Time for Luxury
Rolex has always been more than a mere watchmaking company. The Swiss company is one of the world’s leading patrons of arts and science with the Rolex Awards for Enterprise as well as the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiate. Started in 2002, the latter connects mentors with bright talent across seven artistic disciplines: dance, music, theatre, film, literature, visual arts and architecture. This year, Chaitanya Tamhane, the director of Court, got to spend time with the brilliant Alfonso Cuaron ( Y Tu Mamá También,
Gravity), and the two will make a joint presentation at the Rolex Arts Weekend in Berlin on February 3 and 4, 2018. The Rolex Arts Weekend is curated by Stefan Schmidtke, the German director and dramaturge who is currently head of programmes and events at the Humboldt Forum. Among the other pairs were South African dance protégée Londiwe Khoza and her mentor, Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin; and mentor Philip Glass who will introduce his protégée, Peruvian composer and intermedia artist Pauchi Sasaki.