V EDITION - ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE - OPEN CALL
Deadline Type:
fixedDeadline:
12/10/2010Call Type:
Awards, Grants, FellowshipsEligibility:
InternationalDeadline: 16th November, 2010
Prizes: 100.000 euro
Winners' artwork remain property of the artist
Sections: painting, sculpture, photographic art, video art and performing art
Participation: the competition is open to all artists, without any limits. There is not a specific theme
Finalist artists: 110
Institutional Exhibition venues: Arsenale of Venice, Romanian Cultural and Humanistic Research Institute in Venice
Special Prizes: 31 International Galleries (New York, Shanghai, Las Vegas, Rome, Florence, ...), Tina B Festival in Prague and Open in Venice
Artist in Residence: Claudio Buziol Foundation in Venice, Zauli Museum in Faenza, Art Stays in Ptuj Slovenia
Business for Art "ReiL": Residency and artistic intervention at one resort in Bahia Brazil
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press release
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The International Prize "Arte Laguna” starts the new edition with the goal to promote young contemporary art. Remaining consistent to the original purposes of its two creators, Laura Gallon and Beatrice Susa, Arte Laguna Prize continues its course as "incubator of Italian and international young art", with the will to discover new talent, to support emerging artists in promoting their creativity and to develop their careers.
Continuing the path opened in 2006, the Prize, organized
by the Cultural Association MoCA and Arte Laguna, highlights the peculiar ability
to innovate and renew itself. It gained importance an value in a few years in
the contemporary art system and it achieved a great success in the 2009
edition, with 5.500 participants from more than 90 different countries, and
almost 5,000 visitors for the main exhibition of the 180 Prize finalists, which
was successfully completed in Venice on 31st March. This collective exhibition was the
first of a series of events involving most of the finalists in personal and
group exhibitions organized by galleries and partners held in Italy and abroad
during all the 2010.
The next edition of the
Prize is enriched with two new sections
- Video Art and Performing Art - which are additional to those established:
Painting, Sculpture and Photographic Art.
The final exhibition - which displays the 110 finalists selected by judges – is scheduled in March 2011, involving again the prestigious venue of the Arsenal of Venice. And the total value of the Prize is about 100.000 euros.
In particular, the Prize presents three main innovations. The first one is represented by a special prize, the Press award, whose jury is composed of seven journalists from the art field: Daniele Capra (Exibart), Elisa Delle Noci (Artkey/Teknemedia), Lorella Pagnucco Salvemini (ArteIn), Cristiano Seganfreddo(Innov(e)tion Valley), Chiara Somajni (IL Sole 24 Ore), Gloria Vallese (Arte), Maurizio Zuccari (Insideart). The second one is the Special Prize "Artist in Residence", assigned to the artists choosen between finalist ones and it provides three artist's residencies with the specific intent to promote and encourage the creativity of young artists. Finally, there is the Special Prize "Tina B", in collaboration with the same festival in Prague, dedicated to performance. Moreover the Special Prize “Open Arte Communication” that offers the partecipation to the XIV edition of the International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations that will take place in Lide of Venice during the Venice International Film Festival.
Surrounding the figure of the main curator of the Prize,
the art critic Igor Zanti, the Jury
presents new important art professionals for increasing new perspectives in the
selection of works: Gianfranco Maraniello
- Museum Director MAMbo Bologna; Chiara
Barbieri - the Guggenheim Foundation in Venice; Matteo Zauli - Director of the Museum Zauli in Faenza; Luca Panaro - art critic; Ludovico Pratesi -
Director Visual Arts Center Pescheria in Pesaro; Rossella
Bertolazzi - Director European Institute of Design in Milan; Maja
Skerbot - art critic and curator; Valentina
Tanni – art critic and one of the
founders of Exibart; Monika Burian -
Director of the International Festival of Contemporary Art Tina B in Prague.
Also for its fifth edition, the Prize offers Special Prizes in collaboration with the Galleries Partners, a network of more than 30 Italian and foreign galleries, that host personal exhibitions for the selected artists among the finalist ones. those represent more opportunities and visibility linked with nationally and internationally important events and institutions in the art field.
Moreover the Prize can start new and unexpected synergies
between the contemporary art world and the companies through the Special Prize “Business for Art”. In
this new edition it will start a new collaboration with RE-IL enterprise, in the real estate field, that offers the Special Prize “Reil for young talents”,
a stay in Brazil for one artist that will work in a resort for making it an
unique artistic space.
The deadline for apply
is the 16th November 2010, by mail, or the 10th December 2010, for online
applications.
More information on www.artelagunaprize.com
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