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March2011
2011 Joan Miró Prize
Mona Hatoum
CATALAN. MONA HATOUM, the 2011 Joan Miró Prize awardee has pioneered in opening up art practices to non-Western realities while showing the connections between Western high culture and transnational political and cultural events. After Hatoum, the art world has become a far more open and less self-centred arena, a process that is still in expansion and consolidation. Hatoum’s commitment to human values of concern to all cultures and societies is similar to Miró’s view of mankind after his experience of three devastating wars.
The jury was unanimous in their decision and upon learning of it, the artist declared: “I am extremely honoured to have been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Joan Miró Prize. Reading the Jury’s statement was a heartening experience. I am sincerely grateful for their very appreciative comments and appraisal of my work and for attributing a great significance to my contribution to the art world”.
Mona Hatoum has exhibited her work at the world’s most important museums and centres of art such as the MoMA, in New York, the Tate, in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris. Her exhibition at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, which will be held in June 2012, will also be sponsored by Obra Social “la Caixa”.
The jury was unanimous in their decision and upon learning of it, the artist declared: “I am extremely honoured to have been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Joan Miró Prize. Reading the Jury’s statement was a heartening experience. I am sincerely grateful for their very appreciative comments and appraisal of my work and for attributing a great significance to my contribution to the art world”.
Mona Hatoum has exhibited her work at the world’s most important museums and centres of art such as the MoMA, in New York, the Tate, in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris. Her exhibition at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, which will be held in June 2012, will also be sponsored by Obra Social “la Caixa”.
2011 Joan Miro Prize
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About Joan Miró Prize
The Joan Miró Prize is conferred in recognition of present-day artistic work. It is awarded by the Fundació Joan Miró and sponsored by the Obra Social "la Caixa", with the aim of promoting the visual arts. The prize, amounting to €70,000, is not an open competition but is awarded every two years by an international jury.
About Joan Miró Foundation
Launched on 10 June 1975, the origin of the Miró Foundation was linked to the first major exhibition of Joan Miró in Barcelona in 1968 when the artistic and cultural scene was rather modest. The Joan Miró Foundation brought vitality to a new concept of museum, more dynamic, in which the creation of Miró lived with many different manifestations. This was reflected in the ECAC heading (Center for Studies of Contemporary Art).
Recently the Foundation has been declared a national museum of interest to the relevance of their heritage.
The Joan Miró Prize is conferred in recognition of present-day artistic work. It is awarded by the Fundació Joan Miró and sponsored by the Obra Social "la Caixa", with the aim of promoting the visual arts. The prize, amounting to €70,000, is not an open competition but is awarded every two years by an international jury.
About Joan Miró Foundation
Launched on 10 June 1975, the origin of the Miró Foundation was linked to the first major exhibition of Joan Miró in Barcelona in 1968 when the artistic and cultural scene was rather modest. The Joan Miró Foundation brought vitality to a new concept of museum, more dynamic, in which the creation of Miró lived with many different manifestations. This was reflected in the ECAC heading (Center for Studies of Contemporary Art).
Recently the Foundation has been declared a national museum of interest to the relevance of their heritage.
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