Artes Mundi - A Novel Sort Of Fine Art Prize?

Did you lot know that:
  • the biggest contemporary fine art prize inwards the U.K. is the Artes Mundi - or that it is worth £40,000?
  • that the exhibition is held inwards Cardiff as well as non London?
  • the winning slice is called A Complicated Relationship betwixt Heaven as well as footing or When We Believe.
  • the £40,000 Prize was won this calendar week past times a Chicago based creative soul as well as social activist called Theaster Gates....?
Do scout the video, it's a wearisome initiative of all but stick amongst it.


Artes Mundi half-dozen Artist Film - Theaster Gates from Artes Mundi on Vimeo.

Here are roughly facts as well as roughly links which say you lot virtually Artes Mundi as well as this year's shortlist as well as winner.

Images of Artes Mundi from the Facebook Page
the chap sitting on the podium (top left) is Theaster Gates

Artes Mundi Facts


Whilst at that topographic point is no unmarried overarching theme, at the pump of Artes Mundi is a wishing to introduce fine art which straight engages amongst people's lives as well as amongst what it agency to survive human, exploring social themes from across the globe but which likewise resonate locally as well as comport upon all our lives.
    Theaster Gates' practise includes sculpture, installation, functioning as well as urban interventions that aim to brace the gap betwixt fine art as well as life. He plant every bit an artist, curator, urbanist as well as facilitator, as well as his projects endeavour to instigate the creation of cultural communities past times acting every bit catalysts for social engagement that leads to political as well as spatial change.
Works past times 10 international artists produce amount iii venues inwards Cardiff as well as Penarth inwards this uneven but fascinating show. It doesn’t acquire the publicity of the Turner prize, it doesn’t insist on novel work, as well as few of the artists accept previously had major U.K. shows. The Guardian

More data virtually Theaster Gates

visual artist, social activist, urban planner, musical performer, teacher

Note: Artes Mundi, the organisation behind the prize as well as exhibition, is an international arts organisation committed to supporting footing breaking, international, contemporary, visual artists whose operate engages amongst social reality as well as lived experience. The organisation is publicly funded past times the Arts Council of Wales as well as past times Cardiff City Council as well as runs a sustained programme of outreach as well as learning projects throughout the year.

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