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September 28, 2011
It is closed Saturday 24 with the awards ceremony of the twelve winners of the second Biennale of Chianciano Terme. The jury, chaired by Jin Cheng Liu and consists of a panel of experts from around the world, has awarded prizes for categories paintings, sculpture, applied arts and drawings. The Biennial, an exhibition of 3000 square meters which was attended by 150 artists from more than fifty countries around the world, is the most important contemporary art event for the Val di Chiana and the second was defined in the Biennial Italy after the celebrated exhibition of Venice.
Greeted with enthusiasm by the public and welcomed by the press and by international criticism, the 2009 edition has been reviewed by none other than New York Times, which devoted an article to the display and "Impressive collection of Mr. Gagliardi accumulated during a thirty-year career. "
The catalog of the 2011 edition has been decided by the same experts who designed the publications held at the Victorian & Albert Museum, the Museum and Lord Leighton at the Chelsea Town Hall in London. The competition was attended by dealers from around the world and emerging national and international artists. The purpose and spirit of the contest is to encourage the exchange of ideas and deepen the mutual understanding between the talent and art experts, fostering the growth of the market between them and the 300 galleries present at the event. In addition to the winners of this year, which was assigned the label "Leonardo", because the event thirty other artists chosen will have the opportunity to exhibit their works in an exhibition scheduled for 2012 at the prestigious gallery Gagliardi Gallery, London. The Biennale of Chianciano Terme has hosted some of the many names for the exhibition of works by the young artist of the moment, Aelita Andre, four year old child prodigy whose paintings are already on display at the gallery in New York, a painting technique that uses very similar the drip painting by Jackson Pollock.
The Art Museum of Chianciano Terme, therefore, has focused on quality and came out the winner.After having planned a week full of events studied in culture in which they are fused love of art and Italian excellence - from the guests' stay at the spa town with tastings of local products like fine wine Chianti - during which artists and scientists have been able to take advantage of the favorable climate to meet and create new partnerships, the Biennale has closed the year with a twist. After having thrown a deeper look at the issues of copyright and personalities leave the University of Oxford, issues addressed during the conference on Wednesday evening and Friday, the Biennale has exceeded his intentions determining precisely during the week of the event the genesis of the artistic movement of Riflessisimo, a new movement whose leaders decided to highlight the negativity in their works, the crisis and the decline in the human soul.
These are the winners of the second edition of the award:
PAINTINGS
Carina Fogde
Romans Paul Nicholls and Juan Carlos Santa Coloma
Noakes and Valeri Queen Beatrice Englert
SCULPTURE
Monica Sandell
Guiraud and Hernan Ilinep
Elizabeth Gavotti and Karel Vreeburg
APPLIED ARTS
Luciano Ianucci
Daniel and Audrey Meyer-Munz Icaza
Erica Schweger Weisz and Cesare Bollini Bonazza
DRAWINGS
Premalatha Seshadri
Maria and Igor Eugen Prokop Gaia Sindomi
String course and Bruno Varini
The Jury
Jin Cheng Liu, President of the Jury
Francesca Owens, Art Criticism
Patrizia Mari, Curator, Journalist and PR of the City of Chianciano
Roberto Gagliardi, the British Union of Journalists
Michael Warren, Artist Commissioned by Margaret Thatcher
Maria Mangiavacchi, Superintendent of Artistic, Historical and Ethno-anthropological of Siena and Grosseto
Paola Fog, Professor of Law, Oxford
Kirsten Hayes, FAO Economist
Jeanine Baumert, European University Institute
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