A professional artist for more than a decade, Claudio Arnell applied for the official artist-author status last year following the organization of La Semaine des Artistes by the CCISM. He is telling us about his journey.
Claudio Arnell has been living from his painting and photography for many years. Originally from Saint-Martin, he has lived for 10 years in main land France. After studying art, he began to make his work known through artist residencies, associative actions and competitions. Around him, his Saint-Martin friends were being registered as artists via main land France or Martinique. “For me this paperwork seemed too complicated and too far away. I had my network, it worked so I kept doing it my way,” he says. Above all, he wanted to be recognized as a Saint-Martin artist.
Claudio Arnell has continued for several years before creating his own company in the field of decoration and event planning after Irma. Limited by this status to access the art market, a highly regulated sector, last year, he chose to register as an artist-author following the conference of La Maison des Artistes in Saint-Martin which allowed him to get rid of his doubts on these procedures, indeed accessible to Saint-Martin people. This status now allows him to be officially recognized and to be able, for example, to qualify for scholarships or respond to calls for tenders from the Department of Culture. A necessary emancipation for this artist who wants to make a career in art and export his work internationally.
“Artists should consider the status not as a trap but rather as a facilitator”
LUCIANA RASPAIL,
CCISM DEPUTY DIRECTOR
“Last year, the arrival of La Maison des Artistes in Saint-Martin shed light on the status and demystified the steps around being registered. This year again, the objective is to allow local artists, all categories combined, to understand how they can evolve within the economic sphere. We want to make them aware of the importance of exercising their activity, even a secondary activity, within a framework and therefore through an administrative status (artist-author or worker of the entertainment industry). The status will legitimize the activity but also give it an economic value. It will allow the artist to send invoices for his services, to get access to social benefits and subsidies or respond to calls for projects to develop his business. Artists are invited to take part in this process and to consider the status not as a trap but rather as a facilitator for their activity. It is important to emphasize that the work must also be collective. The specifiers of these services must know and respect the framework in which they can compensate the artist. They also have a responsibility and a role to play in acknowledging and valuing the artist on the territory.”
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