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Arte Laguna Art Prize is an important international competition, in its 4th edition, that is slightly changing the approach towards the contemporary art, giving an original look on the works of the young artists, the “generation” of tomorrow.

PRIZES: 50.000 EURO
EXHIBITION: ARSENALE – VENICE
SECTIONS: PAINTING – SCULPTURE – PHOTOGRAPHY
DEADLINE: 26th NOVEMBER 2009

Authentically Venetian but with an international impact, this Art Prize is open to all artists, without any limits of age, gender, nationality or other qualification. Its importance is above all the concrete Prize’s range: the possibility to gain not only a monetary acknowledgment (5,000 euro for each section) but the unique opportunity to be exhibited in the Venice Arsenale and to be selected for the personal exhibitions in a circuit of national and international Art Galleries involved in this competition.

The prestigious Jury

Arte Laguna Art Prize has three sections as in the previous editions: Painting, Sculpture and Photographic Art, each of which is presided from a quoted Italian critic and curator. This year Igor Zanti for Sculpture, Viviana Siviero for Painting and Alessandro Trabucco for Photography, supported by: - Stefano Coletto (curator of the Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa of Venezia), -   Lorenzo Respi (curator of the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro of Milano), - Rossella Bertolazzi (director of the European Institute of Design). This Jury will select the 90 finalists for the exhibition in the Venice Arsenale.

The main exhibition

The Arte Laguna Art Prize organises the final exhibition in the Arsenale of Venice, from the 6th to the 27th of March 2010. This exclusive site, that usually is open only for the Biennale, in this case will exhibit the 90 finalists of the Prize, 30 for each section. This will be the first of further exhibitions in several art galleries in Italy and abroad.

Business for Art

Since last edition Arte Laguna Prize promotes the collaboration between Business and Art for underlining the great opportunities that it represents. In the previous edition, the Prize collaborated with “Capo d’Opera” an Italian furniture and interior design company where they select an artist for a special furniture piece.

This year there is the Special Prize “Collezione Tenuta S.Anna - Business for Art” that offers the possibility to all the artists who register with two works to the Painting Section of the Arte Laguna Art Prize to participate for free in this competition.  The winner will receive a prize of 5,000 euro and the possibility to see their own works reproduced on the Tenuta S.Anna wine labels that will be introduced in a very special occasion: Vinitaly 2010, one of the most important international wine fair.

Rules: http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/art-prize-2009.html
Application form: http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/applicationapplication.html
Artistic Results: http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/to-be-continued.html