ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE: only 2 months left

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN
for the fifth edition of the Prize
www.artelagunaprize.com

Deadline: 16th November 2010
Prizes: 100.000 euro
Exhibition of the finalist artists: Arsenale Venice

Sections: painting, photographic art, sculpture, videoart and performance

Institutinal prizes:
PRIZE Painting: 5.000,00 euro*
PRIZE Sculpture: 5.000,00 euro*
PRIZE Photographic Art: 5.000,00 euro*
PRIZE Videoart: 5.000,00 euro*
PRIZE Performance: 5.000,00 euro*

Participation: the competition is open to all artists, without any limits. There is not a specific theme.

Only 2 months left for ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE application. The new edition started with the goal to promote contemporary art, remaining consistent to the original purposes of its two creators, Laura Gallon and Beatrice Susa, Arte Laguna Prize continues its course as "incubator of Italian and international young art", with the will to discover new talent, to support emerging artists in promoting their creativity and to develop their careers.The V edition of the Prize is enriched with two new sections - Video Art and Performing Art - which are additional to those established: Painting, Sculpture and Photographic Art.

In particular, the Prize presents a lot of new opportunities and main innovations.

- Collective exhibition of finalist Artists -

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The final exhibition - which displays the 110 finalists selected by judges – is scheduled on March 2011, involving again the prestigious venue of the Arsenal of Venice .
In addiction, there is the Special Prize "Tina B", in collaboration with the same festival in Prague , for sharing a performance with the Prize. And the Special Prize “Open” that offers the partecipation to the XIV edition of the International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations that will take place in Lido of Venice during the Venice International Film Festival.

– Business for Art –

The Prize started with new and unexpected synergies between the contemporary art world and the companies through the Special Prize “Business for Art”. In this new edition it will start a new collaboration with ReiL enterprise, in the real estate field, that offers the Special Prize “Reil for young talents”, a stay in Brazil for one artist that will work in a resort for making it an unique artistic space.

– Artist in Residence –

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The Special Prize "Artist in Residence", assigned to the artists choosen between finalist ones and it provides three artist's residencies with the specific intent to promote and encourage the creativity of young artists. These are:

Special Prize "Art Stays" Art Residence in Slovenia + final exhibition
Special Prize “Claudio Buziol Foundation” Art Residence in Venice + final exhibition
Special Prize " Carlo Zauli Museum ” Art Residence in Faenza + final exhibition

– Personal Exhibitions –

Also for its fifth edition, the Prize offers Special Prizes in collaboration with the Galleries Partners, a network of more than 33 Italian and foreign galleries, that host personal exhibitions for the selected artists among the finalist ones. Those represent more opportunities and visibility linked with nationally and internationally important events and institutions in the art field.