CKÖ named as Architecture laureate in the 2014 Swiss Art Awards
By Bustler Editors|
Tuesday, Jun 24, 2014
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Swiss architecture firm CKÖ of Zurich was named one of 10 laureates in the 2014 Swiss Art Awards with their installation, "The white Cube". The Swiss Art Competition was first held in 1899 and is Switzerland's oldest and most prestigious art competition.
The competition invites Swiss or Switzerland-based artists, architects, and art/architecture mediators to submit dossiers to the Federal Art Committee, who acts as the jury. In the second stage, selected applicants publicly present their work during the Swiss Art Awards exhibition.
Out of 460 entries, CKÖ was recognized along with eight Swiss artists and an art mediator during the awards ceremony at the Messeplatz Basel. Each winner received 25,000 Swiss Francs (approx. US$28,000).
Check out photos of CKÖ's installation below.
Project summary: "The accessible room-within-a-room installation, 'The white Cube', is skillfully transformed into an inaccessible object. The slanted segment of the spatial construct leans against a massive substructure and appears, in contrast, light and provisional. The deep engagement with materiality, construction, accessibility or even functionality helps to render this object enthralling."
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