PUBLICATIONS_
« I write on a regular basis: books, forewords for catalogues, critical discoveries… Writing fulfills my role as a contributor to various purposes: to train emerging artists in their professional environment; to explain each year new selections of artists for an international contemporary art prize, and to highlight artists whom I intend to follow. »
THE ARTIST’S GUIDE
“Everything you always wanted to know about how to emerge in art” is the central tenet of Frédéric Brière's book, which combines strategic and practical advice with a reference list of more than 700 venues, in France, Berlin, London and Basel- Zurich.
How come emerging artists, young or old, art school graduates or not, are the last to know how the art world works today? This advisory guide is intended to be a trusted source by giving the keys and tips of the art world: how do actors in the art world work? What are the choices to be made? How to make yourself visible, develop your network, talk about your work, approach a gallery, or find a residence? ...
14 testimonies from personalities at the heart of the system complete the subject: Caroline Bourgeois (Pinault Collection), Nicolas Bourriaud, Blake Byrne (MOCA LA), Éric de Chassey, Marion Dana & Corentin Hamel (New Galerie), Jennifer Flay (FIAC), Gilles Fuchs (Marcel Duchamp Prize), Guillaume Houzé (Lafayette Anticipation), Jean de Loisy (Palais de Tokyo), Emmanuel Perrotin, Anaël Pigeat (artpress), Marc-Olivier Wahler (international curator).
→ Le Guide de l’Artiste, Frédéric Brière, 434p, Pyramyd 2015
FOREWORDS, afterwords TO books and catalogues
Each year, Frédéric Brière writes the foreword to the Jean-François Prat Prize catalogue explaining the Committee proceeded through the selection, and the highlighting the underlying issues raised in regards to the history of art and / or to the relation of art to society.
The catalog contains texts by critics, art historians and curators and is part of the collection of the Kandinsky Library of the Pompidou Center.
→ Foreward to the exhibition catalogue We Paint ! Jean-Francois Prat Art Prize 2022
→ Afterward to the book The Effervescence of Painting in Contemporary Art - Flammarion 2021
→ Foreward to the 2021 Jean-Francois Prat Art Prize catalogue
→ Foreward to the 2020 Jean-François Prat Art Prize catalogue
→ Foreward to the 2019 Jean-François Prat Art Prize catalogue
→ Foreward to the 2018 Jean-François Prat Art Prize catalogue
→ Interview with the chair of the jury in 2017: Marc Simoncini
OTHER TEXTS
At the occasion of being interviewed by an art magazine regading his latest artistic explorations, Frédéric Brière wrote texts in the form of published "critical discoveries" about promising artists to follow.
→ Critical Discovery: Turiya Magadlela - 2016
→ Critical Discovery: Nicolas Chardon - 2016