Venice Biennale 2024 - Julien Creuzet
Arter produces “Attila cataracte ta source aux pieds des pitons verts finira dans la grande mer gouffre bleu nous nous nous noyâmes dans les larmes marées de la lune” by Julien Creuzet for the French Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition.
Created by Julien Creuzet, under the curatorship of Céline Kopp and Cindy Sissokho, the exhibition is designed as an immersive, multi-sensory experience.
By inviting visitors into a space traversed by fluids, where a radical and collective imaginary opens up, inhabited by divine presences, connected to Venice by its waters and with his own poetry, Julien Creuzet invites us to decentre our gaze and to see the French Pavilion as a space of mobility, visibility and reunion.
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Reiffers Art Initiatives - "No Apologies" Exhibition
The Acacias Art Center hosted Kenny Dunkan's "No Apologies" exhibition in October 2021. This marked the first Reiffers Art Initiatives mentorship program exhibition under the mentorship of American artist Rashid Johnson.
“I have too often apologized to myself for being who I am," says the artist. “Because of my skin color, my sexuality...Today, I don't want to apologize for being the person I am anymore."
– Kenny Dunkan.
Reiffers Art Initiatives, an endowment fund for young contemporary creation and cultural diversity, opened the inaugural exhibition of its mentorship program “NO APOLOGIES” at the Acacias Art Center in October 2021. The exhibition featured work by French artist Kenny Dunkan, under the mentorship of world-renowned artist Rashid Johnson.
"NO APOLOGIES" delved into the artist's thoughts on his Caribbean heritage. Each installation formed a microclimate, drawing on the cultural richness of Guadeloupe ౼ from the aesthetic and symbolic power of carnival to mythologies and magical and religious beliefs.
It also served as a platform for Kenny Dunkan to discuss the post-colonial heritage of his island. The body itself, a recurring theme for the artist, who never hesitates to use his own black body, was also at the heart of the collection: a fragmented body, diverse and in the making. The title "NO APOLOGIES" ("no excuses") is the artist’s way of adressing the current violence against bodies, whether black, gay, and his refusal to excuse these actions.
NO APOLOGIES is the inaugural programme of the Reiffers Art Initiatives mentorship with the support of Mazarine, La Mode en Images and the Acacias Art Center. Kenny Dunkan, the first artist to receive the award, has continued an in-depth dialogue with his mentor Rashid Johnson.
Nourished by his exchanges and the advice of the famous Afro-American artist, Kenny Dunkan has proposed an exhibition at the opening of FIAC 2021 in the form of an initiatory journey through monumental and immersive installations, sculptures, videos and photographs, recounted in this exceptional book, which bears witness to a unique creative epic.
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Reiffers Art Initiatives’ mission is to support France’s new art scene and give it international visibility. It finances and gives exposure to thirty emerging artists every year, who will influence tomorrow’s contemporary art scene.
Numéro art 15
Numéro Art, the leading magazine for international contemporary art, features the most influential personalities, events and places in the contemporary creative scene.
For its 15th edition, Numéro art features a striking duo on the cover, with international star Ugo Rondinone on one side, and Tarek Lakhrissi, an emerging art figure in France, on the other.
Respectively mentor and young talent in the Reiffers Art Initiatives mentoring program, they present their joint exhibition in Paris until December. An immersive journey through color....
Numéro art also celebrates the new artistic season with an exceptional cover by legendary photographers Luigi & Iango, who pay tribute to Surrealism on the occasion of the exhibition devoted to it at the Centre Pompidou.
Also in this issue, the season's major events, including the Art Basel Paris fair and our portrait of 8 Parisian gallerists, leading figures in the young art scene. But also unmissable exhibitions such as Arte povera at the Bourse de Commerce, Pop Forever at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Rirkrit Tiravanija at LUMA Arles and Martine Syms at Lafayette Anticipations. Not forgetting Paris Photo and our focus on 5 women photographers.
