Turner Prize nominees announced Automatic translate

LONDON. A list of nominees for Britain’s most prestigious art award has been announced today. Each year, the Tate Britain Museum gives £ 25,000 (about $ 38,000) to an artist under the age of 50, who made the most significant contribution to the development of art last year. Four nominees traditionally go to the finals, three of them who have not become winners will receive consolation prizes of 5,000 pounds.

Young artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was the first black woman to be nominated for a Turner Prize for a series of portraits of fictional black people with fictional life stories. With her work, the artist was trying to find out how well Europeans read the image of people of a different race.

35-year-old Laure Prouvost has been nominated for an award for specific editing and deliberate misuse of the language to create “amazing and unpredictable work,” according to the Tate Britain official press release. The jury’s attention was drawn to her work by Wantee and Farfromwords.

Anglo-German artist Tino Sehgal was honored by the jury for an exhibition with a touch of black humor in the Tate Modern gallery, the essence of which was random improvisations of live meetings between people.

The last nominee is artist David Shrigley, nominated for a solo exhibition consisting of photographs, drawings, sculptures.

Founded in 1984, the award was repeatedly attacked by critics for choosing artists whose works most shock the audience, and often have nothing to do with art in its traditional sense.

So, in 1995, Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst) received the main prize for a pickled cow, and in 2001, Martin Creed was awarded the prize for an empty room with turned on and off lights.

The exhibition of nominees will be held by Derry-Londonderry, and the winner will be announced on December 2, 2013.

Anna Sidorova © Gallerix.ru