced in duplicate, in collaboration with designers and researchers. The artwork will be printed in a single block of ceramic.
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London Gallery Weekend's
performative public art commission
Image: Mandy El-Sayegh, The Minimum, performance rehearsal still, UTA Artist Space,
Los Angeles, 2022. Photo: Josh S. Rose. Courtesy the artist and UTA Artist Space.
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Mandy El-Sayegh
London Gallery Weekend's
performative public art commission
London-based artist Mandy El-Sayegh has been selected for London Gallery Weekend’s first public art performance, in partnership with UP Projects for her proposal The Minimum. Created in collaboration with choreographer Alethia Antonia and composer Lily Oakes, this new work centres around an installation and performance that invites people in different public locations across the city to consider how bodies make themselves visible within the framework of certain sets of restrictions. It will take place three times during London Gallery Weekend across the different focal areas, Central London, South London and East London.
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Forge Project Fellowship 2022
Image: Sara Siestreem, the big win, 2020. Acrylic, graphite, china marker,
color pencil on BFK Rives paper. 70-1/4 x 42-1/4 inches.
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Forge Project Fellowship
The Forge Project, which is sited on unceded homelands of the Muh-he-con-ne-ok in Upstate New York, has announced the six Indigenous recipients of its 2022 fellowship. They are Catherine Blackburn (Dene), an artist and jeweler; Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache), an experimental musician and vocalist; Rainer Posselt (Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans), a public and mental health worker; Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos of The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians), a multidisciplinary artist; Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation), a multidisciplinary artist and curator; and Ilgavak, Peter Williams (Yup’ik), a culture bearer, artist, designer, and filmmaker.
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RIBA Regional Awards 2022
Image: The Story Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom, designed by Purcell with Ramboll UK and
a team of exhibition designers led by RFK Architects and Tom Piper. © Diane Auckland
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RIBA Regional Awards
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winning projects for the 2022 RIBA Regional Awards which celebrate great architecture across the UK. The 115 award winning projects reflect changes and innovations in architecture and display a commitment to designing and developing buildings and spaces for the improvement and enhancement of people's lives. A RIBA Regional Award is given to a UK building for its regional importance as a piece of architecture.
