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On 9 December 2020, the Bettencourt Schueller foundation awarded the Liliane Bettencourt prize for the Intelligence of the Hand to Fanny Boucher in the category “Outstanding Talent”.
For its 21st edition, the jury, chaired by Jean de Loisy, director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, awarded the “Outstanding Talent” prize to the heliographer and master of art Fanny Boucher for her mural composition Arboris.
Since its creation in 1999 by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for the Intelligence of the Hand has been awarded for know-how, creativity and innovation to professionals in the arts and crafts.
This prize includes three awards : Exceptional Talents, Dialogues and Course. Each winner receives an endowment of €50,000 and up to €100,000 to carry out a development project.
The “Exceptional Talents” prize thus rewards an art professional for the realisation of a work resulting from a perfect mastery of the techniques and know-how of an art profession. It must reveal an innovative character and contribute to the evolution of this know-how.
Fanny Boucher’s award-winning creation, which is 2 metres high, is composed of 72 unique and independent heliogravures that form a wooded wall composition thanks to their gathering. The innovation of this work comes from the fact that the paper used is a fine and colourful Japanese paper which, through a play of transparency, confers golden shades of copper from the root to the top of the tree.
“The tree is like a bridge between the earthly and the celestial, it leads us to raise our heads towards the clouds. As for its roots, they seem to be those of the universe, the matrix of the world,” says Fanny Boucher.
The technique of heliogravure was born in the 19th century and is based on the creation of prints printed on paper from a photographic image, all engraved on a copper plate. In other words, this technique consists of transferring a photograph onto a copper plate, the image is then printed on paper.
Even though printing techniques have multiplied and become more democratic since the 19th century, rotogravure remains the preferred technique for certain photographers and artists because it gives prints exceptional resistance and durability. It also makes it possible to obtain shades of black that other techniques cannot reproduce.
Fanny Boucher was trained by Jean-Daniel Lemoine, a specialist in 19th century photomechanical processes in 1998. She then graduated in engraving in 1999 from the École Estienne in Paris and is one of the few craftsmen to master the technique of heliogravure since it is practised in less than ten workshops around the world.
She then created the Hélio’g workshop in 2000. She was appointed Master of Art in 2015. She also became a trainer in the history and recognition of 19th century photomechanical processes at the Institut National du Patrimoine(Paris).
Hélio’g then receives photographers and contemporary artists in Meudon. Thanks to her research, the laureate became the first to turn the rotogravure matrix into a work of art in its own right. This approach is now rewarded by the “Outstanding Talent” Prize.
From 2015 until today, she exhibits her work at the National Museum of Tokyo ( Wonder Lab ), the National Museum of China in Beijing, the French Institute of the United Kingdom ( London Craft Week ) and participates in the “Homo Faber” exhibition in Venice.
The endowment as well as the support offered with this prize will thus provide the artist with real financial support in his research, in the development of his studio and his collaborative projects. She also expressed her views on this subject :
“Above all, it will help me to continue the research and innovation work that I have already started with a very precise objective: to print the heliogravure dies on new media such as leather, textile, parchment, straw, feather…”.
It should also be noted that the “Dialogues” prize also rewards a creation illustrating exceptional know-how and the richness of a collaboration between a craftsman and another creator (designer, visual artist, architect, decorator, designer, etc.). This prize created in 2010 was awarded this year to the winner Nicolas Pinon and the designer Dimitry Hlinka. The “Parcours” prize rewarded the creation of an exemplary personality for his or her commitment, achievements, contribution to the French arts and crafts sector, exemplarity, ability to inspire others, ambition and future projects (individual or legal entity). Created in 2014, this prize was awarded to the MAKE HERE network of manufacturers, founded by Christine and Nicolas Bard.
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On 9 December 2020, the Bettencourt Schueller foundation awarded the Liliane Bettencourt prize for the Intelligence of the Hand to Fanny Boucher in the category “Outstanding Talent”.
For its 21st edition, the jury, chaired by Jean de Loisy, director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, awarded the “Outstanding Talent” prize to the heliographer and master of art Fanny Boucher for her mural composition Arboris.
Since its creation in 1999 by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for the Intelligence of the Hand has been awarded for know-how, creativity and innovation to professionals in the arts and crafts.
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For its 21st edition, the jury, chaired by Jean de Loisy, director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, awarded the “Outstanding Talent” prize to the heliographer and master of art Fanny Boucher for her mural composition Arboris.
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