Mimosa Echard
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Mimosa Echard is a French visual artist who lives and works in Paris.
Biography
Born in 1986 in Alès, France,[https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2022/10/17/mimosa-echard-laureate-du-22e-prix-marcel-duchamp_6146196_3246.htm Emmanuelle Jardonnet, Mimosa Echard, lauréate du 22e prix Marcel Duchamp, Le Monde, 17 October 2022]{{Cite web|url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/arts-exhibitions/decouvrez-les-finalistes-du-prix-marcel-duchamp-20220112|title=Duponchelle, Découvrez les finalistes du Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022, Le Figaro, 12 January 2022}} She grew up with her sisters in a hippy community in the Cévennes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.marieclaire.fr/mimosa-echard,1379597.asp|title=Vignal, Mimosa Échard, l'artiste qui efface les genres|website= Marie Claire|date= 24 September 2021}} She studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, from which she graduated in 2010.
In 2019, she was a resident at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto.[https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2021/08/06/ca-palpite-d-une-vie-qui-n-est-plus-l-art-du-vivant-de-la-plasticienne-mimosa-echard_6090767_4500055.html Roxana Azimi|day, Ça palpite d’une vie qui n’est plus: l’art du vivant de la plasticienne Mimosa Echard, Le Monde, 6 August 2021] Since 2021, she has been the head of a painting workshop at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Echard is the winner of the 2022 edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize.
She is represented by the galleries Chantal Crousel (Paris) and Martina Simeti (Milan).
Work
Echard's artistic research explores the boundaries between nature and pop culture. Thanks to a multidisciplinary practice that ranges from painting, to sculpture, to video and digital,Pip Walls, Immanence et eau vive, Sporal, Les Presses du réel, 2022 (French/English), p.49 she creates fictional worlds with psychedelic traits through the accumulation and assemblage of objects, images as well as botanical references from the Cévennes (her native region), a region with a long history of counter-cultural and community experiments initiated in the 1970s.{{Cite web|url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/mimosa-echard-charles-aubin-2020/|title=Aubin, Horn of Plenty: Mimosa Echard, Mousse Magazine, 73, 2020}}
Collaboration is important in reading her work: ”Collaborations are always a way of creating collective events and experiences outside of the validation system of art and institutions”.À ma seule cellule. Entretiens entre Mimosa Echard et Daria de Beauvais, Sporal, Les Presses du réel, 2022 (French/English), p.89 One example is the "open-source experimental exploration game" proposed by Echard as part of her exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in 2022, accessible only online. Designed in collaboration with a software developer, musicians and actors, the “scenario imagines an engaging and humorous approach to interspecies relations”.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202208/mimosa-echard-89350/%C2%A0Laura|title=Reviews – Artforum International|website=www.artforum.com}}
Her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, including Sporal, at Palais de Tokyo in 2022, or Sluggy Me at the Collection Lambert, in Avignon in 2021, but also in various galleries including the Samy Abraham gallery in Paris[https://www.lemonde.fr/arts/article/2017/11/24/selection-galeries-daisuke-ichiba-et-mimosa-echard_5220020_1655012.html Philippe Dagen, Sélection galeries : Daisuke Ichiba et Mimosa Echard, Le Monde, 24 November 2017]
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2010: Pour changer de forme, diploma, École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2012: Booster, Modules Pierre-Bergé – Yves-Saint-Laurent Foundation, curated by Daria de Beauvais, Palais de Tokyo, Paris{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2012: Oiseau / hasard, Bernard-Anthonioz Art House, Nogent-sur-Marne{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2014: Destroy the Image and You Will Break the Enemy, Project room, Chez Valentin Gallery, Paris{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2015: Asterico Mariposa, Fire Place, Barcelona{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2015: Dead is the New Life, Le Plateau (center of contemporary art) / Frac, Île-de-France{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2015: Mithril, with Jonathan Martin, Circonstance Gallery, Nice{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2015: Une robe profonde d'empathie, with Jean-Marie Perdrix, Samy Abraham Gallery, Paris{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2016: iDeath, Samy Abraham Gallery, Paris{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2017: Friends, Samy Abraham Gallery, Paris{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2017: Pulsion Potion, Cell Project Space Gallery, London{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2018: Mauve Dose, Maternity Ward of the Geneva HUG, Geneva{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2019: Pulpe, with Shanta Rao, curated by Raphaël Brunet, Ecole municipale des beaux-arts, Édouard-Manet Gallery, Gennevilliers{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2019: Luca, with Michel Blazy, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2019: Cracher une image de toi/ Spitting an image of you, with Ryan Foerster and Hannah Buonaguro, VNH Gallery, Paris{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2020 Un bout de toi, Salomon, Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy{{Cite web|url=https://www.ad-italia.it/luoghi/arte-musei/2020/09/13/mimosa-echard-la-prima-personale-in-italia-dellartista-francese/,|title=AD, Mimosa Echard: la prima personale in Italia dell’artista francese, 2020}}
- 2021 Numbs, Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris, France{{Cite web|url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/mimosa-echard-numbs-at-galerie-chantal-crousel-paris-2021|title=Mimosa Echard "Numbs" at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris — Mousse Magazine and Publishing|date=2 April 2021|website=www.moussemagazine.it}}
- 2021 Sluggy Me, Lambert Collection, Avignon, France{{Cite web|url=https://avignon-arts-contemporains.com/mimosa-echard-sluggy-me/|title=MIMOSA ECHARD – "SLUGGY ME"|date=9 July 2021}}
- 2022 Sporal, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France{{Cite web|url=https://palaisdetokyo.com/en/exposition/mimosa-echard-3/,|title=Palais de Tokyo, Echard, Sporal, 2022}}
Awards and selections
- 2015 Finalist, Le Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art, Paris, France{{Cite web|url=https://www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/8058-saadane-afif-et-la-galerie-mehdi-chouakri-remportent-le-8e-prix-meurice-pour-l-art-contemporain.html,|title=Le Quotidien De L'Art, Saâdane Afif et la Galerie Mehdi Chouakri remportent le 8e Prix Meurice pour l’art contemporain, 2015}}
- 2018 Finalist, BFSP Sculpture Prize, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, Italy{{Cite web|url=https://www.third.bfsculptureprize.com/mimosa-echard,|title=BFSP, Mimosa Echard, 2018}}
- 2021 Acquisition of the Marval Collection Fund, Italy{{Cite web|url=http://www.comune.torino.it/relint/bm~doc/report2021_it.pdf,|title=Comune di Torino, Report Annuale 2021, 2022, p.82}}
- 2021 Ettore and Ines Fico Prize, Turin, Italy{{Cite web|url=https://segnonline.it/artissima-2021-premio-fpt-for-sustainable-art-premio-ettore-e-ines-fico-premio-xiaomi-hypercharge-award/|title=ARTISSIMA 2021: Premio FPT for Sustainable Art, Premio Ettore e Ines Fico & Premio Xiaomi HyperCharge Award|date=7 November 2021}}
- 2022: Marcel Duchamp Prize, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris
Residencies
- 2011: Thailywood artist residency, Chonburi (Thailand){{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2014 Lafayette Anticipations, Corporate Foundation of the Lafayette Galleries, Paris, France{{Cite web|url=https://www.lafayetteanticipations.com/fr/artiste/mimosa-echard,|title=Lafayette Anticipations, Mimosa Echard, 2022}}
- 2014: Villa Arson, Nice{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2014/15: Cité internationale des arts, Paris{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- 2019: Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto
- 2022 Villa Albertine, Miami, US{{Cite web|url=https://villa-albertine.org/residents/mimosa-echard,|title=Villa Albertine, Mimosa Echard, 2022}}
Collections
Her works are part of public and private collections including: the Pompidou Center,[https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/personne/cnA4eeb Centre Pompidou, Mimosa Echard, 2022] the Louis Vuitton Foundation,{{Cite web|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/agenda|title=Announcements – e-flux|website=www.e-flux.com}} the Paris Museum of Modern Art,{{Cite web|url=https://palaisdetokyo.com/en/personne/mimosa-echard/|title=de Tokyo, Mimosa Echard, 2022}} the National Centre of Plastic Arts in Paris,{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} the Corporate Foundation of the Lafayette Galleries in France,{{Cite web|url=https://www.lafayetteanticipations.com/en/collection/artiste/mimosa-echard|title=Anticipations, Mimosa Echard, 2022}} the Ettore Fico Museum{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/articoli/i-dieci-premi-di-artissima/137467.html|title=I dieci premi di Artissima|website=Il Giornale dell'arte}} in Turin, Italy; and the Samdani Art Foundation, in Dhaka, Bangladesh{{Cite web|url=https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/how-they-put-bangladesh-on-the-global-art-map/|title=How They Put Bangladesh on the Global Art Map|website=Larry's List}}
Notes and references
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= Bibliography =
- Daria de Beauvais and Frédéric Grossi (eds.) (texts by Pip Wallis, Mimosa Echard, Daria de Beauvais), Sporal, Les Presses du réel, 2022 (French/English) {{ISBN|978-2-37896-320-0}}
= Press =
- Matthieu Jacquet, "Dans l'incroyable atelier de Mimosa Echard, l’enchanteresse qui transforme l'art et la nature", Numéro, 9 April 2021
- Lise Guéhenneux, "Mimosa Echard", Crash Magazine, Edition 93, March 2021, p. 60–71
- Charles Aubin, "Horn of Plenty: Mimosa Echard", Mousse Magazine, October 2020
- Roxana Azimi, "Jeune pousse. Mimosa Echard, naturel butineur”, Le Monde, January 2017
= External links =
{{Portal|France}}
- [https://www.sporal.net Sporal video game website]
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Category:21st-century French painters
Category:21st-century French sculptors
Category:21st-century French women artists