AwardApril 16, 2020
Marie Orensanz received the Aware d’honneur 2020
Mari Nalte Orensanz (Marie Orensanz) received the Aware d’honneur 2020 award, recognition of women artists, for their career and artistic practice. The prize giving-ceremony was on March 16 at the French Ministry of Culture. The artists nominated for the award must "have more than 30-year career, evidence of the necessity for a new reading, not having had a retrospective in a major international institution, being French or having an important relationship with France."
Marie Orensanz (born in 1936, Mar de Plata) began her career in the 1960s, a time marked by the repression that followed the rise to dictatorship in Argentina. The artistic practices of the time manifested the rejection of institutions and traditional techniques. The radical aesthetic attitudes of women are recognized today as they were against male repression and control. Orensanz had a reactionary creative process, during the dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía. In 1975 Marie Orensanz moved to Paris and then nationalized as French. Upon arriving in Europe, Orensanz received a rejection from a collector who returned one of her works upon discovering that she was a woman. After, she decides to add the letter "e" to her first name: "If being a feminist means fighting against injustices, so yes, I am a feminist."
Marie Orensanz was nominated, by Élise Atangana, Franco-Cameroonian curator of the exhibition Seven Hills sur les mobilités et la transformation des mouvements à Kampala, Uganda, for the second edition of the Kampala Biennale in 2016.
Marie Orensanz (born in 1936, Mar de Plata) began her career in the 1960s, a time marked by the repression that followed the rise to dictatorship in Argentina. The artistic practices of the time manifested the rejection of institutions and traditional techniques. The radical aesthetic attitudes of women are recognized today as they were against male repression and control. Orensanz had a reactionary creative process, during the dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía. In 1975 Marie Orensanz moved to Paris and then nationalized as French. Upon arriving in Europe, Orensanz received a rejection from a collector who returned one of her works upon discovering that she was a woman. After, she decides to add the letter "e" to her first name: "If being a feminist means fighting against injustices, so yes, I am a feminist."
Marie Orensanz was nominated, by Élise Atangana, Franco-Cameroonian curator of the exhibition Seven Hills sur les mobilités et la transformation des mouvements à Kampala, Uganda, for the second edition of the Kampala Biennale in 2016.
