Laure prouvost to produce new art on the underground. New moving images from the uk a dvd of film and video art presented by. In november 2011 laure prouvost was announced as winner of the max mara art prize that includes a sixmonth residency in italy based at the british school in rome, and at the cittadellarte fondazione pistoletto in biella. Laure prouvost wins turner prize 20 art and design. These and other sections demonstrate prouvost s peculiar and complex navigation of influence, humour, art history and methodologies that informs her idiosyncratic language.
Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. First publication ever to provide a complete survey of the artists oeuvre to date. Laure prouvost installation and video artist youtube. Born in france and currently based in antwerp, belgium, prouvost has had solo exhibitions at major art. Turner prize nominee laure prouvost uses the idea of the artists book as biography, juxtaposing formal devices with mininarratives, images, and additional handwritten notes. Legsicon delves into the philosophical depths of the artists practice, through the familiar, if transformed, format of a lexicon, to portray the work of an artist. This volume takes its name from antwerpbased french artist laure prouvosts born. Join french visual artist laure prouvost and hirshhorn assistant curator betsy johnson as they discuss prouvosts multimedia practice, which explores the blurred relationships between language and meaning, and fiction and reality. Laure prouvost is a contemporary french artist known for her multimedia installations and performances. The frenchbritish artist laure prouvost has been commissioned by art on the underground to create a major new artwork. Art world multidisciplinary art sensation laure prouvost will represent france at the 2019 venice biennale. See more ideas about artistic installation, wall text and fashion installation. In 2019, she will represent france at the 58th biennale of venice.
Book works is a publisher of artists books and a bookbinding studio. Laure prouvosts surreal, mazelike installation dedicated to her grandfather in milans pirelli hangarbicocca. Laure prouvost studied film at central saint martins and goldsmiths. In translating video, painting and sound onto the printed pages prouvost instills the object with emotion and a sensorial selfawareness, and invites the reader to. Her work has featured in solo exhibitions including art now lightbox at tate britain, london 2010, frieze frame at frieze art fair, london 2010 and burrow me at lighthouse, brighton 2009. Laure prouvost artist bio and art for sale artspace. Laure prouvost, you are deeper than what you think, art on the underground. In translating video, painting and sound onto the printed pages prouvost instills. The artist book includes multivoiced biographies by anonymous contributors, that combine illustrated fantasies, anecdotes and vignettes of the artist, alongside collages of the artist s studio, personal communications and a film on paper. The artist was recipient of the max mara prize in 2012 and the turner prize in 20. A book published by whitechapel gallery in collaboration with collezione.
Additional support provided by leni and david moore, jr. Multidisciplinary art sensation laure prouvost will. Her installation wantee, for instance, which earned her. Inviting friends and other artists and performers he admires to keep us company, cattelan imagined. Learn about the artist and see available works for sale. French artist laure prouvost speaks to adrian searle about her new twopart installation at whitechapel gallery in london.
French, antwerpbased artist laure prouvost born 1978 combines collage, installation and film. World premiere laure prouvost in collaboration with sam belinfante and pierre droulers. Laure prouvost m hka, museum of contemporary art antwerp. Provost was the winner of the principle prize at the 2011 oberhausen short film festival. Known for her immersive and mixedmedia installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, prouvost s work addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation.
Or, rather, an exercise in mistranslation and obfuscation, authorlessness and with a nod to georges bataille, who unwittingly provides the books cover formlessness. The work of 20 turner prize nominee laure prouvostmoves between film, performance, sound and sitespecific installation. Laure prouvost was born in 1978 in croixlille, france. In 2011, prouvost won the maxmara art prize for women and was the recipient of the turner prize in 20. That i am experiencing laure prouvosts immersive melting into one another ho hot chaud it heating dip at kunsthalle lissabon from behind my laptop screen is. French artist laure prouvost surprise winner of turner. As part of a series of new digital initiatives that new museum is presenting online, bedtime stories sees the likes of iggy pop, rashid johnson, maya lin and laure prouvost narrate passages from existing works or even original writings in an unfiltered fashion. Laure prouvost explores the processes of narrative, translation and reflection, and the. The artist and the bunker, shanaynay, paris images festival, toronto film. They are waiting for you is made possible with generous support from the andrew w. Maurizio cattelans surreal series of bedtime stories. Provoust s first artist book extends her preoccupations with the occurrence of mis translations, in which objects, stories, or scene are transformed through film, video and in this case, onto the printed page.
Situated at the entrance to the gallery, it looks like an unkempt and outdated version of an art gallerys normally pristine front desk featuring a guest book, a stack of. The gallery space will be transformed into a subterranean travel agency, deep travel ink, 2016 with ambiguous function, purported to belong to the artists uncle. She was the winner of the max mara art prize for women in 2011 in collaboration with the whitechapel gallery and has had solo shows at numerous internationally renowned establishments including tate britain, the new museum, new york, and the institute of contemporary arts, london. The turner prizewinning artist laure prouvost is known for her lush, immersive films and mixedmedia installations. Laure prouvost graduated from goldsmiths college in 2010. Entering laure prouvosts studio in east london, which she has sublet for the past five years, i am taken aback by its modesty of scale. Provoust s first artist book extends her preoccupations with the occurrence of mis translations, in which objects, stories, or scene are transformed through film, video and in this. Laure prouvost, the artist representing france in the. It often plays with the relationship between director, performer, audience and the architecture of viewing. Laure prouvost, ideally some big shelf with beautiful books be here. Actress saoirse ronan announced the award at a ceremony in. For her inaugural new york exhibition, laure prouvost presents an immersive installation. Swallow all works 20, the central video of this twopart installation, is a meditation on pleasure, seen through the eyes of a hypothetical aesthete on the. This is a special limited edition of the artist book, each with a unique artwork, sized and folded like a dust jacket for the special hardback version of the book.
In her current show, laure prouvost, a frenchborn artist who won the turner prize in 20, combines the punchy urgency of movie trailers with ideas derived from film and literary and. They are waiting for you at walker art center in minneapolis. Last year, the contemporary art society purchased monolog for the whitworth art gallery, university of manchester. The prize also includes funding for the winning artist to produce a new work. The best new art books your 2020 reading list christies. Laure prouvost seduces at whitechapel gallery video. The artist book includes multivoiced biographies by anonymous contributors, that combine illustrated fantasies, anecdotes and vignettes of the artist, alongside collages of the artists studio, personal communications and a film on paper. Laure prouvost, the artist representing france in the venice biennale, wants you to know shes a bigtime liar her largest exhibition yet opens today at the museum of contemporary art. These and other sections demonstrate prouvosts peculiar and complex navigation of influence, humour.
The event will be accompanied by screenings of film works by the artist. Prouvost, winner of the max mara art prize for women, discusses swallow. Her international career is a reflection of the dynamism of the french art. The artist laure prouvost born 1978, lille, france. Graeme robertson for the guardian prouvost, 35, is a french artist but studied in london at goldsmiths and. Laure prouvost was born in lille, france and works in london. Laure prouvost in collaboration with sam belinfante and. Laure prouvost, the hepworth, wakefield the wanderer betty drunk, art exchange, colchester it heat hit, black box gallery part of fourth wall series, vox populi, philadelphia the artist and the bunker, shanaynay, paris images festival, toronto film. Laure prouvosts most recent exhibition in new york at lisson gallery 9 march14 april 2018 was a gesamtkunstwerk of sorts.
Eager to see the art in laure prouvosts first solo exhibition at lisson gallery in new york, visitors might breeze through its central installation. Artist laure prouvosts solo show at londons whitechapel. In translating video, painting and sound onto the printed pages prouvost. The video installation is the result of a 6month long residency in italy as part of the max mara art prize for women. The show spread through the entire 10 th avenue gallery space and included two years of artistic production. The artist book, laure prouvost, book works motto distribution. Digital pigment print on somerset photo satin 300gsm. Like her art, the book is fastpaced and full of quick turns and surprises. This print has been generously donated by new artist patron laure prouvost as part of book works 35th anniversary programme of support towards their new commissions. In his large 480 pages monograph first published in october 2019 in german he manages not to look at the phenomenon of richter, but at the artists paintings and. Laure prouvost, an artist of theories and influences the. Known for her immersive and mixedmedia installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, prouvosts work addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation.
A lecture by artist and 20 turner prize winner laure prouvost, whose first u. This ambitious citywide series of posters will takeover advertising sites across all 270 london underground stations will be her first uk public commission. Legsicon delves into the philosophical depths of the artists practice, through the. Laure prouvost artists profile the saatchi gallery. Laure prouvost we would be floating away from the dirty. Interested in confounding linear narratives and expected associations among words, images, and meaning, she has said that in her works fiction and reality get really tangled. Laure prouvost was born in lille, france and is currently based in antwerp. First shown at mmk frankfurt in 2016 and reconfigured for the exhibition, this hypnagogic environment, replete with watercoolers, plants. She lives and works in london, uk and antwerp, belgium.
Mellon foundation, the national endowment for the arts, and the william and nadine mcguire commissioning fund. The romantic and explosive stories behind arts greatest couples. A rising star in the global art world, the french, londonbased artist laure prouvost is recognized for her confounding nonlinear films and immersive environmental installations. After receiving the max mara prize for women 2011, prouvost was the first french artist to win the prestigious turner prize for contemporary british artists andor living in greatbritain. Prouvost was selected to represent france at the 58th venice biennale in 2019. Born in france, laure prouvost received the max mara prize for women, 2012, and will be exhibiting new work at whitechapel gallery and tate britain in spring, 20. Artist laure prouvost is exhibiting a new work, farfromwords, at londons whitechapel gallery. The artists biography that opens laure prouvosts the artist book is, like her films, an exercise in translation and reception, authorship and authority. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new. Language in its broadest sense permeates the video, sound, installation and performance work of laure prouvost.
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