L‘English Emma Talbot is the artist who wins the eighth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2022. His work “The Age / The age”the result of the award with 6 months residency in Italy, is on display at the Whitechapel Gallery in London from 30 June to 4 September 2022. While it will be visible in Italy from 23 October to 19 February 2023 at the Maramotti collection of Reggio Emilia.
Max Mara Art Prize for Women, the 2022 winner is Emma Talbot
Animations, mega painted and suspended silk panels, drawings, 3D effects. The prize of Max Mara dedicated to artists living and working in the UK is the artist’s work “The Age” Emma Talbot, dedicated to climate crisis.
A detail from Emma Talbot’s work “”.
With his mixed techniques, the artist born in 1969 created the idea of a hypothetical dystopian future and fiery colors, in which the awareness that in order to survive humanity will have to return to ancestral knowledge in communion with the nature.
The award for female artists living in the United Kingdom
Established in 2005 in collaboration with London’s Whitechapel Gallery, the Max Mara Art Prize for Women is a biennial award open to all forms of artistic expression that promotes and supports female artists residing in the United Kingdom.
A detail from Emma Talbot’s exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.
The winner of the round passes six months of residence in Italy to carry out her own project, during which she is followed and supported by Maramotti collection. The realized artistic project is then exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery and later to the Collection, which acquires it.
A work that reinterprets Klimt and the ancient Italic civilizations
It was during her residency in Italy that Emma Talbot met the painting “The three ages of women” (kept at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome) made in 1905 by the artist of the Viennese Secession Gustav Klimt. Hence the investigation into the themes of representation and aging, rebirth and live ethically and sustainably.
Along the half-yearly trip between Reggio Emilia, Rome And Catania the artist visited institutional places and important museums, immersed herself in volcanic landscapes and ancient ruins, but above all she was able to study closely the works of art and crafts of the Mediterranean civilizations. Indeed, it is precisely from Etruscan ceramics that theanimation in 12 chapters protagonist of the exhibition “The Age / L’età”. Which recalls the 12 labors of Hercules here sustained by one female elderly figure endowed with an unexpected will and power of change that instills a profound optimism.
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