Cortona Art Contest

13-06-2015

Born Cortona Art Contest, the third largest art competition in Italy for prize money.

The award, organized by the Art Box, was presented during the press conference held Saturday, June 6, 2015 in the Hall of the City Council of Cortona, in the presence of the Cultural Albano Ricci, the director of the award and the curator Massimo Magurano Francesco Mutti.

"The City of Cortona was pleasantly impressed from the start with clear ideas and the determination with which Art Box is planning day by day the event - he said in opening the commissioner Albano Ricci. - Our city has as a driver of development for its territory the beauty, history and art. Cortona is a natural tunnel and we like to think that it can also become a crossroads of contemporary art, the real one that tells the world with new languages and that, I believe, will fit perfectly with our historical and social fabric. "

A place the Etruscan city, which adapts to the needs of every artist and every art form and that will see a prize divided into four sections, as illustrated Francesco Mutti.

"Painting, sculpture, installation and engraving, video art, and virtual and digital art are the four main areas that comprise Cortona Art Contest - explains the art historian and curator of Versilia. - The main theme will be the ego contemporary, but you will leave full freedom technique and conceptual artist, who can express himself as he wishes.

The competition is open to all established and emerging artists on the national and international authors longtime and high school students and academies of art. "

"This award since its first year stands as the third in Italy and the fifth in Europe for prize money - confirms the artistic director Massimo Magurano, who first believed in the potential of Cortona, and chose her as the ideal setting for this initiative . - But we do not want to focus on mere economic aspect, but the novelty of such a competition in the national scene.

Cortona Art Contest is an event young, fresh, supported by sponsors, media partners and important figures of the art world. Finally I wish to emphasize that the event does not enjoy public funds. "

The jury called upon to judge the contestants is composed not only by Magurano, Mutti and Ricci, also by the director of the magazine ArtIn Lorella Pagnucco, the famous pop artist Stefano Bressani, from cultural journalist Marco Botti, the professor of New Technologies Mark Marcellini, the director of the museum of Cortona MAEC Paul Giulierini and owner of "Barbara Paci Contemporary Art Gallery" of Pietrasanta Barbara Paci.

"In the first phase, the jury will vote the work but did not know who performed it - concludes Magurano. - The system automatically encrypts the name. This will ensure full transparency and the emergence of true artists, those in the various categories will prove to have "touch", beyond the name they bear or the curriculum. "

The works must be received - in pictures - no later than 28 February 2016 and the registration fee is 50 euro.

The exhibition of the finalists will take place from May 1 to June 6, 2016 in the exhibition and in the cloister of the Monastery of San Francesco, kindly provided by the Diocese of Arezzo, Cortona and Sansepolcro that, as emphasized by the organizers, has shown keen interest in the initiative.

Cortona Art Contest will also have events involving prominent figures in the art world.

Meanwhile, the site is already active www.cortonaartcontest.it, with all the instructions to register and information about the competition

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