Vice-president of Art2Cure, Philippe Lamesch, during the preview of the first international edition of Art2Cure in New York City. The preview gathered 290 guests, including the Crown Prince Guillaume, his wife Princess Stéphanie, the Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, his husband Gauthier Destenay and the actress Kathleen Turner.
On 21 May to 24 May 2018, around 400 people gathered at Ronald Feldman Gallery to discover works of art from six Luxembourgish artists and seven NYC based artists. The preview event attended by Luxembourg royalty, prime minister, as well as a suprise visit from actress Kathleen Turner, welcomed a record of 290 guests to an event that anticipated 280 people.
18 artworks from Luxembourg and New York City based artists, and some extraordinary pieces available from the Feldman Gallery’s own archive, were presented during the 2018 edition of Art2Cure, amassing €100,000 from sales.
The event was organised by Art2Cure, a non-profit organization founded in Luxembourg in 2014 that creates yearly fundraising art exhibitions for biomedical research in neurodegenerative diseases at the University of Luxembourg.
Unlike any other art fundraisers, Art2Cure supports art and science by equally dividing the funds between researchers and artists. Vice-president of Art2Cure, research associate of University of Luxembourg and artist with an expertise in printmaking and collage, Philippe Lamesch, told Delano that, "We wanted to do something a little bit different, to find another way to inform people because it is a difficult topic.”
The non-profit organization aims to provide up-and-coming as well as established artists with a great platform to show their works, and, at the same time, support a Parkinson’s disease research collaboration between Columbia University and the University of Luxembourg. Lamesch explained that by evenly splitting the funds, artists produce “astonishing pieces, that are sometimes specifically made for the event.”
Pointing out the difficulty of receiving funding from the government, Lamesch claimed that the collaboration with Columbia University will allow Luxembourg researchers to benefit from the more advanced infrastructure in microscopy present at the American university. “We strongly believe that bringing together researchers from different backgrounds with complementary sets of expertise, such as in the case of Columbia and Luxembourg Universities, their biomedical research can be accelerated and the path towards a cure be shortened,” said Lamesch.
On 30 June 2018, the Art2Cure will hold its yearly national exhibition at the Galerie l'Indépendance at the headquarters of BIL in Luxembourg city, where 13 artists will present their paints, sculptures, graffiti art, photos and drawings.
http://delano.lu/d/detail/news/science-meets-art-new-york-city/180408
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