Arte Laguna Art Prize has three sections as in the previous editions: Painting, Sculpture and Photographic Art, each of which is presided from a quoted Italian critic and curator. This year Igor Zanti for Sculpture, Viviana Siviero for Painting and Alessandro Trabucco for Photography, supported by: - Stefano Coletto (curator of the Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa of Venezia), -   Lorenzo Respi (curator of the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro of Milano), - Rossella Bertolazzi (director of the European Institute of Design). This Jury will select the 90 finalists for the exhibition in the Venice Arsenale.
 

 

 

The Arte Laguna Art Prize organizes the final exhibition in the Arsenale of Venice, from the 6th to the 27th of March 2010. This exclusive site, that usually is open only for the Biennale, in this case will exhibits the 90 finalists of the Prize, 30 for each section. This it will be the first of further exhibitions in several art galleries in Italy and abroad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since last edition Arte Laguna Prize promotes the collaboration between Business and Art for underlining the great opportunities that it rappresents. In the previous edition, the Prize collaborates with “Capo d’Opera” an Italian furniture and interior design company where they select an artist for a special forniture.
This year there is the Special Prize “Collezione Tenuta S.Anna - Business for Art” that offers the possibility to all the artists who register with two works to the Painting Section of the Arte Laguna Art Prize to participate for free to this competition until the 30th september 2009.  The winner will receive a prize of  5.000 euro and the possibility to see its own works reproduced on the Tenuta S.Anna wine labels that will be introduced in a very special occasion: Vinitaly 2010, the more important international wine fair.

 

 

- The International Collaborations -

Arte Laguna Art Prize is patronaged by: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Veneto Region, the European Institute of Design and the Fine Art Accademy of Venice.
Furthermore the Arte Laguna Prize collaborates with: “Catch by the eye save in the heart" a project by Magdalena Rutkowska that will have the special exhibition in London; The Italian Culture Institute in Vienna with a special exhibition (12-26 April 2010); The Promenade Gallery Contemporary Art (Albania)  and others Italian Art Galleries in Venice, Milan, Napoles, Brescia, Feltre, Alessandria and Rome with a personal exhibition of one of Arte Laguna Prize artists.

 

For each winner was planned a personal exhibition and several interviews for art magazines and radio. Furthermore, among the finalists stood out in particular the winners of painting and sculpure sections of the 2008 edition, Pierluigi Febbraio and Dania Zanzotto, they were listed as “piece of art suggested to buy” in the most important Italian art magazine “Arte” edited by Mondadori.  Moreover the finalist sculptor artist of the 2008 edition Annalù was the only Italian artist in the exhibition “Young Art Global 09” at MOYA Museum of Vienna. Other finalists were called outside the Prize for organizing personal or collective exhibitions around the Italy as: “ArtFair in OpenCity” by Giudecca 795 Gallery in Venice; “Ceres 4 Art 2009” by My Own Gallery in Milan; “Love nest” by Wannabe Gallery in Milan; “Paolo Buzzi. Il silenzio delle cose” by Pieri Gallery in Cesena; “CArNEAde” by Bianconi Gallery in Milan; “Eludendo” by Zaion Gallery in Biella; “New Art, New Pop III” by Galleria dell’Ombra in Venice; “New Art, New Pop” by BROLO Culture and Art Centre in Mogliano Veneto.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rules: http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/art-prize-2009.html

Application form: http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/applicationapplication.html

Artistic Results: http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/to-be-continued.html

 

 

 

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