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november 07, 2021 - Artissima

Lennart Lahuis is the winner of the second edition of the FPT for Sustainable Art Award


Lennart Lahuis is the winner of the second edition of the FPT for Sustainable Art Award supported by FPT Industrial with the purpose to generate a mix between sustainability, innovation and art.

The artist is presented by the gallery Dürst Britt & Mayhew from The Hague.

The FPT for Sustainable Art Award has been awarded by an international jury composed of Diana Campbell Betancourt Krist Gruijthuijsen Antje-Britt Mählmann,

Lennart Lahuis’ installation at Dürst Britt & Mayhew is a poignant example of how context and materiality is manifested in a multi-layered process of what is considered ‘sustainable’. Lahuis is placed in dialogue with Dutch modernist painter and poet Willem Hussem, influential within the Netherlands but largely unknown internationally. The abstract colorful paintings by Hussem are juxtaposed by crates, bluntly placed right in front of them and used to transport Lahuis’ work with. A display of industrial products reveal a system in which words evaporate through water. When is it that we feel change in the air? could have been adapted from one of Hussem’s poems tracing the ephemeral and poetic complexities of (art) history within our everyday changing environment.

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In 2020 Renato Leotta, presented by Madragoa gallery, won the award with a work from the “Mare” series, which was then purchased by the company. The work embodies ideas shared by #fptindustrial, which designs and produces motors for the industrial sector (vehicles, machinery, generators) and for the nautical world. In this project, the company consolidates its constant focus on environmental sustainability and the protection of the seas.

This has led to the desire to direct the second edition of the award towards selection of an artist whose work is not only the result of research on sustainable processes for the production of art, but also has an intrinsic symbolic value that more or less directly addresses the complexity, fragility, force and beauty of the marine ecosystem. A creation based on a process that involves #people, materials, lives, and has to come to terms with organization, logistical and economic mechanisms.

Sustainability as a motor of transformation of materials in creative and industrial processes.