The Spanish luxury brand has awarded the 2024 Loewe Foundation Craftsmanship Prize to Andrés Anza. The 30 finalist works are exhibited today in Paris.
Anza, born in Mexico, won the award for his work titled I only know what I have seen. He was chosen from among 30 finalists by a jury drawn from the worlds of design, architecture, journalism, criticism and museum curation, including Magdalene Odundo, Minsuk Cho, Olivier Gabet and Abraham Thomas.
This year, the Loewe prize focused on organic and biomorphic forms, created to push materials to their physical limits. Many of the works reused found or recycled materials to focus on the elevation and transformation of the everyday.
All works will be on view at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, from May 15 to June 9, 2024. The exhibition is also available to view online and documented through an exhibition catalogue.
Anza's winning design is a life-size ceramic sculpture with “a dazzling, almost human presence in the exhibition,” Loewe said in a statement.
“Its anthropomorphic form, which allows it to appear both figurative and abstract, is intricately constructed using thousands of individual ceramic protrusions,” the Madrid-based brand added.
The jury also awarded three special mentions. First to Miki Asai from Japan for her. Still life, composed of three sculptural rings, and which highlights Asia's mastery in both lacquer and eggshell techniques. The boos of Emmanuel de Francia for his work were also noted, Center table like a layman, made with 98 hollow porcelain bricks; and Heechan Kim from Korea for #sixteena sculptural vessel created using the traditional boat building technique, with ash and copper wire.
The annual Loewe Award was launched in 2016 to celebrate excellence, artistic merit and innovation in modern craftsmanship. Conceived by the 158-year-old house's creative director, Jonathan Anderson, it aims to recognize the importance of craftsmanship in today's culture and recognize working artists.
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