Arte Laguna
Prize has been promoting contemporary art for thirteen years, collecting
thousands of applications from artists from all over the world,
selected by a jury of excellence for the great exhibition in March in
the evocative spaces of the Arsenale of Venice.
The Prize has
obtained a medal from the President of the Italian Republic and the
patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Cultural
Heritagel, the Veneto Region, the Municipality of Venice, Ca' Foscari
University of Venice and the European Institute of Design among others.
This year it opens its doors to design, dedicating to it a new important
section.
This change,
strongly endorsed by the prize management, “is the natural continuation
of the growth of Arte Laguna Prize and the expression of the blurred
boundaries between design and art that we have been observing for a long
time” states Laura Gallon, one of the founders.
The design
section, supported by Antrax IT a company that produces designer
radiators, will have a jury created ad hoc, that will include Alfonso Femia, architect, Danilo Premoli, architect and designer, and Igor Zanti,
curator of the Prize and director of IED Venezia. Artists can submit
proposals for furniture or furnishing accessories that enrich the
housing experience where the visual component is predominant.
Thus, there are now ten categories to which artists and creatives can apply until Novemebr 27th, 2018:
design, painting, sculpture and installation, virtual art, photographic
art, digital graphics, video art and short films, performance, urban
art, land art.
The other
sections of the competition will be evaluated by international art
experts selected on the basis of their curriculum and their expertise: Flavio Arensi - director of the museums of Legnano; Filippo Andreatta - Theatre-maker and co-curator of Centrale Fies; Mattias Givell - co-director of Wanås Konst in Sweden; Eva González-Sancho - co-curator of the first Oslo Biennial in 2019; Simone Pallotta - curator of public and urban art; Richard Noyce - writer, scholar and art critic; Enrico Stefanelli - artistic director of Photolux Festival, Lucca; Alessandra Tiddia - chief curator at Mart Museum of Trento and Rovereto; Vasili Tsereteli - director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Artt; Maxa Zoller – film curator at Art Basel and artistic director of the International Women's Film Festival of Dortmund.
The jury will
select the works of 120 finalist artists from the different categories,
which will be exhibited from March 16th to April 7th 2019 at the
Arsenale Nord of Venice. Among the works on display the jury will
identify six absolute winners who will be awarded with the cash prizes for a total prize money of 42.000€.
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THE ADDITIONAL PRIZES OF THE 13TH EDITION
Artist in Residence Prizes
A program of art
residences in Italy and abroad to allow an artistic experience of
growth in contact with a new environment or a new culture, to create new
works and to participate in new activities in a multicultural
environment. The residencies are assigned to nine artists and are:
GLO’ART in Belgium; Basu Foundation for the Arts in Kolkata; Espronceda
in Barcelona; Farm Cultural Park in Favara, Sicily; Maradiva Cultural
Residency, in Mauritius. From this year also Lanificio Paoletti in
Treviso, Open Dream again in Treviso, Centrale Fies in Trento and Nuart
Festival in Norway have been involved.
Business for Art Prizes
Collaborations
with companies meant to connect creativity with the production sector.
This year artists will have the chance to use the precious fabrics of
Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua of Venice to create a new artwork; win 2.000€
by presenting an artistic proposal designed for the enhancement of the
spaces of 47 Anno Domini winery; be awarded with 2.000€ by submitting
works or graphic proposals to be applied to the packaging of the
confectionery products by Fraccaro Spumadoro or win 2.000€ by presenting
to Maglificio Giordano's artworks linked to the fashion world.
Artist in Gallery Prizes
Organization of 4
exhibitions in international Art Galleries, including setting up,
vernis-sage and catalogue. The venues are: Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister
in Germany; Várfok Galéria in Budapest; Anise Gallery in Londra;
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, United States.
Partecipation in Festivals and Group exhibitions
Selection of 13
artists for participation in collective events in Slovenia at Art Stays
Festival, in Beijing with the events organized by Art Nova 100, in
Venice with the exhibitionTraVellArt organized by Arte Communication and
in Lucca with the participation in Photolux Festival.
Art Platforms and Supporters Prizes
Collaborations
with foundations and institutions whose main mission is to promote art
and support artists and their careers: the Canadian platform Biafarin,
the foundation for the promotion of paste art The Art Spirit Foundation
in Connecticut, United States
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