Arte Laguna Prize
The Arte Laguna Prize is an international art competition which takes place in Venice (Italy) and aimed at promoting and enhancing contemporary art. There are different contest sections: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art, performance, virtual art, digital graphics, and land art. [1] [2]
History
The competition was organized for the first time in 2006 by the Italian Cultural association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art) from an idea of the Arte Laguna studio. The jury is international and is composed of museums and foundations directors, independent curators and art critics. The finalists of the various sections show their works at the Arsenale of Venice and into the exhibition spaces of the Italian Telecom Future Centre, also in Venice.
During the first ten editions a total of over 43 thousand works have been presented; At the finalists exhibition in 2016, artists from 44 nations were represented.
In the first editions, the competition sections were painting and photographic art; later it was added also sections devoted to sculpture and installation, video art, performance, virtual and digital art (since 2011), land art (since 2015), digital graphics (since 2016). For the 2010 edition, Arte Laguna Prize was awarded with the medal of the Italian President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano as his "prize of representation".[3]
Prizes
Institutional Prizes
The competition provides a number of institutional prizes for the various sections:
- Painting Prize
- Sculpture and Installation Prize
- Photographic Art Prize
- Video Art and Performance Prize
- Virtual Art and Digital Graphics Prize
- Land Art Prize
Special Prizes
Special prizes include the realization of solo exhibitions in international galleries ("Artist in Gallery" Prize), Art residencies for a month in an international location, with the realization of on-site exhibitions ("Artist in Residence" Prize). Over the various editions, it was also planned other non-recurring special prizes.
Other Prizes
The "Business for art" Prize is dedicated to artistic projects related to production of industrial or craft items.
Editions
2016-2017 Edition
- Patronage: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Regione del Veneto, Comune di Venezia, Provincia di Venezia, IED Istituto Europeo di Design, IUAV di Venezia, Università Cà Foscari di Venezia, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Camera di Commercio di Venezia, Provincia di Treviso, Ascom Treviso
- Prize Sections: Painting, Sculpture and Installation, Photographic Art, Video Art and Performance, Virtual Art and Digital Graphics, Environmental Art / Land Art
- Jury: Igor Zanti, Flavio Arens, Manuel Borja-Villel, Tamara Chalabi, Paolo Colombo, Suad Garayeva, Ilaria Gianni, Nav Haq, Emanuele Montibeller, Fatos Ustek, Alma Zevi.
- Special Prizes: "Artist in Residence" Prizes (San Francisco Art Residency, The Art Department - Casa dell’Arte International Artists' Residency, GLO’ART, Taipei Artist Village, Fondazione Berengo, Espronceda, Basu Foundation for the Arts, Serigrafia Artistica Fallani, Salvadori Arte - Fonderia artistica), "Artist in Gallery" Prizes (Salamatina Gallery, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Galeria Fernando Santos, ART re.FLEX Gallery, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art), "Festival ed Esposizioni" Prizes (Art Nova 100, Art Stays Festival, Open - Sculptures and installations Exhibition), "Business For Art" Prizes (Rima Sofa & Beds, Papillover art collection, Eurosystem, Deglupta, Biafarin), "Sustainability and Art" Prize: Paper RRR (Reuse Recycle Reduce) as Art and Design (Università Ca'Foscari, Comieco)
- Collective Exhibition: Arsenale of Venice and Tim Future Center from March 25 to April 9, 2017, 125 finalists.
References
- ↑ Quaranta, Domenico (12 Aug 2014). Beyond New Media Art. Lulu Press. ISBN 9781291861570.
- ↑ Chereb, Sandra. "Nevada horse chosen to exhibit artwork in Italy". Kentucky New Era. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ↑ MIBACT - Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo. "10 ° PREMIO ARTE LAGUNA 15.16". www.beniculturali.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2016-11-06.