Hôtel Le Meurice presents, for the fifth consecutive year, the Meurice Prize for contemporary art, and is more committed than ever to defend the young French creation
2012-07-21 — /travelprnews.com/ — On June 18th, 2012, the Jury of the Meurice Prize for contemporary art met in closed session. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Patron of the Prize; Montse Aguer, Director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies ; Matthieu Kleyebe-Abonnenc, Artist and Winner 2011/12; Colette Barbier, Director of the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard ; Philippe Dagen, Writer and Professor at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; Jennifer Flay, Managing Director of the FIAC ; Marta Gili, Director of the Musée du Jeu de Paume; Henri Loyrette, Director of the Louvre; Maryvonne Pinault, Collector ; Jean de Loisy, Director of the Palais de Tokyo and Franka Holtmann, General Manager of Hôtel Le Meurice have therefore shortlisted eight artists and their gallery (galleries by alphabetical order):
1. Galerie Art Concept / Alexandre Singh for a film project to be exhibited in Rotterdam, Berlin and Avignon
2. Galerie Bugada & Cargnel / Nick Devereux for a photo and squetch project to be exhibited in Hong-Kong
3. Galerie Raffaella Cortese / Mathilde Rosier for a photo project to be exhibited in Dortmund
3. Galerie Crèvecoeur / Xavier Antin for a film project to be exhibited in New-York and Barcelona
4. Galerie Patricia Dorfmann / Baptiste Debombourg for a piece of art to be exhibited in Cologne
6. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac / Claire Adelfang for a photo and film project to be exhibited in Warsaw, Berlin and Paris
7. Galerie TORRI / Jean-Baptiste Bernadet for a painting project to be exhibited in New York and Marfa
8. Galerie Triple V / Emmanuelle Lainé for a photo project to be exhibited in Miami and/or Brussels
On October 9th, 2012 the Jury will select the winners, the artist and his gallery, who will be awarded severally the Meurice Prize for contemporary art: €10.000 to the artist and €10.000 to his gallery.
The exhibition of the eight finalists will be open to the public from October 10th to 21st, 2012.
Rendez-vous on October 9th for the revelation!
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