V.young artists, selected by the editorial team of ARTE, compete for the 21st Cairo Prize, which will be awarded on 10 October at the Royal Palace, live on Corriere.it. After the ceremony, from 11 to 16 October it will be possible to admire all the works in one free admission exhibition and zero impact, thanks to the media partnership with LifeGate.
“Everything was ready two years ago. The twenty young Italian artists had been carefully selected by the editorial staff of Arte. The works in competition had been created, Palazzo Reale in Milan was preparing to host the 21st edition of the Cairo Prize “- declared Michele Bonuomo, director of ARTE -” Today, finally, the works developed for that edition return to show themselves and to dialogue live with the public, without losing any of their formal, conceptual and ethical positions “
The artists and the jury of the 21st edition of the Cairo Prize
I am Thomas Braida, Bros (Daniele Nicolosi), Elia Cantori, Linda Carrara, Giulia Cenci, Valentina De ‘Mathà, Luca Di Luzio, Federica Di Pietrantonio, Alice Faloretti, Bruno Fantelli, Andrea Fontanari, Gaia Fugazza, Alessandro Gerull, Corinna Gosmaro, Cecilia Granara, Giulio Malinverni, Jacopo Martinotti, Adinda-Putri Palma, Diego Scecchini, Marta Spagnoli. “Artists with different professional backgrounds and experiences, but all driven by the desire to get out of the shallows of an era that favors the instantaneous times of a social “chirp” over the long periods of reflection. Artists united by the need to verify their reason for art, choosing – each time and each with their own language – an original perspective to interpret the world around us », commented Michele Bonuomo.
Their unpublished works will be evaluated by the prestigious jury chaired by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, president of the homonymous Turin Foundation, and composed by: Luca Massimo Barbero, director of the Institute of Art History of the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice; Mariolina Bassetti, Chairman of Christie’s Italy; Gabriella Belli, director of the MUVE Foundation – Civic Museums of Venice; Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the National Museum of Digital Art in Milan; Lorenzo Giusti, director of the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gamec) of Bergamo; Andrea Viliani, director of the Museum of Civilizations in Rome; and by the master Emilio Isgrò, a great protagonist of Italian art on the international scene.
The work winner will enter a be part of the Cairo Prize Collection and the artist will be assigned a prize of 25 thousand euros.
The Cairo Prize
This award for young artists was born in 2000 by the will of president Urbano Cairo to support and make the public aware of new protagonists, new trends and new languages present in contemporary art research, the Cairo Prize, now in its 21st edition, has been confirmed over time as the most authoritative and prestigious opportunity for young artists in Italy. An important springboard which offers artists the dual opportunity to consolidate themselves in the national and international art scene and to live a great experience: selected year after year by the editorial staff of Arte and called to create unpublished works for the occasionevaluated by a very high profile jury.
“I have always believed in the importance of offering a stage to young artists who want to get involved,” he said Urbano Cairo, president of Cairo Editore – «Not only to whom, among the twenty selected by the Arte editorial staff, is the winner, but to all those who participate. At the same time, I am also sure that our Award represents an important contribution of knowledge on the new protagonists of Italian artistic research, which, year after year, we offer to the public. Also, it is gratifying to know that in some way we have contributed, in a small way, to the success for so many of them: in twenty-two years the Cairo Prize has invited 387 young artists, including those selected for the 2022 edition, over fifty have already exhibited at the Venice Biennale and still others to events of great importance ».
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