ArteVisione 2017

Artevisione (2017) – whose theme is Memory and Identity – keeps growing: in addition to the institutional partnership with Museo del Novecento, it collaborates with MADRE Museum – Museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina in Naples, Mart Museum – Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome, Museo d’arte contemporanea di Villa Croce in Genoa. The goal is promoting the award, as well as the winner’s and 10 finalists’ work.

The role of ArteVisione LAB keeps strengthening too: it’s a place dedicated to the examination of the artistic poetics and the review of the projects made by the 10 finalists. Professionals from the field give their support, as well as the world-famous artist Omer Fast as visiting professor.

The finalists of ArteVisione 2017 are: Sandro Bozzolo, Daniele Costa, Lucia Cristiani, Alessandro Di Pietro, Mati Jhurry, Martina Melilli, Giacomo Raffaelli, Jacopo Rinaldi, Caterina Viganò, Zamenhof (Francesco Sileo and Giulia Trincardi).

In addition to the first production prize and 4 months' residency at Careof in Milan, the second and third place winners are awarded two development grants consisting of a workshop at SAE Institute or 3 months' residency at Careof.

After examining the 10 finalists’ propositions, the jury unanimously decides to award the prize to the project “Mum, I’m sorry” by Martina Melilli, artist and filmmaker from Veneto. The judges recognise “the intensity and the urgency broaching the controversial subject of the migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. “Mum, I’m sorry” represents an attempt to restore an identity and to redefine cultural and geographical distances, through a process of research and a close, disenchanted gaze, capable of penetrating the texture of objects that belonged to nameless bodies”.

The jury underlines the originality of the projects “Confabulazione” by Caterina Viganò (Milan, 1988) and “Pauline” by Giacomo Raffaelli (Rovereto, 1988). They are both able to analyse the complexity of the human mind, using different levels and languages but examining the fascinating obsession about the conservation of the experience.