The Argentian artist Adrián Villar Rojas has won this year’s Prix Canson, chosen from a shortlist of five.
The other nominees for the award included the London-based British artist David Musgrave along with American Trisha Donnelly, Dubai-based Iranian painter Rokni Haerizadeh, and the Indian artist Mithu Sen.
Sponsored by the French fine art paper manufacturers Canson, this annual international art prize was launched in 2010 and is awarded to an artist who uses paper in their work.
The winner was announced at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, where an exhibition of work by the five finalists continues until 1 July 2015.
Best known for his often spectacular, large-scale sculptures in clay and concrete, Villar Rojas has exhibited widely internationally, including at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, in 2012. The following year his installation, Today We Reboot The Planet, was the inaugural exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler gallery in London.
This year’s jury of eight was chaired by the Brazilian artist Tunga and included former Whitechapel Art Gallery director Catherine Lampert, now a curator and art historian; Natalie Bell, curator at the New Museum (New York, USA); Claire Gilman, curator at the Drawing Center (New York, USA); and Jean de Loisy, president of the Palais de Tokyo.
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