It is a surreal and agitated work, a raging sea emerging from an open window, which won the 23rd edition of the Cairo Price which ended on October 14 with the awards ceremony and the inauguration of the exhibition at Permanent Palace from Milan.
Cairo Prize 2024: the winning work
It's called Neural portrait of self and it is an example of “synthetic photography”, an innovative technique in which the use of the computer replaces the traditional camera. The author is Giuseppe Lo Schiavobetter known as GLOS, born in Vibo Valentia in 1986, graduated in architecture in Rome, now based in Milan and London.
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The winner was announced during the awards ceremony bypublisher Urbano Cairo, promoter of the most important prize dedicated to young Italian art, which each year sees 20 emerging artists selected by the monthly magazine compete Art, directed by Michele Bonuomo, all with unpublished works, created in different languages.
What struck the jury in Lo Schiavo's vision was “the complex and rigorous work which presents itself as a meeting point between artistic practice and scientific knowledge, creating a synthetic and innovative image in which the waves of the sea (the external world) and those of the brain (the internal world) act as a counterpoint, the two waves being ungovernable.
The work in fact includes an electroencephalogram carried out on the artist while he observed the image he had created and exhibited alongside the painting, thus suggesting “a parallel between sea waves and brain waves, between the furious outside world and the more elusive world.” , but just as ungovernable, an inner world.”
The Cairo Prize 2024 exhibition in Milan
Neural portrait of self she won the prize of 25 thousand euros and a place in the Cairo Price Collectionalongside the winning works from previous editions. Everything on display, as well as the 20 new creations that participated in the 2024 edition, in an exhibition open free to the public until October 20 at the Permanent Museum.
Besides Lo Schiavo, the protagonists of the 23rd Prize are Thomas Berra, Chiara Calore, Tomaso De Luca, Pietro Fachini, Emilio Gola, 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.
From painting to sculpture, through new media borrowed from constantly evolving technologies, the exhibition offers a broad overview of Italian art today with all the variety of practices and languages that distinguish it .
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