[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Julien Creuzet’s work is on present in each Andrew Kreps and Excessive Artwork’s stands on the honest. Benjamin Sutton (The Artwork Newspaper) writes about Creuzet’s work and his latest win of the Etant donnés Prize:
English and Spanish could also be South Florida’s dominant languages, however there’s a French connection at Artwork Basel in Miami Seaside. The French Skilled Committee of Artwork Galleries and Villa Albertine—a community of artist residency programmes throughout the US created by the French Ministry for Europe and Overseas Affairs—awarded their $20,000 Etant donnés Prize to artist Julien Creuzet in a ceremony on 29 November on the Miami Seaside Botanical Backyard.
A Paris-based artist from the French Caribbean island of Martinique, Creuzet has works on view on the honest on the stands of each Excessive Artwork and Andrew Kreps (he additionally reveals with Chicago-based gallery Doc House). “Receiving an award in Miami is vital: this geography is a crossroads of historical past,” the artist stated. “I’m pondering of all of the women and men artists of Afro-diaspora tradition, I’m pondering of the French Caribbean scene which for a really very long time lacked gentle.”
Creuzet’s observe focuses on symbols and pictures that resonate throughout eras and cultures, which he renders from formed metallic hand-coated in vibrant plastic, textiles and located supplies. His work on the Excessive Artwork stand, which was nonetheless accessible the morning after the prize-giving ceremony and priced at €30,000, consists of the define of a cactus, a kind used throughout a number of civilisations to characterize mankind and a typical image for the solar, amongst different references.
“Julien all the time makes connections throughout Caribbean cultures,” says Excessive Artwork co-director Philippe Joppin. “This work is from a collection of three that he considers as amulets of kinds to guard towards lack of water.” [. . .]
For full article, see https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/01/julien-creuzet-villa-albertine-art-basel-miami-beach-etant-donnes-prize
[Photo above: Julien Creuzet’s Our secrets back to back, our secrets in our romances. Many torments, many dreams, many hallucinations, many fantasies before we fall asleep: meta and universe, tail of the dolphinfish (Coryphaena or Mahi-Mahi) drawn in the coat of arms of the Barbados islands, meta and universe, part of the ammonium nitrate molecule, fertilizer, meta and universe, leaves of Neurolaena lobata, «Herbe à pic» in the West Indies, known as a traditional treatment for wounds and infections, and used since 2020 against SarsCov2. Many torments, many dreams, many hallucinations, many fantasies before we fall asleep: meta and universe, sargassum baciferum, floating seaweed. Due to the increase in nitrates released by the Amazon, seaweed grow in large quantities in the Sargasso Sea and are then dropped off by the currents on the Caribbean beaches, meta and universe, part of 1956 american machine that produce ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer from the nitrogen in the air, meta and universe, head of one of the pink flamingo drawn in the coat of arms of the Turks and Caicos islands, meta and universe, last part of the ammonium nitrate formula (2022) in the Andrew Kreps stand at Art Basel in Miami Beach.]