ARTE FIERA 2018 Awards

ARTE FIERA 2018 Awards
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ARTE FIERA 2018 Awards

30/01/2018

Arte Fiera, Italy’s oldest Modern and Contemporary Art Show has been the focal point of the country’s art market for some 42 years. This latest edition will be held from 2 – 5 February with a preview on 1 February.

Arte Fiera 2018 presents six important awards: 

PREMIO EUROMOBIL

The 12th edition of the Euromobil Group Under 30 Prize is for a young Italian or foreign artist with work shown at Arte Fiera. The Prize will be awarded by an expert jury of critics and sector experts on 3 February. The winner will be invited to ‘interact’ with the collections of Euromobil Group Arte Fiera’s main sponsors. The 2018 jury is made up of Gaspare, Antonio, Fiorenzo and Giancarlo Lucchetta, Gruppo Euromobil owners and art collectors; Angela Vettese, Arte Fiera Artistic Director; Beatrice Buscaroli, art critic, Aldo Colonetti, IED Scientific Director, and designer Cleto Munari.

ANGAMC AWARD

The second edition of the Lifetime Achievement Award of AMGAMC - the National Association of Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries - acknowledges the career and activity of an ANGAMC affiliated gallerist who during his/her activity has show exceptional commitment, attaining artistic, human and business excellence. The 2018 award goes to the Milan gallerist Giorgio Marconi.
The award ceremony will be held on 3 February when ANGAMC Chairman Mauro Stefanini will hand over the prize. Also attending will be Artistic Director Angela Vettese, Marco Momoli, Arte Fiera Exhibition Director, and Bruno Corà, Chairman of the Burri Foundation.

#ContemporaryYoung AWARD

Started at Arte Fiera 2015 by the Bologna Young Entrepreneurs group, the #ContemporaryYoung Award is open to artists under 40 shown at Arte Fiera whose underlying theme is doing and making.
The winner’s artwork will become part of the collection of Confindustria Emilia’s Young Entrepreneurs (Area Centro). The aim is to create an Association art fund comprising young artists to be built up with each successive Arte Fiera.

THE CENTRO PORSCHE BOLOGNA PRIZE

The Centro Porsche Bologna Award is offered at Arte Fiera 2018 to support contemporary art and the values it promotes, highlighting works of excellence that meld tradition and technological innovation. Open to all artists showing at Arte Fiera 2018, the award acknowledges excellence of creation based - in art as in engineering mechanics – on form that is born of the requirements of function. The Award gives the winner the opportunity to hold a personal exhibition at the Bologna Porsche Centre showroom. The winner will be announced on Sunday, 4 February 2018 at 1 p.m. at the Champagnerie.

THE ROTARY AWARD

Now in its seventh consecutive year, the Bologna Valle del Samoggia Rotary Award is a prize for the most creative installation at Arte Fiera 2018.
While the award’s aims to promote an appreciation of contemporary art among young people remain unchanged, collaboration has intensified between the International Rotary District 2072 (Emilia Romagna and San Marino), the young members of Rotaract Bologna and the Libera Accademia di Studi Caravaggeschi “Francesco Maria Cardinal del Monte”. The winning gallery and artist and the winner of the special Andrea Sapone prize will be awarded their prizes at a ceremony to be held at Arte Fiera in Sala Notturno (Services Centre) on Saturday, 3 February at 6 p.m.

THE CONSULTINVEST AWARD

Consultinvest promotes wider recognition of contemporary art by selecting an artwork of an emerging or recently discovered artist as a first item in a future collection of the artist’s work. The award is based on awareness that art is the primary most widespread global language and that the art market is today a market proper, part of a system made up of public and private collections, auctions, organized groups and investment funds. The Award comprises the purchase of the winning artwork for a maximum of €10.000. The Consultinvest Jury includes: Enrico Vaccari, Fund Manager Consultinvest SGR; Angela Vettese, Arte Fiera Artistic Director; Sonia Raule, collector; Cecilia Matteucci, collector. The winner will be announced on Saturday 3 February at 1 p.m. at the Champagnerie.