ANDAM Fashion Awards 2022
Image: Botter, fall 2022. Photo: Courtesy of ANDAM luca tombolini.
FASHION
Botter
Grand Prize
Self-styled "Caribbean couture" brand Botter spent lockdown establishing a coral nursery off the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. Herrebrugh and Botter, who were also artistic directors of Nina Ricci until earlier this year, tap into their roots, Curaçao and the Dominican Republic, for their gender-fluid clothing rooted in Caribbean culture. Visibly stunned, the Dutch duo accepted the Grand Prize with a promise to pour the resources into equally innovative sustainable projects (Botter has already pledged to allocate a percentage of profits to the management of the Curaçao coral farm).
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Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards 2022
Image: Strike, Strajk by Rafaƚ Milach & collectif. Editor: Jednostka Gallery, Varsovie.
Design: Ania Nałęcka-Milach, Rafał Milach.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Strike, Strajk
by Rafaƚ Milach & collectif
Author Book Award
Strike, Strajk is a visual record of the protests that began across Poland on October 22, 2020, and which persisted in various forms over the ensuing months. The publication channels the spirit of intervention, solidarity and aid. Since 2019, Rafaƚ Milach, together with sixteen fellow photographers, has been a co-creator of the Archive of Public Protests (APP), a platform for gathering documentation of social actions and grassroots initiatives that have opposed political decisions executed in violation of principles of democracy and human rights. Strike, Strajk is a piece of this archive.
Image: Desiderea Nuncia by SMITH, Lucien Raphmaj & Diplomates.
Editor: Palais Books, Arles. Design: Yann Linsart.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Desiderea Nuncia
by SMITH, Lucien Raphmaj & Diplomates
Photo-Text Book Award
Desiderea Nuncia (the messenger of desideration) brings together the photographs of SMITH, the texts of Lucien Raphmaj and the micro-architecture plans of Diplomates, like several knowledges and several ways of materializing the phenomena of desideration. Designating a humanity in search of a new pact with its original cosmos, Désideration plays on its troubled etymology, between the lost link to the stars (de-sidera) and the incandescent desire (desiderium) for their return in the face of the disaster of a world darkened sense and an atrophied cosmic imagination. Desiderea Nuncia takes us through mindmaps, for a sub-lunar journey, a reverie, a ritual of reconciliation with your cosmic destiny.
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Frieze Artist Award 2022
Image: Installation view, Abbas Zahedi, Scent of the 10013, 2022.
11 long stem red roses cut accordingly, 18” + thick clear plastic bag, local tap water.
18 x 14 x 1 inches. 45.7 x 35.6 x 2.5 cm.
ART
Abbas Zahedi
Frieze Artist Award
Frieze has named Abbas Zahedi as the winner of the 2022 Frieze Artist Award, realized in partnership with Forma for the fourth consecutive year. Established in 2013, the award provides an emerging artist with the platform to debut an ambitious new commission on the occasion of Frieze London. Titled Waiting With {Sonic Support}, the work can be seen as a conflation of two particular sites: a public waiting area and a public support space, the commission builds upon Zahedi’s long-standing interest in borders, thresholds and how things can move within systems or networks.
Reiffers Art Initiatives Mentorship 2022
Image: Alexandre Diop, Guion Bluford, 2021.
Mixed media on wood, 98 3/8 x 72 7/8 inches (250 x 185 cm).
ART
Kehinde Wiley & Alexandre Diop
Reiffers Art Initiatives Mentorship
Each year, Reiffers Art Initiatives invites a major figure of the contemporary art world to become the mentor of an emerging artist of the French scene. This year mentor, Kehinde Wiley, is the first African-American artist to have painted the official portrait of an American president (Barack Obama in 2018) and has established himself as one of the major figures in contemporary art with his hyper-realistic and colorful canvases. As mentor he chose to support, Alexandre Diop, a French-Senegalese artist. Using everyday objects such as books, photographs, metal and wood, as well as elements such as animal hair, fire and rust, Alexandre Diop expresses sympathy for the traditions of the Arte Povera movement.
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Prix 1% marché de l'art
Image: Document préparatoire © Mazaccio & Drowilal, 2022
ART
Prix 1% marché de l'art
The Ville de Paris and the Crédit Municipal de Paris (CMP) wish to strengthen public support for artistic creation by dedicating 1% of the amount of CMP auction sales revenue to financing of projects led by visual artists. As Paris prepares to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in the framework of an Olympiad which is also cultural, the works proposed this year resonate with sport and Olympism. The 5 laureates are Pauline Bastard, Dominique Blais, Hoël Duret, Lorraine Féline and Mazaccio & Drowilal.
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Prix des amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Image: Dora Jeridi, Les mangeurs d'images 1, 2022. Oil on canvas, 195x260cm.
ART
Prix des amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Since 2008, the association, les amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris, has awarded prizes to students of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in order to highlight the quality of the students' work. This year the winners are Malo Chapuy, Jules Bourbon, Abdelhak Benallou, Rayan Yasmineh, Dora Jeridi, Zhexiang Chen and Pierre-Alexandre Savriacouty. The six laureates are invited by the association to mount a public exhibition in the fall in an outdoor location.
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Prix des Fondations
Image: Morgane Ely, Devon Aoki eating noodles subjectively for Vogue Japan, 2021.
Woodcut on paper (4 colors), 40 x 40 cm.
ART
Prix des Fondations
Each year, the Dream big and grow fast, Marguerite et Méthode Keskar and Rose Taupin-Dora Bianka foundations reward artists and associations in partnership with the Beaux-Arts de Paris. This year, two associations were rewarded, 6bis Fabrik, which offers a new transdisciplinary residence in Vitry (Val-de-Marne) and Scandale, a new group of 2021 graduates which offers a nomadic program of conferences, exhibitions, shows and a cultural shop. Two other prizes were awarded to Elisa Florimond and Morgane Ely, two artists who graduated in 2021.
