From November 3, 2012 till January 6, 2013 PinchukArtCentre presents the Exhibition of 21 Shortlisted Artists for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012
Jonathas de Andrade, 30 (Brazil)
Meris Angioletti, 34 (Italy)
Marwa Arsanios, 33 (Lebanon)
Micol Assael, 33 (Italy)
Abigail DeVille, 30 (United States)
Aurelien Froment, 35 (France)
Mykyta Kadan, 29 (Ukraine)
Meiro Koizumi, 35 (Japan)
Andre Komatsu, 33 (Brazil)
Eva Kotatkova, 29 (Czech Republic)
Tala Madani, 30 (Iran)
Basim Magdy, 34 (Egypt)
Ahmet Öğüt, 30 (Turkey)
Amalia Pica, 33 (Argentina)
Agnieszka Polska, 27 (Poland)
Emily Roysdon, 34 (United States)
Rayyane Tabet, 28 (Lebanon)
Xing Yan, 26 (China)
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, 34 (United Kingdom)
and two groups:
Joao Maria Gusmao + Pedro Paiva, 33, 34 (Portugal)
R.E.P. (Ukraine) - Ksenia Gnylitska (28), Mykyta Kadan (29), Zhanna Kadyrova (30), Olesia Khomenko (31), Volodymyr Kuznetsov (35), and Lada Nakonechna (31).
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The Main Prize Winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2012
“The jury has awarded the Main Prize to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for her extraordinary paintings where darkness and light are articulated together, recognizing the quality of the paintings and the social concerns that emerge from them. Furthermore, the jury awards the prize for her complex practice, which extends far beyond painting. Indeed, she is also active in literature as a writer of short stories and is currently working on a novel”
The Special Prize Winners of the Future Generation Art Prize 2012
“The jury awards a special prize to Jonathas de Andrade for the way he fills the blank between art and ideology. Tracing back to modernist motifs used in the architectural and mural traditions of Brazil which risk vanishing from the collective memory, his conceptual installations translate and reveal the contradiction between poverty and prosperity and failed attempts of social changes.”
“The jury awards Marwa Arsanios a special prize for the experimental nature of her installation and performative lecture. This project which involved the creation of an artist-book based on a popular Egyptian journal of the late 60ties questions the passage from decolonisation to the myths of the spacerace while underlining the continuity of gender and justice towards women. Her work places the viewer /listener in a position of intimacy with the reader/performer which instantiates the visitor an an important material of the artwork.”
“The jury awards Micol Assaël a special prize for her construction of an environment through her video in which the viewer is exposed to both the sensuality and anxiety of being in a specific physical situation of precariousness, such as a barren landscape with surrounded by swarming bees. This audio surround and video work marks a continuity and also a shift from her recognized practice in installation and sculpture, where the lens of the camera is materialized and identified with the gaze of the fragile, yet observing subject.”
“The jury awards Ahmet Ogüt a special prize for his extraordinary ability to escape the limits of the art institution and the notion of the art award through the distribution f money, and the parallel distribution and sharing of knowledge that lies at the core of eyewriter/DIY/Arbakir. Focusing his energy and time on writing the web address of a project based on empowering the disabled, onto one dollar bills, and subsequently dedicating his time to the joyful participation in 5 weddings in a small town in Turkey, he acknowledges that artistic practice can be redirected towards the production of emancipation.”
“The jury awards Rayyane Tabet a special prize for his close examination and intelligent articulation of the complex social and historical context of his home in Lebanon. Referencing architectural languages, Tabet succeeds in transforming and communicating an intimate and personal experience to a wider public, by multiplying an original wooden toy set to become a field of 12,000 concrete sculptural copies of its parts, an abstract and urban landscape of models.”
People’s Choice Award Winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2012
