Vincent CHENUT
Antonia KUO
Li XI
+ work in situ of Keita MORI
(finalist of the FID PRIZE 2012)

For the fourth consecutive year The Gallery Catherine Putman is pleased to present the
works of the finalists of the FID PRIZE (the international drawing competition dedicated to young artists). Aimed at young artists and fine arts students, the FID PRIZE intends to promote the young talents of the contemporary drawing.
Selected by the professional jury*, the three finalists of the FID PRIZE 2015 are Vincent Chenut (France), Antonia Kuo (USA) and Li Xi (China).
Their portfolios have been retained among those of 300 candidates coming from 30 different countries.

Vincent Chenut
Born in 1985, in Paris.
Graduated from The Cambre National School of Visual Arts (Belgi um).
Lives and works in Brussels.

His drawings examine the relationship material-surface. He scru bs, polishes, tires and tears the surface of the paper. He is interested in the possibilities tha t paper offers and uses it both as a support and as a medium. In the works presented at the Galle ry, he tackles city plans and geographical maps. He proceeds by the retreat of the material a nd follows with a scalpel some traces from which he patiently detaches the top layer of the paper, making all landmarks disappear whereas the accidental holes appear forming a genuine constellation.

Antonia Kuo
Born in 1987, in New York NY.
Graduated from The school the Boston Fine Arts Museum (USA).
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

The graphite drawings of Antonia Kuo are of small size and give an impr ession of the infinite. We believe to recognize a starry sky, a green landscape in the swar ms of details, we imagine long, concentrated, meditative work. She practices drawing in an intuitive manner between the recognizable and and the abstraction, the
obscurity and consciousness; it is this fine line which interests her.

Li Xi
Born in 1989, in Sichuan (China).
Studies at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art in Nord-Pas de Calais (Dunkerque).

Li XI practices video, photography and drawing and constructs h er work around the theme of the elements. Her drawings, with a pencil and with char coal, are formed by the word « one » in Chinese calligraphy, which happens to be its simplest for m (in the semi-cursive style). She repeates this form with perseverence to create her drawings, both poetic and enigmatic,
around the theme of the wave.

Keita MORI
(the finalist of the FID PRIZE 2012)
Born in 1981 in Hokkaido (Japan).
Graduated from ENSBA, The National School of Fine Ar ts, Paris and from Tama Universty of Art, Tokyo. Lives and works in Nogent sur Marne.

At the occasion of the exposition of the finalists of the FID P RIZE 2015, the Gallery Catherine Putman has invited Keita Mori, the finalist of the FID PRIZE 20 12, who has realised a work insitu. Keita Mori realises her drawings using a special technique which he has dev eloped since 2011: the taut wires with a glue gun. The lines thus drawn by the wir e are without any nuances, uniform as the genuine boundaries. He thus cr eates spaces, through accumulation and entanglement of wires: objects, systems in which the cracks - or « bug » the way h e calls them –reveal themselves from the fragmented spaces, in motion, as provisional.