Gold Art Prize 2023 catalog
The Gold Art Prize is a biennial award founded in 2021 to support artists from the Asian diaspora. A publication accompanies each cycle to highlight the five awardees, featuring interviews, artworks, and essays that help contextualize the awardees’ work within art history and the contemporary cultural movement. In response to GAP’s theme this year—body and technology—the 2023 book embraces clashes between visual elements to further explore how each component complements or contradicts one another. On one hand, the catalog borrows the common structure of books and sandwiches awardee interviews with commissioned essays. On the other hand, it employs the common material, trim size, and aesthetic of fashion magazines. Additionally, uncoated sheets of kintsugi patterns appears throughout the book every 32 pages, mimicking algorithmic digital ads encountered in the digital landscape, while a less organic pixel block pattern takes over the cover and opening spreads.
Design by Ming Hsun Yu with creative direction from Chris Wu. All text is set in Jungmyung Lee’s Pirelli. The Gold Art Prize logo uses a beta version of Berton Hasebe’s HB Hue.
