Centre Pompidou, Place Centre Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris
The jury of the new edition of the French prestigious contemporary art prize awarded the 2018 Prix Marcel Duchamp to Clément Cogitore.
About the artist
Born in France (Colmar) in 1983, Clément Cogitore is represented by: Eva Hober Gallery, Paris and Reinhard Hauff Gallery, Stuttgart.
“Drawn from his numerous films, videos, installations and photographs, his work takes a powerful and penetrating look at the most contemporary subjects and appropriates highly sophisticated technologies in the aim of questioning the status of images in a world overfed with information. Somewhere between archaisms and apocalyptic tales, The Evil Eye, created for the present edition, appears as both an overview and an outcome of research specific to a reflection on a society saturated with signs to the point of absurdity.”
–Bernard Blistène, Director of the musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, President of the jury
“I am very happy about the nomination of Clément Cogitore. This is the first time that the Marcel Duchamp Prize is dedicated to an artist whose work is often considered as belonging to the ‘7ème art’ as we say in France. This choice shows to what extent the Marcel Duchamp Prize is sensitive to all forms of current creation. By transforming the meaning of recuperated images, Clément Cogitore shows himself to be ‘duchampien’ in the best sense of the word.”
–Gilles Fuchs, President of the ADIAF
About the Marcel Duchamp Prize
One of the most prestigious contemporary art awards, the Marcel Duchamp Prize was created in 2000 by the ADIAF, Association for the international diffusion of French art which groups together 400 contemporary art collectors rallied around the French scene. Its ambition is to bring together the most innovative artists and help them raise their international profile. Each year, the Marcel Duchamp Prize is awarded to one of four artists, either French or living in France, all of them working in the field of the plastic and visual arts. Since the outset, this collectors’ prize benefits from a close partnership with the Centre Pompidou who invites the four nominated artists for a 3-month group show in its Galerie 4. The winner is chosen by an international jury of collectors and directors of leading institutions. He benefits from an endowment of 35,000 EUR.
The Marcel Duchamp Prize’s exhibition is being shown in the Centre Pompidou, Galerie 4, until December 31, 2018. Nominated artists: Mohamed Bourouissa, Clément Cogitore, Thu-Van Tran, Marie Voignier.
Curator of the exhibition at the Centre Pompidou: Marcella Lista
Jury: Bernard Blistène, Gilles Fuchs, Jean-Claude Gandur, Maja Hoffmann, Laurent Le Bon, Marina Loshak, Akemi Shiraha.
A catalogue is published by the ADIAF.
The ADIAF benefits from the support of generous sponsors: Adagp, Artcurial, Icart, Inlex IP Expertise, Société Générale, Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. Media Partner: The Art Newspaper Edition Française
Past winners
Thomas Hirschhorn (2000), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2002), Mathieu 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)
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