PARIS, Oct. 2, 2023
/PRNewswire/ -- The Marcel Duchamp Prize is a distinction created
23 years ago at the initiative of French art collectors and the
ADIAF (Association for the International Diffusion of French Art).
It was created by collector Gilles
Fuchs (amongst others) in response to a very clear shrinkage
of the influence of French artists at the international level in
the 1990s. Its mission was quite simply to rescue French art by
generating an environment more conducive to the emergence of French
artists in what was then a very delicate context for the French
Contemporary art market.
"For over two decades, the Marcel Duchamp Prize has become
an essential reference in the world of Contemporary art, but beyond
the prestige of the prize itself, the ADIAF plays a pivotal role in
elevating the French art scene on a global scale and providing
vital support for French artistic expression." thierry
Ehrmann
Every year, the Marcel Duchamp Prize highlights French artists
or artists working in France
during the FIAC, now Paris+ by Art
Basel. Since 2016, the finalists have been given a
substantial spotlight (often their first) at a strategic moment in
the international Contemporary Art calendar: their works are shown
at the Pompidou Center for three months in an exhibition area of
650 m2 (previously, they
were exhibited at the FIAC and only the winner benefited from an
exhibition at the Center Pompidou). This exposure in one of
France's top museums is already a
major boost for their careers, but the ADIAF also deploys other
strategies to promote young hopefuls from the French scene on the
international stage.
The impact of the Duchamp Prize
On top of a substantial financial reward for the finalists
(90,000 euros, including a prize of
35,000 euros for the winner), the
winner also benefits from a research residency in the United States at the Villa Albertine.
Indeed, beyond the allocation of a prize and the one-off
exhibition, the Marcel Duchamp Prize aims to be a complete system
of support for artists in their careers. The idea is to promote the
French art scene in the world via international exhibitions
organized in partnership with foreign museums and with the support
of the Institut Français. More than 50 Marcel Duchamp Prize artists
and 140 major works have benefited from visibility during some 20
exhibitions organized in major museums around the world, in
Buenos Aires, Beijing, Shanghai, Los
Angeles, Seoul, and
Berlin, among other places. The
professional networks established with the Marcel Duchamp Prize can
constitute important springboards. This represents invaluable
support because while obtaining a Prize always constitutes a
positive argument in the career of an artist by boosting his/her
legitimacy, it is above all the meetings with collectors and the
exhibitions generated as a result that will increase, in the long
term, the artist's notoriety and market prices.
Prize recipients: whats it worth?
It is difficult to assess the immediate impact of winning the
Marcel Duchamp Prize on the artists' market prices. Although it is
clear that obtaining such an award does indeed sharpen the interest
of collectors, the galleries are the first beneficiaries of this
momentum, since the Prize does not necessarily trigger an
acceleration of transactions on the auction market (which is
essentially a 'secondary' market).
Among the big names who have received the Marcel Duchamp Prize
in the past, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Laurent
Grasso, Tatiana Trouvé, Mircea
Cantor, and Kader Attia, have
established themselves as artists of international quality and are
sought after by major collectors. However, the auction market does
not always reflect the quality of their careers or of their
works.
While the works of Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster (2002 winner), for example, have been
acquired by several major museums including the Tate Modern
(London), the Dia Art Foundation
(New York), and the Pompidou
Center in (Paris), her works are
extremely rare in at auction; and when they are presented, they are
not necessarily indicative of the artist's interdisciplinary
practice, which encompasses cinema, installation, video and various
forms of collaborative work. Her auction record of $23,410 in a Christie's sale in London (Multiverse, 2004-2012) has not
been renewed since 2012 – more than ten years ago – a significant
amount of time in the dynamics of the Contemporary art market.
Indeed, some winners like Clement Cogitore (2018 winner)
have never seen their works offered at auction, or have not yet
found their audience in the art market, like Julien Prévieux
(2014 winner).
Other artists, when supported by particularly powerful
international galleries, enjoy more sustained auction activity.
This is the case of Tatiana
Found (supported by the Perrotin, Paris; the Gagosian, New York and Johann König, Berlin), Cyprien
Gaillard (supported by Gladstone, New
York and Sprüth Magers, Berlin), Laurent
Grasso (supported by Perrotin, Paris and Sean
Kelly, New York) or even
Latifa Echakhch (supported by Kamel Mennour, Paris; Kaufmann
Repetto, Milan;
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv and Eva Presenhuber, Zurich), all ranked in the 10,000 top-selling
artists at global auctions.
Tatiana Found (2007
winner) and Latifa Echakhch (2013 winner) have both already
ranked among the 5,000 top-selling artists on the global market and
have in common auction records dating back to 2015. Tatiana Found's installation Untitled
(ref: cable 9) sold for $67,000
at Phillips in London, and, a few
months later, a painting by Latifa Echakhch
fetched $203,300 at the same auctioneer after being part of
the collection of Dr. Frederic S.
Brandt in Miami. The young
Latifa Echakhch, today sought after by international
collectors, has been crowned by eight auction results above
$100,000.
Other winners have sold above this price level, a significant
and rare level for young French artists indeed. They include
Cyprien Gaillard (2010
winner) whose peak currently stands at $193,750. Again, his record also dates back to
2015 (like those of Tatiana Trouvé and Latifa Echakhch), but
Cyprien Gaillard's was hammered at
Sotheby's New York and not in
London.
Kader Attia (2016
winner) also distinguished himself by the sale of two installations
for over $100,000 before obtaining
his Duchamp Prize in 2016, the only prize with which he had been
honored until then. Thomas
Hirschhorn (2000 winner) has an auction record of
$156,190 following the sale in 2006 of a large
mixed-technique entitled Abstract Relief No.548 (1999) at
Phillips de Pury & Company in London. His first works went to auction in
2001, a few months after winning the Duchamp Prize, and his demand
has become global with 76% of his turnover being hammered in
the United States.
Award-winning artists accessible on the auction
market
Many of these French artists, whose talent has been confirmed by
winning the Duchamp Prize, have works that are accessible for under
$5,000 at auction. This is the case
for Carole Benzaken (2004
winner), whose biggest paintings exceed $15,000; Thomas
Hirschhorn (2000 winner), 62% of whose works sell
between $1,000 and $5,000; Matthew
Mercier (2003 winner), half of whose works sell for
between $1,000 and $5,000 at auction. Likewise for Joana
Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (2017 winners), whose
politically motivated works – attempting to reveal history's
underbelly and question the standard representation of conflicts –
have been exhibited at several art biennials and in museums as
important as the Solomon R. Guggenheim (New York) and the British Museum (London). They have also been integrated into
several large private and public collections, but still remain
affordable at auction.
It is clear that solid international recognition does not always
have a major impact on the auction market. Informed collectors deal
directly with galleries and the prices of artists evolve
confidentially, especially for works that are often transversal,
atypical and do not necessarily conform to trends in global
demand.
The winners of the Marcel Duchamp Prize
Thomas Hirschhorn (2000 -
2001)
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
(2002)
Matthew Mercier (2003)
Carole Benzaken (2004)
Claude Closky (2005)
Philippe Mayaux (2006)
Tatiana Trouvé (2007)
Laurent Grasso (2008)
Saâdane Afif (2009)
Cyprien Gaillard (2010)
Mircea Cantor (2011)
Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel
(2012)
Latifa Echakhch (2013)
Julien Prévieux (2014)
Melik Ohanian (2015)
Kader Attia (2016)
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (2017)
Clément Cogitore (2018)
Eric Baudelaire (2019)
Kapwani Kiwanga (2020)
Lili Reynaud Dewar (2021)
Mimosa Echard (2022)
The nominees for the 2023 Marcel Duchamp Prize
Claude Bonnin, President of
ADIAF, will reveal the name of the winner on 16 October following
the vote of an international jury composed of Xavier Rey, Director of the National Museum of
Modern Art (Pompidou Center), Claude
Bonnin, collector and President of the ADIAF, Akemi Shiraha,
representative of the Marcel Duchamp Association, Dr. Jimena Blasquez Abascal, collector and Director
of the Montenmedio Contemporary Foundation (Spain), Josée Gensollen, collector of the
Gensollen La Fabrique Collection in Marseille, Béatrice Salmon, director of the
National Center for Visual Arts (CNAP) and Adam D. Weinberg, Director of the Whitney Museum
of American Art, in New York.
The finalists' exhibition is open for three months at the
Pompidou Center in Paris.
Here are the four artists in the running for the 23rd edition of
the Marcel Duchamp Prize:
Bertille
Bak https://www.adiaf.com/artistes/bertille-bak/
Born in 1983 in Arras (France),
lives and works in Paris
Represented by Xippas Gallery, Paris, and The Gallery Apart, Rome
"Bertille Bak focuses on
communities by examining their rituals, gestures, and objects which
she later uses in her projects. Whether it is her own community in
the mining areas of northern France or in groups that are unfamiliar to
her, she never chooses to distance herself. On the contrary, it is
about sharing a passage in life… a struggle… a resistance." (Source
Xippas Gallery).
Her work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions: Museum of
Modern Art of the City of Paris in
2012, Merz Foundation in Turin in
2022, and Louvre Lens in 2023, among others.
Bouchra Khalili
https://www.adiaf.com/artistes/bouchra-khalili/
Born in 1975 in Casablanca,
Khalili lives and works in Berlin
and is represented by the Mor Charpentier Gallery, Paris and the ADN Gallery in Barcelona
The artist's work includes film and video installations,
photography, and screen printing. Each of her projects can be seen
as a platform from which members of minorities groups can propose,
implement and share resistance strategies and discourses developed
from the margins. Her work has been the subject of numerous
exhibitions including at Barcelona's MACBA and Paris's Palais de Tokyo in 2015, New
York's MoMA in 2016, and Paris's Jeu de Paume in 2018.
Tarik Kiswanson
https://www.adiaf.com/artistes/tarik-kiswanson/
Born in 1986 in Halmstad (Sweden)
Kiswanson lives and works in Paris,
France, and Amman,
Jordan.
Represented by the carlier | gebauer Gallery in Berlin and the Sfer Gallery in Hamburg and Beirut.
His work encompasses sculpture, writing, performance, drawing,
sound, and video works. The notions of uprooting, regeneration and
renewal are recurring themes in his work. Tarik Kiswanson presented
his retrospective exhibition Mirrorbody at the Carré d'Art – Musée
d'Art Contemporain in 2021.
Massinissa Selmani
https://www.adiaf.com/artistes/massinissa-selmani/
Born in 1980 in Algiers
(Algeria), Selmani lives and works
in Tours
Represented by the Anne-Sarah Benichou Gallery (Paris), Selma
Feriani (Tunis,
London), Jane Lombard (New
York)
Through the confrontation and juxtaposition, without any logical
coherence of real elements, Massinissa Selmani creates enigmatic
and ambiguous scenes, emphasizing the ironic, even tragic character
of the absurd and strange situations depicted in his drawings.
His work was recognized with a special mention from the jury at
the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. Winner of the Art Collector Prize
and the Sam Prize in 2016, he has participated in numerous solo and
group exhibitions in France and
abroad.
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