When the leading Swiss architect Jacques Herzog was approached to design a trophy for the Art Basel Awards, he was certain of one thing: he would take a different direction from that of familiar creative gongs.
While Venice has its age-old symbol of the city, the Golden Lion, and the Oscar is a sword-bearing knight, Herzog was not interested in doing something figurative. Nor did he favor the precious metals that typically announce an accolade’s value. Instead, in pursuing ‘a material manifestation of creativity,’ he looked to the abstract.
The 11 trophies for the inaugural edition of the Art Basel Awards will be presented on December 4, during the first Art Basel Awards Night at the Frank Gehry–designed New World Center in Miami Beach. Each is an amorphous swirl of hand-blown transparent glass, suggesting a breath or cloud. ‘It’s a very unlikely proposal,’ Herzog reflects. ‘The more I thought about it, the more interesting it seemed because it’s so different from anything that’s ever been done for an award.’
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