Simon Nicaise

Simon Nicaise is a French artist born in 1982 and a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. Some of his works are held in the collections of the CNAP and the FRAC de Haute-Normandie, and he has been awarded several prizes, including the Prix Jeune Création (2009) and the Prix Sciences Po pour l'art contemporain (2011).

His commitment to community work led him to set up and run the Stork Galerie in Rouen with Morgane Fourey from 2008 to 2011, before founding the web radio *DUUU - Unités Radiophoniques Mobiles - in 2012.

In the +1 collection, he undertakes, according to a determined and predefined protocol, to affix an additional unit to a selection of works borrowed from the corpus of minimal and conceptual art. A collection constrained by the extra unit, a principle that both restricts and amplifies creative potential. The addition of a +1 questions and disturbs the spirit and boundaries of sculpture by extending the initial work in quotation.