À l’œuvre !
Lafayette Anticipations
Image: Marina Xenofontos, But we've met before, Installation view, Hot Wheels Athens, 2020.
Twice Upon a While, 2020. MDF, wood, metal, mirror. 154 x 140 x 206 cm.
ART
À l’œuvre !
Production Support Programme
Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation Galeries Lafayette announced the laureats of its production support programme "À l’œuvre !".
The 6 laureates are: Tarek Lakhrissi (born in 1992, film, poetry and performance), Simon Ripoll-Hurier (born in 1985, film, sound and performance), Carina Emery (born in 1991, sculptures and installations), Bonnie Banane (born in 1992, singing), Arnaud Dezoteux (born in 1987, films and installations), all active in Paris, and the Cypriot sculptor Marina Xenofontos (born in 1988), based in Limassol and Amsterdam.
About À l’œuvre ! Lafayette Anticipations
Prix Lefranc Bourgeois
Image: Rayan Yasmineh, Le songe de Gilgamesh, 2021.
Oil on canvas. 135x195cm.
ART
Rayan Yasmineh
Prix Lefranc Bourgeois
Rayan Yasmineh, 5th-year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, studio Djamel Tatah, was awarded the Prix Lefranc Bourgeois. His high academic standards and his energy in exploring techniques, lexical fields, iconography and symbols were unanimously approved by the jury who was particularly touched by his oil on canvas "Le songe de Gilgamesh". In his portraits, Rayan Yasmineh's work blends Persian history and iconography with contemporary Western identity. His paintings bring together a profusion of ornamental details and shimmering colors with a controlled construction of lines and planes.
About the Prix Lefranc Bourgeois
Prix Rubis Mécénat
Image: Hélène Janicot, "Deers are thirsty".
ART
Hélène Janicot
Prix Rubis Mécénat
Hélène Janicot, 4th-year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, studios Hélène Delprat and Ann Veronica Janssens, was awarded the Prix Rubis Mécénat. She will receive a production aid to conceive an installation designed especially for the Église Saint-Eustache in Paris to be presented in the autumn of 2022. The artist will also benefit from a full curatorial support by Audrey Illouz.
Hélène Janicot places great emphasis on the spatiality and temporality of her pieces. The rigidity of the material dialogues with the moving actions that gives rhythms to the space, with the immateriality of certain installations involving magnetics fields or light. The whole responds to each other in a quest for balance.
Prix de la photo Camera Clara
Image: Roei Greenberg, Hinterland. © Roei Greenberg.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Roei Greenberg
Prix de la photo Camera Clara
Roei Greenberg is the winner of the Prix de la photo Camera Clara. Created by the Fondation Grésigny, the prize aims to promote a singular writing favored by the use of the photographic chamber.
London based - Israeli artist, Roei Greenberg, looked at the landscape of the English countryside. The effects of human activity on land, political borders and ecology are among the issues explored in his work. His photographic practice is concerned with landscape as a complex intersection between culture, geography and autobiography.
About the Prix de la photo Camera Clara
Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains
Image: © Vincent Fournier.
PHOTOGRAPHY & MUSIC
Vincent Fournier and Sébastien Gaxie
Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains
The Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains rewards every two years a cross-creative and original project by a photographer and a composer.
Vincent Fournier and Sébastien Gaxie are the winners of this 5th edition of the prize for their project "Auctus Animalis". History and anticipation, memory and science fiction, nature and technology participate in the creation of a reinvented, metamorphosed world. In the latter, evolution has endowed the fauna with luminescent sensors that measure the quality of the air and exoskeletons set with precious stones. Vincent Fournier sketches the portraits of these unknown species, meanwhile, Sébastien Gaxie designs the sounds associated with them.
About the Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains
United States Artists Fellowships 2022
Image: Peter Williams, The Death of George Floyd, 2020.
Oil on canvas. 48 x 60 in.
ART
United States Artists Fellowships
United States Artists, a Chicago-based nonprofit that focuses on direct-to-artist grants, has named the 63 artists that have won their 2022 fellowship awards. This year’s cohort is the largest in the organization’s history. The winners come from 23 states and Puerto Rico. New York and Brooklyn are where the greatest share of winners are based, followed by Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago. This year, 20 percent of the awardees are Native and Indigenous artists, and 17 percent are disabled.
About the United States Artists Fellowships
BMW Art Makers
Image: Fire! Fireworks ©Arash Hanaei (01/2022)
ART
Arash Hanaei and Morad Montazami
BMW Art Makers
Artist Arash Hanaei and curator Morad Montazami were unanimously chosen by the jury as winners of the BMW Art Makers, a new program dedicated to the visual arts. Their project "Hantologie post-urbaine" asks us to rethink our relationship with the 60s and 70s utopian architecture and the suburban ecosystem in which it was built. The project will evoke digital culture crossed by architectural ghosts whose socio-political ideal remains in a dream state but persists through its materiality. The focus is on two parallel worlds: the suburbs on the urban periphery and the virtual world created by big data.
