10.02.2012 - 06.05.2012
Anniversaries are pretexts for celebrating what has been accomplished, taking stock, and thinking about the future: Accrochage [Vaud] is celebrating its tenth birthday in 2012, and to mark the occasion the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts is mounting a special edition of this annual event, inaugurated in 2003.
Held ten times, with nine winners of the Prix du Jury, nearly two hundred applications every year, and more than three hundred artists exhibited over the years, Accrochage [Vaud] is a platform presenting works by artists from Vaud or living in the canton, and an opportunity to award a Prix du Jury which takes the form of a solo exhibition and a publication. It is on that forward-looking aspect the Museum is concentrating for the 2012 event, focusing on award-winning Vaudois creativity over these past years.
Entitled 9=10. Carte blanche aux lauréats d’Accrochage [Vaud], the exhibition provides an opportunity to catch up with Robert Ireland, Bernard Voïta, Yves Mettler, David Hominal, Anne-Julie Raccoursier, Jean Crotti, Elisabeth Llach, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz and Luc Aubort. They have ties with Vaud, but for many of them their careers are being played out in a to-and-fro between here and elsewhere, whether in Berlin, Brussels or Paris. Careers that for some of them really took off thanks to winning the Accrochage [Vaud] Prix du Jury, through the exhibition and the publication that came with the award. Speaking of Pictures; TRAX; “Pont Bessières”; You Will Never Walk Alone; Non-Stop Fun; Se perdre dans ses yeux; Alles wird gut – Tout ira bien; Contagious!: these are all offerings that have made their mark on the public’s encounter with contemporary art in Vaud over the past ten years, and the artists will respond to them through recent works, usually made specially for the occasion. For the duration of an exhibition they will create a dialogue between the richness of their approaches and the diversity of their practices – whether dealing with painting, installation, video, drawing, or photography.
