{"id":3470,"date":"2013-12-02T22:58:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T21:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2018-05-21T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T08:00:14","slug":"the-turner-prize-2013-goes-to-laure-prouvost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/12\/02\/the-turner-prize-2013-goes-to-laure-prouvost\/","title":{"rendered":"Laure Prouvost answers our Proustian questionnaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_92715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/prouvost_portrait.jpg2400xAE4FC7D8F83C4C098464BAC0AB8128F3-640x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"694\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laure Prouvost<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We met French artist Laure Prouvost in 2013 in occasion of the opening of her solo show at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collezionemaramotti.org\/en\/work-in-progress\/201355\/Laure-Prouvost-\/1362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collezione Maramotti<\/a>\u00a0in Reggio Emilia as winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Just e few days before she had won the Turner Prize. Here the answers she gave spontaneously and kindly to our Proustian inspired questionnaire.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Which is your favorite subject?<\/p>\n<p><em>Translation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you believe in abstraction?<\/p>\n<p><em>Yes, I do.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which is the most inspiring place for you?<\/p>\n<p><em>Everything.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which is the quality that you prefer in an art dealer?<\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t know many art dealer.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which one in a collector?<\/p>\n<p><em>I like when they support artists they love, and when they are able to dialogue with them.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who is your favorite artist?<\/p>\n<p><em>Too many.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is there any color or shape that you really hate?<\/p>\n<p><em>I can&#8217;t say.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What makes an idea become an artwork?<\/p>\n<p><em>A good translation, or mistranslation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which novel is better comparable with your idea of art?<\/p>\n<p><em>Tolstoj and Alain Robbe-Grillet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which song or kind of music?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCiao Italia\u201d, a compilation of cheesy Italian songs.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What would you have done you were not an artist?<\/p>\n<p><em>I am terrible in everything else.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met French artist Laure Prouvost in 2013 in occasion of the opening of her solo show at the Collezione Maramotti\u00a0in Reggio Emilia as winner of the Max Mara Art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1797],"tags":[1471],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-dialogue-with","tag-laure-prouvost"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}