Ai Weiwei and Sanaa Win Praemium Imperiales for Sculpture, Architecture

Ai Weiwei and Sanaa Win Praemium Imperiales for Sculpture, Architecture

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei won Japan’s 2022 Praemium Imperiale Award for sculpture whilst Tokyo-dependent architecture company Sanaa received the honor for architecture. The worldwide prize has been awarded annually due to the fact 1989 by the Japan Artwork Affiliation, which is less than the patronage of Prince Hitachi, and also encompasses the fields of portray, theater/film, and songs. Giulio Paolini, Wim Wenders, and Krystian Zimmerman received the awards in individuals types. Each receiver of the honor is awarded ¥15 million ($104,500).  

Ai was cited especially for his 2009 undertaking Remembering, which honors the 5,000 kids who died in the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, crushed within shoddily manufactured faculties. The team display “Freedom,” which Ai is curating, opens at the Southbank Centre in London October 27. The show, which will occupy the exhibition house of the Royal Pageant Hall through December 18, capabilities perform created by all those incarcerated in the Uk as effectively that designed by folks in the country’s secure psychological health and fitness amenities, deportation centers, and juvenile establishments and people today performing community company. Ai himself has been incarcerated getting been arrested on expenses of tax fraud by the Chinese govt in 2011 and held for eighty-one days in a mystery prison.

Sanaa, who are tasked with the growth of Moscow’s Garage Museum of Up to date Artwork, are the architects behind the the latest transformation of the Artwork Gallery of New South Wales, a clear glass framework sitting down atop a pair of defunct Earth War II oil tanks. The company additionally made the Louvre Lens in northern France 21st Century Museum of Modern day Artwork in Kanazawa, Japan the Serpentine Galleries in London and the New Museum in New York.

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