SongEun ArtSpace will present an exhibition titled Me and You in a Living Room : Artists from the Ricard Foundation Award, featuring eight promising young French artists selected amoung the past Ricard Awardees. The works featured in the exhibition are indicative of the way in which France’s artistic life has addressed facts and values, with a focus on the meaning of the art award and its role in the contemporary art scene.
Since 1999, the Ricard Foundation has annually awarded a young and talented French artist with the Ricard Foundation Award, in support of the contemporary art scene in France. To date, there are a total sixteen awardees whose works have been placed in the permanent collection of the Pompidou Museum. This presentation of the Ricard Foundation and its artists is the first in Korea, and it serves as a prelude to the upcoming extensive cultural exchange between France and Korea.
Guest Curator
Marie Canet
Artists
Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus, Mircea Cantor, Isabelle Cornaro, Natacha Lesueur, Benoît Maire, Adrian Missika, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Tatiana Trouvé / Total 9 artists
Fondation d’entreprise Ricard
Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, has committed to actively supporting young French artists or artists resideing in France within the domain of plastic arts for the past 10 years. Located in the heart of Paris, presided by Philippe Savinel and managed by Colette Barbier, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard organizes 6 exhibitions per year through the appointment of young curators who are given the opportunity and carte blanche to put on collective shows. A place of exchange and discussion, the Foundation also hosts lectures on contemporary art, sociology, literature, philosophy, performance as well as helps to fund the publication of artists' monographs and collective works.
The Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Ricard Foundation Award) is one of the most recognized in Europe for its innovative approach to an annual art award. In the process, one curator is selected per year to make a selection or recommendation of emerging young French artists or artists residing in France. From this selection results, an exhibition from which approximately 100 jurors from the art community come to cast their votes. The winner of the process is announced during the FIAC Art Fair. An art work is later acquired and then donated to be displayed in the permanent collection of the Pompidou Museum.
Pernod Ricard Korea
Pernod Ricard Korea is the Korean subsidiary of Pernod Ricard, a co-leader in the global Wines & Spirits industry. Pernod Ricard Korea has a large portfolio of premium international brands such as Ballantine’s, Chivas Regal and Royal Salute, The Glenlivet as well as local whisky including Imperial, Korea's representative whisky. What’s more, Pernod Ricard offers premium vodka Absolut, world-renowned coffee liqueur Kahlua, coconut liqueur Malibu, and Irish whisky Jameson, in addition to premium champagnes Perrier-Jouët and Mumm, and wines such as Jacob’s Creek and Brancott Estate.
Pernod Ricard Korea has continually strived to minimize the negative impact of alcohol such as excessive drinking and alcohol abuse. It adpoted the Smart Driving Campaign in order to promote a healthy and responsible drinking culture and the Check Mate Campaign to guide low-risk drinking for university students. In addition to these commendable programs, Pernod Ricard Korea, in order to further contribute Korean society, has granted a scholarship to support National Kukak Middle & High School, to preserve Korean traditional culture and co-operate with relevant agencies to develop local community.
