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AICA France Prize

Program devised by AICA France Board: Raphael Cuir (President), Elisabeth Couturier, (Secretary General), Marc Partouche (Treasurer) Communication & graphics: Hélène Langlois

AICA France wishes to thank its partners: The Ministry of culture and communication, the Palais de Tokyo, Le Quotidien de l’Art, Emerige, AICA International, and especially: Marek Bartelik, Efi Strousa, Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, the invited art critics, and the members of the international jury listed above.

AICA France is the French section of the Association International of Art Critics, an official NGO partner of UNESCO, whose goals and missions are to enhance free expression and diversity of art criticism globally. AICA France represents and supports art criticism that promotes information and exchange of ideas on both the national and international levels. AICA International was established in the late 1940s with a goal of promoting independent art criticism around the world. Currently, it has 62 national sections, and over 4500 on five continents.

Ten art critics are invited to present the living artist of their choice according to the short format known as PechaKucha. Each presentation will consist of a discussion of 20 images in the time frame of 6’40 minutes. Applied to art criticism this format allows concise monographic introductions to specific works of the chosen artist. This format enables an audience at large to discover artists who deserve more attention than they already received.

Participating art critics They have been selected by the following participants in the 2013 edition of AICA France Prize: Dominique Abensour, Paul Ardenne, Léa Bismuth, Laurent Buffet, Isabelle De Maison Rouge, Marianne Derrien, Françoise Docquiert, Marc Lenot (2014 winner), Bernard Marcadé, Mathilde Roman (special prize of the 2014 jury) ; and the AICA France Bureau: Raphael Cuir, Elisabeth Couturier, Marc Partouche.

With organizing this event, AICA France wishes to increase the visibility of the work of its members, especially their involvement in promoting important currents in contemporary art by focusing on individual artists. The winning presentation will be published in Le Quotidien de l’Art magazine and in a monograph.

Simultaneous translation : Nicole Candelier Bourrier

Music : Paloma Colombe — soulful & rare grooves

Jury Chaired by Eva Wittocx, President, AICA Belgium     - Sophie Allgårdh, Vice-President AICA International (Sweden) -  Marek Bartelik, President AICA International (USA)  -  Jesùs-Pedro Lorente, AECA (AICA Spain) - Pilar Parcerisas, AICA-Catalonia (Spain)         - Danièle Perrier, AICA Germany      - Philippe Régnier, Managing Editor, Le Quotidien de l’art (France) - Bélgica Rodríguez, AICA Venezuela        - Elisa Rusca, AICA Switzerland        - Andrzej Szczerski, President, AICA Poland     

The guest Art Critics

Christian Gattinoni

Dominique Moulon

Ghislain Mollet-Viéville

Jill Gasparina

Since 1993 Catherine Bédard directs the programme of exhibitions of the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, where she has held since 2010 the post of Deputy Director. She is lecturer at the Université Paris III-Sorbonne-Nouvelle where she teaches issues of cultural promotion abroad in a course entitled geopolitical art. She has organized more than 80 exhibitions and is the author of numerous catalogues away which Nadine Norman: Call Girl (2000), Arnaud Maggs: capital Notes (2000), Ken Lum (2002), John Massey: This Land (2005), Donigan Cumming, Somme, sleep, nightmare (2007), Eric Cameron. Record of Work (2008). She also manages the work of the art historian Daniel Arasse, whose she has shared life until his untimely death in 2003, and prefaced four of his works including anachronistic (Gallimard) in 2006, a collection of texts on contemporary art.

Catherine Bédard

Klaus Speidel

Sally Bonn

Yves Chatap

Laetitia Chauvin

Julie Crenn

PhD in aesthetics, Sally Bonn focuses on the poietics dimension of writing in the artistic field, starting from the notion of installation. She teaches philosophy of art and aesthetics at l'ÉcoIe Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine in Metz where she co-directs the research centre IDE (Image/Dispositif/Espace) and the Journal Le Salon. She is a member of the ArtCade association in Marseille and founder of the association The Office of Literary Activities, with Nathalie Lacroix and Lola Créïs, editor of the experimental journal Number Zero. Lecturer in philosophy of art at Université Paris l Panthéon Sorbonne, she is also curator. She has translated into french the writings of Agnes Martin (Ensba, 1993) and published the Art in England (new French edition, 1996). She has also published texts of art criticism in catalogues of artists and magazines as well as two essays at La Lettre Volée: Illuminating Experience, on Barnett Newman (2005) and Cut Eyelids. Test on devices and aesthetic perception (2009).

Yves Chatap studied the art history at the University of Paris I Sorbonne. After a Master degree search on African photography, he introduced www.vusdafrique.com, which encourages new readings of contemporary creation. Curator and independent art critic Yves Chatap writes regularly for journals and participates in the reviewing of portfolio of international photographers. Co-founder of the collective On The Roof, he is co-curator for "Syncronicity" exhibitions in Paris and London, "Le Socle", at the Buttes-Chaumont Park. He participated in the Organization of the "IKT Lab #3 African art, what for? " with Chantal Pontbriand at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Paris).

Art critic, Laetitia Chauvin is co-editor in Chief since 2010 - with Clément Dirié - of the semi-annual magazine devoted to young creation Code Magazine 2.0. Graduated in art history and aesthetics, her academic research focused particularly on the ethics of the gesture of the sculptor. After her beginnings abroad (Vancouver Art Gallery, New York's Guggenheim Museum), she joined the Ministry of Culture and Communication from 2002 to 2012 (DRAC Ile-de-France, former DAP, now DGCA, French Institute). She participated in the conception of public commission works on the side of artists such as Nicolas Milhé, Vincent Ganivet, Aurélie Godard, and regularly publishes in catalogues and magazines.

Julie Crenn received a master degree in history and art criticism at the Université Rennes 2, the topic of her dissertation was on the art of Frida Kahlo. In the continuity of her research on feminist and post-colonial practices she got a PhD in Arts (history and theory) at the Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, in 2012. She conducts research on so called African contemporary art, in this context she collaborates with various journal, Africultures, Afrikadaa, policy African and Africa in Visu. The Publisher Derrière la Salle de Bains dedicated a series on her texts: Indoors. She regularly collaborates with magazines Artpress, Laura and Inferno. She has also published in Atlantica, Ligeia, gender & history magazines, Inter-Art-current, Slicker, the Nice review, Clio (history, women and societies) and N. Paradoxa.

Jill Gasparina holds a graduate degree from the Ecole Normale. She is Professor of modern letters, art critic, theorist, curator and teacher. From 2009 to 2013 she co-directed the Centre d'art La Sallle de Bains, in Lyon. After working on the aesthetic theories of mass art, and crossovers between contemporary art and cultural industries, she started in 2013 a doctorate in art history at the Université Paris IV, under the direction of Arnauld Pierre, on the topic of mythologies of the technologies of remote communication in artistic modernity (a modern ubiquity, 1840-1989). She continued in parallel with research on futurology, foresight and anticipation as methods of artistic creation. photo © Karolina Markiewicz

Christian Gattinoni is a teacher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles since 1989. He is a member of the Association of curators in photography: ORACLE. He is editor-in-Chief of www.lacritique.org which he co-founded in 2006. Since 2005 he collaborates to the magazine Area and is involved in the organization of the online prize "Opline Prize" since 2009. His work as an art critic looks at the relationship between photography, other arts and humanities with the body as a common denominator. In this context he questions the relationship between dance and Visual arts. He divides his time between art criticism, exhibitions curating, and the pedagogy of the image. After numerous theoretical books and monographic catalogues, including a set of three books on the history of photography published by the Nouvelles Editions Scala his last essay Des annonces faites au corps, danse et art contemporain was released late 2013 in the Precursion series of publisher Hermann.

Ghislain Mollet-Viéville is art agent, Honorary Expert to the Court of appeal of Paris, an minimal & conceptual art specialist (his book: Minimal & conceptual Art, Editions Skira, 1995). In his lectures as in his writings, he analyzes the words of the various bodies that update the terms of production, dissemination, acquisition and updating of works whose originality demand new principles of presentation and activation to present an art tending towards the immaterial. He is actively involved in the Paris Biennale since 2001 and has participated as its spokesman to different conferences in the USA in 2011: Yale University, Queens Museum, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York University. He regularly intervenes in the new Institute of advanced studies in fine arts (Iheap).

Dominique Moulon is a member of the Observatory of the Digital Worlds in Humanities, "Opline Prize" for contemporary art, online and artistic director of the digital art fair Show Off Paris. Founder of the website MediaArtDesign.net, he also writes articles for ArtPress, Le Magazine des Cultures Digitales and The Seen. He teaches new media at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, as well as in the universities of Paris 1 and Paris 8, and is regularly invited to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at le Fresnoy. His book Contemporary Art New Media was published in french by the Nouvelles Editions Scala in 2011 and in English on tablet in 2013. He developps his research within the lab Art & Flux attached to the National Centre of Scientific Research and of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

PhD in philosophy of art, Klaus Speidel is an artist and a theorist. He has published many articles on modern and contemporary art in art magazines, scientific journals and texts in catalogs. After a work on the words-images of René Magritte and non-linear thinking, his research focuses now on narration. He teaches at the Ecole Estienne, Strate Ecole de Design and regularly gives lectures in schools of art, and at the University in France and abroad. He has been a guest for the topic Image of the program "Philosophy" on Arte TV and is currently preparing a book on the iconic narrative and temporalities of the still image. In June 2014, Klaus Speidel was curator of the exhibition "Le Recouvrement".

The guest Art Critics