Our patronage activities
Our group has been involved in a variety of patronage activities since the very beginning. This has included sponsoring artists, encouraging the creative pursuits of French youth, and supporting the Paris Opera.
Our patronage activities began over 20 years ago, shortly after the group was created by Paprec’s chairman and founder, Jean-Luc Petithuguenin. These initiatives aim to promote culture and celebrate French excellence!
PRINCIPAL PATRON OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET
Our group has been working alongside this great artistic institution since 2000. We are now the principal patron of the Paris Opera Ballet, and we received the Ministry of Culture’s Major Cultural Sponsor award (Grand Mécène) in 2011.
During each season of the Paris Opera, our group offers several hundred of its customers and staff the opportunity to watch performances or dress rehearsals. And even to go backstage for a tour of the costume workshops and the sets.
PATRON OF THE JALMALV PARIS ÎLE-DE-FRANCE ASSOCIATION
The Jalmalv Paris Île-de-France association provides end-of-life care and campaigns for the development of palliative care in France.
Its volunteers work alongside healthcare teams to help people condemned to live on the margins of society due to embarrassment, anxiety or solitude.
Paprec began working with the association in its fight for life in 2012.
Patron of the Magie à l'Hôpital Association
Aware of our role, we have chosen to support the Magie à l'Hôpital Association in its noble mission. Founded several years ago by magic enthusiasts who wanted to bring smiles to hospitalized children, this association uses the art of magic to brighten the daily lives of sick children.
ARTIST PATRONAGE
Every year since 1997, we support a young artist by commissioning a work in which they can freely express their vision of recycling. All the artworks are then displayed in the reception areas of the group’s sites.
2024- WALLEN MAPONDERA
“By using materials found in my work, I recognize the value of discarded objects. (…) Waste carries the energy of its previous use; it evokes memories, and the urgency to create art is what drives me to pick up a particular object.”
"An interview with Ludovic Delalande" in Wallen Mapondera, ed. Mitterrand / Smac, 2022
Chakafukidza Dzimba Matenga, 2023
Egg carton cutouts, waxed thread, plastic, and paint on canvas, 246 x 152 x 6 cm
2023 - EDI HILA
"My paintings aim to express the complex atmosphere of today and to follow, as much as possible, the adventure of humanity in modern times. The story of tents is one of temporary reality: the threshold to cross in order to begin a new life."
Temporary Shelter, 2022
Oil on canvas, 140 x 96 cm
2022 - MARION VERBOOM
"Loess 1 consists of successive layers of ceramic strips, resembling sediments or petrified materials. It is both a natural construction formed by the elements and a deliberately designed architecture."
Loess I, 2012
Seven columns, ceramic, variable dimensions
2021 - EVA NIELSEN
"I immersed myself in recycling factories to create a series of paintings. What struck me was the omnipresence of paper in our lives. It is a material that we handle every day and, for me, it is an inexhaustible source of inspiration."
Ascien IV, 2019
Oil and silkscreen on canvas, 200 x 150 cm
2019 - JULIEN BENEYTON
What fascinates me is to show reality. I went to meet the teams at Paprec and I wanted to show the scale of their world: immense factory, huge trucks, excavator... and an impressive mountain of waste.
Broulaye Diakite & Moukhssine Diouf, 2019
Acrylique sur bois, 98 x 153 cm
2015 - LOUIS-CYPRIEN RIALS
Louis-Cyprien Rials is a photographer and video artist inspired by mineral motifs. These can be found in many artistic movements, including Japanese prints and Cubism, as well as in landscapes such as cliffs, seas and deserts.
Désert inversé, 2014
Paper impression Hahnemühle, 55 x 90 cm
2016 et 2017 - JEAN DENANT
This is an artist interested in the process by which the work is made. Jean Denant is an enthusiast of construction and deconstruction, breaking down the barriers between art and reality, with the exhibition space becoming the creative medium.
Untitled, 2016-17
Engraving on plywood, 249 x 124.5 cm
2018 - CLAIRE LE CHATELIER
The white canvas Signes is an oil painting that refers to classical ballet. The work with the red tutu, Carmen, an acrylic, evokes contemporary dance and specifically Le Sacre du printemps, a dazzling masterpiece created by Pina Bausch.
2013 et 2014 -SARAH DERRAT
Jesse is the first sculpture in a series inspired by the cells on America’s death row. It represents the space prisoners have to move around in.
Jesse, 2014
Acier, 218 x 100 x 77 cm
Recycled steel was an essential choice.
2011 et 2012 - SULLIVAN GOBA-BLÉ
“Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, the works of Sullivan Goba-Blé question the structure and consistency of his subjects through different media – be aware of what we can’t see in what we are shown”
Sans titre, 2011
Acrylique sur toile, 150 x 300 cm
2010 - HENRI WAGNER AND ELIA DAVID
“This project is an interpretation of a ball of paper, uniform and geometric, which we chose to make decorative”
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