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Marc-Olivier Wahler has been chosen as the first guest curator for the annual Audemars Piguet Art Commission. Wahler has been invited by the brand to work with the first artist selected for the commission on the production of a major new artwork to be unveiled at Art Basel in Basel 2015. As the founder and director of the Chalet Society in Paris, and the former director of the Palais de Tokyo, Wahler brings the experience of organising over 400 exhibitions during the last 20 years to Audemars Piguet’s new arts commissioning project.
 
Drawing on inspiration from the craftsmanship and technical excellence inherent to Audemars Piguet's legacy of watchmaking, the Audemars Piguet Art Commission will support artists in the creation of new works which explore relationships between contemporary creative practice and complex mechanics, technology, and science.

Audemars Piguet has announced the launch of an art commission program that will support one major artwork each year by an emerging or midcareer artist.

Each commission will be overseen by an internationally renowned guest curator and will be unveiled at one of the three international Art Basel events — Hong Kong, Basel, and Miami Beach — on a rotating basis. An announced of the first artist to be selected will be made later this year and that artist’s work will be unveiled at Art Basel in Basel in June 2015.