The Collectors.Chain Prize by Art Defender

With The Collectors.Chain Prize, now in its 4th edition, Art Defender confirms its collaboration with Arte Fiera as well as its special relationship with photography. This year as well, the winning work, selected from those exhibited in the Photography and Moving Images section, become part of Art Defender’s corporate collection, emphasizing the company’s dedication to collecting and to photography in particular.
The jury, composed exclusively of collectors, will once again be chaired by Walter Guadagnini, an internationally recognized photography expert, who will guide the jury in its selection of the work that best interprets the history of photography in terms of continuity or innovation.
The collectors.chain was founded in February 2021 as a community linking the most authoritative personalities in collecting, linking experiences, passions, and viewpoints, sharing and stimulating relations and dialogue regarding the many characteristics of being a collector. The idea behind this network – an expression of Art Defender’s business model – is that of a platform that gathers collectors and professionals who are passionate about art.
Art Defender is the only company in Italy providing integrated services for art collection management. Founded in 2008 by Alvise di Canossa, it now has a network of over 12,000 m2 of maximum-security vaults located throughout the country, a team of in-house specialists, and a select network of partners providing expertise and offering a differentiated portfolio of exclusive, integrated assets dedicated to wealth management with an all-inclusive advisory service.
Over the years, Art Defender has confirmed its expertise in the conservation and management of photography, utilizing state-of-the-art technologies and collaborating with top experts in the field. It has assumed the management of large photography funds, working with public institutions as well as with private foundations and collectors.

Jury:
Walter Guadagnini, curator and photography historian
Chiara Massimello, collector
Katia Da Ros, collector
Rischa Paterlini, independent curator

Artists:

  • Luciano D’Alessandro, Gli esclusi (The excluded), archival silver salt print, 29.2x22 cm, 1965 (Martini & Ronchetti, A85)
  • Leila Erdman – Tabakashvili (A Pick Gallery, B102): Stability.jpg, fine art print, 49.5x75 cm with 14.5x18 cm text, unique print; … and I run from you to you.jpg, fine art print, 40x59.5 cm with 28.5x32.5 cm text, unique print; The wind, the wind, dry their tears, let them sleep, bring tomorrow closer.jpg, fine art print, 40x60 cm with 14x17.5 cm text, unique print
  • Paolo Pellegrin, Series of images from the Surveillance Project. Milwaukee, United States, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photorag Satin 100% cotton base, 30x45 cm, ex. 1/7, 2014 (Umberto Benappi, B97)

Winner: Leila Erdman – Tabakashvili

Titles of works:

  • Stability.jpg, fine art print, 49,5x75 cm with 14.5x18 cm text, unique print
  • … and I run from you to you.jpg, fine art print, 40x59.5 cm with 28.5x32.5 cm text, unique print
  • The wind, the wind, dry their tears, let them sleep, bring tomorrow closer.jpg, fine art print, 40x60 cm with 14x17.5 cm text, unique print

Gallery: A Pick Gallery, B102

 

Motivation: The jury wants above all to emphasize the excellent overall quality of Arte Fiera’s Photography Section, characterized by the desire of all the galleries to present organized proposals regarding both post-war and young generations, offering an intriguing and varies selection. Within this panorama, the jury unanimously decided to award the work of Leila Erdman – Tabakashvili, a young photographer who unites the immediacy of the photographic image with suggestions deriving from the use of a word that is alternately poetic, ironic, or dramatic. Her works portray the apparently ordinary course of everyday life, within which are however found the feelings and profound thoughts of people touched by the dramas of a story that affects everyone’s life. Words and images dialog among themselves and with viewers, giving viewers the freedom to build their own version of the story suggested by the artist.

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