RIBA Stirling Prize 2022
Image: Níall McLaughlin Architects, Magdalene College Library, University of Cambridge. © Nick Kane
ARCHITECTURE
The New Library, Magdalene College
by Níall McLaughlin Architects
RIBA Stirling Prize
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named The New Library, Magdalene College in Cambridge by Níall McLaughlin Architects, as the winner of the 26th RIBA Stirling Prize. The exquisitely detailed new building provides students at the 700-year-old University of Cambridge college with a new library – open 24 hours a day – incorporating an archive and an art gallery. Honouring the rich surrounding history, Níall McLaughlin Architects combines load-bearing brick, gabled pitched roofs, windows with tracery and brick chimneys that animate the skyline with contemporary sustainable design elements to create a building that will stand the test of time.
Prix International d’Art Contemporain
Image: Christine Sun Kim, The Star-Spangled Banner (Third Verse), 2020.
ART
Christine Sun Kim
Prix International d’Art Contemporain
Christine Sun Kim was awarded the Prix International d’Art Contemporain by the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco for her performance The Star-Spangled Banner. We see the artist performing in sign language the American anthem of the United States during the Super Bowl - one of the most publicized events in the world - in 2020. More than a translation, her act embodies the vocabulary and grammar she has developed, at the crossroads of sign language, dance and the spatial articulation of musical notes. During the Super Bowl, her performance only had a few seconds on the air before being interrupted by advertising, a clear sign of the work that remains to be done for fairer visibility, in the media, contemporary art and society in general.
About the Prix International d’Art Contemporain
HOTA Photography Award 2022
Image: wani toaishara, do black boys go to heaven, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
PHOTOGRAPHY
wani toaishara
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert
Photography Award
Artist wani toaishara, who stylises his name in lower case, is the recipient of Home of the Arts' Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award. toaishara won with his photo do black boys go to heaven, in which two African figures wearing matching green maxi dresses look unabashedly at the camera. In a statement paired with the image, the artist writes: 'this is for the bodies painted spectacle long before they could even speak. For that child who was told that their strength was found in silence because speaking made them weak. For those bones so small that their gravestones outsized their casket. For all those tokens who've been called broken as they contemplate their suicide. We are worthy. Here. Still.'
About the HOTA Photography Award
Prix Liliane Bettencourt
pour l’Intelligence de la Main 2022
Image: Grégoire Scalabre, L’Ultime Métamorphose de Thétis, porcelain, 2021 - 2022.
200 H x 160 W x 160 D cm. © photo: Charles De Borggraef
CRAFTS
Grégoire Scalabre
Talents d’exception
Talents d’exception rewards an artisan for the realization of an innovative work resulting from a perfect mastery of the techniques and know-how of an art profession and contributing to its evolution. Grégoire Scalabre, French contemporary ceramicist and sculptor, is rewarded for his work L’Ultime métamorphose de Thétis. Monumental sculpture, 2 meters high, L’Ultime Métamorphose de Thétis, is composed of 60,000 pieces of handmade ceramics, turned one by one by Grégoire Scalabre and individually enamelled using a variety of green shades chosen from the palette of the Manufacture de Sèvres.
Image: Anaïs Jarnoux and Samuel Tomatis, MS.86.Ulva, 2021-22, seaweed, 50 x 28 cm.
© Matthieu Barani, Studio Samuel Tomatis
CRAFTS | DESIGN
Anaïs Jarnoux and Samuel Tomatis
Dialogues
Dialogues encourages the innovative collaboration of a craftsman and a designer and salutes a work illustrating an exceptional know-how and the richness of this collaboration. Dialogues 2022 is attributed to Anaïs Jarnoux, upholsterer and Samuel Tomatis, designer, for their work MS.86.Ulva. The bag was created from a material composed of 100% seaweed, instead of traditional animal skins. This new material, developed, tested and then proven after several years of research in collaboration with scientists, is entirely biodegradable. It could replace leather and plastic, in the industrial as well as the artisanal field.
About the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l’Intelligence de la Main
Frieze 2022
Image: Frieze Art Fair in Regents Park, London. Photo by Linda Nylind. 12/10/2022.
ART
Thomas Dane Gallery
Frieze Stand Prize
Thomas Dane Gallery was selected as the winner of the 2022 Frieze Stand Prize. The gallery was awarded for their outstanding presentation curated by the artist Anthea Hamilton. Thomas Dane Gallery's stand includes recent examples of her own work, the work of other gallery artists and a special selection of non-gallery artists. Hamilton's signature approach of considering all aspects of presentation includes a treatment of walls, floor and furniture as well as an unorthodox arrangement of works to create a complete environment in the booth. The non-gallery artists in Hamilton’s presentation include Mumtaz Karimjee, Rita Keegan and Nancy Willis.
Image: Marina Xenofontos, Twice upon a while, 2020. MDF wood, metal, mirror, 154 x 140 x 206 cm.
Installation view, But we've met before, Hot Wheels Athens, 2020.
Courtesy of the artist and Hot Wheels Athens
ART
Marina Xenefontos
Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize
Camden Art Centre and Frieze announce Marina Xenefontos as the recipient of the 2022 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze. Xenofontos, who is represented by Hot Wheels Athens, will realise a solo exhibition at Camden Art Centre in 2023. Marina Xenofontos (1988) was born in Limassol, Cyprus and works between Athens, Greece and Paris, France. She is a sculptor working through installation, painting, photography, and video, and was one of the founding members of the collective and artist-run project space Neoterismoi Toumazou. Her practice involves reforming found objects and material she then pairs with novel constructions — kinetic sculptures, light installations, digital avatars and their analogue representations.
Prix Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière
Académie des beaux-arts 2022
Image: Sima, the youngest, entered the FLE class (Français Langue Etrangère). Lycée Les Etablières,
La Roche-sur-Yon, March 2022. © Olivier Jobard / MYOP
PHOTOGRAPHY
Olivier Jobard
Prix Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière
Académie des beaux-arts
Olivier Jobard is the winner of the Prix de Photographie Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière - Académie des beaux-arts 2022 for his project Souvenirs d'une vie envolée, ma famille afghane. Member of the MYOP agency, his work focuses on migration issues through the lives of exiles (Afghans, Chechens, Iraqis or Bosnians) whom he follows over the long term, having gone so far as to accompany migrants on their journey. The prize will allow Olivier Jobard to carry out his project on Afghan siblings who fled the capital when the Taliban regained power in the summer of 2021. Based in France, the four members of this family aged 17 to 22 joined their older brother, whom Olivier Jobard followed from 2010 to 2020.
About the Prix Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière Académie des beaux-arts
Frame Awards 2022
Image: Elena Salmistraro Design Studio for Salvioni Milano Durini with Emmemobili®,
WOOD WAVES: percorso di un pensiero, 2020, Milan, Italy.
DESIGN
Elena Salmistraro
Designer of the Year
Product designer and artist, Elena Salmistraro lives and works in Milan. Graduated from Polytechnic University of Milan in 2008, together with architect Angelo Stoli she founded her own studio in 2009, where she has been working on architectural and design projects ever since. Her creations are the result of a combination of art and design; utmost care for details, painstaking search for the harmony of shapes and poetic style characterize her projects. One of her work’s priorities is the search for the expressive language of objects, which may fascinate people by evoking emotions.
Image: Studio India Mahdavi, The Gallery at Sketch London, 2014. Art works by David Shrigley.
DESIGN
India Mahdavi
Lifetime Achievement
India Mahdavi, received this year’s Frame Lifetime Achievement Award for her acute sensitivity to colour, a skill that has inspired a more joyous, human-centric approach to spatial design worldwide. In the design field and beyond, India Mahdavi has earned her title as the undisputed Queen of Colour. She’s created some of the most visually recognizable spaces of our time and honed her mastery of hue to the highest degree. Born in Tehran in 1962, the Iranian-Egyptian designer spent time in the United States, Germany and France as a child, the latter in which she settled. Her headquarters – comprising a studio, showroom and shop – are in Paris’s seventh arrondissement.
