Wu Chi-Tsung on Prudential Eye Awards 2015 Shortlist:
Best Emerging Asian Contemporary Artists
吳季璁入圍英國保誠當代藝術獎

2015-01-20 author

The Prudential Eye Programme is pleased to announce the second edition of the Prudential Eye Awards, which will be presented at MasterCard Theatres – Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands on Tuesday, 20 January 2015. The integrated resort is the Official Partner for the Prudential Eye Awards. A public exhibition of works by the shortlisted artists will be showcased at ArtScience Museum between 17 January and 31 March 2015. Launched in 2014, the prestigious annual Awards recognises the best emerging Asian contemporary artists as well as the leading exhibitions, galleries, institutions and art critics working to promote Asian contemporary art. The second edition of the Prudential Eye Awards features 13 prizes, with six categories of Best Emerging Artist, using mediums such as digital/video, drawing, installation, painting, photography and sculpture. Each category winner will be awarded USD$20,000 and a specially commissioned trophy. Out of these six artists, one overall winner will be chosen for the prize of ‘Best Emerging Artist’, winning a further USD$30,000 and the opportunity to hold a solo exhibition at the renowned Saatchi Gallery in London. Some 500 artists, nominated by over 100 art experts from across Greater Asia, submitted portfolios of their work earlier this year. Members of the Global Eye Academy, a newly introduced panel comprising the Awards founders, judges, previous winners and expert curators, selected the three most outstanding artists per award category. The Awards’ seven-member panel of judges will cast their votes to announce the winners for the 2015 Emerging Artist categories at the Prudential Eye Awards on 20 January 2015. The shortlisted artists for Digital/Video: teamLab (Japan) Chim↑Pom (Japan) Chitra Ganesh (India) The shortlisted artists for Drawing: Genevieve Chua (Singapore) Ahmet Doğu İpek (Turkey) Mithu Sen (India). The shortlisted artists for Installation: Donna Ong (Singapore) Hannah Bertram (Australia) Wu Chi-Tsung (Taiwan) This category encompasses dream-like theatrical scenarios (Ong), ephemeral, temporal interventions post-pop (Bertram) and shadowy deconstructed cities (Chi-Tsung), all highlighting the best of Asian installation art. The shortlisted artists for Painting: Christine Ay Tjoe (Indonesia) Amir Hossein Zanjani (Iran) Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo (Indonesia) The shortlisted artists for Photography: Seung Hee Hong…

15 Artists About to Dominate 2015 by COMPLEX
Complex評選15位領導2015年風向的藝術家

2015-01-12 author

excerpt: 15 Artists About to Dominate 2015 By Holly Howe on complex.com Jan 12, 2015 Last November, Christie’s auction house in New York grossed the highest amount ever for a contemporary auction—$852.9 million across 75 lots. 319,000 people visited the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney before the museum closed its doors to move to its new home in New York’s Meatpacking District. Another 110,000 visited the Serpentine Galleries in London to hang out with Marina Abramovic as she spent 512 hours in the gallery. Miley Cyrus and André 3000 jumped on the art band wagon at Art Basel Miami Beach last month; she brought her “Dirty Hippie” exhibition at the Raleigh Hotel with a performance while he exhibited the jumpsuits he had worn on the Outkast Festival Tour. But what’s next? What will get the art hacks and celebrity commentators tongues wagging this year? How can you get a piece of the multi-billion dollar industry that is the art world? Here are our picks of 15 Artists About to Dominate 2015. Wu Chi-Tsung Location: Taipei, Taiwan Born and raised in Taiwan, Wu Chi-Tsung creates atmospheric dreamy works mixing photography, video and set design. He uses everyday materials to create installations that look at elements of urban environments. Wu has exhibited around the world, including the UK, China, Germany, Japan, and India. This month his work appears in the “Prudential Eye Awards” exhibition at ArtScience Museum, Singapore, which opens on Jan. 17 and runs until March 31, in the summer he has work in a group show in Luxembourg, and he will round off the year with a solo show in his hometown of Taipei. Mark Andrew Webber Location: Reading, England Alex Seton Location: Sydney Antonio Santin Location: Brooklyn Nathaniel Rackowe Location: London Alexandra Pacula Location: Brooklyn Hormazd Narielwalla Location: London Franck de la Mercedes Location: New York Sarah Maple Location: Sussex, England Ramon Maiden Location: Barcelona Marguerite Horner Location: London Conor Harrington Location: London Jonathan Paul Davies Location: London Terry Bradley Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Matthew Best…