The Arthur Piza endowment fund recognizes the work of alternately a french or a brazilian artist that he is a painter,  sculptor, video director or engraver.

The prize is an artistic residence in Brazil or France so as to exchange with artists from a different culture.

This prize was created for the first time 4 years ago.

For this year 2016, the jury of the Arthur Piza endowment fund, unanimously awarded the french painter Sophie Lambert 

Sophie Lambert was born in a French-Venezuelan family living in Paris.

She has never been to Venezuela and has never had the opportunity to see the landscapes and the genuine nature she dreamed about.

This could be one of the reasons she is deeply obsessed by the representation of imaginary, humid and scary jungles, trying to make her remote memories of the passionating tales her grandmother whispered to her as a child, a reality.

Sophie Lambert's paintings are intense and very colourful compositions made of large and generous shapes, conjuring up vines winding or unwinding in a majestic atmosphere, in which we sink.

born shortly after the Beatle's Sergeant Pepper's, Sophie Lambert grew and became part of a psychedelic and upside down world where pop culture glorified childhood, Disneyland, comics, ice-cold candies and video games, leading this new sweetener world to its climax.

She knows about the alchemy of colours and its different hues using glistening daubs of glossy paints, weaving lays of sweet and sour colours between them, patiently, looking for the major final vibration effect like for a symphony.

Sophie Lambert got 3 awards from the Taylor Foundation in the past three years.

She has just received a grant from the Arthur Piza Foundation in Brazil, where she is invited as an artist-in-residence.

Virginie Duval, Paris, april 2016