Colombian artist Daniel Otero Torres wins French art prize
about 5 months ago (12/08/2023)
Colombian artist Daniel Otero Torres wins French art prize Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Colombian artist Daniel Otero Torres wins French art prize CPGA-Etant donnés Prize is awarded to artists either from or working in France Carlie Porterfield 8 December 2023 Share Mor Charpentier’s Alex Mor and Philippe Charpentier (fourth and fifth from left) collect Otero Torres’s prize Courtesy French Professional Committee of Art Galleries (CPGA) and Villa Albertine The Colombian artist Daniel Otero Torres, who lives and works in Paris, has been named the winner of this year’s CPGA-Etant donnés Prize, awarded by two French art bodies to promote France’s art scene to international audiences at Art Basel in Miami Beach, among other venues. The award is presented by the French Professional Committee of Art Galleries (CPGA) and Villa Albertine, the cultural residency programme in New York created by France’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, to artists either from or working in France. The work that won Otero Torres the prize is Los abrazos del viento (2023), two large canvases that show the branches and roots of a mangrove forest, with small clay parrots and steel crab sculptures that serve as symbols for larger themes, according to Alex Mor, the founding director of Mor Charpentier, the gallery staging the work.