Gian Maria Tosatti wins the fifth edition of the Artists for Frescobaldi Award with an environmental installation

The winner of the fifth edition of the Artists for Frescobaldi Prize, a biennial contemporary art award involving three artists each year, conceived by Tiziana Frescobaldi in 2012 to strengthen the link between wine and art and curated by Ludovico Pratesi, has been announced. The prize is intended to refer to the ancient patronage of the Frescobaldi family, which has been close to artists since the Renaissance, including Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo Lippi, Michelozzo, and Artemisia Gentileschi.
The three artists are invited to interpret the CastelGiocondo estate and are judged by a high-profile jury: this is made up of three Contemporary Art museum directors, which varies each edition and awards the Prize to one of the three works. The three artists also create a label design for a limited and numbered edition of bottles of CastelGiocondo Brunello di Montalcino. Part of the proceeds from the sale go to support contemporary Italian art.

The artists involved in this fifth edition were Andrew Dadson, Erica Mahinay and Gian Maria Tosatti. The winner is Gian Maria Tosatti with his installation Captivity.

This is the motivation of the jury composed of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (President, Fondazione Sandretto Re Re Rebaudengo), Ralph Rugoff (Director, Hayward Gallery, London) and RinaCarvajal (Director and Curator, Museum of Art and Design, Miami Art Museum): "Gian Maria Tosatti has treated the theme of the project by bringing it closer to the natural environment; we admire her ability to generate complex and resonant associations with minimal means, yet poetic at the same time. Her site-specific environmental installation Captivity subtly activates latent meanings of domestic architecture and historic furnishings (her floral Art Nouveau wall paintings) to generate an opportunity for discovery for the viewer. The project encourages thoughtful reflection on the possibilities of collaboration between humanity and nature, as playfully suggested by the captive wind gently moving painted curtains in a room where all windows are closed. The meditative mise en scene Tosatti has staged in the Montalcino house evocatively captures the bond between human beings and their surroundings. The slight amplification of minimal gestures and frugal materials seems to release latent energy and hidden epiphanies in both objects and space."

Pictured, Gian Maria Tosatti, Captivity

Gian Maria Tosatti wins the fifth edition of the Artists for Frescobaldi Award with an environmental installation

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