Shining a Spotlight on the ADIAF, the Group Behind the Marcel-Duchamp Award

The Marcel Duchamp Award is one of the major autumn events in Paris. Every year in October the €35,000 prize is given to an artist who is French or working in France with the aim of highlighting the French art scene’s teeming creativity. Chosen from four nominees, the winner is traditionally announced during the FIAC, which was canceled this year due to Covid. But the announcement went forward at the Pompidou Centre, as usual. A Franco-Canadian artist whose floral compositions refer to the history of the independence of African countries received this year’s prize, which is also celebrating its 20 th anniversary with around 10 exhibitions that will travel all over France, starting in Paris—an opportunity to look back at the past two decades. The award was created by ADIAF, the Association pour la diffusion internationale de l’art français (Association for the International Dissemination of French Art), which former Nina Ricci CEO Gilles Fuchs, "worried about the slow decline of French art in the world", set up…