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The award given by the imperial family of Japan celebrates its thirty years this year. Three Frenchmen are in the categories of painting, architecture and theater-cinema. They received their prize Wednesday at the Guimet Museum in Paris during an intimate ceremony.
On the occasion of 160 years of French-Japanese friendship, the French are honored by the imperial family of the country of Rising Sun. The Praemium Imperiale prize was awarded on Wednesday at a ceremony at the National Museum of Asian Arts (sixteenth arrondissement of Paris) three artists from France.
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For the architecture category, this is the French Christian de Portzamparc who was dubbed. The 1994 winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture is hailed for "his imaginative style" with "daring forms". He notably designed the curvilinear building of the Cité de la musique (19th arrondissement) in 1995.
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At 91, the French-Belgian Pierre Alechinsky, who is at once disappointed by the defeat of the Red Devils and pleased by the qualification of the Blues on Tuesday in the semi-final of the World Cup, received the Praemium Imperiale prize in the painting division. Born in Brussels, the artist began by illustrating books before making large canvases with acrylic paint. In 2016, the Matisse Museum organized a retrospective of the works of Pierre Alechinsky.
The Japanese sculptor Fujiko Nakaya, the Italian musician Riccardo Muti and the Shakespeare Schools Foundation also make up the 2018 charts.
France and Japan, a privileged relationship
The Praemium Imperiale Prize is awarded after consulting a committee of six councilors from around the world: Klaus-Dieter Lehmann for Germany, William H. Luers for the United States, Christopher Patten for Great Britain, Brittany, or Jean-Pierre Raffarin for France. He is the president of the French committee, where he works alongside Stéphane Martin, president of the Quai Branly museum, or Serge Degallaix, general director of the Prospective and Innovation Foundation, since 2013. Jacques Chirac was the first advisor representing France in International Praemium Imperiale Prize Committee.
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The organization chooses from hundreds of contenders worldwide in the categories painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theater-cinema. Since 1997, she has also rewarded young artists with the Encouragement Award. Last year, the Praemium Imperiale prize did not select French artists. The winners included Iranian photographer Shirin Neshat, Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui, Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour, Russian choreographer Mikhail Barychnikov and the Lebanese company Zouzak Theater and Cultura Association. The jury chooses to reward each year eclectic and committed artists.
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