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Arte Laguna and the Italian cultural association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art) are working together since 2006 on promoting contemporary visual Art. Main result of this collaboration is the International Art Prize ARTE LAGUNA.
The main purpose is to support emerging and also already affirmed artists, giving them the possibility to show their artworks in high quality expositive settings around the World.
There are 6 sections: painting, sculpture, photographic art, video art and performance, virtual art, land art.
Besides money prizes and a collective exhibition in Venice, Arte Laguna Prize offers to artist many opportunities such as art residencies, collaborations with companies, solo exhibitions in galleries and participation in international festivals.
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OPPORTUNITY

#ARTELAGUNAPRIZE | THE WINNERS OF THE 8TH EDITION


Deadline:
Sun Apr 06, 2014 18:00

Venice – With the proclamation of the five overall winners, the 8th edition of Arte Laguna Prize reached its conclusion and its climax.

The international jury,chaired by Igor Zanti, selected the 5 winners among the 110 shortlisted finalists, one for each section of the Prize – Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Video art and Performance, Virtual Art – who were awarded a cash prize of 7,000 Euros each.

PAINTING SECTION
Winner: Bianca de Gier (Gouda, The Netherlands) Work: The Four Seasons (nr. 56)
Motivation: The work is based at the same time on the research and the practice of painting, by unveiling the reflection, the intimate reaction of global communications and of the contemporary information flow and by investigating the thin connection between individual and collective memory.

SCULPTURE SECTION
Winner: Elaine Byrne (Dublin, Ireland) Work: Raum
Motivation: The jury selected this work since it combines modernist architectural references with a personal approach, with the memories of lived experiences. The work also tears down the boundaries between language and nationality, by deconstructing the physical and emotional walls we build around us. This work is a powerful metaphor of the relationship between the individual and society in our times.

PHOTOGRAPHY SECTION
Winner: Victoria Campillo (Barcelona, Spain) Work: Gardens
Motivation: The work was awarded for the originality of the subject, the ability to translate pre-existing structures of daily use into images, turning them into a conceptual work, with an ironic approach to the history of contemporary art.

VIDEO ART AND PERFORMANCE SECTION
Winner: Apiyo Amolo (Kenya) Work: Not Swiss Made
Motivation: For the contents addressing the issue of identity in a profoundly contemporary manner, combining the refined technical and compositional research with a highly topical approach.

VIRTUAL ART SECTION
Winners: Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion (Nancy, France - Forbach, France) Work: Dérives
Motivation: The work subverts and revitalizes both the history of cinema and the tradition of found footage videos, offers a powerful visual metaphor of the liquid nature of the digital medium, and of the daily experience of surfing an infinite hypertext.

The exhibition was open to the public in the venues of the Arsenale, the Telecom Italia Future Centre and the Romanian Institute in Venice through April 6, 2014.

Video of the opening night and award ceremony >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjEqrc55Gxk

The winners of all the special prizes >>> http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php
/the-winners-of-the-8th-arte-laguna-prize.html

Everything about the Exhibition >>> http://www.artelagunaprize.com/mobile/

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OPPORTUNITY

ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE AND TELECOM ITALIA: CALL FOR ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS AND CREATIVES


Deadline:
Sat Feb 15, 2014 00:00

Location:
Venice, Italy

Arte Laguna Prize in collaboration with Telecom Italia has launched the new competition "Innovative Interactive Tour on Telecom Italia's Future Centre". Open to creatives, architects and designers who have an innovative idea for the tourist and cultural fruition of the architectural spaces of the former convent of San Salvador in Venice, home of the Telecom Italia's Future Centre, the contest will award the winner 5,000 Euros, useful for the implementation of the project.

Telecom Italia's Future Centre has among its objectives the one of combining past and future through computer science, just where history turns into art. In fact, the Centre is home to activities of higher education, specialized workshops and international interdisciplinary project teams, developing research on the cities of the future, focusing on the conservation and enhancement of their artistic and environmental heritage.

Culture and technology have been increasingly interacting, and this new special award aims to identify a design idea that is able to tell the history, the art, and the architecture of the spaces of the Telecom Italia's Future Centre in an original way, and to help raise its value, acting as a link between past and future.

To enter the competition you must submit your application by February 15, 2014, enrolling on www.artelagunaprize.com. The best project will be awarded in March 2014 with a prize of 5,000 Euros, useful for the realization of the project.

All the information can be found at http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/archive/8th-edition/prizes/telecom-future-centre.html

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OPPORTUNITY

8TH ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE – ENTRIES ARE OPEN!


Deadline:
Wed Oct 30, 2013 00:00

Location:
Italy

Sections: painting, sculpture & installation, photography, video art & performance, virtual & digital art

Total Prize amount: € 180,000

Participation: open to all artists, with no age restrictions; the subject is free

Deadline: 30 October 2013

Collective exhibitions: March 2014 – Venice Arsenale, Telecom Italia Future Centre and a special selection Under25 at the Romanian Institute of Venice

The International Arte Laguna Prize, based in Venice, Italy and dedicated to contemporary visual art, offers an exhibition in one of the most popular venues for contemporary art in the world, the Arsenale of Venice, the opportunity to live unique experiences of professional growth in different creative locations thanks to the organization of exhibitions in international art galleries, art residencies, collaborations with companies, and the publication in the official catalogue.

PRIZES

CASH PRIZES OF 35,000 €: 7,000 Euros for the overall winner of each section

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: Artistic foundry Battaglia - Milan, Glass School Abate Zanetti - Venice, India ArtResidency - Mumbai, Art Stays - Slovenia, Norimberga ArtResidency – Nuremberg, Loft Miramarmi – Vicenza

BUSINESS FOR ART Riva 1920: the historic furniture company will select the most interesting project in order to create it in wood and present it at Salone del Mobile 2014 in Milan

ARTIST IN GALLERY: new collaboration formula with 5 extremely selected and exclusively international galleries. Organization of a personal exhibition and a catalogue, as well as a grant of 500 Euros.

SPECIAL PRIZE OPEN: Open International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations of Venice

You can apply by mail or directly online by 30 October 2013

Terms and Conditions >>> http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/terms-and-conditions.html

On-line application>>> http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/enrollment.html

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EVENT

I Libri d’acqua by Antonio Nocera - Collateral event of the 55. International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia


Dates:
Sat Jun 01, 2013 00:00 - Sun Nov 24, 2013

Location:
Venice, Italy

The exhibition “I Libri d'acqua” by Master Antonio Nocera has opened as a Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.
Upon invitation of EIUC (European Inter-University Centre For Human Rights and Democratisation) and of the Municipality of Venice, for the first time the exhibition “I libri d'acqua” is on view, curated by Professor Louis Godart and Laura Fusco.
The works are exhibited at the Monastery of St. Nicolò at Venice Lido, and they can be viewed for free from June 1st to November 24th, 2013.

The artist has drawn on the thousand-year-old Venetian artisan skill in the use of precious materials such as glass and paper. The exhibition features a big sculpture/installation located in the central open-air area of the claustrum of the Monastery and about twenty artist books, of different sizes and shapes, on view in transparent cases that seem to be floating in mid-air in the cloister. The central installation, titled “Il libro dell’acqua”, is made of 22 painted aluminum panels, each one connected to the other, and resting on an iron platform sized 400x400 cm, full of glass of different blue shades. It is a big open book that seems to be rising from the sea waters and stand out against the sky. Glass, iron and paper are the materials dominating the exhibition together with the blue color of the artworks.

The artist focuses on the issue of migration. At the core of his reflection lies the importance of human mobility as the expression of the fundamental freedom of movement and the aspiration to emancipation through the journey.

The project “I libri d'acqua” is included into the theme developed in recent years by the artist in “Oltre il nido”, a project born from the reflection on the concept of home as a primary aspiration and a fundamental right of the human being, symbolically represented by the nest. The latter was also presented in 2010 in Rome at Trajan's Market in the presence of the Head of State Giorgio Napolitano, who congratulated Antonio Nocera on the current exhibition.
During the whole period of the exhibition the public will be able to visit the artist’s atelier, made available by the Monastery, where a great number of the works were made. An immersion into the creative process and perhaps a chance to meet the Master at work.

In his works the Master has focused on some crucial issues concerning the fundamental rights of the human being, which have led him to collaborate with corporations, public institutions and international organizations (European Parliament, UNESCO, UN, UNICEF, INCA) on the issue of rights.

The areas dedicated to the exhibition “I libri d’acqua” will also be the setting where, on July 13th, the yearly Diplomatic Conference organized by EIUC will take place, a unique moment of dialogue and reflection on the issue of human rights in which international scholars and diplomats will participate.

EXHIBITION COORDINATES
VENUE Monastery St. Nicolò - Riviera San Nicolò, 26 Venice Lido
OPENING HOURS every day from Monday to Friday 9-13 and 14-17
Saturdays 10-17 (closed on Sundays)
closed from August 5 to August 15, 2013
HOW TO GET THERE waterbus stop “Lido”, then bus line “V” at minutes 00 20 40

www.ilibridacqua.it
www.eiuc.org

Organized by
EIUC – European Inter-University Centre For Human Rights and Democratisation
Archivio Opere Uniche s.r.l.
Chance art Gallery

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EVENT

7th ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE AT VENICE ARSENALE: EXHIBITION OF 110 FINALISTS ON VIEW 16 – 31 MARCH 2013


Dates:
Sat Mar 16, 2013 18:00 - Sun Mar 31, 2013

Location:
Venice, Italy

The Arsenale of Venice opens its doors, for the fourth consecutive year, to the finalists of the seventh edition of Arte Laguna Prize: from the 17th to the 31st of March at Tese di San Cristoforo, the works of the 105 international artists selected for the categories: painting, sculpture and installation, video art and performance and photographic art are on view.

Other 5 works from the virtual art section are hosted at the Telecom Italia Future Centre, close to the Rialto Bridge.

A further special selection of young under-25 artists is on view at the Romanian Institute of Venice, a high-visibility showcase on the way to Saint Mark's Square.

During the opening night, on Saturday March 16th, the five absolute winners will be announced, one for each category, and they will be awarded a cash prize of 7,000 Euros each.

The names of the winners of the special prizes will also be revealed: participation in festivals and exhibitions of national resonance, personal exhibitions at the 21 international galleries that are part of the Prize circuit, the Prize Business for Art featuring the collaboration with companies investing in art, in addition to the 6 art residencies in Venice, Vicenza, Basel, Ptuj (Slovenia), Mumbai and Beijing.

The total amount of the prizes is 180,000 Euros.

On the days of the exhibition other events are scheduled.

Here is the Agenda:

- Sunday March 17, Arsenale, 11.30 am: guided tour of the exhibition and debate with jurors and gallerists

- Sunday March 17, Romanian Institute, 3.00 pm: opening of the Exhibition of Under25 and interviews to the young artists

- Saturday March 23, Telecom Italia Future Centre, 3.00 pm: meeting on “The new ways of making art and new technologies”

- Saturday March 30, Arsenale, 3.00 pm: meeting on “The reutilization of former industrial areas today”