Winner announced Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Palazzo Reale
Milan
Italy
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Five young Italian curators, paired with five foreign colleagues, have selected the five finalists for the tenth edition to be held this year in Milan’s Palazzo Reale. Vanessa Beecroft is the guiding artist for the 2015 Furla Art Award and chairs the international jury that will name the winner.
The Fondazione Furla and the Cultural Office of the City of Milan are glad to announce the five artists who have been shortlisted for the Premio Furla 2015. The artists are Luigi Coppola, Maria Adele Del Vecchio, Francesco Fonassi, Maria Iorio and Raphael Cuomo, and Gian Maria Tosatti.
“The Nude Prize” is the title that has been chosen for the tenth edition of the Furla Art Award, a biennial prize for contemporary art dedicated to emerging Italian artists. This year’s guiding artist is Vanessa Beecroft, who in addition to conceiving the title and image for the 2015 award, chairs the international jury that will name the winner.
Conceived and curated by Chiara Bertola, the Premio Furla was founded in 2000 at Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, and over its 15-year history has grown and evolved, building a reputation as the leading Italian prize for young contemporary artists, through a format that has always involved carefully mapping the national artistic landscape and focuses on professional growth and the production of new works by the chosen artists.
More specifically, since 2009, the selection of the five finalists has been entrusted to five young Italian curators paired with internationally renowned guest curators, who together embark on a “journey” through emerging Italian art that harnesses the potential of dialogue and exchange between different professional backgrounds.
The pairs of selecting curators for the 2015 Furla Art Award are:
– Viviana Checchia (Curator YAYA2014, Ramallah and co-founder and curator of Vessel, Bari) and Tara McDowell (USA/Australia, Associate Professor and Director of Curatorial Practice, Monash University, Melbourne)
– Alessandro Facente (independent critic and curator) and Chelsea Haines (USA, independent curator)
– Simone Frangi (Artistic Director, Viafarini DOCVA, Milan, and Professor of Contemporary Art Theory at Ecole Supérieure d’Art e de Design, Grenoble) and Virginie Bobin (France, independent critic and curator)
– Antonello Tolve (independent critic and curator) and Branka Bencic (Croatia, independent curator)
– Chiara Vecchiarelli (independent critic and curator) and Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy (Mexico/USA, Curator of Contemporary Art, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York)
The five shortlisted artists for the 2015 Furla Art Award are:
– Luigi Coppola (b. 1972), selected by Viviana Checchia and Tara McDowell
– Maria Adele Del Vecchio (b. 1976), selected by Antonello Tolve and Branka Bencic
– Francesco Fonassi (b. 1986) selected by Chiara Vecchiarelli and Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy
– Maria Iorio (b. 1975) and Raphael Cuomo (b. 1977), selected by Simone Frangi and Virginie Bobin
– Gian Maria Tosatti (b. 1980), selected by Alessandro Facente and Chelsea Haines
The finalists are now asked to present a new project proposal based on which the international jury will choose the winner, to be announced in a press conference the next Tuesday 18 November at Palazzo Reale in Milan.
The members of the Premio Furla 2015 jury are:
– Teresa Gleadowe, Chair, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (United Kingdom)
– Alya Sebti, Artistic Director, 5th Marrakech Biennale (Morocco)
– Benno Tempel, Director, Foundation Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague (The Netherlands)
– Barbara Hernandez, Director, SOMA (Mexico)
The jury is chaired by Vanessa Beecroft, guiding artist of this tenth edition.
This 2015 edition marks an important development: the award, organized by Fondazione Furla, is moving to Milan in partnership with the Municipal Office of Culture and Palazzo Reale, in collaboration with Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, and miart and Viafarini in Milan.
The winner will get the opportunity to study and work in Mexico through a three-month artist residency at SOMA, a platform dedicated to cultural exchange and arts pedagogy founded in Mexico City in 2009.
In addition to the winner will get the chance to create the proposed work with support from Fondazione Furla; the piece will be available for public viewing through a loan to Museo del Novecento in Milan, and will be presented in Milan during miart 2015, the International Art Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art, in April 2015, and in Venice at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in May 2015, during the 56th Venice Biennale.
Organized by Fondazione Furla, Bologna, and Cultural Office of the City of Milan.
In partnership with Fondazione Querini Stampalia Onlus, Venice; Palazzo Reale, Milan; miart, Milan; Viafarini, Milan.
Planned and curated by Chiara Bertola.
Advisory panel: Chiara Bertola, Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Gianfranco Maraniello, Viktor Misiano, Diego Sileo
Fondazione Furla
Via Bellaria 3/5
40068 San Lazzaro di Savena
Bologna
