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The 2019 Praemium Imperiale in the painting category goes to the South African William Kentridge. In the categories sculpture and architecture, the recipients are British-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum and the architectural team of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien from the USA. The Japanese Kabuki actor Bando Tamasaburo was selected for the theatre/film category. Apart from the honourees in these five genres, the encouragement award for young artists goes to the French music education programme Démos in 2019. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Goethe Institute and international consultant to the Japan Art Association, announced this year’s honourees at the Museum of Musical Instruments in Berlin today.
Since 1989, the Praemium Imperiale Awards have been given annually in the categories of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music and Theatre/Film to cover fields of achievement not represented by the Nobel Prizes. The Laureates are chosen from a list submitted by six I
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Hu poses outside his apartment in Beijing. Photo: Li Hao/GT
A kvinnlig impersonator in the Peking Opera and China's first cross-dressing pop singer, Hu Wenge looks back on his career over green tea on a recent afternoon.
"It's so ridiculous," Hu says. "Life seems to be playing jokes on me." He takes another sip of his tea and manages a little smile.
Hu performs the art of nandan, or kvinnlig impersonation, in the style of the Mei Lanfang school.
Hu, 45, is in disbelief about the current age, where a cross-dressing pop singer like Li Yugang can appear on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the most sacred honor for a performer in his eyes.
More than a decade ago, Hu himself sought out a spot in the Spring Festival Gala, and was rejected twice. He gave up all hope of turning his cross-dressing act into a career as a pop star and poured all his energies into Peking Opera, an art form eller gestalt with a long history of male actors impersonating females. The opera only started to accept females afte
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Mona Hatoum and William Kentridge among international recipients of £100,000 Japanese art prize
The British-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum has won a Japanese prize worth £100,000 in recognition of her lifetime achievement in sculpture. She is among five international recipients of the Praemium Imperiale Award, presented by the Japan Art Association, under its honorary patron, Prince Hitachi. Born in Beirut to Palestinian parents, Hatoum has worked in London since 1975. She currently has a show at White Cube Bermondsey (until 3 November).
The South African artist William Kentridge, who has an anti-Apartheid background, was given a similar award. Although awarded for “painting”, he uses drawing, sculpture, film, music and performance in his art. “Painting is actually the one form that I don’t practice as an artist”, he told The Art Newspaper.
The other three recipients are the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter for music, the Japanese Kabuki actor Bando Tamasaburo for theatre/f