The Lise Wilhelmsen Artwork Award, one of many world’s largest artwork prizes, has named Brooklyn-based artist Guadalupe Maravilla because the second-ever winner of its $100,00 purse. As a part of profitable of the prize, Maravilla may have a solo present subsequent 12 months on the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Høvikodden, Norway, which administers the award.
Marvailla’s interdisciplinary follow appears at how therapeutic—from trauma, displacement, and sickness—is likely to be achieved via nature and sound. He was lately the topic of a significant exhibition presenting new works at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, titled “Planeta Abuelx.” For that present, the artist planted greens and medicinal herbs round his sculptures, and staged sound baths within the park.
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These works, and his follow as a complete, draw on Maravilla’s personal life story. Maravilla was born in El Salvador in 1976, and later migrated from the nation when he was 8 years as an unaccompanied minor through the nation’s civil struggle, within the Eighties. When he was 35, in 2011, he was identified with stage-three colon most cancers and has been cancer-free since 2013.
In a press release, the jury that chosen Maravilla for the prize wrote, “Maravilla’s work can also be way over his life. Constructing on private narratives however venturing far afield into pre-Columbian mythologies, collective reminiscence, geopolitical historical past, and materials tradition, the artist constructs artworks that act. His sculptures and elaborate constructions are additionally performative instruments; he collaborates with others to create interactive wall drawings; he has choreographed a bike gang refrain, and crossed the Rio Grande utilizing certainly one of his artworks as a flotation machine.”
That jury included María Inés Rodríguez, a curator at massive on the Museu de Arte de São Paulo; Museum of Trendy Artwork curator Michelle Kuo; and Elvira Dyangani Ose, the incoming director of MACBA, Barcelona; in addition to the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter chief curator Caroline Ugelstad; director Tone Hansen; and Paulina Rider Wilhelmsen, a member of the family of the prize’s namesake. The primary prize was awarded in 2019 to Otobong Nkanga.
In July, Maravilla was introduced as one of many 15 inaugural recipients of the Latinx Artist Fellowship, which is a part of joint initiative by the Ford Basis and the Mellon Basis. He at the moment has work on view within the exhibition “Crip Time” on the MMK in Frankfurt, and is about to indicate sculptures later this month in MoMA’s everlasting assortment galleries.
For Artwork in America’s September/October 2021 subject, Maravilla created a print model of certainly one of his “Retablo” work. In an interview with A.i.A., he mentioned “Earlier than [the pandemic], once I would discuss therapeutic, solely sure folks had been —normally those that had been actually religious, or individuals who had been via numerous trauma,” including that he needs to “provid[e] therapeutic to undocumented or marginalized communities, in addition to those that have most cancers or different diseases, as a result of therapeutic has develop into a commodity, and the individuals who want it most have the least entry to it.”
