The 20th Marcel-Duchamp Prize recognizes French-Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga

Four high quality candidates for the Marcel-Duchamp 2020 prize, so intense competition on Monday.

The small art world was there, masked and at a good distance, in the forum of the Center Pompidou for the announcement, brought forward to the end of the afternoon due to the curfew.

Collectors, artists like Zineb Zedira who will represent France at the next Venice Biennale in May 2022. Gallery owners, starting with those of the four finalists, all on the hot coals.

A Marcel-Duchamp Prize is a great spotlight on an artist, a gallery, and collectors.

A

scene

for the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (Adiaf) which is celebrating its 20th anniversary with this quality award.

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», Underlined Bernard Blistène, director of the National Museum of Modern Art.

Conceptual, post-colonial and subtle

Who from Franco-Briton Alice Anderson, Moroccan Hicham Berrada, Franco-Canadian Kapwani Kiwanga or Chilean Enrique Ramírez was going to be crowned in this special year?

Sophie Duplaix, already curator of the

exhibition

and today this Marcel-Duchamp 2020 prize, very well hung and explained, has remained with the silence of a sphinx.

No leak apart from the insistent buzz that immediately crowned Kapwani Kiwanga.

Because conceptual (the bouquets of politics), post-colonial in purpose (what remains of the honors?), Subtle in form (bouquets that fade, virtual works that can be bought in the form of a protocol).

Woman, French-speaking and beautiful figure who proves that

in art too.

She is the winner of this eventful edition.

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Gilles Fuchs, President of Adiaf, paid tribute to the artists, to the galleries who defended them, to the curator who understood and staged them.

All are there;

the French exception is at stake. It focuses on art, debate, openness, dialogue beyond borders, generations, art trends, from the most sensitive to the most political.