![]() ![]() Courtesy: the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angelesĭuring a special event at the Arto LIFEWTR lounge at Frieze London, Cortez announced her excitement at having ‘the opportunity to make this sculpture and place it in such a visible space in New York City.’ Through their encounter with the work, she said, she hoped passerbys to ‘imagine migration and movement in planetary ways, through processes that have taken millions of years and that continue into the future.’ Born in El Salvador and based in Los Angeles, Cortez is represented by Commonwealth & Council gallery.īeatriz Cortez at her exhibition ‘Trinidad: Joy Station’ at the Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles. Steel, acrylic and plastic containers, zip ties, and corn, amaranth, quinoa, sorghum, and black bean seeds, 160 x 91 x 91 cm. The sculpture will age as the weather and atmospheric conditions change, inviting the viewer to consider the lengths of time that are marked by the motions of the planet, the ways in which non-human worlds with different temporalities exist all around us, as well as the ways in which matter is marked by its placement and its interactions with the world.īeatriz Cortez, Generosity I, 2019. The prize enables an artist to create a new work unveiled as part of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York: a program of works by leading international artists, curated by Brett Littman that will open on 22 April and coincides with Frieze New York.Ĭortez’s sculpture will evoke a glacial erratic rock, similar to the numerous glacial erratics that define the landscape of New York City. Beatriz Cortez has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Frieze Arto LIFEWTR® Sculpture Prize: a new large-scale outdoor commission by an emerging artist. ![]()
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