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ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE
Rosa Barba
Rossella Biscotti
Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio Piero Golia four finalists with site-specific projects
MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts
until 20 March 2011
Rosa Barba
Rossella Biscotti
Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio Piero Golia four finalists with site-specific projects
MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts
until 20 March 2011
ROME. Rosa Barba, Rossella Biscotti, Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio and Piero Golia, all under 40 years old, are the finalists of the first edition of the Italian Contemporary Art Prize promoted by MAXXI and curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi: each of the artists has presented a project for an original work that is being produced by the museum and on the basis of which last 3 December an international jury declared a winner, with that work being acquired by the MAXXI Art collection.
MAXXI is devoting an exhibition to these artists from 4 December 2010 to 20 March 2011 and a monographic publication to the winner of the prize with critical essays and entries for all of the works from their artistic development.
THE WORKS OF THE FINALISTS
The exhibition is composed of four site-specific projects in which recent Italian history and the burning issues of the moment are combined with more intimate themes in a constant alternation of idioms (from film to photography through to installation) and dialogue between art and architecture.
In the project by Rosella Biscotti (Molfetta – BA, 1978), the architectural and functional transformations of the Fencing Academy by Luigi Moretti at the Foro Italico, which became an Aula Bunker or fortified courtroom in the 1970s, the setting for historic trials including that regarding the assassination of Aldo Moro, become inspiration for reflection on the unresolved mysteries of Italian collective history. Stories of exile, war, uprooting and an absence of welcome are at the centre of the film by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio (Turin, 1978) who describe the experience of a group of Somali refugees in the barracks in Via Asti, Turin. Rosa Barba (Agrigento, 1972) explores hidden spaces, from subterranean passages to museum storerooms that she investigates in a film in which she creates an imaginary dialogue between the works in their condition of enforced cohabitation. Piero Golia (Naples, 1974) examines the theme of the relationship between museum an visible and invisible through an installation composed a great arrow, the gigantic image of a monkey and a palm tree.
THE PRIZE
With the Italian Contemporary Art Prize MAXXI is once again underlining its mission: research and support for contemporary artists, the production of exhibitions, events and projects that enrich the collection and the intention to become an international point of reference for Italian contemporary art.
The Italian Contemporary Art Prize – says Anna Mattirolo, director of MAXXI Art – presents committed projects testifying to the great value and vitality of a young generation of Italian artists who have already earned a place within the international panorama for whom it nonetheless represents an important opportunity and recognition.
The Prize is born out of the experience of the Young Italian Art Prize that in its previous four editions provided a launching pad for artists such as Stefano Arienti, Vanessa Beecroft, Lara Favaretto, Eva Marisaldi, Nico Vascellari and Francesco Vezzoli, while at the same time enhancing the museum’s collection. It is particularly significant that 10 years on from its creation, the prize returns to the MAXXI with which it shares a mission of promoting and supporting Italian contemporary art.
Designed to promote the national art scene, the Italian Contemporary Art Prize identifies the most significant strands of research of recent years and is open to artists under 45 years of age who are either Italian or resident in Italy. In the initial phase 10 selectors were chosen from among the directorts of the AMACI (Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums) and the Italian contemporary art foundations.
Each of them nominated up to three artists they considered to be representative of the most recent artistic research. In the second phase an international jury chose the four finalists.
MAXXI is devoting an exhibition to these artists from 4 December 2010 to 20 March 2011 and a monographic publication to the winner of the prize with critical essays and entries for all of the works from their artistic development.
THE WORKS OF THE FINALISTS
The exhibition is composed of four site-specific projects in which recent Italian history and the burning issues of the moment are combined with more intimate themes in a constant alternation of idioms (from film to photography through to installation) and dialogue between art and architecture.
In the project by Rosella Biscotti (Molfetta – BA, 1978), the architectural and functional transformations of the Fencing Academy by Luigi Moretti at the Foro Italico, which became an Aula Bunker or fortified courtroom in the 1970s, the setting for historic trials including that regarding the assassination of Aldo Moro, become inspiration for reflection on the unresolved mysteries of Italian collective history. Stories of exile, war, uprooting and an absence of welcome are at the centre of the film by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio (Turin, 1978) who describe the experience of a group of Somali refugees in the barracks in Via Asti, Turin. Rosa Barba (Agrigento, 1972) explores hidden spaces, from subterranean passages to museum storerooms that she investigates in a film in which she creates an imaginary dialogue between the works in their condition of enforced cohabitation. Piero Golia (Naples, 1974) examines the theme of the relationship between museum an visible and invisible through an installation composed a great arrow, the gigantic image of a monkey and a palm tree.
THE PRIZE
With the Italian Contemporary Art Prize MAXXI is once again underlining its mission: research and support for contemporary artists, the production of exhibitions, events and projects that enrich the collection and the intention to become an international point of reference for Italian contemporary art.
The Italian Contemporary Art Prize – says Anna Mattirolo, director of MAXXI Art – presents committed projects testifying to the great value and vitality of a young generation of Italian artists who have already earned a place within the international panorama for whom it nonetheless represents an important opportunity and recognition.
The Prize is born out of the experience of the Young Italian Art Prize that in its previous four editions provided a launching pad for artists such as Stefano Arienti, Vanessa Beecroft, Lara Favaretto, Eva Marisaldi, Nico Vascellari and Francesco Vezzoli, while at the same time enhancing the museum’s collection. It is particularly significant that 10 years on from its creation, the prize returns to the MAXXI with which it shares a mission of promoting and supporting Italian contemporary art.
Designed to promote the national art scene, the Italian Contemporary Art Prize identifies the most significant strands of research of recent years and is open to artists under 45 years of age who are either Italian or resident in Italy. In the initial phase 10 selectors were chosen from among the directorts of the AMACI (Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums) and the Italian contemporary art foundations.
Each of them nominated up to three artists they considered to be representative of the most recent artistic research. In the second phase an international jury chose the four finalists.
THE SELECTORS AND THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
The candidates were selected by Luca Massimo Barbero (MACRO - Rome), Cristiana Collu (MAN -Nuoro), Paolo Falcone (Fondazione Sambuca - Palermo), Massimiliano Gioni (Fondazione Trussardi -Milan), Beatrice Merz (Castello di Rivoli - Torino), Ludovico Pratesi (Centro Arti Visive Pescheria - Pesaro), Letizia Ragaglia (Museion - Bolzano), Annie Ratti (Fondazione Ratti - Como) and Andrea Viliani (Fondazione Galleria Civica - Trento).
The international jury is composed of Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (President, Palazzo Strozzi - Florence), IwonaBlazwick, (Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery - London), Carolyn Christov Bakargiev (Artistic Director of Documenta 13 - Kassel), Anna Mattirolo (Director, Maxxi Arte - Rome), Jannis Kounellis (artist), Adam Szymczyk (Director of the Kunsthalle - Basle).
The candidates were selected by Luca Massimo Barbero (MACRO - Rome), Cristiana Collu (MAN -Nuoro), Paolo Falcone (Fondazione Sambuca - Palermo), Massimiliano Gioni (Fondazione Trussardi -Milan), Beatrice Merz (Castello di Rivoli - Torino), Ludovico Pratesi (Centro Arti Visive Pescheria - Pesaro), Letizia Ragaglia (Museion - Bolzano), Annie Ratti (Fondazione Ratti - Como) and Andrea Viliani (Fondazione Galleria Civica - Trento).
The international jury is composed of Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (President, Palazzo Strozzi - Florence), IwonaBlazwick, (Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery - London), Carolyn Christov Bakargiev (Artistic Director of Documenta 13 - Kassel), Anna Mattirolo (Director, Maxxi Arte - Rome), Jannis Kounellis (artist), Adam Szymczyk (Director of the Kunsthalle - Basle).
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