The Drawing Now Award 2023
For 12 years, the Drawing Now Prize has been supporting contemporary creation and highlighting the pioneering role of galleries, rewarding the work of an artist presented on the stand of his gallery at the Drawing Now Art Fair.
6 artists were pre-selected on file by the artistic committee among the artists under 50 years of age presented• focused by the galleries. Their names have just been announced at the Drawing Lab during the opening of the exhibition " Nous qui désirons sans fin" by Karine Rougier, winner of the 2022 Drawing Now Prize. The winner will be announced on Wednesday 22 March at 6.30pm, the opening day of the Drawing Now Art Fair.
The 6 nominated artists are:
— Suzanne Husky, born in 1975, represented by Galerie Alain Gutharc
— Stella Sujin, born in 1983, represented by Backslash
— Marine Wallon, born in 1985, represented by Galerie Catherine Issert
— Mircea Cantor, born in 1977, represented by Dilecta
— Keita Mori, born in 1981, represented by Catherine Putman Gallery
— João Vilhena, born 1973, represented by Alberta Pane Gallery
The prize, since this year, adopts a new formula: it is endowed with 15 000 € (5 000 euros endowment for the artist, 10 000 euros production aid for a 3-month exhibition at the Drawing Lab and the edition of a monographic catalog).
The Drawing Now Prize is supported by SOFERIM & the Drawing Lab.
Specific signage will be in place on the stands of Drawing Now Art Fair to present the work of these six artists to the public.
Presentation of the 6 nominated artists
Suzanne Husky
Born in 1975 in France
Lives and works in San Francisco, USA
Represented by Galerie Alain Gutharc
Fair Sector: General
"Anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal and ecofeminist, Suzanne Husky is nevertheless a minister! Within the New Ministry of Agriculture, which has been campaigning since 2016 through the vector of performances and videos drawn up against agribusiness, campaigning for a human-nature alliance program over 1,000 years! The Franco-American artist, born in France in 1975, is a key figure in an art linked to the living and the political. Folklore, crafts, tales, recipes, rituals and forgotten knowledge are his preferred means to reconnect with the pre-capitalist world and with the living. Inspired by William Morris, craftsmanship (ceramics, textiles, tapestry...) rub shoulders with art (performance, sound, video...) without any hierarchy. A graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux, Husky is also trained in the fields of horticultural landscaping, permaculture and herbalism, all knowledge that irrigates her artistic work. Noting that "the domination of nature and women are two parallels", the artist collaborates with the famous ecofeminist Starhawk. Her new podcast series, "My Mother Goose" is at the intersection of storytelling, agriculture, ecology and spirituality. Faced with the ecocidal world she fights, Husky creates peaceful, collective and melodious forms. »
- Alice Audoin.
Mircea Cantor
Born in 1977 in Romania
"Live and work on Earth," in his words
Represented by Dilecta
Fair Sector: General
The practice of drawing occupies an essential place in Mircea Cantor's work. It is necessary for him. In the workshop, and outside the workshop. The time he can devote to it being rather rare and interspersed, he must be fast and precise. Since 2011, he has been interested in Chinese painters of thenineteenth century or Japanese Zen painters, especially for the speed with which they manage to shape ideas or their subject. He also discovers the modern paintings of the Kalighat, these paintings on scroll of Bengal in vogue in thenineteenth century. Painters then had to adapt the art of miniature to the constraints of their time – including the rise of pilgrimages – inventing a unique narrative style and modifying their technique to gain speed and virtuosity. It is this search for the "prima linea", the lively and concise line imposed by circumstances, that Mircea Cantor loves. A line that he must "adjectivate", accompanied by the addition or lack, like the writing of a poem.
Stella Sujin
Born in 1983 in South Korea
Lives and works in Paris
France
Represented by backs\ash
Fair Sector: General
The Korean artist Stella Sujin questions imagery too easily linked to the idea of femininity, such as flowers, vulvas, portraits with vermilion lips, which shape a hieratic vision of women. It is also accepted that only a woman can rub shoulders with this kind of representation. But in order to ward off and distorting this overly ingrained formalism, Sujin brings a form of non-homogeneous monstrosity, strongly inspired by the notion of abjection of the philosopher Julia Kristeva that she strongly claims. The artist sublimates by an ultra doped palette a whole iconography of his own, using disconcerting images that push the viewer to reflect on his own limits and his own reactions. She captivates with her unique style and the amazing themes that she addresses in works with monumental formats or much more intimate.
Stella Sujin's work has been exhibited in many countries, including the Daejeon Museum of Art in Korea, the Department of Cultural Affairs of Ajaccio, the Vestfossen Kunstraboratorium of Norway, the art center A hundred meters from the center of the world of Perpignan, the Shoshana Wayne Gallery of Los Angeles, the CICA Art Museum of Gimpo in Korea, at the K11 Art Museum in Shanghai, the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, the Keumsan Gallery in Hong Kong and the Kunsträume in Cologne.
Keita Mori
Born in 1981 in Japan
Lives and works in Paris, France
Represented by Catherine Putman Gallery
Fair Sector: General
Keita Mori pulls threads, literally, to make his works but also figuratively, one experience brings another, spaces, supports and materials evolve.
The singularity of Keita Mori's work lies in his technique of drawing with thread, silk or cotton, which he fixes with a glue gun, on paper, canvas or directly on the walls. He performs his works in the manner of a jazz musician through improvisation and the recurrence of themes in his layout - houses, suspended spaces, architectures, perspectives.
"Bug report", the generic title of most of his works, is the result of the fragmentation of virtual networks as well as that of the spaces and architectures of modern urban society. What interests the artist in this idea of the error report is the accident, which disrupts the space and the construction, and ultimately gives something else.
"It would be possible to define Keita Mori's work as architectural conceptual drawings that generate 'models', however, the vector dynamics that compose her images are opposed to conventional conceptual drawings (...)
Keita Mori's drawing is not a simple drawing for the sake of drawing, nor an independent drawing existing in isolation from the rest of the world. The artist verifies that the essence of poetry lies in the heteronomy of the image by inviting phenomena and enigmatic situations within his universe. It is through the prism of his act as a "conceptual draftsman on the wire" that he will continue to attract our attention strongly." [1]
[1] : extract from Akira Tatehata's text "The heteronomy of the image" (publication produced on the occasion of the exhibition "Templates" by Keita Mori at the Catherine Putman Gallery - Paris - from November 11 to December 23, 2017).
Marine Wallon
Born in 1985 in France
Lives and works in Paris, France
Represented by Galerie Catherine Issert
Fair Sector: General
In her drawing practice, Marine WALLON questions the organization of the landscape and its possible distortions. The exaggeration of the constituents of the landscape by form and color, allows him to create new formal research: transparent liquidities, pencil-paint interweaving, rubbed gestures, etc. The landscapes open to a space conducive to pictorial surprise and synesthetic reverie. You can feel the wind, the night, the extreme heat. Everything is allowed for the color to appear: day and night moments on the same drawing, mixture of pigmented geological strata or aquatic reflections. The paint also draws: the bristles of the brush, the outline of the drips, the traces of rag on the paper.
Born in 1985, Marine Wallon lives and works in Paris. Graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2009, her work has been presented in monographic and group exhibitions in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (Galerie Catherine Issert), London (Stoppenbach & Delestre), Paris (Under Construction), several art centers in Annecy (Le Point Commun), Büdelsdorf (Kunstwerk Carlhütte), Vitry-sur-Seine (MAC VAL) and is part of several public and private collections (Collection du Musée du Louvre - Chalcographie), Colas Foundation, City of Vitry-sur-Seine - MAC VAL depot, Artothèque d'Annecy, Fonds Moly-Sabata).
In 2022, Marine Wallon is the winner of the 11th Jean-François Prat Prize chaired by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. She won the Moly-Sabata Prize at the 64th Salon de Montrouge (2019), the Colas Foundation Prize (2020), the 3rd Antoine Marin Prize (2018), the November International Painting Prize in Vitry (2017), the SMFA Boston Print and Paper Prize, as well as a Collin-Lefrancq scholarship that allowed her to study at SMFA Boston (2008).
Recently, she produced a color engraving for the Chalcography commissioned by the Louvre Museum and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais.
João Vilhena
Born in 1973 in Portugal
Lives and works in Paris, France
Represented by Galerie Alberta Pane
Fair Sector: General
A graduate of Villa Arson, winner of the Rothschild Painting Prize in 2003, João Vilhena has exhibited his work in numerous private and public institutions in France, Italy and abroad (Spain, Poland, Turkey).
João Vilhena's work is guided by his interest in the role of the viewer. For him, it is the look that does the work, that activates it and gives it meaning. His drawings, executed with precision, begin a dialogue between image and words. On the one hand, he uses a few tricks such as optical illusion, trompe-l'oeil and anamorphosis. On the other hand, in the titles of his works, he creates counterpetries, anagrams and other puns.
The winner of the 2022 Drawing Now Award
Bertrand Baraudou, Galerie Espace à vente and Karine Rougier, artist winner of the Drawing Now Prize 2022 © Ayka Lux for Say Who / Coolhuntparis
Karine Rougier, represented by Espace à vendre
Born in 1982, lives and works in Marseille
Karine Rougier's drawings reinvent a nature where human forms mingle with animal forms, where invisible bodies and powers unite in the same and mesmerizing embrace.
The washes in watercolor on paper pass on the forms and, like a tide that retreats, leave behind only a few details, a few lines where our gaze clings. Crossed by a powerful vital momentum, his compositions are the fruit of an emancipated look that infuses the bodies with desire and power.
Karine Rougier began her studies at the Arts Décoratifs in Geneva, then continued at the École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence, she has been teaching at the Beaux-Arts de Marseille since 2018. She represented Malta at the Venice Biennale in 2017.
Members of the Selection Committee
The members of the Drawing Now Prize committee establish the list of the 5 artists selected on file prior to the Drawing Now Art Fair among the artists under 50 years of age presented in focus by the galleries.
This committee is made up of the members of the selection committee of the Fair : Joana P.R. Neves, Emilie Bouvard, Anita Haldemann, Catherine Hellier du Verneuil, Pascal Neveux, Philippe Piguet, Daniel Schildge, Dirk Snauwaert and the main sponsor of the Prize - SOFERIM represented by Jean Papahn, founder and president.
THE WINNERS OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS
• 2011: Catherine Melin, represented by Galerie Isabelle Gounod
• 2012: Clément Bagot, represented by Galerie Eric Dupont
• 2013: Didier Rittener, represented by Galerie Lange + Pult
• 2014: Cathryn Boch, represented by Galerie Claudine Papillon
• 2015: Abdelkader Benchamma, represented by FL GALLERY
• 2016: Jochen Gerner, represented by Galerie Anne Barrault
• 2017: Lionel Sabatté, represented by Galerie C
• 2018: Michail Michailov, represented by Galerie Projektraum Viktor Bucher
• 2019: Lucie Picandet, represented by Galerie Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois
• 2020-2021: Nicolas Daubanes, represented by Galerie Maubert
• 2020-2021: Nicolas Daubanes, represented by Galerie Maubert
2020-2021
2020-2021
Karine Rougier, represented by Espace à Vendre
Nicolas Daubanes, represented by Galerie Maubert
2019
Lucie Picandet,represented by Galerie Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois
2018
Michail Michailov, Galerie Projektraum Viktor Bucher
2017
Lionel Sabatte, Gallery C
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