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 Exhibition for the 12th Prize Fondation d’entreprise Ricard.

The Fondation d’entreprise Ricard is exhibiting 10 years of cneai = production, organizing an exceptional auction at the conclusion of the week. Fifty artists are represented through their editions and publications: multiples, engravings, videos, artist’s books…

The claude glass, an optical instrument developed during the Renaissance and made by applying a black sheet at the back of plate glass, was used by painters to compose a painting, among other things. The mirror reflects a landscape or an object a painter wishes to represent, but the reflection reduces color and depth, which makes composition easier.

Built on reminiscences of prehistory with tools usually associated with spectacle, « Paléorama » is a paleontological exhibition of sorts structured around video installations.

« Arts holds a knowledge about us that exceeds any other, and this knowledge takes the form of drawings, not a language.»
Jean Luc Nancy, Le plaisir au dessin, Editions Galilée, p 63

« I brought together six young artists whom I met during these three last years in a group work around an exhibition project. This group is formed of Gabriel Abrantes, Bertille Bak, Benjamin Crotty, Bertrand Dezoteux, Sarah Lis, Florian Pugnaire, Tamara de Wehr and I. »
Christophe Kihm
Autumn 2009

In his last work, titled Ecostream, Guillaume Janot explores through photography a few artificial or recreated environments.

Judicaël Lavrador has been chosen as the curator for this 11th edition of the Ricard Foundation Prize. He will introduce nine French artists who have immigrated to or emigrated from France.