French artist Jabril Boukenaissi has been awarded the inaugural Guerlain x Lee Ufan Art & Environment Award. The award was announced at the Paris+ par Art Basel fair, which opened yesterday. Grand Palais Ephemer.
Guerlain, the French perfume and beauty house, and the museum of famous Korean artist Lee Ufan in Arles have partnered to create an annual award to an artist whose work focuses on the fruitful. We have created a new award called “Environmental Award”. According to the award statement, “the multifaceted relationship between artistic creation and the environment”.
“This ‘space-time’ [of a 6-8 week residency and production space in Arles] will be able to [the artist] Encountering not only the execution of artistic projects, but also the people and institutions associated with their implementation: artists, art world professionals, and actors in the field whose work may resonate with them, as well as the general public. ,” the statement added.
Portrait of Jabril Bukenaisi
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Boukenaissi graduated from the Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
“His work is essentially nourished by literature and music and revolves around the concepts of disappearance and fragility,” the prize organizers said. Next summer, a solo exhibition will be held at Lee Ufan Arles, a permanent exhibition space for the Korean artist’s work in the south of France.
“Like Lee Ufan, Guerlain is forging a bond with nature and increasing the number of meaningful partnerships and initiatives under the Guerlain for Bee Conservation program,” the project statement added.Wufan said, “I want to build a bridge between this industrial society and the original nature. And I want to make people think. [this] relationship. “
To commemorate the 170th anniversary of the Abeille Bottle (Bee Bottle), created for Napoleon III’s wife Empress Eugénie, the Maison Guerlain is unveiling another art project at its headquarters on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.exhibition Les Fleurs du MalNamed after Charles Baudelaire’s 19th-century collection of poems, the collection includes works by 26 artists, including Anselm Kiefer and Jennifer Stein.
