argentina Marta Menujín won the Prize Velázquez of Plastic Arts 2016, granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports “because it has been a pioneer in new artistic behaviours”. So the jury failed this important award, endowed with 100,000 euros (106.107) dollars and that compares with the Prize Cervantes of literature.
the members of The jury also highlighted the artist, born in Buenos Aires in 1943, as “a pioneer in the overflow of the institutional frameworks of art and the media.” “Your position is counter-cultural, its desacralization of the popular myths and the activation of social ties have turned him into a precursor of the practices, ephemeral and relational”, said in the announcement.
The Prize Velázquez of Plastic Arts recognizes the entire plastic work of a creator of the ibero-american sphere for the contribution outstanding to the hispanic culture.
Excited after receiving the news, Minujín said that the award will allow her to “continue creating crazy things”.
“I’m happy, happy, happy. Hopefully that health continues with me and can receive it,” noted the artist, considered one of the symbols of the avant-garde.
Marta Minujín performed his studies in Fine Arts and he presented his first individual exhibition in 1959, at the Teatro Agón. In 1960 he obtained a grant from the National endowment for the Arts which allowed him to settle in Paris, and in 1964 was invited to the National Award Di Tella, the center of reference of the artists of the time, where he exhibited “Love in technicolor” and “Revuélquese and living”; in 1966 she received a Guggenheim fellowship and went to live in New York.
At the beginning of the decade of the seventies, in a context of civilian protests, held in New York, among others, two important actions: Kidnappening and Imago Flowing, and in 1985 he performed with Andy Warhol a work on the Latin american reality, which made reference to the recovery of democracy in Argentina: the payment of the external debt with cobs of corn.
His work is in major institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum or the Hall Indonetian of the United Nations, both in New York; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (EE.USA), and in the Museum of Modern Art of Medellin (Colombia). Can also be seen in his creations at the Art Museum of the Americas (Washington DC, EE.UU); and in the Modern Art of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Today, he continues to work in his workshop in the buenos aires neighborhood of San Cristóbal.
The jury, which ruled the award was chaired by Miguel Ángel Recio, director-general of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, and was completed with the previous Prize Velázquez of the Plastic Arts 2015, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina. They also formed part of the same Leopoldo Emperador Alzola, sculptor and president of AICAV Association (Canary Islands Visual Artists); Katya García-Antón, director of OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway) and Karin Ohlenschläger, activities director of LABoral Art Centre and Industrial Creation.
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