Article AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Francis Baudevin receives the Leenaards Foundation Cultural Prize 2024
- Published
- Aug. 22, 2024
Congratulations to Francis Baudevin, professor at ECAL, who has been awarded the Prix Leenaards 2024, and to Anna-Marija Adomaitytė and Anjesa Dellova, graduates of the ECAL's Bachelor and Master Fine Arts respectively, who have won one of the Cultural Grants.
ECAL is proud to announce that Francis Baudevin, professor in the ECAL Bachelor Fine Arts program since 1996, has been awarded the prestigious Leenaards Cultural Prize 2024. The prize, endowed with 30,000 francs, recognizes his entire artistic career, marked by a constant reinvention of geometric abstraction and his commitment to passing on his knowledge to younger generations of artists.
Francis Baudevin is an emblematic figure of the neo-geo artistic movement, a postmodern current that revisits geometric abstraction with a contemporary twist. His work is characterized by a subtle, thoughtful use of motifs from advertising packaging and symbols of consumer society. Francis Baudevin, who is also passionate about music, does not hesitate to play with the boundaries between artistic disciplines, an approach that has earned him international recognition.
The Leenaards Cultural Prize 2024 will be awarded on September 8 at the Comédie de Genève. At this ceremony, the ECAL will also be honoured by the distinction awarded to Anna-Marija Adomaitytė, who will graduate from the Master Fine Arts in 2021, and Anjesa Dellova , who will graduate from the Bachelor Fine Arts in 2017, and who will receive one of eight cultural grants from the Leenaards Foundation. This grant of 50,000 francs will support the development of their artistic career.
ECAL warmly congratulates Francis Baudevin, Anna-Marija Adomaitytė, and Anjesa Dellova on these distinctions. These awards not only recognize outstanding individual achievements, but also reinforce ECAL's reputation as a benchmark institution in the fine arts.