L' espace des fragments
Alfred Latour Young Artist Prize
Alfred Latour (1888-1964) was a painter, engraver, designer and photographer who was renowned throughout his career. He represented the genius of French graphic design internationally. To celebrate his memory, the Alfred Latour Foundation, in partnership with Actes Sud publishing house, created a prize in 2018 that distinguishes every two years an artist whose universe and modes of expression extend the exploratory fields in at least two of Latour's disciplines: painting, engraving, photography, textile design and graphic design.
In June 2021, the jury of the Alfred Latour Prize - composed of Anne-Sylvie Bameule, President, Director of Art, Nature and Society, Actes Sud; Miquel Barceló, painter, draughtsman, sculptor and ceramist; François Hébel, Director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation; Werner Jeker, graphic artist, and Christian Lacroix, fashion designer and costume designer - unanimously awarded the Alfred Latour Prize for Awakening to Sabine Hertig.
If Sabine Hertig masters the techniques of painting and drawing, the jury wanted to highlight the originality of her collage work. It is her perfect management of formats, gestures and tools that bring out and underline the importance of the net and the blur, the detail and the main subject – a bit like photography invites us to read an image – that seduced. A work that most often relates to the creation of extraordinary landscapes in which we guess the use of tools such as sandpaper; a personal and strong approach which places the spectator in front of a monumental work, at the same time classic, expressive and extremely contemporary.
