Miart, all awards given. Best booth Eduardo Secci, youth award to Irene Fenara.

Prizes have been awarded for the2021 edition of miart, Milan’s modern and contemporary art fair, the first in Europe to restart after the pandemic.

For the Fondazione Fiera Milano Acquisition Fund, six works were selected, with a total value of 50,000 euros. Assisting in the selection was Fondazione President Enrico Pazzali, the jury composed of Diana Bracco (President, Member of the Executive Committee of Fondazione Fiera Milano, Milan), Chrissie Iles (Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), Luca Lo Pinto (Artistic Director, MACRO, Rome) and Cristiana Perrella (Director, Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato). The works, which will be added to the 99 that currently make up the Fondazione Fiera Milano collection housed within the Palazzina degli Orafi venue, are Capo tribù and Sabba lombardo by Corrado Cagli (1959 and 1954, respectively, presented by Frittelli, Florence), Borsa by Mary Ellen Carrol & Jojo Gronostay (2021, presented by Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Dzaglis Tseli (The year of the dog) by Elene Chantladze (2012, presented by LC Queisser, Tbilisi), Yuyi, The desire to feel intensely again, wishing you could see things for the first time once again in your life 3 by Marguerite Humeau (2021, presented by Clearing, New York - Brussels - Beverly Hills) and Clothes Anger by Davide Stucchi & Mattia Ruffolo (2021, presented by Martina Simeti, Milan).

The LCA Prize for Emergent, worth 4,000 euros, born in 2015 from the collaboration between miart and LCA Studio Legale and intended for the best presentation within the Emergent section, was awarded to the galleries Hot Wheels Athens (Athens) and Fanta-MLN (Milan) who share the booth for this edition of the fair. The jury, composed of Edoardo Bonaspetti (Co-Director, Ordet, Milan), João Laia (Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki) and Bart van der Heide (Director, Museion, Bolzano), awarded the two galleries’ project involving young artists Anastasia Pavlou and Alessandro Agudio, with the following motivation: “The works selected for the booth represent personal artistic reflections in a fluid and uncertain historical moment. Both artists have found an informal and open language, represented and enhanced by the stand.”

The sixth edition of the Herno Prize for the best stand goes to Eduardo Secci (Florence - Milan), present at the fair with a solo exhibition dedicated to Titina Maselli within the Decades section. The award, worth 10,000 euros, was given to the booth with the best exhibition project by the international jury composed of Andrea Bellini (Director, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva), Quinn Latimer (writer and poet, Basel) and Andrea Lissoni (Artistic Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich). The jury gave this reason for their choice: “Titina Maselli’s body of work undoubtedly deserves to be re-proposed on the international stage, as both the selection and the sensitive display by the Eduardo Secci gallery confirm. The jury was struck by the artist’s historical significance but also by the considerable resonance with concerns present in emerging generations globally: a specific idea of technology and its natural incorporation, a witnessing gaze that recalls and transforms experimental cinematic research, and, last but not least, a practice free of canons but rigorous and inhabited by a profound interdisciplinary attitude.”

Among the artists selected for the XII edition of the Rotary Club Milano Brera Prize for Contemporary Art and Young Artists, the jury, composed of Laura Cherubini (Curator, chair of Contemporary Art History at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts), Christian Marinotti (Editor, lecturer of History of Art in the Degree Course in Architectural Design at the Milan Polytechnic and creator of the prize) and Iolanda Ratti (Curator of the Museo del Novecento in Milan), unanimously decided to award the work by Irene Fenara (born in 1990 in Bologna) entitled Three Thousand Tigers (2020, wool and silk tapestry, 300x200 cm) with the following motivation: “The artist, who is presented by UNA Gallery in Piacenza, works from photographic research. An elaborate process leads from photography to tapestry, through a conceptual path of dematerialization of the image, where the algorithm becomes the formula for a total deconstruction in pure sequential mathematical calculation. The result of this process leads to the numerical reformulation of an endangered animal subject. The end point is a large tapestry with a strong aesthetic impact, realizing a dialogue between the ancient craft tradition of weaving with the computer sign of pixels.” The work will be donated to the Museo del Novecento in Milan.

Miart, all awards given. Best booth Eduardo Secci, youth award to Irene Fenara.

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