On January 26, the Venezuelan Yance y Bonfanti collective was granted the Eugenio Mendoza Award. The jury was formed by Venezuelan curators and researchers Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas and Sandra Pinardi, along with artist Harry Abend. The collective received the award for its work Tubos (Tubes), an eloquent device used to activate the perception of views, modify their surroundings and made them reflect on mundane, precarious, elements efficiently articulated as open questions that are formal and conceptual in nature. A physical and resonant circuit is connected to an image of the world that could be interpreted as an allegory to the connection between place and world. It offers subtle and dispersed elements that refer to the human figure, its senses and the historic reality. Tubos confronts viewers with the meaning—or the lack thereof—of noise in the world, or of the deafening silence that also exists in it. The jury also awarded an honorable mention to José Vívenes for his work Basta de Falsos Héroes (Enough with the False Heroes) José Vivenes, Basta de Falsos Héroes, honorable mention at the Eugenio Mendoza Award. Courtesy of the artist. The Eugenio Mendoza Award—which in this edition is entitled 12+1—consists of an artistic residence at the research and creation center Lugar A Dudas, located in Cali, Colombia; and a solo show that will be presented in 2016 at the Sala Mendoza, the space in Caracas where the works by the preselected artists are currently exhibited. The jury suggested to Sala Mendoza the possibility of finding supplementary support to guarantee the entire 3-month residencies in Lugar A Dudas for each of the two artists that form the collective, given the importance of recognizing the entity of the collective as constituted by individual artists. Created in 1981, the Eugenio Mendoza Award began as a tribute to Eugenio Mendoza. This year it was presented with a new format. After 12 editions, the Sala Mendoza decided to review and update its rules. For this purpose it invited writer and cultural agitator Willy Mckey to direct the project. Mckey revised the format and reformulated the criteria that defines the event: instead of inviting a curator to select the participating group of artists, he and the directive of the Sala Mendoza decided to offer a public an open call that invited Venezuelan artists under the age of 40 to submit their projects. Nearly one hundred artists enter proposals, thus enriching the selection process with a heterogeneous diversity of artistic discourses and languages. The selection of the twelve finalists was entrusted to twelve prominent Venezuelan curators: Ariel Jiménez, Costanza De Rogatis, Lorena González, Susana Benko, Diana López, Alberto Asprino, Josefina Manrique, María Elena Ramos, Miguel Miguel García, Tahía Rivero, Rafael Romero and Gerardo Zavarce; along with collector Antón Apostolatos. Each of them selected twelve artists and graded them from 1 to 12.