Fundraiser launched for production of original video works by young artists

Lo Schermo dell’Arte launches a fundraising campaign and promotes a solidarity network of people and institutions to support the production of original video works by young artists from Italy or resident in Italy.

More than twenty Italian and international institutions and associations are supporting the initiative: Art House, Blitz Valletta, La Casa Encendida, CASTRO, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Club GAMeC, Collection von Kelterborn, Fondazione Merz, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, FST-Fondazione Sistema Toscana, FRAC Bretagne, GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Han Nefkens Foundation, ICA Milan, In Between Art Film, Kunsthalle Basel, MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, MAN_Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, MYmovies, Palazzo Grassi - Pinault Collection, La Quadriennale di Roma, Triennale di Milano, Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art, Senzacornice, Seven Gravity Collection

At the end of the campaign, June 15, 2020, a public call will be available in which artists will be invited to submit a project for the production of an original video work. Preference will be given to those projects that have been discontinued due to the health emergency or ideas born during this difficult period that can delve into the most pressing issues of the present.

Theentire proceeds of the funds raised by the campaign will be awarded to one or more artists selected by a jury composed of Leonardo Bigazzi, curator Lo Schermo dell’Arte and Artists’ Film Italia Recovery Fund, Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, independent curator, Sarah Cosulich, artistic director La Quadriennale di Roma, Lorenzo Giusti, director GAMeC-Bergamo, Andrea Lissoni, artistic director Haus Der Kunst, Munich.

The minimum budget allocated to each production will be 5,000 euros up to a maximum of 10,000 euros including the artist’s fee. The amount awarded will be decided by the jury based on available funds and the economic needs of the individual proposals.

The winning works will be presented by the Screen of Art Film Festival in 2021 and in national and international institutions and festivals. One edition of each of the video works produced as a result of this campaign will be donated to the permanent collection of GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, to support an institution in a city greatly affected by Covid-19.

"Promoting and supporting young artists is one of the founding goals of the activity of Lo Schermo dell’Arte. It was necessary to react to this moment of deep crisis by proposing an alternative model of production that can guarantee immediate and concrete resources to artists. This fund serves to restart projects that were interrupted due to the emergency, restoring perspective and confidence to artists," said Leonardo Bigazzi, curator Artists’ Film Italia Recovery Fund and Lo Schermo dell’Arte.

At this link all information about the fundraising campaign opened on the Gofundme platform.

Image: Adrian Paci, Temporary Residence Center (2007). Courtesy the artist, Peter Kilchmann Gallery and Kaufmann Repetto Art Gallery.

Fundraiser launched for production of original video works by young artists

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