The VAF Foundation is very pleased to announce that the first stage of the tenth edition of the \u2018VAF Foundation Prize\u2019 will be inaugurated on 14 June 2024 at the Stadtgalerie in Kiel, Germany. Thirteen finalists will be on show: ADRIANO ANNINO, ANTONIO BARBIERI, CHIARA CALORE, VALENTINA DIENA, ROBERTO FANARI, DEBORA GARRITANI, TERESA GIANNICO, JACOPO GINANNESCHI, MONICA MAZZONE, ALESSANDRO NANNI, DAVIDE QUARTUCCI, MICHELE TAJARIOL, BEATRICE TAPONECCO.<\/p>\n
As in the last edition, the VAF Foundation will again award a first prize worth 15,000 euros, a second prize worth 7,500 euros, and a third prize worth 5,000 euros. In addition to the cash prize, the winner will be entitled to the acquisition of the competing work, which will become part of the VAF Foundation Collection.<\/p>\n
Alongside the prize for young artists, the VAF-Stiftung will for the second time award a Lifetime Achievement Prize, restricted to artists documented in the Foundation’s large, encyclopaedic collection of Italian art. A tribute to long-standing artists that this year will present the works in the VAF collection of Marcello Morandini, artist, architect, designer among the most important representatives of Concrete Art in Europe.<\/p>\n
The first stop in Germany will be followed by the second presentation of the exhibition, this time in Italy at the Mart, the museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto, during which the eagerly awaited award ceremony for the winning artists will be held.<\/p>\n
President VAF Foundation: Thorsten A. Feierabend<\/p>\n
Scientific Committee: Elena Pontiggia (President), Gabriella Belli, Nicoletta Colombo, Volker W. Feierabend, Serena Redaelli, Denis Viva<\/p>\n
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Catalogue:<\/p>\n
May 2024<\/p>\n
language Italian, German, English<\/p>\n
pages 248<\/p>\n
format 24 x 30,8 cm<\/p>\n
isbn 979-12-80049-76-6<\/p>\n
price \u20ac 30 $ 26<\/p>\n
Manfredi editions<\/p>\n