French artist Saadane Afif is the winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2009, which reaches its nine edition this year. Afif was selected by the international jury composed of James Cottrell (collector, USA), Gilles Fuchs (President, ADIAF, France), Dakis Joannou (collector, Greece), Kasper König (Director, Museum Ludwig, Cologne), Charlotte Laubard (Director, CAPC Bordeaux), Jacqueline Matisse-Monnier (Artist, France, USA) and Alfred Pacquement (Director, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris). The Prize is awarded annually by the Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l'Art Francaise (ADIAF) and is regarded as the French equivalent of the Turner Prize and the Preis deer Nationalgalerie fur junge Kunst. Afif will be awarded €35,000 and will stage two solo exhibitions next year at the French Pavilion of the World Exhibition in Shanghai (June 1-30, 2010) and at Espace 315 of the Centre Pompidou in Paris (September 2010). After Mathieu Mercier (2003) and Claude Closky (2005), Saâdane Afif is the third artist from Galerie Mehdi Chouakri in Berlin to win the prize. In other news from Paris, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille have won the Ricard Foundation Prize, which gives credit to the work of young artists. The prize, awarded by a jury of art critics and collectors, consists in the purchase of a work, which will then be donated to the Centre Pompidou and featured in the permanent collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris. Judicael Lavrador, guest curator of this 11th edition of the Ricard Foundation Prize, presents the exhibition “L'image cabree,” which will run through November 7, 2009, with works by Karina Bisch, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier, Damien Cadio, Etienne Chambaud, Mark Geffriaud, Jimmy Robert, Clement Rodzielski, Oscar Tuazon, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille. At the Centre Pompidou, until January 11, 2010, the exhibition “Les Archipels reinventés” presents the first 10 winners of the Ricard Foundation Prize. http://www.adiaf.com/ http://fondation-entreprise-ricard.com/ | |  | | Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, 90 Interview May 1998 Miroir III, 2008. Oil on canvas, 250 x 200 cm, Courtesy Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels/Paris. | |
