“Born in 2000 thanks to Urbano Cairo, this Prize was one of the first initiatives in Italy to talk about young artists and support their work. The fact that the competition only admits unpublished works is a fundamental aspect, an opportunity that allows them not only to create, but also to exhibit in a prestigious place in Milan.
As Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengowho has been president of the Cairo Prize jury since 2006, commented on the objectives of the event during the press conference presenting the new edition, the 23rd, which took place today at the Sala Buzzati in Milan.
Cairo Prize 2024: The 20 finalists who will be exhibited at the Permanente Museum
This year again, 20 protagonists, all artists under 40, will compete with works created especially for the occasion.
“Twenty young emerging artists, twenty different expressive languages, twenty strongly characterized identities. And a single state of mind that runs through their works: an existential precariousness generated and fueled by the agitated and increasingly dramatic reality with which art finds itself confronted, to govern and transform it, offering its creative energy as a “form of I hope”, he said
Michele Bonuomoeditor of the magazine ARTthe pillar of the Prize who has always organized it and selected the finalists.
From painting to sculpture, including new media borrowed from constantly evolving technologies, the competition will embrace, like every edition, the variety of languages and expressions that distinguish contemporary artistic research.
This year too it will be the Permanent museuma historic Milanese palace designed at the end of the 19th century by Luca Beltrami, where young Italian art was already at home at the time of the Futurists and then of the Novecento group, hosting the most important prize dedicated to new generations.
Over the years, the Prize has been a springboard for over 400 talents, many of whom have become leading names on the Italian art scene. Just think of the over fifty artists who, after participating in the Prize, have exhibited their works at the Venice Biennale.
In 2024 it is the turn of Thomas Berra, Chiara Calore, Tomaso De Luca, Pietro Fachini, Emilio Gola, Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, Giulia Maiorano, Giulia Mangoni, Pietro Moretti, Matteo Pizzolante, Aronne Pleuteri, Vera Portatadino, Carlo Alberto Rastelli, Marta Ravasi. , Adelisa Selimbašić, Davide Serpetti, Arjan Shehaj, Luca Staccioli, Maddalena Tesser, Flaminia Veronesi.
Awards ceremony and exhibition of winners in October
Their works will be evaluated by the prestigious jury chaired by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, president of the Turin Foundation of the same name, and composed of the maestro Emilio Isgrò, one of the most internationally renowned names in Italian art between the 20th and 21st centuries; Luca Massimo Barbero, director of the Institute of Art History-Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice; Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the Ducal Palace in Genoa; Bruno Corà, president of the Palazzo Albizzini Burri Collection Foundation in Città di Castello; Lorenzo Giusti, director of the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gamec) in Bergamo; Gianfranco Maraniello, director of the Centre of Modern and Contemporary Museums of the Municipality of Milan; Renata Cristina Mazzantini, director of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome.
The winner of the 23rd edition will be announced on October 14 at the Museo della Permanente and streaming on corriere.it.
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The day after the award ceremony, the opening will be open exhibition, with free entrywho will gather until October 20 the 20 works of the 2024 edition, alongside the complete Cairo Prize Collection with award-winning works from 2000 to today.
All information on the site premicairo.it.
