20th December 2012 on France 2, 11.15 pm.
Six months after their nomination for the 2012 Marcel Duchamp Prize: Valérie Favre, Bertrand Lamarche, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Franck Scurti…
The team of the arts program “Art à tout prix” followed the artists from the announcement of their nomination to the proclamation of the winner.
The program is presented by Olivier Picasso and Louise Eckland.
“After long deliberation the jury has chosen Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel, whose work exploring monumental sculpture seemed particularly interesting” announced Alfred Pacquement, President of the jury. “Their use of materials, without excluding the traditional crafts and the fragmentation of volumes, including in the form of animated films, broadens aesthetic standards whereas their themes refer to leisure or to the most popular cultural traditions.”
Three other artists working in the field of the plastic and visual arts were selected for the 12th edition of Marcel Duchamp Prize: Valérie FAVRE (born in 1959), Bertrand LAMARCHE (born in 1966) and Franck SCURTI (born in 1967).
Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel follow after Mircea Cantor, the 2011 winner. They are invited by the Centre Pompidou for a three month solo show in the autumn of 2013 in the 315 space. The ADIAF will give them a financial endowment of 35 000 euros and will participate in the production of the exhibition. The duo of artists is represented by the Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris.
The announcement was made on Saturday, the 20th of October 2012 in Paris at the Grand Palais by Gilles FUCHS, President of the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) and Alfred PACQUEMENT, Director of the French National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou and President of the jury in the presence of a very large audience of people.
International Jury for 2012
Michel DELFOSSE (Belgium) – Collector
Gilles FUCHS (France) – President of the ADIAF, Collector
Akemi SHIRAHA – Representing the Duchamp Family
Fumio NANJO (Japan) – Director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Alfred PACQUEMENT (France), Director of the French National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, President of the jury
Beatrix RUF (Germany) – Director of the Kunsthalle, Zürich
Muriel SALEM (Great Britain) – Collector
Exhibition from 3rd October 2012 to 7th January 2013
Place: 315 space
A figure in the new geography of contemporary art and self-styled rootless wanderer, Mircea Cantor creates works – videos, photographs, drawings, sculptures and installations – that are simultaneously poetic, minimal and metaphysical. Mircea Cantor says: “Today, we should be wary of speaking the language of globalization and pandering to global brands. Instead we should be speaking a universal language, which is the very opposite. That is exactly what globalization is destroying.”
The artist will show 4 works including two made especially for the 315 space: Sic Transit Mundi, 2012, Don’t judge, Filter shoot, 2012, Epic Fountain, 2012, Wind orchestra, 2012
Born in 1977 in Oradea in Rumania, Mircea Cantor lives and works in Paris. He is represented by the Yvon Lambert gallery, the Magazzino di arte moderna gallery in Rome and by the Dvir gallery in Tel Aviv
Exhibition of the nominated artists at the Grand Palais,
18th to 21st October 2012 – Stands D40/42, E40/42
Announcement of the winner, Saturday 20th October
Valérie FAVRE
Born in 1959 at Evillard (Switzerland), French nationality, lived and worked from 1982 to 1998 in Paris, then in Berlin.
Represented by the Jocelyn Wolff Gallery, Paris, the Barbara Thum Gallery, Berlin and the Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich.
Daniel DEWAR and Grégory GICQUEL
Daniel Dewar was born in 1976 in the Forest of Dean (United Kingdom) and Grégory Gicquel in 1975 at Saint Brieuc. Both live and work in Paris
Represented by the Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris
Bertrand LAMARCHE
Born in 1966 in Paris, lives and works in Paris
Represented by the Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris and the Septembre Gallery, Berlin
Franck SCURTI
Born in 1967 in Lyon, lives and works in Paris
Represented by the Michel Rein Gallery, Paris
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