Italy shines at the Global Fine Art Awards, the world's exhibition awards: with three wins we are second only to the UK

Brilliant results forItaly at the Global Fine Art Awards, the prizes that have been awarded annually since 2014 to the best exhibitions of the year. The 2018 edition saw 94 nominees from around the world battle it out for the fourteen awards up for grabs. The awards ceremony was held the day before yesterday at the Harold Platt House in New York, and Italy, competing in three categories, took theen plein.

In the Best Impressionist and Modern (1838-WWII) - Solo Artist category, the Ambienti / Environments exhibition triumphed, an exhibition of the spatial environments conceived in the late 1940s by Lucio Fontana (Rosario, Argentina, 1899 - Comabbio, 1968), held at the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan from September 21, 2017 to February 25, 2018.

Italian victory also in the Best Impressionist and Modern (1838-WWII) - Group or Theme section, whose prize went to the controversial exhibition Post Zang Tumb Tuuum. Art Life Politics: Italy 1918-1943, the huge exhibition on the arts between the wars curated by Germano Celant held at the Fondazione Prada from February 18 to June 28, 2018. The Milan exhibition won the award ex-aequo with the exhibition Living Proof: Drawing in 19th Century Japan, which ran from Nov. 3, 2017 to March 3, 2018 at the Pulitzer Art Foundations in St. Louis.

Finally, victory also for the third and last Italian in the competition, the exhibition L’Eterno e il tempo tra Michelangelo e Caravaggio, which took place from February 10 to June 17, 2018 at the San Domenico Museums in Forlì: the exhibition, aimed at delving into a key moment in art history, the transition between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was the winner in the category Best Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties (1200 - 1838) - Group or Theme. It was, moreover, the first Italian ancient art exhibition to win the Global Fine Art Awards.

In the final “medal table,” Italy is tied for second place with the U.S. (three wins for them as well), while the U.K. comes out on top with six triumphs. They are followed by Canada, Japan and South Africa with one win each. This is the first time that Italy reports as many as three wins at the Global Fine Art Awards. Until now, only Shirin Neshat’s solo exhibition at the Correr Museum in Venice in 2017, Christo and Jeanne-Claude ’s spectacular Floating Piers (the “catwalk” on Lake Iseo in 2016, which won in the Best Public Art category that year), and Jaume Plensa’s Together installation at the Venice Biennale in 2015 (in the Best Public or Outdoor Installation category) had won the award for Italy.

Italy shines at the Global Fine Art Awards, the world's exhibition awards: with three wins we are second only to the UK

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