© TATE / YouTubeOn Monday, December 1, at the ceremony at the Tate Museum of Tate Britain, the winner of the Turner Award for 2014 announced the video artist Dankan Campbell.
His 54-minute work “It for Others” by the jury of the prize called the “ambitious and complex film,” BBC reports.
It was created for the Scotland pavilion at the Venetian Biennale and refers to the documentary essay of 1953 by Chris Marker and Alena Rene “Statios are also dying” ( Les States Meurent aussi ) about colonialism and the traditional art of Africa. In his film, Campbell combines archival personnel and videos of the new work of the choreographer Michael Clark based on Capital Carls Marx.
In addition to Campbell, artists James Richards, Tris Vonna-Micell and Kyara Phillips claimed this year.
Since 1984, the Turner Prize in Contemporary Art has been awarded to British artists under 50 years old for the best work presented at the exhibition during the year. This year, the Turner Prize Prize Prize is 40 thousand pounds. The laureate receives 25 thousand, finalists - 5 thousand each.