19 Feb 2014
The 2012 and 2013 winners of Le Meurice Prize for contemporary art, Alexandre Singh and Neil Beloufa, will both be exhibiting in leading London galleries until the 29 March, conveying the impact the prize has on helping young artists gain further recognition.
In its seventh year, Le Meurice Prize for contemporary art highlights the hotel’s ongoing commitment to promoting and nurturing young artists in order to support them on an ever-competitive international stage. The prize offers the winner a €20,000 endowment and embraces all types of artistic mediums; from painting and sculpture to photography and video seen through the contrasting styles of these two winning artists.
Alexandre Singh, the 2012 Le Meurice Prize winner who also acted as a judge at the 2013 final, is currently exhibiting his winning piece – the Greek tragedy The Humans - at the Spruth Magers gallery. This is the first production written and directed by Alexandre Singh, which premiered to critical acclaim at the Roterdamnse Schouwburg in Rotterdam and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York with positive reviews in a variety of media including the New York Times and Art in America Magazine.
The piece is set over the three floors of the gallery encompassing Heaven, Earth and Hell. Two screenings of Singh’s production are shown on a daily basis on the ground floor (Earth), a variety of photographs and sculptures of various characters from his play are displayed on the lower-ground floor and the top floor (Heaven) showcases more photographs – each character with an ethereal glow about them enhanced by strategically placed white lighting.
Last year’s winner, Neil Beloufa, is exhibiting his work at the David Roberts Art Foundation. The exhibition aims at tracing a growing interest in ‘polluted’ systems and processes, featuring artists who employ strategies and metaphors of spillage, disruption, and contamination. The changing relationship between objects and environments and how the effects of this shift on the place of the subject makes the artwork an arena in which boundaries can be remade and unmade, or at least examined anew.
This year’s Le Meurice Prize will take place in October with the judging panel and competitors being announced on 5 June 2014 at The Grand Palais.
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