.The Praemium Imperiale, a Japanese honor that ranks the biggest fine arts prizes in the world, has this year visited five people, including musicians Sophie Calle and Doris Salcedo. Each victor is going to acquire 15 million yen, or around $105,000.
Likewise among the winners are Ang Lee, supervisor of movies including The Ice Hurricane and also Brokeback Mountain Shigeru Ban, an architect that has created art companies like the Center Pompidou-Metz and also the Aspen Craft Museum and also Maria Jou00e3o Pires, an entertainer who ranks amongst the planet's leading timeless pianists.
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Calle, a French conceptual performer who will certainly soon possess a retrospective at Minneapolis's Walker Craft Facility, is known for digital photography projects that have actually brought up concerns regarding the patriarchy and also the action of seeing. She has also produced sparse installations among her latest projects was one that packed the Musu00e9e Picasso in Paris, whose galleries she mainly deinstalled of any kind of arts pieces due to the famous modernists.
Salcedo is actually a Colombian artist whose minimal parts have actually involved specifying a pile of office chairs in the room between two properties, making a crack that passed through Tate Modern's Generator Lobby, and also generating a rainforest of plants within a gallery. Most of these jobs cite types of physical violence and also the trauma that leads.
This is the 35th year that the Praemium Imperiale has actually been granted. The award is handed out in five classifications: Painting, Sculpture, Design, Music, and also Film/Theater.
Previous champions have included Anish Kapoor, William Kentridge, Ai Weiwei, James Turrell, Yayoi Kusama, as well as the old Rebecca Horn.