The closure of the tenth edition of the exhibition of contemporary art at the Fortezza da Basso. Over 10 thousand visitors. The great satisfaction of the organizers
With the awards ceremony of the winning artists in the various categories, the tenth edition of Florence Biennale – International exhibition of contemporary art in Florence –was concluded. More than 1,300 works in exhibition, made by 423 artists from 62 countries, were admired, discussed, commented by about 10 thousand visitors who have accepted the invitation of the organization. Much applause for the artists presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award, Marta Minujín, Mario Carbone and Giampaolo Talani, as well as the real star of this edition, the young Iranian artist (Living in California, USA) Morehshin Allahyari, who presented the realization of a copy in resin of one of the sculptures destroyed by the blind and iconoclast fury of ISIS, attracting the attention of visitors and the media over her work.
After a long process of evaluation, the jury – composed of Elza Ajzenberg, Dominique Baechler, R. B. Bhaskaran, Francesco Buranelli, Pasquale Celona, Naoki Dan, Huang Du, Karen Lang, Gregorio Luke, Maty Roca, and Enrico Vergnano – conferred the International “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Award to:
PAINTING
1st Place Marissa Calbet (Spain), Houyao Sang (China)
2nd Place Steffie Wallace (Australia), Wessel Huisman (Netherlands)
3rd Place Yutian Wang (China), Maurizio Colombo (Italy)
4th Place Alegria (Ecuador)
5th Place Osvaldo Chiquesi (Brasile), Dhanur Goyal (India), Laurel Holloman (Usa), Marius Zabinsky (Belgium), Chu (Usa)
SCULPTURE
1st Place Lautaro (Spain)
2nd Place Rivera Ortiz, Felipe (Puerto Rico), Deckelbaum, Kaya (Usa)
3rd Place Fragkou, Vasso (Greece), Collier, Betty (Australia), Menon, Dimpy (India)
4th Place Del Deo, Romolo (Usa), Giblin, Louise (United Kingdom), Plowright, Terrance (Australia)
INSTALLATION
1st Place Lenartz, Theo (Netherlands)
2nd Place Willemse, Emma (South Africa), Buczek, Malgorzata (Poland)
3rd Place Chacin (Colombia)
4th Place Darton, Sarka (Czech Republic/United Kingdom), Muszkat, Debora (Brazil), Yue Yanna – Xian Lei (China)
5th Place Franca, Abadia (Brazil), Delia, Xhovalin (Italia), Milikouri, Mikaella (Cyprus)
WORKS ON PAPER
1st Place Tongyao Zhu (China)
2nd Place Erjian Wang (China)
3rd Place Nettan Moren (Sweden)
4th Place Shiihashi, Kazuko (Japan)
5th Place Francis Antony Kodankadath (India), Jiro Unno (Japan), Xiaohai Zhao (China)
MIXED MEDIA
1st Place Pedro Sandoval (Spain)
2nd Place Ryota Matsumoto (Japan), Eiman Elgibreen (Saudi Arabia)
3rd Place Hugo Sotelo (Argentina), Judith Klein (Hungary)
4th Place Shazia Imran (Australia), Gustavo Fuentes Colon (Puerto Rico/Usa), Jose Oscar Torres Pereyra (Puerto Rico )
5th Place Stefania Bertini (Italy), Bia Doria (Brazil), Kendra Frorup (Bahamas), Celia Rachel (Brazil)
PHOTOGRAPHY
1st Place Vilson Palaro (Brazil)
2nd Place Hermes (United Kingdom)
3rd Place Carlos Caruso (Argentina)
4th Place Evelyn Sadler (Usa/Argentina)
5th Place Miki Turner (Usa), Marilyn Payne Gottlieb (Usa), Marilyn Hutchinson (Australia), Wenjun Fu (China), Jack Jamon (France)
DIGITAL ART
1st Place Umberto D’Eramo (Italy)
2nd Place Chiara Lagostina (Italy), Andrea Prandi (Italy), Jun Lu (China)
3rd Place Shirley Plowright (Australia), Andrea Costantini (Italy), Natalia Elena Massi (Italy), Kokoy Quinones (Mexico)
4th Place Pauline Van De Ven (Netherlands)
CERAMICS
1st Place Sally Walk (Australia), Yingrui Liu (China)
2nd Place Pao Tsai Lien (Taiwan), Gienglian Xu (China), Nora Almazrooa (Saudi Arabia)
3rd Place Elisa Anna Bono (Italy)
TEXTILE ART
1st Place Yasumichi Nakagawa (Japan)
2nd Place Raffy T. Napay (Philippines)
3rd Place Alice Engel Levinson (Usa), Sanda Bucur (Romania)
4th Place Ilie Mitrea (Romania)
JEWELRY ART
1st Place Noy Alon (Israel)
2nd Place Zijia Long (China)
3rd Place Laura Visentin (Italy)
4th Place Farish Alborzkouh (Iran), Peggy Art (Italy)
VIDEO ART
1st Place Maro Verli (Greece)
2nd Place Amir Kabir Jabbari (Iran), Kaiyang Jiang (China), Ynin Shillo (Israel)
3rd Place Walter Gaudnek (Usa)
Other awards and special mentions went to the Iraqi artist Fatima Al Obaidi (painting), to the Italian artist Donato Linzalata (sculpture), to the Chinese artist Chun Shang (painting), to the Indian artist Tinu Verghis (video art), to the Tuscan artist Franca Pisani who exhibited her artworks in a solo exhibition at the Palace of Justice in Florence, and, to the memory, the visual poet Luciano Caruso.
Florence Biennale gives appointment to 2017, when there will be the twentieth anniversary edition that will be full of important innovations.
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