Frieze Art Cartier Award 2008

The winner of the Cartier Award 2008 was Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto. For Frieze Art Fair 2008, sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the fifth year, Prieto created a work that flew the flag of celebrity. The classic red carpet traced a route through the fair that anyone could follow until it led out and up to join the top of a very tall flagpole. The work could be interpreted as an attempt to describe world orders that defy geo-political definition. The piece was also a gestural act that drew a simple line from the insider world of the art fair to the outside.