PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA VISIONI ALTRE 2024 - 2025

Through the International Contemporary Art Prize the VISIONI ALTRE association aims to research and consequently enhance innovative positions regarding visual art. The intent is to encourage artistic research support creative activity encourage the development of ideas and works unrelated to market conditioning and propose them to the public through exhibitions and publications.

The selection criteria are oriented towards the evaluation of the proposed work in terms of originality innovation creative intelligence conceptual and design faculty aesthetic persuasion relevance of the content and ability to further evolve. The choice of the participants in the award after a pre-selection of 110 works out of a total of 613 portfolios evaluated was based on particularly valid and significant works which have distinguished themselves in the artistic field - both Italian and international - and above all considered suitable to contribute to the current artistic debate.

The sensitivity towards the main issues of his time which especially since the twentieth century characterizes the figure of the artist becomes fundamental in a world that like ours is becoming increasingly complex to live in and to understand.                           

Wars migrations social inequalities climatic and ecological disasters find a voice in the work of the artists in the exhibition together with some of the great questions that have been revealed since ancient times to the human being.                                        

However in the works on display there is no lack of a sense of hope for the advent of a better future a the will to act (and react) to conquer it just as there is no lack of awareness of what has been and still remains positive in the world.

On Saturday 30 November 2024 at 5.00 pm there will be the presentation of the works of artists from:

1st group of selected artists.

The exhibition curated by Adolfina De Stefani and Antonello Mantovani with the collaboration of Giulia Pepponi and Rim El Aouady presents the works of 28 artists including: paintings sculptures and photographs. Heterogeneous works able to dialogue with each other in the space of the gallery.

ARTISTS AND WORKS

Agatino FURNARI – ORA DI LUCE

Alan ROGERS – PINK !

Alessandro SCALABRINI – UNTITLED

Barbara CAPPELLO – PHAEDRUS 20.20

Barbara FURLAN – DEVI SOLO SEDERTI E MANGIARE QUESTA CENA

Marìa CABEZÒN ALONSO – MIA VISIONE DI UN PAESE IN GUERRA

Claudia ERALDO - INCIDENTE 4

Claudio JACCARINO – PAZ EN UKRAINA

Daniela ANTONELLO – LIBERA

DIECIMANI (Laura Bedoni Roberto Karrer Laura Serri Valeria Verdini Silvia Zocchetti) – DOPPIA ESPOSIZIONE 2

Fabio ADANI – SOTTILI METAMORFOSI DELLO SGUARDO

Federica ZANETTI – IL COLORE DELLA FELICITA’

Fernanda MANCINI – L’ALTRO SGUARDO

Giuliano FRANCO – LA FESTA E’ FINITA

Giulio MALFER e Franco BATTISTOTTI – LA SCELTA

Lucie HINDEN – OASIS | ROLLING ALONG | WORLDS AWAY

Luisella CAFFIERI – NOTTE SPERANZA

Manù BRUNELLO – VESTITO IN PIZZO A BALZE

Marica PRETO - VISTA SU MARTE

Marija MARKOVIC – UNTITLED

Massimo TURLINELLI – 1 2 3

Michela MONTRASIO – LA QUADRATURA DEL CERCHIO

Mirta CACCARO – ASTRATTO 3

Paolo PUSTETTO – I CAN’T STAND IT ANYMORE

Patrizia ANTONINI – DALLE ORIGINI A … | ANTICO CAMMINO

Pietro DENTE - ARIA DURA – HONG KONG

Tiziana CONTU – IL MIO CERVELLO

Yuki EBUKURO – L’ASSIMETRIA - NON E’ SEMPRE UGUALE

Composition of the Jury

Barbara Codogno – Journalist and Art Critic

Lucia Majer – Art Historian and Critic

Francesca Catalano – Journalist Critic and Art Curator

Lucia Guidorizzi – Writer

Gaetano Salerno – Art Historian and Critic

During all four exhibitions dedicated to the Prize visitors will be offered the opportunity to evaluate the works and vote for the most significant one.

Subsequent exposures

2nd group of artists: December 21 2024 | January 5 2025

3rd group of artists: 11 - 26 January 2025

4th group of artists: 1 - 16 February 2025

Finissage and award ceremony

 The announcement of the winners and consequent award ceremony will take place during the finissage of the fourth exhibition: Saturday 15 February 2025.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

1st PRIZE Award of 1500 euros + Inclusion in the gallery website

In Recognition of the originality/exclusivity of the work and its conception

2nd PRIZE Award of 1000 euros + Inclusion in the gallery website

In Recognition of the excellent skills as an artist

3rd PRIZE Award of 500 euros + Inclusion in the gallery website

In Recognition of the excellent skills as an artist

4th PRIZE Special Mention + Promise of exhibition from 1 – 30 November 2025 in the VISIONI ALTRE gallery to the artist who has distinguished himself for the originality of the creative process

5th PRIZE Special Mention + To the work most appreciated by the public exhibition in the ARTISTI IN VETRINA gallery in Padua from 27 September to 10 October 2025

6th PRIZE To the work appreciated by VISIONI ALTRE and propose for exhibition at the STUDIO OLZER in Pergine Valsugana (TN) from 1 - 15 April 2025

7th PRIZE 10 personalized selection certificates signed by the members of the Committee

VISIONI ALTRE non-profit association which aims to research and consequently enhance innovative positions concerning visual art with the aim of encouraging artistic research supporting creative activity encouraging the development of ideas and works unrelated to market conditioning and proposing them to the public through exhibitions and publications.

ARTISTI IN VETRINA: The Artisti in Vetrina gallery is an exhibition space located in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in the heart of Padua a few steps from the famous Prato della Valle. Founded by a collective of 11 artists 10 painters and 1 sculptor the gallery was created with the aim of offering a place dedicated to contemporary art. The spirit of sharing and openness makes the gallery a dynamic and inclusive space where emerging voices in art find a stage to express themselves and confront the public.

The mission of the ARTISTI IN VETRINA gallery is to promote contemporary art in all its forms offering an accessible space and within everyone's reach where art becomes a means of dialogue and reflection.

STUDIO OLZER was born from the desire of the artist LUCIANO OLZER photographer to create a space as a laboratory for his works and at the same time to give voice to national and international artists of the contemporary world.

The goal of STUDIO OLZER is the promotion of cultural initiatives for contemporary art with particular regard to the performing arts interactive experiences and experimental music. STUDIO OLZER also presents poets and writers.

The Studio is located in via C. Battisti 12 - PERGINE VALSUGANA (TRENTO).

Event Venue

VISIONI ALTRE, Campo del Ghetto Novo, 2918, 30121 Venezia VE, Italia, Venice, Italy