Fondation Carmignac

The Fondation Carmignac was founded by Edouard Carmignac in 2000 to support contemporary artists. The foundation maintains an international collection, the annual Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism award and the Foundation project open to the public on the preserved site of Porquerolles, Var, France.

Fondation Carmignac
Location within Paris
Established2000
Location24 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris, France
Coordinates48.860339°N 2.337599°E / 48.860339; 2.337599
Typecontemporary art
DirectorCharles Carmignac
Websitewww.fondation-carmignac.com

History

Financier Édouard Carmignac established Fondation Carmignac, a corporate collection, in 2000.[1] The collection is on display at Carmignac Gestion's headquarters in Paris, and offices in London, Madrid, Milan, Frankfurt, Luxembourg and Zurich.

Carmignac first visited Porquerolles island in the 1980s and acquired the property with its 15 hectares of land. Architects GM Architectes Associés unable to build on protected land, burrowed into it to create 2,000 m2 (22,000 sq ft) of subterranean exhibition space with vast landscape windows that offer framed views of the surrounding nature from inside the galleries.[2][3] Initially planned to open in 2014, the space opened in 2018.[4]

The opening exhibition in 2018 focused on Carmignac’s own 300-strong collection of Pop and postmodern artworks.[5]

Collection

Originally centred on Pop Art and the German Expressionist School, the Carmignac corporate collection has more than 250 works from the 20th and 21st centuries, including artwork by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andreas Gursky, Keith Haring, Martial Raysse, Zhang Huan, Korakrit Ayunanondchaï, Richard Prince and Sterling Ruby.

Commissioned works for Porquerolles include Ugo Rondinone’s Four Seasons (2018), a ring of gurning silver heads, and Olaf Breuning’s Mother Nature (2018), a big red tufty-haired face.[6]

The Carmignac Photojournalism Award

Created in 2009, and directed by Emeric Glayse, the Carmignac Photojournalism Award supports each year the production of an investigative photographic report on a region of the world where fundamental rights are threatened. Endowed with a €50,000 research grant, the laureate carries out their reportage with the support of the Foundation which organizes, upon their return, a travelling exhibition and the publication of a monograph. The foundation annually acquires four photographs from the winner’s portfolio.[7]

In 2016, the Photojournalism Award retrospective 2009–2015 at Saatchi Gallery was the most visited photojournalism exhibition.

In 2016, the 7th laureate, the photojournalist Narciso Contreras, brought back the first proofs of slavery in Libya.[8][9][10]

Past winners:

  • 2009 : Kai Wiedenhöfer, Gaza : The Book of Destruction
  • 2010 : Massimo Berruti, Pashtunistan : Lashkars
  • 2011 : Robin Hammond, Zimbabwe : Your wounds will be named silence
  • 2012 : Davide Monteleone, Chechnya : Spasibo
  • 2013 : Newsha Tavakolian, Iran : Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album
  • 2014 : Christophe Gin, French Guiana : Colony
  • 2015 : Narciso Contreras, Libya: A Human Marketplace
  • 2016 : Lizzie Sadin, The trap - Trafficking of women in Nepal
  • 2017 : Yuri Kozyrev & Kadir van Lohuizen, Arctic: New Frontier (chaired by climatologist Jean Jouzel, co-laureate of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize)
  • 2018 : Tommaso Protti, Amazônia (chaired by Yolanda Kakabadse, former president of WWF)
  • 2019 : The 11th edition is dedicated to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Porquerolles project

The Foundation has plans to open new premises in 2016 on the island of Porquerolles (Var, France), in the heart of the Port-Cros National Park. The site will be open to the public and will show temporary exhibitions and artworks which will be created in situ for the museum and sculpture park.

The change of use for the existing building, a Provençal country house that is typical of the local architecture, requires a re-design which will be conducted by architect GMAA. The Carmignac Foundation commissioned landscape architect Louis Benech for the design of the gardens.

References
  1. Hannah McGivern (June 1, 2018), 'A privileged space, remote from it all': Fondation Carmignac opens on island off the southern coast of France The Art Newspaper.
  2. Caroline Roux (June 22, 2018), Fondation Carmignac’s new Porquerolles museum Financial Times.
  3. Caroline Roux (September 28, 2021), Immersed in the mysteries of the deep at the Carmignac Foundation Financial Times.
  4. Hannah McGivern (June 1, 2018), 'A privileged space, remote from it all': Fondation Carmignac opens on island off the southern coast of France The Art Newspaper.
  5. Caroline Roux (September 28, 2021), Immersed in the mysteries of the deep at the Carmignac Foundation Financial Times.
  6. Caroline Roux (September 28, 2021), Immersed in the mysteries of the deep at the Carmignac Foundation Financial Times.
  7. Hannah McGivern (June 1, 2018), 'A privileged space, remote from it all': Fondation Carmignac opens on island off the southern coast of France The Art Newspaper.
  8. ""Migrants : les esclaves de Libye"". Paris Match. 29 September 2016.
  9. ""Libye: l'enfer des migrants victimes du trafic humain, vu par Narciso Contreras"". France TV. 21 October 2016.
  10. ""La Libye est devenue la plaque tournante d'un gigantesque trafic d'êtres humains"". Télérama. 28 October 2016.
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