Isa Genzken wins the Nasher Prize 2019
“We’d be hard pressed to name an artist with a more textured and dynamic sculptural practice than Isa Genzken”, said Jeremy Stick, Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, after revealing the identity of the Nasher Prize 2019’s winner.
Following in the footsteps of Theaster Gates, Pierre Huyghe and Doris Salcedo, the German artist (b.1948) will be honoured in a ceremony on April 6, 2019. The $100,000 prize rewards artists for their contribution to sculpture.
The jury for the 2019 edition of the prize included artists Phyllida Barlow and Huma Bhabha; Pablo León de la Barra, Latin America curator at the Guggenheim Museum; Lynne Cooke, senior curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Okwui Enwezor, the former director of the Haus der Kunst; Briony Fer, a professor of History of Art at the University College London; Yuko Hasegawa, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Hou Hanru, artistic director of MAXXI, Rome; and Nicholas Serota, chair of the Arts Council England. More information available via ArtForum.
A new record for Alberto Burri at Phillips?
At its New York sales in November, auction house Phillips will be presenting a large-scale piece, Grande Legno e Rosso (1957-59), by the Italian artist. Valued at between $10m and $15m, the sale of the painting could set a new record for Alberto Burri if it surpasses the $13.1m fetched in 2016.
Exhibited as part of a retrospective in 2015, the work has been owned by the same family for 50 years. The auction house has not provided any guarantee for the piece. Read further via artnet.
Alberto Burri Grande Legno e Rosso (1957-59). Photo: courtesy of Phillips.
