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Fellowships:

First international Kempinski Fellowship in visual arts (Istanbul and Berlin)
Mentor: David Galloway, curator and art critic (ARTnews and International Herald Tribune)
Organization: Marylea van Daalen, Moscow

The prize will will culminate with a solo show in both cities, entitled ’shapes of existence’.

 

Some of the most accomplished and influential figures in the history of art are those who have pushed beyond the horizon in search of inspiration. One can think of J.M.W. Turner on his voyages from London to Venice or of Paul Gauguin’s stays in the South Seas as particularly dramatic examples. Such explorers encountered intensities of light and color that were not available in their own native cultures, and they often experienced rituals and customs and aesthetic attitudes that challenged or enriched their own. In his seemingly endless curiosity to experience other cultures and landscapes and peoples, the visual artist can be seen as an unofficial ambassador, but also as a pioneer in the move toward globalization.

David Galloway

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Pascal Robert (2009)

Born in Berne in 1978 to a French-Vietnamese father and a Swiss mother, Robert studied architecture in Berne from 1995 to 2000 and then concentrated on the visual arts from 2001 to 2007 at the Geneva University of Art and Design. He currently works in Geneva and Berlin but has proved especially resourceful in organizing projects that give him hands-on experience with other cultures – most recently in London and Maastricht, where he was invited to participate in group-exhibitions with works created in situ.

A major theme of Robert’s oeuvre is what he terms “the construction of individual identity,” along with the relationship between the individual and the collective consciousness. To cite only a single example, in a series of large, abstract portraits, the artist has entered into a sort of dialogue with the persons depicted and summarized the results in a collage of geometric structures that for him expresses the essence of the person depicted. The art critic Oliver Orest Tschirky has spoken of the results as “topographies of the self.”

Pascal Robert works in other media as well, including video and photography. The processes and practices of everyday life are often thematized here – once more, as an attempt to clarify the construction of individual identity. In what he terms “public interventions,” Pascal Robert has also explored changing family structures, and he has conceived a project for Porto Alegre, Brazil, entitled “What’s inside your luggage?” The latter addresses issued raised by migration and its shifting patterns. On the whole, this artist’s intercultural, interdisciplinary work, combined with his curiosity, makes him a deserving recipient of the first international Kempinski Fellowship in visual arts.

David Galloway, Mentor

July 16, 2009

 

 

Past group exhibition (2009):

‘I am by birth a Genevese’

Forde, Geneva (CH), www.forde.ch
September 09 – October 03, 2009

Opening reception: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 from 6.30 – 9 p.m.

Address: 11, rue de la Coulouvrenière, 1204 Geneva (CH)

 

Artists: John Armleder, Dragan Aleksic, Emil Anderfuhren, Solvej Dufour Andersen, Omar Ba, Alex Baladi,Francis Baudevin, Pierre Belouin, Ben Vautier, Jacob Benjama, Sophie Caroline Bernhard, Donatella Bernardi, Alexandre Bianchini, Vanessa Bianchini, Pierre Bismuth, Christian Billi, Vanessa Billy, Jean-Luc Blanc, Michel Blazy, Amie Bolissian, Kim Seob Boninsegni, Jacques Bonnard, Thomas Bonny, Laurence Bonvin, Olaf Breuning, Tarramo Broennimann, Marc Calame, Frank Capra, Bettina Carl, Adrien Chevalley, Fabien Clerc, Genevieve Closuit, Claudia Comte, Jean Crotti, Charles Cuccu, Richard Decaillet, Pascal Decaillet, Fouad Dumontier, Hadrien Dussoix, Saskia Edens, Phillippe d Eliopoulos, Anne-Sophie Estoppey, Chris Faria, Joseph Farine, Fred Favre, Estelle Ferreira, Joelle Flumet, Toby Frankenstein, David Fryer, Christopher Fullemann, Francesca Gabbiani, Thomas Galler, Aurelien Gamboni, Anne Gast, Gerber & Gerber, Olivier Genoud, Stephen Gill, Geraldine Gliubislavich, Clare Goodwin, Christian Gonzenbach, Alois Godinat, Christian Graser, Wade Guyton, Fabrice Gygi,Herve Graumann,Alex Hanimann, Alain Huck, Richard Hoeck, David Hominal, Robert Irelande, Francois Jeannin, Alexandre Joly, Raphael Julliard, Carl June, Nicole Hassler, Heringa / Van Kalsbeek, Gauthier Huber, Alex Hudson, Greg Hug, Francois Jeannin, Fabio Jaramillo, Julien Kaeser, San Keller, Thomas Koenig, Andreas Kressig, Isamu Krieger,Elke Krystufek, Sarah Lis, Balthazar Lovay, Brighid Lowe, Urs Lüthi, Christian Marclay, Angela Marzullo, Stephen McDonald, Jeff McMillan, Merlu,John Miller, Valentina Mirkovic dos Santos, Christian Moeller, David Monnet, Elena Montesinos, Lucia More, Claudio Moser, Olivier Mosset, Gianni Motti, Melodie Mousset, Paul Noble, Karim Noureldin,Amy O´Neill, Tim Phillips, Matthieu Pilloud, Beatriz Pedrera, Mai-Thu Perret, Gianmose Petazzi, Marie-France Perret-Gentil, MR Magic , Charlemagne Palestine, Steven Parrino, Valentina Pini,Walter Pfeiffer, Yann Leopold Popper, Laure Prouvost, Theodora Quiriconi, Richard Le Quellec, Adam Rabinowitz, Gerald Rast, Helge Reumann, Christophe Rey, Nicolas Rieben, Riond, Xavier Robel, Anne Rochat, Pascal Robert, Sylvie Rodriguez, Sandra Roth, Pascal Rousson, Daniel Ruggiero, Eddie Ruscha, Christophe Rutimann, Aline Saigne, Djonam Saltani, Rebecca Sauvin, Pierre Schwerzmann, Francesca Serra, Peter Stoffel, Marion Tampon-Lajarriette, John Tremblay, Gabriel Truan, James Unsworth, Nicolas Vagnieres, Benjamin Valenza, Ilan Vanbros, Marie Velardi, Jean-Luc Verna, Sandrine Viscomi, Morten Viskum, Jean-Philippe Volonter, Nicolas Wagnieres, Patrick Weidmann, Simon Willems, Barbara Yvelin, Olivier Zimermann, Zorro & Bernardo

 

 

‘I am by birth a Genevese’
Image: 2009 ©Alexander Bianchini, Geneva

  

‘I am by birth a Genevese’
Image: 2009 ©Pascal Rousson, London

 

‘I am by birth a Genevese’
Image: 2009 ©Pascal Rousson, London