The fourth edition of the Brera-Bicocca Prize kicks off.

With a reflection on work today from the perspective of art, the 2018 Brera-Bicocca Prize, the result of an interdisciplinary research project of theBrera Academy in collaboration with Milano-Bicocca, returns to Milan . From June 11, on the ground floor of the U6 building of Milano-Bicocca, it will be possible to see the works that are the result of an intense activity of laboratories and workshops carried out at theBrera Academy of Fine Arts, Carroponte and Spazio Mill in Sesto San Giovanni. At the center of the project is the theme of labor conditions today, poised between robotization and radical innovations, and unprecedented forms of exploitation and slavery.

Initial cue, a non-celebratory commemoration of the Russian Revolution, initiated in March 1917 by the women’s movement and culminating in October of that year. Thanks to the Academy’s students, it will be possible to reflect on works of various kinds, in which the work has been analyzed from different angles, resulting in solutions that are also diametrically opposed to each other. They still and effectively cite the archaic artifact and its contents, but at the same time project the art object into the immateriality of the ether, depriving it of any physicality. Or, they bring into synergy past and present mediated by the use of technologies that open up the imagination. The project is divided into a series of lectures, seminars and workshops, which addressed some salient moments of the iconology of the Workers’ Movement with the participation of leading scholars, artists, philosophers, filmmakers, technicians, and alumni of the Academy.

The varnish will be opened at 5 p.m. by greetings from the rector, Professor Cristina Messa, and project coordinators Professor Eraldo Paulesu (Milano-Bicocca) and Professor Stefano Pizzi (Brera Academy). This will be followed by the awarding of the 2018 BreraBicocca prizes: in memory of Maestro Giangiacomo Spadari with the motivation “there is no other artist painter known who has entered so deeply into the history of the century and who has left us telling it in images, using color to imprint them in our memory so that never again forget them” ; to the students, Lorenzo Brivio (BreraBicocca Award), Tommaso Lugoboni (Big Size Art Award), Giorgio Galgano (Fabio Mauri Studio Award), Elena Giovannetti (Big Size Art Award) and Miriam delle Castelle (Online Audience Award).

“The University of Milano-Bicocca renews for the fourth year the collaboration with the Brera Academy for the usual appointment with contemporary art.” said Cristina Messa, rector of the University of Milano-Bicocca “This edition photographs the conditions of work with a reflection on new technologies and the fluidity of the market. An interdisciplinary project that combines university education with the visual arts to give a new vision to a topic of strong interest to our students. The works are part of the project to redevelop the spaces of the campus and the neighborhood to strengthen the innovation boulevard, an artistic path through the area that already hosts works of art by important Italian and international authors.”

“On the occasion of the fourth edition of the Brera-Bicocca Prize,” says Franco Marrocco, director of the Brera Academy, “this year coinciding with the university’s 20th anniversary, I can only congratulate the members of the Scientific Committee and colleagues who have succeeded in the not easy task of providing students, through targeted meetings, with theoretical and workshop questions and expedients in order to translate the possible representability of contemporary work into images.”

In addition to the exhibition, a panel discussion entitled “Discussing the Sixth State and the Representability of Work Today” (Sala Rodolfi 4th floor, ed. U6, Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milan) is scheduled for June 13 at 9 a.m., divided into three round tables each on different declinations of the theme. The meeting will feature artists, journalists, union representatives, and professors from the Brera Academy and the Universities of Milano-Bicocca and Bocconi. The exhibition is open until July 11, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Ed.U6, Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milan). Once again this year it will be possible to vote online for one’s favorite work through www.brerabicocca.it : the most voted will be awarded the public prize. The visit is free and open access.

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The fourth edition of the Brera-Bicocca Prize kicks off.

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