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LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024 Winners

Award giving  /  14 May 2024
 
Published: 15.05.2024
Object: I only know what I have seen by Andrés Anza.Ceramic, acrylic paint. 2023.45 x 40 x 150 cm.Awarded at: LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024Unique piece.Winner of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2024 . . This life-sized totemic ceramic conjures both plant and animal forms. Assembled in five parts, the work is constructed from refractory clay and features a dynamic composition that appears to twist, turn, and fold in on itself. Thousands of tiny, spiked protrusions covering the work’s surface lend it a further amorphic quality. After the work was fired in a kiln to give an even surface, acrylic paint was applied. This monochromatic finish allows light and shadow to further emphasize the work’s highly textured surface.. Andrés Anza
Object: I only know what I have seen, 2023
Ceramic, acrylic paint
45 x 40 x 150 cm
Awarded at: LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024
Winner of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2024

This life-sized totemic ceramic conjures both plant and animal forms. Assembled in five parts, the work is constructed from refractory clay and features a dynamic composition that appears to twist, turn, and fold in on itself. Thousands of tiny, spiked protrusions covering the work’s surface lend it a further amorphic quality. After the work was fired in a kiln to give an even surface, acrylic paint was applied. This monochromatic finish allows light and shadow to further emphasize the work’s highly textured surface.
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Intro
Having met in Paris for their deliberations, the Craft Prize jury has chosen I Only Know What I Have Seen, 2023 by Andrés Anza.
The jury has also awarded three special mentions. One goes to Miki Asai for their work ‘Still Life’, 2023. Another special mention goes to ‘#16’, 2023 by Heechan Kim.
A final special mention goes to emmanuel boos for ‘Coffee Table ‘Comme un lego’’, 2023.

The winning work and entries by all finalists were on show from May 15 through June 9 at the Palais de Tokyo, in Paris. and in the digital version of the exhibition.
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