All photos courtesy of Billy Farrell Agency.
On Thursday, November 4, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundaiton and Hugo Boss named Hans-Peter Feldmann the winner of the Hugo Boss Prize 2010 at an event at the Upper East Side rotunda. Six artists were shortlisted for the prize: Cao Fei, Roman Ondak, Walid Raad, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The prize of $100,000 has been given to a contemporary artist every two years since 1996. Past recipients of the prize include Douglas Gordon, Tacita Dean, Matthew Barney, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pierre Huyghe, Marjetica Potrc, and Emily Jacir. This year’s winner, Feldmann, will have his work shown in an exhibition at the Guggenheim from May 20 – September 5, 2011.
Feldmann is a German artist who lives and works in Dusseldorf. His works focuses on today’s visual culture, often made up of collected commercial images and objects placed in sequence. Said the jury of their selection, “Our global age is defined by the virulent power of the images that saturate our everyday social and political spheres. In this context, German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann’s long-standing engagement with personal, archival, and mass-media imagery takes on a new, surreptitious relevance. His obsessive accumulation of objects and images amounts to a tremendous ongoing project of cataloguing the multiplicity of potential meanings present in the world around us. Although he has been practicing for over four decades and has been a key influence on generations of younger artists, Feldmann’s work exhibits a vitality and keen originality that places it among the most compelling work being produced today. It is this critical engagement with the moment that we recognize in awarding him THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010.”
Hugo Boss Prize 2010 winner Hans-Peter Feldmann.
Hugo Boss Prize 2010 finalist, Cao Fei.
Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs.
Darrell Hartman and Natalie Joos.
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