Descripción del Premio
Tania Candiani receives the Bemis Center’s Ree Kaneko Award. The prize, which celebrates the institution's 40th anniversary, offers a financial support of $25,000 for the artistic development of artists that took part of the Bemis Center’s Alumni Program.
Candiani participated in Bemis’s Artist-in-Residence program in spring 2004, when she began developing two of her seminal series, Protección Familiar and Mattresses Mantras. Reflecting on her experience at Bemis, Candiani states, "from that moment on, my practice changed radically. I understood a new approach to the process of researching and thinking: that each idea tells about its own materiality. And with the gifted time I was given at Bemis, I gained that freedom for my artistic practice.”
Today, 20 years after the residency, at the age of 50, she is in "high demand internationally," as noted by Ray Mark Rinaldi in the profile published by the New York Times this Thursday. The journalist continues: "she delivers frank messages about social issues wrapped in graceful creative expression, using music, textiles and movement. Topical politics are a driver of the work, but so is natural beauty and, frequently, joy.”
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
