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LVMH / Moët Hennessy . Louis Vuitton, partner of MONUMENTA since 2007, supports Daniel Buren exhibition in 2012

A loyal supporter of all five editions of MONUMENTA to date, LVMH is a partner of the 2012 creation by Daniel Buren.

Following the Group’s support for the first four editions of MONUMENTA — featuring works by Anselm Kiefer (2007), Richard Serra (2008), Christian Boltanski (2010) and Anish Kapoor (2011) — LVMH is delighted to be a partner of the 2012 exhibition by Daniel Buren, who will create a monumental work designed specially for the glass-roofed nave of the Grand Palais in Paris. LVMH’s corporate patronage enables a broad public to experience the creation at the Grand Palais by Daniel Buren, one of the most widely recognized French artists on today’s international art scene.

LVMH corporate patronage: promoting access to contemporary art.

LVMH’s ongoing support for MONUMENTA is a natural continuation of over 20 years of corporate patronage for culture, heritage and artistic creativity. Thanks to LVMH, millions of French and foreign visitors around the world have been able to rediscover major artists in the history of art and enjoy the work of contemporary artists whose creations offer powerful resonance with modern times, from Cézanne to Klein, Bonnard to Richard Serra, and including Matisse, Van Gogh, Chardin, Picasso and other masters.
LVMH’s commitment also enables young audiences to experience the best of culture, bringing children, students and young artists opportunities to nurture their knowledge and talent.

Through its continued collaboration with Monumenta and the works exhibited, LVMH enables the public, and young people in particular, to experience works by prominent contemporary artists. The guest artist for the 2012 edition at the Grand Palais in Paris is Daniel Buren.

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Steelcase

Steelcase is proud to sponsor Daniel Buren’s creation for the 2012 edition of the MONUMENTA exhibition in Paris.

For 100 years, Steelcase has helped create great experiences for the world’s leading organizations — wherever work happens. Steelcase’s view on creating high performance work environments resonates with Daniel Buren’s artistic approach taking into account all architectural, functional, social, emotional and cultural aspects.

By supporting this unique artistic adventure, Steelcase wishes to share a source of inspiration with a majority and help create another great experience!

Steelcase will renew its support for the next edition of MONUMENTA in 2013 so that Art can continue to inspire everyone of us for as long as possible.

About Steelcase:

For 100 years, Steelcase Inc. has helped create great experiences for the world’s leading organizations — wherever work happens. Steelcase and our family of brands – including Steelcase, Coalesse, Designtex, Details, Nurture, PolyVision, and Turnstone - offer a comprehensive portfolio of furnishings, products and services designed to unlock human promise and to support social, economic, and environmental sustainability. We are globally accessible through a network of channels, including over 650 dealers. Steelcase is a global, industry-leading, and publicly traded company with fiscal 2012 revenue of approximately $2.7 billion.

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Neuflize OBC

Neuflize OBC consolidates one again its position of reference sponsor for visual arts in France by reaffirming, for the fifth consecutive year, its support to the ministry of culture and communication and to the Centre national des arts plastiques for the 2012 edition of MONUMENTA, the biggest French event of contemporary art.

A lasting support which illustrates perfectly its sponsorship policy characterized by dynamism and innovation in the service of the contemporary creation and the valorisation of cultural heritage.

Bank Neuflize OBC is the main sponsor of MONUMENTA from the very beginning.

The bank bet on this unique artistic challenge, as simple as ambitious, which aimed to demonstrate that contemporary creation could be appreciated not only by the critic but also by a large public.

Neuflize OBC is now particularly proud to continue this partnership in 2012 with the totally new work of Daniel Buren, who will face himself with the hugeness, the beauty and the light of the glass and steel vault of the Grand Palais. The artist, for whom the place is inseparable from the work that reveals its hidden dimensions, will immerse the visitors in a transfigured Grand Palais.

As in 2011, Neuflize OBC supports especially this year the original operation of mediation set to make this work of art accessible to all kind of audience.

A banking institution of convictions, Neuflize OBC is sensitive to this very ambitious and unique artistic confrontation, giving pride of place to works of art, contributing to move the contemporary artistic creation closer to the largest public and illustrating the peculiar and innovative way in which the bank looks at the lively world.

The Neuflize OBC sponsorship policy sets out to combine the culture of the past with that of the future, to associate the visual arts and the cinema, and to coordinate its actions with those of Neuflize Vie, its insurance company.

The bank’s sponsorship policy…

Neuflize OBC, one of the leaders in private banking in France, is often quoted as a reference in cultural sponsorship, notably for visual arts and the cinema. Its field of intervention includes partnerships with prestigious institutions, both for exhibitions and for major artistic events. Its choices get organized around supports in the creation as in the development of the cultural heritage.

Choices reflecting the values of a private bank…

The actions carried out by Neuflize OBC are at one and the same time proof of a rigorous, long-term commitment to quality projects and an open-minded and innovative encouragement of promising creative initiatives geared to the future. The priorities enshrined in the bank’s sponsorship policy also illustrate the appropriateness to its clients, with a special focus on families with roots in the French industrial sector and often with a reputation as art lovers, or on professionals from the world of cinema and communication drawn from all parts of the country.

A coherent sponsorship policy…

Neuflize OBC also shares its engagements with its insurance company, Neuflize Vie, which has opted to focus on contemporary, photographic and videographic images through partnerships of various kinds, like its durable contribution to Jeu de Paume and MEP museums.

Some examples of actions in 2012 :

Major Sponsor of the Cinémathèque française (“Tim Burton, the exhibition” March-August 2012), Pavilion Neuflize OBC, creation laboratory of the Palais de Tokyo, Exhibition « Dessins contemporains surréalistes de Rotterdam » at the Netherlands Institute (March-May 2012), Contemporary drawing prize - Foundation Daniel and Florence Guerlain (March 2012), Restauration of Edouard André’s antechamber at the Jacquemart-André museum, « Nuit Européenne des Musées », Direction générale des patrimoines, (May 2012), MONUMENTA 2012, Daniel Buren (May-June 2012), Forum of Avignon (November 2012)…

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illycaffè

illycaffè, Italian coffee maker since 1933, produces a single blend of premium quality coffee. A perfect mix of taste and excellence.

To illy, the coffee break is synonym of a wide-ranging experience of all senses: the art of coffee joins the talent of emerging and already famous contemporary artists, who have been working with illycaffè for more than 20 years.

The company has committed itself to actively spread and support contemporary art, by organizing major international exhibitions and working with of well-known artists as well as emerging ones.

In 1997, and in the following editions of 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011, illycaffè has been partner of the Biennale de Venise. It has also been partner of the most important and well-known international art fairs and exhibitions, such as Armory Show, Frieze, Arco, Artissima.

Among all the art projects, Galleria illy crepresents a major event. As a real salon, Galleria illy is a temporary space that welcomes internationally renowned personalities from the art world: Julian Schnabel, Marina Abramović, James Rosenquist, Sebastião Salgado, Michael Lin, Patricia Urquiola, Ross Lovegrove, Ron Arad, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Peter Greenaway, and Matteo Thun. Galleria illy has already been staged in New York, Milan, Trieste, Berlin, Istanbul, and London. In September 2012, Galleria illy will be in Beijing.

Given that art has always been such an important part of the brand identity, the current logo was created in 1996 by Rosenquist, who ten years later designed a limited edition of the 250 gr. coffee can, “Coffee Flavours Ideas”.

In the spirit of living art on a daily basis, in 1992 illy created its first « illy Art Collection »: since then several worldwide famous artists have used their talents to create special signed cup collections in limited editions. This major project, now at its 20th anniversary, represents one of the most beautiful and clearest expressions of the relationship between the brand and contemporary art. Among the 70 artists who have collaborated to the illy Art Collection project, illy has worked with Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marina Abramovic, Jeff Koons, Bob Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Anish Kapoor, Daniel Buren…

This year, illy’s passion for art is enhanced by a new collaboration, the partnership with 2012 MONUMENTA edition. The love for art and the desire to support international exhibitions have led the brand to be part of this collaboration. An illy bar decorated by Daniel Buren will be opened at the Grand Palais all along the event. Daniel Buren, who had already created an illy art collection in 2004, has designed a new one dedicated to MONUMENTA 2012.

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