Art and ecology –
Vaudois Julian Charrière honored in Los Angeles
One of the most internationally renowned Swiss artists receives $100,000 for an artistic project linked to the environment.
Published today at 3:27 p.m.
Julian Charrière exposed nature on a grand scale, in the city of Basel, in “Calls for action”, a project of the Fondation Beyeler and Globus.
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- Julian Charrière wins the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment Prize with Cécilia Vicuña.
- They each receive $100,000 to create an artistic project linked to the environment.
- Le Vaudois is planning an immersive installation around the planet’s hydrological systems.
- He says art can “reframe our perspective on the climate crisis.”
There had to be a winner, there are two! The strength of artistic conviction of both impressed the jury of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
The Vaud visual artist Julian Charrière, based with his workshop in Berlin, is one of them. With Cécilia Vicuña, living between New York and Santiago de Chile. Each is rewarded with $100,000 in aid to create an artistic project linked to environmental and climate issues, which will be exhibited over a one to two year perspective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
“Future Fossil Spaces”, the installation by Julian Charrière shown at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
Julian Charrière/Venice Biennale
This is new recognition for Julian Charrière, 37, whose commitment is equal to his artistic power. Met last summer on the Marktplatz in Basel, where he was exhibiting “Calls for action”, a public art installation which linked the Rhine city to the Ecuadorian jungle, while raising funds for its preservation, he confided: “As an artist, I can, for example, decide to make a donation following a sale, I I’ve done in the past, but it was no longer enough. I wanted to get involved differently, to find a way to link art and environmental protection.”
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By announcing on his Instagram feed that he had received this new prize, after having been in the finalists for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2021Julian Charrière comments: “Art, perhaps more than anything else, has the power to expand the perimeters of the debate on the climate crisis. Because it is not only an environmental issue, it is also a crisis of imagination, a crisis of sensitivity.”
“Cryogenization”, a work by Julian Charrière.
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Currently on display at the Palais de Tokyo in Parissolo, in “The sounds of the earth” (until January 5, 2025), the visual artist plans to create an immersive installation for Los Angeles studying the planet’s hydrological systems. Always eminently scientific and thoughtful subjects that he delivers, translated, through a silent aesthetic. Strangely serene. But so powerful that it grabs the mind and never lets it go!
“Art has the power to recalibrate our perspective and,” continues Julian Charrière in his Instagram comment, “to rethink our place in the world – a change that is crucial if we are to confront the deeper crises that await us.”
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Florence Millioud joined the cultural section in 2011 out of a passion for people of culture, after having covered local politics and economics since 1994. An art historian, she collaborates in the writing of exhibition catalogs and monographic works on artists.More info
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