For its third year, the MasterCard Award, presented Tuesday evening in the salons of Paris’s Hôtel de Ville, honors Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, represented by the Galerie Jousse Entreprise. The artists and their gallery will receive an endowment of 12,000 euros from MasterCard France. Created in 2010 in association with ArtFloor, the MasterCard Prize illustrates the brand’s strong commitment to contemporary creation and culture.
A.A. Tropicalizado – Los Tres Días Más Felices de Su Vida / Courtesy Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris
The 2013 edition of the MasterCard® Prize met with great success, fueled in particular by the participation of many renowned galleries. The artists nominated alongside the winners were: Claire Adelfang (Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac);Stéphane Dafflon (Galerie Air de Paris);Esther Stocker (Galerie Alberta Pane);Xavier Theunis (Backslash Gallery); Société Réaliste (Galerie Jérôme Poggi); Winshluss (Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois); Mark Jenkins (Galerie Patricia Dorfmann);Jérôme Zonder (Galerie Eva Hober) and Emmanuel Regent (Galerie Caroline Smulders, ILoveMyJob).
The winners, Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, have been working since 2007 on the notion of Perspectivism, the idea that our vision and understanding of the world can only be partial and biased insofar as it depends on our social, economic and cultural achievements. In terms of form, some of their work is akin to Arte Povera or conceptual art. Whether projected, placed on a table, hung, traced on a wall or laid out on the floor, their works systematically feature a number of recurring elements, including the famous Necker cube, references to Amerindian nature, stone (the medium of memory), literature and the mythical figure of the Shaman. Taking on the role of archaeologists and researchers, Julia Rometti and Victor Costales embark on a wide-ranging search that takes them to places as diverse as jungles, deserts, highways and bookshops, venturing into fields of knowledge ranging from literature to history to certain areas of scientific thought.
Their work, largely centered on photography, projections and collages, presents as an attempt to shape the results of their research, each work playing the role of a clue and weaving links with the others to support the subject or, on the contrary, suddenly illuminate it in a new light.
Julia Rometti and Victor Costales develop a complex and meaningful art form. Theur work has been exhibited in major art capitals (Rio, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Milan, Paris, Madrid, New York, Zurich, London, etc.). They have been nominated for the MasterCard Prize by Galerie Jousse Entreprise (Paris).
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