French artist laure prouvost opens her largest show ever at the. She received her bfa from central st martins, london in 2002 and studied towards her mfa at goldsmiths college, london. Through an ongoing inquiry into language, prouvost invites viewers into a world where boundaries are indefinite and reality and fantasy. 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 prouvost is pasting nudes all over copenhagen. Dec 03, 20 installation artist laure prouvost is named the winner of the 20 turner prize at an awards ceremony in londonderry, the uk city of culture 20. Laure prouvost explores the processes of narrative, translation and reflection, and the substantial miscommunications, cultural slippages, inventive opportunities. The turner prizewinning artist laure prouvost is known for her lush, immersive films and mixedmedia installations. 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.
Each of prouvosts posters is a digital reproduction of a handpainted sign complete with a sentence devised specifically for the underground in its recognisable johnston typeface, with even the corporate logos rendered in paint. Laure prouvost was born in lille, france 1978 and is currently based in antwerp. Buy a cheap copy of the artist book by laure prouvost. Expanding on macbeths layered ideas of translation and misinterpretation prouvost transposes the text into. A french artist who examines our relationship with the past using the technology of the instagram generation has been named the surprise winner of the turner prize. Narrated in the artists soft, seductive voice, they are interspersed with spoken and written instructions that.
Laure prouvost was the rank outsider from a particularly strong 20 shortlist that included the higherprofile artists tino seghal and david shrigley. Dec 09, 2016 the solo exhibition gdm grand dads visitor center by laure prouvost, is a gesamtkunstwerk that brings together over fifteen works, including installations, videos and projections, sculptures and found objects. Londonbased artist and filmmaker laure prouvosts humorous short films employ storytelling to construct precisely edited narratives that toy with language and association. 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 prouvost the hidden paintings grandma improved, on. 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. The artists biography that opens laure prouvosts the artist book is, like her films, an exercise in translation and reception, authorship and authority. During her early years in london, she worked as an assistant to john latham british, 19212006, a conceptual artist well known for examining the. Prouvost has been nominated for the turner prize 20. Aug 04, 2015 artist laure prouvost has an unusual solo show this month at rupert, an arts center in vilnius, lithuania best known for her films and installations, prouvost won the 20 turner prize for her. Laure prouvost artists profile the saatchi gallery.
An edition of 100 hand made earthenware teapots approx 20 x 20 x 14cm made as part of laure prouvost s wantee project for the schwitters in britain exhibition at tate britain and which won her the 20 turner prize. Yet, much like classic structuralist film, prouvost is keen to expose the mechanical components and basic limitations of the medium. Marc latzel the blue path led me straight to prouvosts video installation wantee 20, which takes up the story of the artists artiste manque grandfather. Laure prouvost is filling the city of copenhagen with naked bodies.
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. Laure prouvost is a frenchborn artist who resides and works in london, england. Like her art, the book is fastpaced and full of quick turns and surprises. Nov 22, 2011 image caption prouvost was born in lille, france. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your. She studied film at central saint martins in london between 1999 and 2002, and later attended goldsmiths college.
Language in its broadest sense permeates the video, sound, installation and performance work of laure prouvost. Laure prouvosts the wanderer is a multifaceted film and installation project based on rory macbeths english translation of franz kafkas metamorphosis, a text completed despite macbeths inability to speak the german language. Laure prouvost, the artist representing france in the. Turner prize 20 nominee laure prouvost uses the idea of the artists book as biography, juxtaposing formal devices with mininarratives, images, and additional handwritten notes. Laure prouvost installation and video artist youtube.
In 2011, londonbased french artist laure prouvost was announced the winner of the fourth max mara art prize for women. The show spread through the entire 10 th avenue gallery space and included two years of artistic production. She lives and works in london, uk and antwerp, belgium. Works like it, heat, hit, owt and the artistamong many othersapproach storytelling through frenetic, nonlinear progressions and cuts. The artists biography that opens laure prouvost s the artist book is, like her films, an exercise in translation and reception, authorship and authority. Laure prouvosts art is full of wit, poetry, humor, stories, and unforeseen twists. Laure prouvost is a contemporary french artist known for her multimedia installations and performances. Prouvosts, by contrast, is a mischievous pickandmix of ironic artspeak in the artist, pointing to a scribble on a page, the narrator tells us, its a conceptual piece. The week before the venice biennale opened, there was a rumor circulating that laure prouvost was digging a. Following her residency at the british school at rome and at the cittadellarte fondazione pistoletto in biella, prouvost presented an installation inspired by the aesthetic and sensuous pleasures of. Her installation wantee, for instance, which earned her.
See more ideas about artistic installation, art viewer and wall text. For her inaugural new york exhibition, laure prouvost presents an immersive installation. The turner prizewinning artist has created a series of comically dismembered boobs, butts and crotches that will run loose in the streets in the run up to the chart art fair in early september. 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 2019, she is representing france at the venice biennale with the multimedia work the deep blue sea surrounding you. May 21, 2018 french artist laure prouvost poses with her work wantee, a video installation set in a mock tea party, after she was announced as the winner of the 20 turner prize. Recieved her bfa from central st martins, london 2002 and her mfa from goldsmiths college, london 2010. Laure prouvost 1978 is a french artist who lives and works in london. It was almost inevitable for french conceptual artist laure prouvost to explore the intricate nature of language in her art. Click here to view slideshow full gallery of images and link available after the jump. Based in london and new york, the englishlanguage publication is part of a network of. The artist studied film at central saint martins csm and also attended goldsmiths, which is part of the university of london. Dec 02, 20 a french artist who examines our relationship with the past using the technology of the instagram generation has been named the surprise winner of the turner prize laure prouvost was the rank. Narratives seem to emerge spontaneously from what seems to be your immediate environment without much premedit. Laure prouvost wins turner prize 20 art and design the. Laure prouvost was born in lille, france and is currently based in antwerp. A crosssection of the turner prize winning artists moving image and sound work presented as part of the ica artists moving image network. The artist was recipient of the max mara prize in 2012 and the turner prize in 20.
Laure prouvost, as grandma prayed for grandad to come back this cup levitated for a few seconds, 2014. 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. 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. Or, rather, an exercise in mistranslation and obfuscation, authorlessness and with a nod to georges bataille, who unwittingly provides the books cover formlessness. Artist laure prouvost is exhibiting a new work, farfromwords, at londons whitechapel gallery. Artist laure prouvost joins exhibition curator victoria sung for a conversation about prouvosts work and the development of they are waiting for you. She is a french artist that experiments with painting and installations. The weird conceptual universe of the artist laure prouvost ahead of representing france at the venice biennale, the turner prizewinner talks about creating her semifictional world share on. 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. In 2019, she represented france at the venice biennale with the multimedia work the deep blue sea surrounding you. Laure prouvost emerging artists and new contemporary art. Buy and sell signed multiples and original paintings at fair prices on llery. With a practice that encompasses painting, sculpture, performance and tapestry, french artist laure prouvost is perhaps most known for her immersive and nonlinear film installations. 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.
Laure prouvost, you are deeper than what you think, heathrow terminal 4 station, 2019. Max mara art prize for women by herrmann, daniel f. A lecture by artist and 20 turner prize winner laure prouvost, whose first u. Laure prouvosts art is full of wit, poetry, humor, stories, and unforeseen twists and. Laure prouvost, an artist of theories and influences the.
Additional support provided by leni and david moore, jr. Here, the turner prizewinning artist laure prouvost explains the role of tea in her work and life through a 15yearold tea bag once used by her grandparents partly fictional characters central. 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. Laure prouvost is an artist living and working in antwerp, belgium. In 2002, she received her bfa from central st martins, london and studied towards her mfa at goldsmiths college, london. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Laure prouvost swallow me, from italy to flanders, a tapestry, 2015.
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. However, laure prouvosts work includes the art forms of collage, installation, and film in combination. She has toured salt istanbul, pirelli hangarbiocca and the walker art center in the last two years alone. Laure prouvost was born in 1978 in croixlille, france. Laure prouvosts most recent exhibition in new york at lisson gallery 9 march14 april 2018 was a gesamtkunstwerk of sorts. Laure prouvost 1978 is an artist born in 1978 the oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a painting sold in 2015, at christies, and the most recent auction result is a objects sold in 2019. Laure prouvost wins turner prize 20 art and design. The provocative and eloquent film monolog won the 56th oberhausen short film principal prize in 2010. Laure prouvost, the artist representing france in the venice. Laure prouvost turns commuter misery into joy elephant. Laure prouvost we would be floating away from the dirty.
Prouvosts work moves between film, performance, sound and site specific installation, it often plays with the relationship between director, performer, audience and the architecture of viewing. 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. In 2019, she will represent france at the 58th biennale of venice. Laure prouvost, london art book fair, whitechapel gallery, london.
Published on the occasion of laure prouvosts solo exhibition ring, sing and drink. First shown at mmk frankfurt in 2016 and reconfigured for the exhibition, this hypnagogic environment, replete with watercoolers, plants. An artist on the magical importance of a 15yearold tea. Laure prouvost artist biography original signed artworks. The artist was lost in grand mas dream the abandoned artist studio got improved since grand dad has been lost in the tunnels of histories, grand dad is a conceptual artist whos last piece was to digg a tunnel to africa without the authority knowing about it, all for the love of wantee during their tea parties as there is no more love among. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Prouvost was born in croix, an upscale suburb of lille. Laure prouvost, wantee, 20, installation view, kunstmuseum lucerne, 2016. New visual language of laure prouvost fascinates walker. All the very breast, laure prouvost, she signs off in the books introduction. Oct 23, 2015 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. Laure prouvost seduces at whitechapel gallery video interview french artist laure prouvost speaks to adrian searle about her new twopart installation at whitechapel gallery in london.
Laure prouvost is digging a tunnel between the french and. Laure prouvost born 1978 is a french artist living and working in antwerp, belgium. Laure prouvost at the ica 26 november 2010 in contrast to laure prouvosts sensuous work of complex racing sound, texts and images presented in bloomberg new contemporaries 2010, charlie is a light, fresh and ironic short video composed around her grandfather, a conceptual artist. Laure prouvost, you are deeper than what you think, art on the underground, heathrow t4, 2019.
Learn about the artist and see available works for sale. 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. Laure prouvost wins turner prize 20 french video and multimedia artist is surprise winner of uks most prestigious art prize at ceremony in derry, northern ireland published. Laure prouvost other resources the saatchi gallery. Dec 03, 20 laure prouvost wins turner prize 20 french video and multimedia artist is surprise winner of uks most prestigious art prize at ceremony in derry, northern ireland published. Laure prouvost studied film at central saint martins and goldsmiths. The video installation is the result of a 6month long residency in italy as part of the max mara art prize for women. This volume takes its name from antwerpbased french artist laure prouvosts born 1978 first major solo exhibition in italy, gathering over 15 worksinstallation, videos and projections, sculptures and found objectsas a museum dedicated to prouvosts grandfather. 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, they are waiting for you, 2017 laure prouvost.
French, antwerpbased artist laure prouvost born 1978 combines collage, installation and film. Mellon foundation, the national endowment for the arts, and the william and nadine mcguire commissioning fund. Looking at you looking at us at galerie nathalie obadia laure prouvost shot to artworld fame in 20 when she became the first french artist to be awarded the turner prize. These and other sections demonstrate prouvosts peculiar and complex navigation of influence, humour. Having moved to london after high school to study design and the arts, she speaks both english and french fluently.
Laure prouvost laure prouvost uses the irresistible pull of the narrative tradition within film to seduce and entertain the viewer with witty and mesmerising juxtapositions of text and image. 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. Born in 1978 in lille, france, laure prouvost lives and works in london, uk. The weird conceptual universe of the artist laure prouvost. Laure prouvost artist bio and art for sale artspace. French artist laure prouvost has won the max mara art prize for women for her film and installation work.
Prouvost was also elected to represent france at the upcoming venice biennale, and before that, in march 2019 the artist will release a new performance titled they are waiting for you at performatik19, the brussels biennial for performance art. Multidisciplinary art sensation laure prouvost will represent. Artist laure prouvosts solo show at londons whitechapel. Biography and art, auction, artworks, interview, statement, website. She was winner of the turner prize 20 for her exhibition farfromwords at the whitechapel gallery, london, which toured to collezione maramotti, reggio emilia, italy and her film installation wantee, as part of schwitters in britain, tate britain, london. 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. Prouvosts environments often confound expectations through a rapidfire succession of sound and image. The art newspaper is the journal of record for the visual arts world, covering international news and events. They are waiting for you is made possible with generous support from the andrew w. For forgetting is on view at the new museum from february 12april, 2014, and is curated by margot norton, assistant curator. However, laure prouvost s work includes the art forms of collage, installation, and film in combination.
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