Call for applications: ADAGP & Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research Grant
ADAGP & Bétonsalon, sharing common vocations - working closely with artists, highlighting visual heritages and art history - co-created a research program that aims at developing the work of an artist on the circulation and reproduction of images, in relation to the research on the Marc Vaux Archive led with Centre Pompidou MNAM-CCI.
This grant, amounting to 20 000 euros, aims to accompany an artist in the development of a research, during 3 months, on problematics related to representation, production and dissemination of images, based on the Marc Vaux Archive and on academic research conducted on this archive. This research can be part of the field of art (rereading of art history, exploring unknown and marginalized life journeys, reflecting on the actual production of images...) but also in the wider field of the production of images in a world saturated with information (political, eco¬nomic, scientific, journalistic…).
The 20,000 euros of this grant are intended for covering the artist’s fees (5 000€), their production budget (10 000€), the costs of supporting their project (5 000€) and (if necessary) their accommo¬dation costs in Paris.
Initiated in 2017, this program is conceived as an artistic research platform dedicated to the experimentation of non-linear models of knowledge production and distribution between researchers, contemporary artists, associations, cultural institutions and the general public.
The former laureates were franck leibovici (2017), Liv Schulman (2018) and Euridice Zaituna Kala (2019).
This call is open to artists living or working in France.
The application must be sent before May 2, 2021.
Call for applications (in French).
About ADAGP
Created in 1953, ADAGP is the French royalty collecting and distribution society in the field of graphic and visual arts.
Supported by a global network of almost 50 sister companies, it currently represents more than 110 000 artists in all disciplines of visual arts: painting, sculpting, photography, architecture, design, comic strips, manga, illustrating, street art, digital creation, video art and so on.
ADAGP manages all the property rights held by artists (resale right, reproduction right, right of public communication, collective rights), for all modes of use: books, media, advertising, merchandise, auctions, gallery sales, television, video on demand, websites, user sharing platforms and so on.
Thanks to its rich, diverse catalogue, it is now one of the biggest collecting societies in the world.
About Marc Vaux Archive at Bibliothèque Kandinsky
A former carpenter who took up photography after being injured in the First World War, Marc Vaux began in the 1920s to carry his photographic chamber around the various artist studios of Montparnasse and Paris. By the early 1970s he had produced over 127 000 photographs. The study of this collection, which is now housed at the Centre Pompidou and whose digitization has just been completed, makes it possible to draw up a portrait of Paris as a creative centre with a hybrid and transnational language, nourished by individual histories or political and artistic commitments too often blended into the linearity of the official narratives of a homogenous modernity.
The fund can be consulted on the website Archives et documentation of the Centre Pompidou.
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