Pure water vision : ACEA EcoArt contest 2010

Open call

Acquisition Prize € 10.000,00
Contest deadline October 31st
curatorial team: Laura Cherubini, Eugenio Viola – Alfredo Cramerotti

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Pure Water Vision: Acea EcoArt Contest 2010 is the international contemporary art contest created by the EcoArt Project cultural platform together with Acea Group, the main Italian company managing integrated water services – water supply, sewage and water treatment. The contest will award the Acea EcoArt Prize 2010, consisting in an acquisitive prize for the value of € 10.000,00 to the winner artwork that will become part of the Acea collection, it will also publish the “EcoArt Book Two” catalog (see EcoArt Book One already online) with 30 selected artworks and organize an exhibition in Rome for 10 finalists.

The theme of Pure Water Vision: Acea EcoArt Contest 2010 requests artists to express their creativity to represent the relationship between water, man and the environment with relation to sustainable development of the planet. This reflection can also be extended to water pollution, water as source of life, water as source of renuable energy, process of desertification and emergency situations. All of which themes which simultaneously grip the planet and ask a series of burning social, anthropological, political and cultural questions. The objective is to highlight little known aspects of the water cycle, to stimulate, through the universal and metaphorical language of art, a series of reflections on what lies behind the apparent simplicity of pure water and what happens before and after the distribution of this precious resource that flows from taps in our homes and through waterworks, sewers and water treatment facilities.

The contest, opened to works of photography, digital art, video art, painting and mixed media, sculpture, installation and performance, is curated by Laura Cherubini, art critic, curator and professor of Contemporary Art at the Fine Art Academy of Brera, Milan; Eugenio Viola, art critic and curator of the Project Room of Museum MADRE (Contemporary Art Museum DonnaREgina) of Naples; Alfredo Cramerotti, curator QUAD Derby, co-curator of the biennal Manifesta 8 and art critic. The Jury of the contest includes Carolina Italiano (director of editorial department, research and documentation center at MAXXI ART), Matteo Lafranconi (head of cultural programs at Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma), Costanza Paissan (curator at MACRO contemporary art museum of Rome), Massimiliano Tonelli (editor in chief of Exibart), Guido Talarico (director and editor of INSIDEART) and Pierguido Cavallina (director of external relations and communication of Acea Group).

Sustainable development and respect for the planet are the EcoArt Project’s goals. Search for Pure Water Vision on You Tube and see our fun videoanimation.

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