Prix ellipse 2022

Image: Assoukrou Aké, Du tumulte du monde au silence du papier, "L'appel des messagers", 2021.
Installation, acrylic on craft, blue masking tape and page taken from a mini encyclopedia
published in 1906 under the British colonial Empire. 16,8 x 22,4 cm.

ART

Assoukrou Aké

Prix ellipse

Assoukrou Aké is the winner of the Prix ellipse 2022. An initiative developed by ellipse art projects, celebrating emerging artists from Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Multidisciplinary artist, Assoukrou Aké designs projects combining art and fiction, where he invests himself in the role of a medical researcher and storyteller, initiating "healing" stories against the diferent violence in the world. Assoukrou Aké will benefit from an exhibition during AKAA, ALSO KNOWN AS AFRICA, from October 21 to 23, as well as media and professional support.

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Artists residencies
Art Explora – Cité internationale des arts

Image: Manuel Mathieu, Pendulum, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 18x14 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

ART

Artists residencies
Art Explora – Cité internationale des arts

The biannual program of artist residencies was launched in 2021 by the Art Explora foundation in collaboration with the Ville de Paris. The artists selected for the second session of the year starting in September 2022 are Nikhil Chopra (India), Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury (Bangladesh), Alia Farid (Kuwait and Puerto Rico), Clara Jo (USA & Germany), Manuel Mathieu (Haiti), Ser Serpas (USA), Güneş Terkol (Turkey) and Luki von der Gracht (Germany).

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Étant donnés Contemporary Art

Image: Julian Charrière: Erratic, August 6, 2022 - May 14, 2023,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).

ART

Étant donnés Contemporary Art

The Villa Albertine, in collaboration with the FACE Foundation, has announced the winners of the "Étant donnés Contemporary Art" program. The program focuses on introducing visual artists and collectives based in France whose works have rarely, if ever, been shown in the United States. The selected artists are Julian Charrière, William Klein, Gwladys Gambie, Julien Creuzet, Pierre Charpin and groups composed of Sara Favriau and Marcos Avila Forero, and of Tabita Rezaire, Gwladys Gambie and Jérémie Priam.

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Palm* Photo Prize 2022


Image: © Kennedi Carter

PHOTOGRAPHY

Kennedi Carter

Judge's Panel 1st Place

Palm* Photo Prize is an annual submission based exhibition for a new generation of photographers. Its aim is to support, elevate and showcase the best of the new wave of image-makers. A Durham, North Carolina native by way of Dallas Texas, Kennedi Carter is a photographer with a primary focus on Black subjects. Her work highlights the aesthetics & sociopolitical aspects of Black life as well as the overlooked beauties of the Black experience: skin, texture, trauma, peace, love and community. Her work aims to reinvent notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness.

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Aesthetica Art Prize 2022

Image: Baff Akoto, Leave The Edges, 2020.

ART

Baff Akoto

Main Prize

The 2022 Main Prize-winner is Baff Akoto with Leave The Edges. Baff Akoto embraces the fluidity of visual language, notions of plurality, perceptions and implications of bodily movement. Leave The Edges is an immersive dreamscape that explores the complex ancestries of African diasporic cultural expression. Ritual, dance, poetry and spirituality, express this global movement of people. Rather than relying on formal narrative, the work took the artist through Europe and the Caribbean to consider historical legacies and societal politics through the language of movement, which gently draws connections across ancestries, borders and cultures.

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Herb Alpert Award in the Arts 2022

Image: Martine Syms: DED and Aunty Chairs, 2021. Installation view, Aphrodite's Beasts, Fridericianum, Kassel, 2021. © Martine Syms, documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH. Photo: Andrea Rossetti.

ART

Guadalupe Maravilla

Martine Syms

Herb Alpert Award in the Arts

The 2022 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts went to 10 artists in five disciplines. They are Guadalupe Maravilla and Martine Syms for visual artists. Guadalupe Maravilla’s interdisciplinary practice looks at how healing from trauma, displacement and illness, might be achieved through nature and sound. His practice draws on his own life story. The artist was born in El Salvador in 1976, and later migrated as an unaccompanied minor during the civil war. In 2011, he was diagnosed with stage-three colon cancer and has been cancer-free since 2013. In her interdisciplinary practice, which spans film, photography, installation, performance, and writing, Martine Syms explores manifold, compelling questions in order to map out new perspectives on life and society.

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Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2022

Image: 2050 M Street by REX, Washington, United States, March 2020. © Alan Karchmer / Iwan Baan

ARCHITECTURE

Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize announced the 38 projects that were selected as outstanding projetcs. According to the jury, the commonality among the selected built works was their respect for the context, climate, and environment. They employed regional means and methods to build in order to connect meaningfully to the local communities, celebrate cultural values, and address significant problems. The selected entries demonstrated an understanding of the ways in which architecture can impact positively the population and benefit people in their living, working, and learning environments.

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Prix Aurélie Nemours 2021

Image: Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Swarm n°2, 2022.
Motor, carbon fiber, mechanical parts. 100 x 105 x 15 cm.

ART

Pe Lang

Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

Prix Aurélie Nemours

The Prix Aurélie Nemours 2021 was awarded to Pe Lang for his body of work and to Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri for their joint work combining visual arts and sound. Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri have been collaborating since 2008, their works come together in creations combining plastic forms, electronic circuits, movements and sounds governed by programs.

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RIBA National Awards 2022

Image: The Fratry Carlisle Cathedral by Feilden Fowles, Carlisle, 2014 – 2020. © Peter Cook

ARCHITECTURE

RIBA National Awards

The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the 29 winners of the 2022 RIBA National Awards for architecture. This year, many projects focused on uniting communities, by creating spaces as a result of a collaboration between the local residents and the architects, or by offering unique venues for musical or cultural events. The future of housing was also addressed, with projects illustrating a vision for modern rural living or creating new city blocks centered around community gardens. Another area of interest was the restoration and adaptation of existing buildings, be it a 900-year-old former dining hall of the Cathedral or an iconic 1950s Modernist house.

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