OV artist Danh Vo wins Hugo Boss Prize 2012
(VOV) - Danh Vo, a Vietnamese Danish has been selected from a group of six finalists to get the Hugo Boss Prize 2012 for his significant achievement in contemporary art.
His “Oma Totem” work, which helped him win the prize, focuses on one television, one washing-machine, and one refrigerator fastened with the Holy Cross.
These appliances are granted by a local church to Danh Vo’s grandmother Nguyen Thi Ty under the framework of a support programme for emigrants when Ty and her family just set foot in Denmark in 1980.
Born in 1975 in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Danh Vo currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
“We have decided to award the Hugo Boss Prize 2012 to Danh Vo in recognition of the vivid and influential impact he has made on the currents of contemporary art making,” the jury said in describing its selection. "Vo's assured and subtle work expresses a number of urgent concerns related to cultural identity, politics, and history, evoking these themes through shifting, poetic forms that traverse time and geography."
The prize worth US$100,000 is administered by the Guggenheim Foundation. An exhibition of Vo's works will be on show at the Guggenheim Museum in spring 2013.
Previously, Danh Vo had many works exhibited in the US, Japan, Germany, and Denmark, and some other countries.
See some photos he displayed at the “JULY, IV, MDCCLXXVI” exhibition in the Fridericianum museum, Kassel, Germany in 2011:
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