Artistes Du Monde Cannes
Artists from around the World at Cannes Palais des Festivals
The association «Artistes du Monde» (Artists from around the World), under the patronage of Marina Picasso, organized with the help of the City of Cannes and the Palais des Festivals an international exhibition that brought together some one hundred artists from 20 countries. From July 19 to 24, 2011, painters and sculptors have exhibited at Palais des Festivals in the Mediterranean Hall. A professional Jury as well as the public awarded the «Artists from around the World Cannes» Trophies, the City of Cannes Golden Palm and nearby cities Golden Palms.
Awards:
Jury Prize: Mr Dan MAHLER (Israël)
Prize of contemporary creation as founder of the Artists around the World Festival: Mr Guy WEIL (France)
Prize of Editions Museum of Culture : Mr Francès JOSEP (Espagne)
Prize of the magazine Univers des Arts: Mr Paul SIBUET (France)
City of Mougins Prize : Mr Georges MAZILU (France)
City of Nice Prize: Mr Jacki COLSON (France)
City of Mandelieu La Napoule Prize : Mrs Brigitte THONHAUSER-MERK (Autriche)
City of Le Cannet Prize: Mrs Nita BERTAUDIERE (France)
2d Sculpture Prize: Mrs Paquita COLADO (France)
1st Sculpture Prize: Mr ERICKH (France)
3rd Painting Prize: Mrs Pina MORLINO (Italie)
2d Painting Prize: Mrs Soon Wha SHIN (Corée)
1st Painting Prize: Mr Vladimir KUSH ( USA)
Honorary degree with honors: Mr Vladimir MIKLAILOV (Russie)
Honorary degree with honors: Mr Fred MAZUIR (France)
City of Cannes Prize: Mr Gian-Maria GIANNETTI (Italie )
Public’s Prize: Mme Béatrice SERRE (France) Prix spécial Artists from around the World Prize: Mme Béatrice SERRE (France)
On July 22 at the Palais des Festivals, the Jury made of its president, Mr Antoine ANTOLINI (Director of research center in art and heritage academy Europe), Mr Dominique HURTEBIZE (Gallery owner in Cannes), Mrs Marion PETITDIDIER (his collaborator), Mme Nathalie BOYERA (cultural attachée of the City of Cannes) and Mr Jean-Louis AVRIL (Revue l'Univers des arts) presented the awards to the artists.
Focus on sculptor Dominque de Seguin
French sculptor Dominique de Seguin lives and work near Paris. With her laser-cut (or waterjet-cut) sculptures, Dominique de Seguin practices Lao Tseu’s «plenitude of emptiness», giving birth to a work of art by taking away a sculpture from a sheet of metal or marble after a drawing, thus producing an emptiness, that give all its meaning to the work of art. But the part that is cut becomes also a sculpture! Both work of art contain an harmony of solid and empty figures that give all its strength to the sculpture. The two works of art are not exhibited at the same place, inviting the amateur to an initiatory voyage between two locations to discover them. The third dimension to Dominique’s sculptures is the emptiness that even allows to create colors by turning empty parts of the sculpture to the sky, by instance, to give blue. The emptiness in her sculpture let the amateur’s imagination work. Dominique is happy not to own the meaning of her work: it lives in the eye of the one who feel an emotion in front of it. She calls her concept and artistic approach «Ecology-New technology» as her producing sculptures leaves no scrap and is respectful of the environment. In Nice, in addition to the Parc Phoenix, Dominique’s sculpture have found their place in a police station and in the Moulins prison. For Dominique, the art has a place up around the city, and even in prison, it must raise the artistic part of the human.
