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Shock The Future!
Valentine Uhovski, a former Russian child star and co-creator of the controversial high-society-skewering Socialite Rank site and contemporary art platform ArtRuby, has been the first one to collect all 11 spots in the Hirst Spot Challenge pilgrimage! Starting in New York on January 12th and ending @ Gagosian’s Davies Street space in London @ 2:30 p.m this Friday, Uhovski did the 11 Gagosian galleries (3x New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Athens, Rome Geneva, Paris, 2x London) in mere 8 days, beating the 2nd winner – journalist Jeff Chu – by couple of minutes. Tan Wong from Arrested Motion finished as 3rd in Gagosian Hong Kong. Respect! to all 3 insane spot enthusiasts.
Btw: The Complete Spot Challenge continues till March 17, so still some time to win your personalized Hirst spot painting print and make an art-trip around the world.
(via ArtInfo)
(image: visitor inspecting Martin Boyce’s installation “Do Words Have Voices” at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, the hosting institution of this year’s Turner Prize)
Congratz to Scottish sculptor Martin Boyce on winning this year’s Turner Prize. Boyce’s victory has been largely predicted, so no real surprise; what’s worth noticing ‘though is he’s the third Glasgow-born or -educated artist in a row (preceded by Susan Philipsz last year and Richard Wright in 2009) to win it and therefore confirming the importance of Glasgow on the map of contemporary art.
Boyce has been selected from four candidates, the other shortlisted being sculptor Karla Black, painter George Shaw and video-installation artist Hilary Lloyd.
(Image: Mircea Cantor’s Fishing Fly, 2011)
Romanian-born and Paris-based artist Mircea Cantor has been awarded this year’s Marcel Duchamp’s Prize, joining thus the ranks of Thomas Hirschhorn (2001), Tatiana Trouvé (2007), Laurent Grasso (2008) or last year’s winner Cyprien Gaillard.
Since his departure from Romania in 1999, Cantor has managed to achieve international recognition with projects such as ‘Deeparture‘ – a video showing an unsettling meeting of a deer and a wolf in a white gallery space and creating quite a commotion at the Berlin Biennial in 2006. An interview with the artist is available in an older edition of the Frieze magazine. Mircea Cantor is represented by Yvon Lambert gallery.
(Marchel Duchamp Prize is awarded yearly to an artist residing in France and considered a pioneer of contemporary art. The winning artist is consequently given the opportunity of a solo show @ Centre Pompidou.)
