your works are witness to the “most profound use of a device, as sober as the camera of the iPhone, which has seen the art so far”: With this statement, the Jury of the Turner has excellent price, the British artist Charlotte Prodger. The 44-Year-old was honoured for her with the iPhone recorded 33-minute Film “Bridgit”.
“Bridgit” (2016) is a partly autobiographical work, which deals, inter alia, the identity of people who refer to themselves as queer. A year-long filmed Prodger of the Scottish landscape, and your home, you put sound effects from their environment. It occurs in some Places, as the Narrator and friends from the diaries and novels by queer authors to read. Prodger lives in Glasgow.
screening of “Bridgit” in London
The Turner prize is the most important British award for contemporary art. It is named after the English painter William Turner (1775-1851) and was first awarded in 1984. It is only artists Betpas to be nominated from the UK or live and work there. Winner will get a price money of 25.000 pounds, the equivalent of roughly 28,000 euros. The other nominees will each receive £ 5,000. Chairman of the Jury, Alex Farquharson, he is also the Director of the Tate Britain.
The award has fuelled the careers of Damien Hirst and Chris Ofili, have been known in the art industry as the “Young British Artists”. The award of the Turner prize is organised by the Tate Gallery in London. In the past year, Lubaina Himid had to get as the first black artist to the award. Under the price of two German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (2000), and the painter, Tomma Abts (2006) carriers so far.
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