1 - Marcel Duchamp Prize

On the 7th of February at ARTCURIAL, Gilles Fuchs, President of the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art, announced the names of the four artists selected for the 2013 Marcel Duchamp Prize.

An exhibition of the nominated artists will be held this summer at the Musée des Beaux-arts in the town of Libourne which will be hosting the 13th edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize, then in October at the FIAC. Chosen by an international jury, the award winner will be announced on Saturday, the 26th of October 2013. He or she will be invited by the Centre Pompidou for a solo show in the 315 space during the autumn of 2014. The ADIAF will present him or her with a financial endowment of 35 000 Euros and will participate in the production of the work.

Nominated artists

Farah ATASSI, born in 1981 in Brussels
Lives and works in Paris
Galerie Xippas, Paris – www.xippas.com
Born in Brussels (Belgium), lives and works in Paris
Born in Brussels of Syrian parents, Farah Atassi belongs to the young generation of French painters. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, evolving between abstraction and representation, she paints empty living rooms and “places of transition”: waiting rooms, offices, empty kitchens or workers’ hostels, public or private places only occupied for a short while. Her bare and deserted interiors suggesting a human and social reality have become her trademark.

Latifa ECHAKHCH, born in 1974 in Morocco
Lives and works in Paris
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
www.kamelmennour.com
Born in 1974 in El Khnansa (Morocco), lives and works in Paris
French, born in Morocco, Latifa Echakhch has lived in France since the age of 3. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts of Cergy-Paris and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts of Lyon, she works with assemblies of objects and sculptures which she uses in a manner similar to a film maker, giving a new twist to ordinary objects inherited from ready-mades: lumps of sugar, bits of carpet and broken glass teacups.

Claire FONTAINE, group founded in Paris in 2004
Galerie Chantal Crousel & Niklas Svennung, Paris and Air de Paris
www.crousel.com – www.airdeparis.com
Group founded in Paris in 2004
Representing a socio-culturally committed movement in contemporary art, Claire Fontaine is a group formed in 2004 by two artists living in Paris: James Thornill et Fulvia Carnevale. After taking the name from a popular brand of school notebooks as well as from Duchamp’s urinal that he entitled “Fontaine”, Claire Fontaine declared itself a “ready-made artist”. Often provocative but also poetic, Claire Fontaine’s work questions the world and the art world in particular.
The group creates sculptures, paintings, writings, videos and installations.

Raphaël ZARKA, born in 1977 in Montpellier
Lives and works in Paris
Galerie Michel Rein, Paris – www.michelrein.com
Born in 1977 in Montpellier, lives and works in Paris
French, born in Morocco, Latifa Echakhch has lived in France since the age of 3. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts of Cergy-Paris and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts of Lyon, she works with assemblies of objects and sculptures which she uses in a manner similar to a film maker, giving a new twist to ordinary objects inherited from ready-mades: lumps of sugar, bits of carpet and broken glass teacups.

International jury

Bernhard Mendes BÜRGI (Switzerland), Director of the Basel Kunstmuseum
Gilles FUCHS (France), President of the ADIAF, Collector
Jacqueline MATISSE-MONNIER (France, United States) – Artist
Alfred Pacquement (France), Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, President of the jury
Giovanni SPRINGMEIER (Germany), Collector
Poul Erik TOJNER (Denmark), Director of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen
Sylvie WINCKLER (France/Belgium), Collector