Witteveen + Bos – Kunst + Techniek Prijs 2018
Kinetic artist Zoro Feigl wins the Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2018. On 1 November he will receive the prize in Deventer from Karin Sluis, director of engineering firm Witteveen+Bos. Zoro Feigl is fascinated by why things work the way they work, why does something move the way it moves. Using used building materials, industrial engines, plastics and steel, he builds machines that appear to exhibit predictable behaviour but still keep surprising. Some of these machines will be shown in the solo exhibition Feigl is organising in the Deventer Bergkerk on the occasion of winning the Art+Technology Award.
Jury
Feigl was nominated by an independent jury, consisting of chairman Maria Verstappen, artist and winner of the 2013 award together with Erwin Driessens, Arie Altena, publicist at V2_, and Robbert Roos, director of Kunsthal KAdE. From their report: ‘Zoro’s work is immediately appealing. It is of high aesthetic quality, and expands the visual language of minimalism in the arts by introducing the dimension of time. Thanks to his strong powers of imagination – with the magic of movement and repetition producing an enchanting, even almost hypnotic, effect – Feigl is able to reach a wide and varied audience: culture lovers and technology enthusiasts, young and old, experienced and inexperienced. Although his work is extremely accessible, it never relies on cheap aesthetics, making Zoro Feigl a powerful voice in the contemporary art world.’
The prize
The Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award consists of a cash prize of € 15,000, a book about the artist’s oeuvre and an exhibition in the Bergkerk in Deventer (from 2 November to 2 December 2018). Zoro Feigl is the 17th winner in the row. Previous winners included Theo Jansen (2002), John Körmeling (2006), Dick Raaijmakers (2011) and Iris van Herpen (2016).
