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In 2007, Azulis Capital decided to support Adie by awarding prizes for an annual entrepreneurial competition to support new business concepts, called Elan d'Idées.
Adie is a French association promoting business initiatives by individuals, who are excluded from the labour market and the traditional banking system, through microcredit loans. Since it was launched in 1989 by Maria Nowak, Adie has financed over 65,000 business projects generating close to 80,000 jobs.
Elan d'Idées is designed to foster success stories from those starting their businesses with microcredit financing. The jury, which comprises members of the Azulis Capital team and a number of entrepreneurs, selects the competition winners by considering two criteria: the need for additional equity funding and tailored coaching in developing their projects.
The programme for 2010 culminated with the allocation of four awards.
The winners are:
- - Marylène Gros-Daillon, for cultivation and sale of edible flowers
- - Lisette Brulet, for interior plant design
- - Khalid Boualaoui, for a workshop specialising in the making and repair of automobile seats
- - Marlène Gasperi, for the manufacture and sale of cardboard furniture
Azulis Capital, sponsoring contemporary art
Alongside its support for the management of small and middle market companies in France, Azulis Capital continues to sponsor contemporary artists.
With the assistance of the art gallery, Art en Direct, Azulis Capital has chosen to partner the plastic artist-photographer, Philippe Fabian, in order to develop his career and bring his work to a wider audience. He follows Jean-Francois Rauzier, the inventor of the Hyperphoto concept, as Azulis' artist of the year.
Visitors can discover the artist's work on display in our premises from February 3, 2011 to January 31, 2012.
This exhibition has a double objective: mainly to bring about an encounter between the universe of an artist, the Team and the entrepreneurs that are in partnership with Azulis Capital and, also, to support creativity in contemporary art.
Philippe Fabian and Simultaneous Landscapes
Philippe Fabian was trained in engraving and lithography. For a decade, his artistic creations combined drawing, painting and engraving.
Gradually, he began to focus more on contemporary images, of natural and then urban landscapes.
What's more, Philippe Fabian has developed the concept of Simultaneous Landscapes. Each work comprises two or three specific locations, to which personal and collective recollections are attached. These iconic scenes are redrawn in a light that the painter uses as an artist's calque or outline, breathing movement and a renewed reality into the image.
Philippe Fabian has led exhibitions in France and abroad in London, Brussels and Seoul.
