Barclays L'Atelier: Multi Organ

Credits & Description:

Brand: Barclays L'Atelier
Brand: Absa Barclays
Media: Print
Category: Professional services
Agency: The Jupiter Drawing Room
Geo: South Africa
Barclays L'Atelier: Art Needs You, 4
The epic milestione of the 30th edition of the prestigious Barclays L’Atelier Art Competition was launched by an elaborately staged ruse at Strauss & Co. Fine Art Auctions where Stephan Welz and a team of ‘professionals’ portended to unveil the future of fine art: an automated art-making machine. The reaction amongst the art media crowd slowly changed from amazement to disbelief and then to down-right hostility at the prospects that this idea posed, before the campaign for this year’s L’Atelier was unveiled: Art doesn’t need technology to survive. Art needs people. Art needs artists. Art Needs You. This is also the first year that the competition will spread its roots beyond South Africa as we invite young artists from Botswana, Zambia, Ghana and Kenya to enter.
Advertising Agency: The Jupiter Drawing Room, Johannesburg, South Africa
Creative Partner: Tom Cullinan
Creative Director: Dana Cullinan
Art Director: Kerryn-Lee Maggs
Copywriter: Cameron Fraser
Designers: Kerryn – Lee Maggs, Thabang Lehobye
Illustrator: Am I Collective / Disko
Agency Account Directors: Zola Thekiso, Ntloteng Manale
Agency Producers: Nicola Berry, Manuel Cardoso Lopes
Production House: Ministry of Illusion
Events Company: Enterprise Republic
PR: Tarryn Fritz
Additional credits: Fireworx / Paul Schmidt
Published: February 2015