06.03.2024
Le FIFA 42 will give the Tribute Prize to artist Alain Fleischer
As part of its 42nd edition, Le FIFA will be awarding a tribute prize to the writer, filmmaker, artist, photographer and director of the Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains, Alain Fleischer, whose prolific body of work has for many years combined intelligent thought with sensitive, poetic creativity.
Winner of the Prix de Rome for photography, founder and director of the Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains, Alain Fleischer is the author of some sixty works of literature (novels, collections of short stories, essays), and director of some three hundred and fifty films (feature-length fiction, experimental films, art documentaries) that have given rise to retrospectives and tributes: Musée national d’art moderne (Palais de Tokyo), Centre Pompidou, Galeries nationales du Jeu de Paume (Paris), Anthology Film Archives (Jonas Mekas), New York, Festival del Cinema nuovo de Pesaro (Italy), Cinémathèque royale de Belgique (Brussels). Alain Fleischer represented France at the International Biennials of Sydney (Australia), Kwang-ju and Busan (Korea), Havana (Cuba), and the cultural services of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (AFAA) organized a retrospective exhibition of his work as an artist and photographer, which was presented in Brazil (Museum of Image and Sound and Museum of Modern Art), Canada (Centre international d’Art contemporain/Les 100 jours), the Netherlands (Boymans), Spain (Fondation Miro), Cuba (Centre d’Art Wilfredo Lam) and Argentina (Centre Culturel La Recoleta).
Alain Fleischer will receive Le FIFA Tribute Award on March 17 from 5 pm.
Alain Fleischer and Le FIFA, a long history
The ties between Alain Fleischer and Le Festival are deep and fraternal. Alain Fleischer was in turn a member of the jury for its 20th edition, the subject of a film in Mario Côté’s La chambre qui attend, portrait d’Alain Fleischer écrivain presented in 2008 as part of the 26th edition, recipient of the Pratt & Witney Grand Prize for À la recherche de Christian B. (1990), three best essay prizes for Le Frivole et le complexe — la dentelle d’Alençon (2008), Brancusi (2013) and J’ai retrouvé Christian B. (2021), best portrait prize for Pierre Klossowski, un écrivain en images (1997) and best television film prize for Anthony Caro, la sculpture comme religion (02009). Le FIFA paid tribute to him in 2002.
