Installation view of works by Morag Keil in the booth of Frankfurt’s Galerie Neue Alte Brücke at the Lafayette Sector in FIAC, Paris, 2010. Photo ART iT.
FIAC’s Lafayette Prize was awarded to artist Morag Keil, it was announced in Paris on Oct 21. The prize recognizes an outstanding artist from the art fair’s Lafayette Sector for emerging galleries, which featured 16 participants this year, and includes the acquisition of a work by the recipient as well as an opportunity for a solo exhibition at the contemporary art center Palais de Tokyo. Both the sector and the prize are sponsored by FIAC’s official partner, the Groupe Galeries Lafayette retail conglomerate.
Born in 1985, the London based Keil was featured at FIAC in a solo-presentation by first-time participant Galerie Neue Alte Brücke from Frankfurt. Keil is also slated for inclusion in the upcoming group exhibition “The Smart Frrridge: Chilly Forecast for Internet Fridge” at Kunstverein Medienturm in Graz, Austria, starting Dec 11. Established in 2007 by dealer Mark Dickinson, Neue Alte Brucke itself is attracting attention as an up-and-coming gallery. At Art 41 Basel earlier this year another of the gallery’s artists, Simon Fujiwara, was awarded the Baloise Art Prize for his installation in the fair’s Art Statements section.
Additionally, on Oct 23 it was announced that Cyprien Gaillard had been awarded the 10th Prix Marcel Duchamp, presented by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) in partnership with the Pompidou Centre. Selected this year by a seven-member international jury including curators Nicholas Bourriaud and Carolyn Christov Bakargiev and collectors Rosa de La Cruz and Toshio Hara, the prize confers 35,000 euro and a solo exhibition at the Pompidou Centre. Born in 1980, the Berlin-based Gaillard has quickly become one of France’s most visible young artists. At FIAC, his work was included in the displays of Bugada & Cargnel (Cosmic Galerie) from Paris and Sprüth Magers from Berlin and London. In Japan, his video Towards an ethic for the built environment, shot on location in the suburbs of Nagoya, is currently on view through Oct 31 in the inaugural Aichi Triennale, which commissioned the work. An exhibition of 30 winners and nominees from the prize’s past decade is scheduled for 2011 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
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