Fra i più freschi premi d'arte oggi il Deste Prize 2013 è stato assegnato a Kostas Sahpazis.
Kostas Sahpazis,
installazione,
foto di D.Tsoublekas, courtesy of Melas/Papadopoulos Gallery
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The DESTE
Foundation for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Cycladic Art are pleased to
announce the winner of the DESTE Prize 2013.
During an Award
Ceremony that took place on Monday, September 9, 2013 at the Museum of Cycladic
Art, the DESTE Prize was awarded to Kostas Sahpazis.
On behalf of the
Jury Committee, Ms. Bice Curiger, curator of Kunsthalle Zurich, made the
following announcement:
“It is a pleasure
to announce to you in the name of all the jurors the winner of the 2013 DESTE
Prize, a prize which is awarded every two years to a Greek or Cypriot artist
living in Greece or abroad, and presented here, in the beautiful spaces of the
Museum of Cycladic Art.
It is noteworthy
that the quality of this year’s exhibition of all of the six shortlisted
artists is very remarkable and didn’t make our decision easy. We would also
like to mention that we were particularly grateful that the artists accepted to
present their works personally, answering our questions.
And now the
prize: We are very happy to announce that the prize is going to be awarded to
Kostas Sahpazis for his complex sculptural work, a work which is introducing an
oscillating force into all sorts of defined categories of art and art history,
while revolving around ideas of subtle destabilization. It seems that Kostas
Sahpazis is at times creating a painting while piling up materials into
delicately calibrated stacks, or accumulating objects that are and are not
always what they pretend to be. Here the very concrete and the abstract meet.
Drawings are made in space, sometimes reflecting ‘figurative’ elements like a
citation or a portrait of the surrounding world and blurring their meaning.”
DESTE PRIZE 2013
SHORTLISTED ARTISTS
Marianna
Christofides (b. 1980, Nicosia, Cyprus)
Ilias Papailiakis
(b. 1970, Crete, Greece)
Michail Pirgelis
(b. 1976, Essen, Germany)
Kostas Sahpazis
(b. 1977, Drama Greece)
Maria Theodoraki
(b. 1977, Athens, Greece)
Alexandros
Tzannis (b. 1979, Athens, Greece)
DESTE PRIZE 2013
SELECTION COMMITTEE:
Aphrodite Gonou –
Contemporary Art Advisor
Dennis
Zacharopoulos – Art Historian and Critic, Artistic Director of
the Macedonian
Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Eftihis
Patsourakis – Artist, DESTE Prize 2011 shortlist
Nikos Pattichis –
Collector, “Phileleftheros” Media Group, President
Faye
Tzanetoulakou – Art Historian
Theophilos
Tramboulis – Curator and Writer
DESTE PRIZE 2013
JURY:
Dakis Joannou –
DESTE Foundation, President
John Bock –
Artist
Bice Curiger –
Kunsthaus Zurich, Curator
Daniel Birnbaum –
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Director
Michael Ringier –
Collector
Beatrix Ruf –
Kunsthalle Zurich, Director and Curator
