Paris. Created 10 years ago, the BMW Residency aims
to support emerging talents by offering them mentoring and visibility.
This year, BMW Art Culture presents at Paris Photo at the Grand
Palais Ephémère, from November 11 to 14:
“The Pigment Change”, by Almudena Romero, tenth
winner of the BMW Residency.
“The Pigment Change” uses
photographic processes occurring in plants, such as photosynthesis, to
create photographic works of art that refer to an aesthetic of
fragility, and disappearance, to question the role of the artist in
the context of the current environmental crisis. As these plant
photographs grow, develop, fossilize or disappear, Almudena Romero
explores questions about motherhood, production, sustainability, and
photography through her works printed on plant leaves and watercress
seeds. Her work totally echoes the BMW Group’s vision of innovation at
the service of the planet and of production that must always be more
sustainable and respectful of the environment and its resources.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE06SSxTpQ4
Almudena Romero selected by Elles x Paris Photo, a program
dedicated to women photographers.
Paris Photo pursues
its commitment to women photographers with Elles x Paris Photo, a
program initiated in 2018 in partnership with the Ministry of Culture,
to promote visibility of women artists and their contribution to the
history of photography. For this 2021 edition, Nathalie Herschdorfer,
an art historian specializing in photography and director of the Musée
du Locle in Switzerland, presents a selection of works chosen from the
galleries’ exhibitions, dating from 1851 to 2021. Almudena Romero has
been selected among the many artists exhibiting at Paris Photo this
year, and will be featured on ellesxparisphoto.com, an online space
containing interviews, articles and statistics on the representation
of women photographers. The program highlights notably active artists
of today who explore contemporary themes, such as Almudena Romero, who
takes a look at ecological photography and the major issues of
society.
More information on https://ellesxparisphoto.com/
“The Pigment Change” jointly published by BMW Art
Culture and Les éditions de l’air, des
livres.
This original editorial choice supports the
research and experimentation dimension of the BMW Residency at the
GOBELINS School of Visual Arts. This edition is made up of three
different-sized bound booklets, inserted into a horizontal strip. The
three booklets each have a different color – blue, red and green – as
a tribute to the printing house’s RGB and to Almudena Romero’s
research.
The first booklet is an introduction with a preface
written by Vincent Salimon, Chairman of the BMW Group France Executive
Board, and begins with a text by François Cheval, Artistic Director of
the BMW Residency. The second booklet showcases the winner’s research
work. The third one features the works she created during the Residency.
The Faune typeface, created by Sandrine Nugue as part of a call for
applications by the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) in
partnership with the Imprimerie Nationale group, was used for the titles.
“The Pigment Change” by Almudena Romero – BMW Residency at
the GOBELINS School of Visual Arts:
- Éditions de l’air, des livres – BMW Art Culture
- Published in: May 2021
- Price: € 29
- 3 booklets of 12, 24 24 pages, Format: 210 x 257, 200 x 247,
190 x 237 cm
A signing will be held on November 11 at 4:00 pm on the BMW
exhibition space, H2.
BMW ART GUIDE, by Independent Collectors.
The
BMW ART GUIDE will be presented on the BMW exhibition space. This
fifth edition of the guide lists 270 private collections of
contemporary art located in 45 countries and nearly 200 cities. Big,
small or unknown, readers and visitors can go and meet all these
collections. This practical guide is a collaborative edition produced
with independent collectors through a partnership with BMW. It is a
unique guide, as it is the only one that lists many private
collections including places that open their doors to the public for
the first time.
A new patronage program for 2022, the BMW ART
MAKERS.
Almudena Romero is the last winner of the BMW
Group France cultural patronage program in the form of a residency.
After twenty wonderful years spent supporting photographers and ten
years of the BMW Residency, BMW Group France enhances its commitment
to supporting the arts and reinventing its model for emerging work in
the field of visual arts and contemporary image-making. The next
exhibitions of BMW Group France will come from the new BMW Group
France arts patronage program which will support an artist-curator duo
leading to the completion of a visual art project. Duos can submit
their applications until December 15, 2021 on www.bmw-art-makers.plateformecandidature.com.
More
information on www.instagram.com/bmwgroupculture_fr
BMW Group is celebrating 50 years of cultural engagement all
over the world.
Since 1971, BMW Group BMW Group has
supported hundreds of cultural projects all over the world, in the
fields of modern and contemporary art, jazz and classical music, and
architecture and design. As such, it contributes to the dissemination
of knowledge and the arts.
Among these several collaborations, the BMW Art Journey, created in
partnership with Art Basel, testifies to the BMW Group’s commitment to
contemporary art. This year’s winner is French artist Julien Creuzet,
whose work is exhibited at the Centre Pompidou as part of his
nomination for the Marcel Duchamp Prize. For his BMW Art Journey, he
will explore the unexpected among the familiar roots of his ancestors
in Martinique and plans to work with artists, musicians and filmmakers.
More information on www.bmw-art-journey.com
In France, BMW Group France has been a patron of photography since
2003, through the BMW Residency, its partnership with Les Rencontres
d’Arles and Paris Photo, and the new BMW ART MAKERS program.
For further information, please contact:
Maryse Bataillard
Head of Patronage, BMW Group
France
Email: maryse.bataillard@bmw.fr
Telephone:
+33 (0)1 30 03 19 41
Maud Prangey
Press officer
Email: mprangey@gmail.com
Telephone:
+33 (0)6 63 40 54 62