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....?
• ....who promptly shared his prize coin amongst the nine other shortlisted artists?
• ...and was rated past times Art Review every bit the 44th most influential soul inwards the fine art world inwards the Power 100 inwards 2014 

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.

• The contest is held every other year
• The nine artists were curt listed from over 800 international nominations from seventy countries. The shortlist comprised:
• Carlos Bunga (Portugal), 
• Karen Mirza as well as Brad Butler (UK), 
• Omer Fast (Israel),
• Theaster Gates (USA), 

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.

• Sanja Iveković (Croatia), 
• Ragnar Kjartansson (Iceland), 
• Sharon Lockhart (USA), 
• Renata Lucas (Brazil), 
• Renzo Martens as well as the Institute for Human Activities (The Netherlands)
• the exhibition of their artwork is spread across iii dissimilar locations inwards Cardiff as well as Penarth
• works identify a pregnant emphasis on photography, cinema as well as sculpture/installation art
• The exhibition continues inwards Cardiff at the National Museum Cardiff, Chapter Arts Centre as well as ffotogallery until 22nd Feb 2015.

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

• Theaster Gates ranked 40th inwards the Art Review of the 100 most influential people inwards the fine art world concluding year
• Gates has 2 degrees inwards urban planning. His focus is on urban regeneration as well as community development.
• He buys dilapidated houses as well as turns them into small-scale cultural centres as well as coming together spaces
• An article inwards the Guardian merely earlier the exhibition opened Theaster Gates, the creative soul whose latest projection is regenerating Chicago
• This is a 2012 article inwards The Art Newspaper - Inside the trace solid that Theaster built
• Article inwards the New Yorker virtually high concept renewal - Artes Mundi: Why can't the Turner Prize survive to a greater extent than similar this?
• BBC - Can Artes Mundi overstep Turner Prize? includes a video past times Will Gomprtz

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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