Premio Combat Prize

Winners of Combat Prize 2019

The tenth edition of the COMBAT PRIZE came to an end on Saturday, 13 July when the judges announced the winners in the beautiful gilded setting of the “Room of Mirrors” in the Museo Giovanni Fattori in Livorno.

The judging panel - Andrea Bruciati, Daniele De Luigi, Francesca Baboni, Lorenzo Balbi, Matteo Bergamini, Paola Tognon e Stefano Taddei, selected Alessandro Fogo with "L’antica leggenda della foglia di cavolo (The Ancient Legend of the Cabbage Leaf)" as the winner in the Painting Section. The motivation for their decision reads: for a painting study that refers to the universal stylistic elements of a past that still reverberates in the present, charged with new meanings starting from a depiction that is heedful of the poetics of the unreal and imaginary.
Honourable Mention to Giacomo Modolo.

The winner in the Photography Section is Alisa Martynova with "Untitled" from the “NowhereNear”series, for her ability to tackle a pressingly relevant topic going beyond the mass media models and schemas, exploring migrants’ dreams, memories and desires through symbolic images.
Honourable Mention to Irene Lupi.

Silvia Inselvini is the winner in the Graphics Section with "Notturni (Nocturnes)", for the continuity of a corpus in which lines become atmosphere, constructing essential, complex and even unconscious processes.
Honourable Mention to Giulia Lazzaron.

The judges declared Nuvola Ravera the winner in the Sculpture/Installation Section for her "Soapopera" project that transforms obsessions such as body care, and personal spatial and psychological boundaries into an installation that calls up social rituals in public and private milieus.
Honourable Mention to Matteo Messori.

For the Video Section the panel awarded the prize to Luisa Turuani for "Non sto più nella pelle (I’m Just a Bundle of Nerves)," and her ability to deal with feelings and sensations that reflect the restlessness of the body-space relationship with light-hearted wit, by animating a large object that lives in a small space and hides the artist’s identity.
Honourable Mention to Maria Pecchioli.

As to the special awards, the Fattori Contemporaneo Award for the creation of a site-specific project at the Musei Civici di Livorno, Museo della Città - Luogo Pio Arte Contemporanea and the Museo Giovanni Fattori, next scheduled for 2020, went to a Emilio Vavarella for the coherency of a study examining the relationship between technology and representation using different mediums (photography, video, sculpture, installation, web).

The four, under-35 winners of the Art Tracker prize that gives them the opportunity to participate in the Lucca Art Fair 2020 with a new curatorial project are: Anna Marzuttini, Clarissa Baldassarri, Giorgia Valli e Paolo Ciregia.

The new Poliart Award went to the artistic duo Penzo_Fiore, for their use of the material and ability to develop and grow between tradition and innovation, reformulating and proposing stratified shapes and sizes. Poliart, the leading makers of polystyrene foam will support the production of a new work by the artists.

The “targa Paolo Ristori”, award, in memory of the late member of the Associazione Culturale Blob Art, went to Franco Campana for “Proteggere la natura – L’alveare(Protecting Nature – The Beehive)” or the coherence of his research, studies on painting as a medium and for constantly questioning his art throughout his career, embodying the true spirit of the Combat Prize.

 

Winner of PAINTING SECTION

 

Winner of PHOTOGRAPHY SECTION

 

Winner of GRAPHICS SECTION

 

Winner of SCULPTURE/INSTALLATION SECTION

 

Winner of VIDEO SECTION

 

Winner of PREMIO SPECIALE FATTORI CONTEMPORANEO

 

Winner of PREMIO POLIART

 

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This is the list of the 80 artists who have been shortlisted for the ninth edition of PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE and the recommended artists list who will be published on the catalogue.

Selection held by: Andrea Bruciati, Daniele De Luigi, Francesca Baboni, Lorenzo Balbi, Matteo Bergamini, Paola Tognon and Stefano Taddei

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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