Clément Bagot : Prix "Yishu 8" 2012 - APACC - Montreuil

Paris, 9 February 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).

Clément Bagot, Antoine Roegiers and Claire Tabouret, winners of the 2012 Yishu 8 Prize, will be introduced during a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on 7 March. The House of Arts dedicated to contemporary creation, to be inaugurated in Beijing on 26 March, will also be presented.

Born in Montreuil in 1972, Clément Bagot attended the Berçot studio in Paris, from which he graduated in 1992. He worked for a few years for Jean-Paul Gautier before starting to exhibit in 1996. He also works for cinema, making special effects for famous movies, such as Alain Chabat’sAsterix et Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, Jan Kounen’s Blueberry, and Brian de Palma’s Femme Fatale. His monumental sculptures, resembling scale models, for which he often uses geometry tools ( protractor, ruler, square), sometimes look like science fiction spaceships. According to Henry-Claude Cousseau, Yishu 8′s president, his work refers to Russian constructivism or to Kurt Schwitter’s merzbau.

Born in Braine-l’Alleud (Belgium) in 1980, graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris in 2007, Antoine Roegiers creates drawings, paintings and videos in which he transforms, animates, adapts, parodies classical style, notably Flemish painters of the 17^th century, that he combines with dreamlike visions, reminding of surrealism. Naturally inclined to humour, he is represented by the Guy Bärtschi gallery in Geneva.

Born in 1981, Claire Tabouret makes drawings and acrylic paintings, in which she often refers to political issues such as refugees, immigration through the representations of a tent, a rowboat, a raft and water, omnipresent in her artworks. Henry-Claude Cousseau calls her style “liquid”, creating a link with Chinese classical painting. The exhibition “The Island”, at Isabelle Gounod gallery, until 18 February, is entirely devoted to the artist.

Those three winners were offered a workshop in Beijing for three months, located near the House of Arts, as well as a logistical help and an exhibition bearing their names. In compensation, they have to participate to patronage operations and give one of their artworks to the association.

The 2011 Yishu 8 Prize had awarded Cécile Granier de Cassagnac, Patrick Neu and Lionel Sabatté.

Voir aussi : www.yishu-8.com