Mediterranean art prize / 3rd edition

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Mediterranean art prize is the biennial prize conceived by Porta Cœli Foundation with the aim of producing systematic solicitations in the art of the present time. Map3 intends to set the context to build fruitful relationships with those territorial and social specificities that make Italy a place rich in those experientialities that are essential for contemporary artistic creation. For Porta Cœli Foundation, the prize is also a very important occasion of investigation and relationship with international artistic contexts, even among the most remote and unprecedented ones: each edition is a dizzying and irreplaceable enrichment of the possibilities of acting in the contemporary, both for the Foundation and the artists who participate in it, as well as for the territory and for the international partners involved.

In 2019 Mediterranean art prize chose as the programmatic context of its first edition a masterpiece of Frederician architecture: the Castle of Lagopesole (Potenza). For its second edition, in 2021, the prize moved to another castle of NormanSwabian ancestry: the Castle of Monteserico, in the territory of Genzano di Lucania (Potenza — Italy), confirmed as the central location for the third edition of the prize, in a territorial context changed, however, by the strategic alliance of the municipalities of Genzano di Lucania, Palazzo San Gervasio and Banzi (in the geographical region of Alto Bradano, in Basilicata), which have formed a cultural district devoted to the contemporary thanks to the strategic networking of their cultural principals: places of residence, d’Errico Art Gallery, Civic Gallery in the constitution and, indeed, Monteserico Castle devoted to actions of high symbolic value.

The theme of the third edition is Re—form: in a place such as the territory of Monteserico Castle, strongly connoted by emptiness rather than fullness, by absences rather than presences, by potentialities rather than acts, the insistence of the abandoned, prematurely obsolescent traces of the agrarian “Re—form” remind us how, in today’s times, it is no longer possible to decree and determine once and for all the forms of life and human relations and their relationship with territories from a predetermined image of them. Rather, inhabiting a place, as well as making art, is a complex, necessarily participatory and negotiated processuality, in which form is only the unstable and precarious, inherently impermanent result of a flux that it is possible and necessary to govern, but that it is counterproductive to predetermine or force. In this sense, theories of living at the turn of the twentieth century followed extraordinarily closely artistic theories that speak of performativity, of relationality, of open and indeterminate forms in place of an art of contemplation, whose essential end was the determination of a monumental form, as stable and imperturbable assertiveness

Application for Mediterranean art prize is open to all female and male artists, regardless of age, gender, nationality or other qualification. Indeed, it is the prime purpose of the prize to build a plural and inclusive event. The categories of the prize, in the 2023 edition, are three:
— painting, illustration, chalcographic techniques
— sculpture, installation
— photography, video art, performance

Each artist can participate in the selection phase by filling out the appropriate form prepared on the official website of the award. 

Prize Summary: 
5000,00 €
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Mediterranean art prize 2023 / Award details

Prize to the 1st place overall
— € 3,000.00;
— medal and certification of the Jury with the reason for awarding the prize.

Prize to the 1st classified in each category
— € 1,000.00;
— medal and certification of the Jury with the motivation for awarding the prize.
The prizes are not cumulative: in fact, winning the first absolute prize is to be considered intrinsically a category victory, which, by entitling the winner to the absolute prize, excludes the awarding of the category prize.

Prize to the 2nd and 3rd place for each of the categories
— medal and certification by the Jury with the motivation for awarding the prize;

Prize from the President of Porta Coeli Foundation
— medal and certification by the President with the motivation for awarding the prize.
In fact, the President of Porta Coeli Foundation has the authority to award a special mention to the artist who will have particularly distinguished himself/herself within the framework of the exhibition for effectiveness in expressing the theme “Re—form.”

404 Award. Porta Coeli Foundation
Porta Coeli Foundation has the authority to identify one or more nominations for a group or solo exhibition to be included in its program for contemporary art called 404. The awarding of the prize is subject to the identification of specific reasons for the relationship between the candidate's works and the spatial issues addressed by Porta Coeli Foundation during the years 2023 and 2024. The exhibition is likely to be realized on the Lucanian territory and may possibly be exported to places of interest belonging to the foundation’s network of international relations.

 

Location: 
Castello di Monteserico - Genzano di Lucania - Italia
Deadline: 
25/June/2023

Entry Fee:

Fee Detail: 
50 €
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