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I am delighted to share this amazing news: Laure Prouvost, French artist based in London, just won the 2013 Turner Prize. The announcement arrived from Derry-Londonderry (Northern Irland). French artist Laure Prouvost poses with her artwork titled Wantee. (Credit: AFP) As I posted before in this blog, the shortlisted artists were: Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shringley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Laure Prouvost (left), Lynette Yiadom-Boake (right) and David Shrigley (centre) in Londonderry Prouvost' installation entitled Wantee is inspired by the artist Kurt Schwitters.  It is a story that mixes fiction and reality telling about a grandfather who was a conceptual artist friend with Schwitters.  The film is shown in a room arranged as for a tea party. In fact the title refers to Schwitters's girlfriend who was used to offering tea to visitors by asking "Want tea?". Laure Prouvost, Wantee 2013 Mixed media, video: 14 minutes Photo © Hydar ...

Four new artists have just been nominated as shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2013' edition. The nominees are: Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shringley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Congratulations to all of them!!! I feel particularly supportive to artist Laure Prouvost, who I had the chance to meet some years ago in London at a bus stop. We were both coming out from a conference on British Films where she was speaking and I was listening. We had a very nice conversation on our way back home (we discovered that we were living closeby, somewhere in Hackney). I always kept a very nice memory of this meeting and I found myself to support her work since then. So a double good luck to Laure Prouvost from me!!! Named after painter J. M. W. Turner, the prize is awarded every year to ‘a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding’.The ceremony takes place at Tate Britain in London. Since his ince...