Organized by the Association Gens d’Images and with an award of 8,000 Euros thanks to the Swiss Life Foundation, the Arcimboldo Prize 2011 has been awarded to Alexis Cordesse for his series Border Lines with a special distinction to Gilles Desrozier for his series Inscape.

The Arcimboldo Prize 2011 will be displayed from June 7 through June 26 2011 in the Basia Embiricos Gallery and in Photo12 Valérie-Anne Giscard d’Estaing.

Born in Paris on April 1st 1971, Alexis Cordesse lives and works in Malakoff (Haut de Seine Department). He has covered as a journalist the important conflicts in Kurdistan, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Somalia and Gaza… Until he decided to work in current affaires instead of working for the current affairs. “He reinvented a distance and a length without establishing one or the other as aesthetic rules”. For the series presented for the Arcimboldo Prize 2011 “Border Lines” he worked in digital in order to “show the fragmentation of the territories in the Middle East. The images that comprise the series, based in a montage panorama format, confront reality in a utopian and descriptive way.”

In the final release, he stated that in order to justify his choice “the jury has awarded this new political and social reflection that enriches the digital creative work, leading to a real innovative instrument.”

This same jury has also decided to award a special distinction to the series Inscape by Gilles Desrozier for “his poetic approach of the environment made by photographic montages mixing traces of urban architecture and the presence of Nature.”

The present exhibition shows the series of the winner, and the special distinction laureats, as well as works from the three precedent awards: Muriel Bordier, Alain Delorme and Jean-François Rauzier.

Bernard Perrine

Prix Arcimboldo 2011
7-26 juin 2011

Galerie Basia Embicos
Galerie Photo 12 Valérie-Anne Giscard d'Estaing
14 rue des Jardins Saint-Paul
75004 Paris
+33 (0)1 48 87 00 63
+33 (0)1 56 80 14 42
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