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LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2023

Award  /  16 May 2023
 
Published: 05.01.2023
Object: A Time of Sincerity by Dahye Jeong.Horsehair. 2021.37.5 x 29 x 27 cm.Awarded at: LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2022Unique piece.Delicate yet solid, this basket is woven out of thin horsehair to create a flexible geometric design that transposes a 500-year-old Korean  Joseon dynasty technique traditionally used in Sabanggwan hat-making and combines it with an ancient earthenware form. Exploiting the natural elasticity of the horsehair fiber, it has been threaded onto a needle and woven into loops to create a work that expresses both the robustness and the beauty of life.. Dahye Jeong
Object: A Time of Sincerity, 2021
Horsehair
37.5 x 29 x 27 cm
Awarded at: LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2022
Delicate yet solid, this basket is woven out of thin horsehair to create a flexible geometric design that transposes a 500-year-old Korean  Joseon dynasty technique traditionally used in Sabanggwan hat-making and combines it with an ancient earthenware form. Exploiting the natural elasticity of the horsehair fiber, it has been threaded onto a needle and woven into loops to create a work that expresses both the robustness and the beauty of life.

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The 2023 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize: 30 shortlisted artists for this edition. The shortlisted works will be shown in New York and the winner announced In spring 2023

In 2016, the LOEWE FOUNDATION launched the international annual LOEWE Craft Prize to showcase and celebrate newness, excellence and artistic merit in modern craftsmanship. Aiming to acknowledge the importance of craft in today’s culture and recognise artisans whose talent, vision and will to in¡novate will set a standard for the future, LOEWE Creative Director Jonathan Anderson conceived the initiative inspired by LOEWE’s beginnings as a craft cooperative in 1846.
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