Arte Laguna Prize 2021

 

After the stop due to the well-known events related to the health emergency, the exhibition becomes biennial and presents the finalists of the 14th and 15th edition of the competition. A major event where 240 works from all over the world will be exhibited in 4,000 square meters of exhibition space to celebrate 15 years of Arte Laguna Prize, founded in 2006 by the Cultural Association MoCA of Venice.

 

The exhibition will combine two editions of the historic art competition and will be curated by Igor Zanti, director of IED Firenze and Matteo Galbiati, who will create a touching dialogue among the works selected from over 22,000 by the jury made up of curators, museum directors, art experts of international level.

 

“This exhibition will inevitably be, for the works conceived and imagined in years so close, but extraordinarily distant for everything that has happened in the meantime, an ideal bridge between two eras. It will mark the boundary between two worlds, between two ways of thinking and seeing reality.” states Igor Zanti. “A double edition” continues Matteo Galbiati “that highlights very well the difference in perspectives and reflections that were observed by the artists before and after the Pandemic.”

 

The 240 artists selected by the international jury will exhibit works of painting, photographic art, sculpture and installation, video art and short films, performance, virtual art, digital graphics, land art, urban art and design. A 360° overview of international contemporary art that will enliven the Venetian autumn thanks to an exciting program of guided tours and talks on art and sustainability, the relationship between creativity and business, heritage marketing and 3D galleries, the history of Venice and the Arsenale, the art market and much more. Among the guests: representatives of the Veneto Region, of the world of Design, of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and so on. A series of unmissable events in one of the most renowned and evocative locations of the art world.

 

The opening and the awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 2 October, from 5 pm. During the evening the 7 absolute winners of the two editions will be awarded,, receiving a cash prize of 10,000 euros each and also the 42 artists chosen by the international partners of Arte Laguna Prize for the participation in art residencies, gallery exhibitions, festivals, collaborations with companies and awards for the artistic reuse of recycled materials. The Arte Laguna Prize exhibition will be an event not to be missed also to discover the works of Henry Le, the Vietnamese artist that the Cultural Association MoCA brings to Venice for the first time. The solo exhibition Soul Energy curated by Chiara Canali and set up from 2 to 12 October at Tesa 99 of the Arsenale Nord, will be a retrospective in which the artist takes to stage a series of large-scale paintings and majestic sculptures that evoke his homeland and reflect his personal artistic research.

 

Arte Laguna Prize has been awarded with a medal by the President of the Italian Republic and has the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of the Territory and the Sea, the Veneto Region, the Municipality of Venice, the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the European Institute of Design.