[Photograph: Pavel Büchler's You Don't Love Me (2007). Photograph: Leeds City Gallery.]
The subject of iam’s forthcoming documentary, making nothing happen (dir. Simon Morris; funded by Manchester Metropolitan University and York College; due September 2010), Pavel Büchler, has been awarded the 2010 Northern Art Prize.
Martin Wainwright’s report on the ceremony for The Guardian, Friday 22 January, 2010, follows:
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Büchler scoops the North’s answer to the Turner Prize, declaring his love for Manchester’s buzzing art scene.
He claimed to have last won a competition when he was 13, but artist Pavel Büchler played it cool last night when a packed gallery in Leeds heard that he had taken the third Northern Art prize.
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Published on March 7, 2010 .
Filed under: ARTISTS / AUTHORS, CURRENT Tags: artist, making nothing happen, northern art prize, pavel buchler
The Answer to the Question
Pavel Büchler
Price £2.50+pp
ISBN 0953676560
Year 2004
Edition 1100
Pages 16
Binding softback; stapled
Illustration text only
Dimensions 105 x 74 mm
This small pocket-size volume contains some very big ideas – all of which were found, incidentally, in books on an ‘indicative reading list’ for art students.
From the highest degree of certainty to the least. From Marshall McLuhan to Friedrich Engels. A spread of answers are cited in this book, with an equalised ‘authority’, in response to the question. You know… ‘the’ Question. This book contains nothing more and nothing less. Manufactured to the artists’ exacting standards, using the best quality litho printing on the cheapest paperstock, it compiles those answers as an answer. You know… ‘the’ answer.
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Published on May 1, 2004 .
Filed under: PUBLICATIONS Tags: artists' book, christian boltanski, pavel buchler, pocket book, the answer to the question, the question
