Turner Prize artists show us their worlds via flags, wars and fantasy kingdoms

British flags, Korean spirits, VHS tapes and all of the apocalyptic war zones are included in the works of artists who are shown in this year’s Turner Award exhibition this year.

Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami, Zadie XA and Rene Matić were nominated for the Annual Contemporary Art Award.

Each of them took over a gallery at Cartwright Hall in Bradford to exhibit their arts at the Turner Award Exhibition on Saturday.

They are “four very different artists who offer an interesting image of contemporary art”, Times’s art critic Nancy Durrant wroteduring Telegraph’s Alastair said sooke They show “an amazing mix of materials and approaches.”

The winner will be announced on December 9th.

Find more about the candidates and their work:

28 years old, Rene MatićFrom Peterborough, Turner’s second largest candidate in the award date (after 1995 Damien Hirst).

Mixed racing and non -dual Matić, while modern Britain struggled with its own identity, collected photographs, posters, babies and sounds showing what happened with the artist’s places in Modern Britain. As Matić said, “obsession with understanding or not understanding British”.

The first thing that visitors see is a photo of a st George flag hanging in a London Pub window on a sign that says “private party”. It sends a unintentional but unpleasant message that capsulates a larger picture in Matić’s eyes.

The exhibition curator Jill Iredale says, “First of all, he works with photography and their work and speaks about identity, society and a sense of belonging.”

There are more instant images than Matić’s life – Gaza and Black Lives, protests, sweaty clubs, kissing couples, graffiti, parties. In the meantime, a giant flag says “no room” on one side and “for violence” on the other – a cynical reference to the hypocrisy that the artist thinks can be found in the words of politicians.

There is also a cupboard that holds 45 second -hand black babies collected by Matić.

“This suggests that they are depicted and the representation of black people.” Says. “Really amazing ones hit me as they set up, like really bright red lipstick with babies and some of them with bright red or orange eyes.”

Guardian’s art critic Adrian Searle Matić’s work: “Peace and protest, friendship and family are mixed with the ideas of controversial nation and belonging.”

Matić’s “Gen Z’s Panache and Spirit Express” exhibitions, Telegraph’s Alastair Sooke.

Reflective, bright golden floor to step into your shoes should take off (or put shoe coatings) Zadie xa‘S Gallery – Raise the feeling that you entered a worldly fantasy kingdom.

London-based Canada-Korean artist created fabric patchwork pictures using Bojagi technique-this also resulted in stained glass-style paintings showing the scenes inspired by Korean folk art and ocean creatures.

In addition to shells hanging from the ceiling, there are 665 small traditional bells arranged in the form of shells.

When colorful, glowing floors and walls and muffled sounds, gongs and bird calls are combined with a film music, they all create a frustrating feeling in another realm.

Durrant wrote that the exhibition of four candidates was “most emotional attractive”.

Sunday Times critic Waldemar Januszczak said the front row of BBC Radio 4 It was a “extraordinary installation.”

“This is a kind of New Age Empire. You go in and are not sure whether you enter space or under water or what you enter,” he said. “Really moved. You walk around and go to another world.”

Large multi-colored sculptures-Parlak colored ribbons, rope, cardboard strips and bright VHS band layers randomly-wrapped in the air Nnena kaluRoom. Some take animal forms that appear to be unidentified piñasas.

Meanwhile, on the walls, some layers of paper covered with patterns, some of whom are hurricane or jacuzzi. They all come in couples or trio, images in each set are similar, but not exactly the same.

Kalu is a learning impaired artist with limited oral communication and is a settled artist who has been an action area that has been supporting learning artists for more than 25 years.

Iredale, “Energy and Color Explosions”, during a period when Covid could not work on art. “So you get these big vortexes, this activity is quite busy with bursts.”

Both of the sculptures and drawings are apparently composed of infinite cycles, scalp and strandic cycles.

“The sculptures are very the same as you take in the drawings.” “They are 3D mechanisms of drawings, but they are produced independently.”

He wrote about Guardian’s searle drawings: “Riotous and rhythmic, purposeful and compelling. No Fudging. Kalu deserves to win this year’s Turner award.”

Born in Baghdad Muhammad SamiIraq dictator Saddam Hussein’s official portraits in his career is preferred by other critics who painted.

“I think, Sami deserves to win – because of a single, remarkable new picture,” Telegraph’s art critic Alastair Sooke said.

“The Perma conflict of the hunter’s return of the hunter’s dark, lost direction of the Zeitgeist perfectly expresses an instant classical contemporary history picture,” he said.

The return of the hunter, a large canvas depicting a war zone, overturned trees and craters are enlightened by a fiery sky and the green military laser rays coming out of the smoke.

Most of the other paintings of Sami are also striking and very large, and in fact, it gives a visceral idea after demolition without including any person or determining which battlefield they want to show.

“They’re always hung quite low, so ideas are that you can step into pictures,” Iredale says.

Another painting shows the horses of the horses shaking a sunflower field; One of them is full of frozen flying bowl pieces in spreading; And the third contains a helicopter blades (or these?) On empty palace chairs.

Sunday Times’ Januszczak decided that Sami was the best of the group. The critic said that the “exhibition created a sense of tension, discomfort, discomfort, but nothing syllable.”

The Turner Award exhibition is at Cartwright Hall in Bradford until February 22nd.