ART & CONVIVIALITY: Cittadellarte Award for Students

ART & CONVIVIALITY

Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte launches ART & CONVIVIALITY – Cittadellarte Award for Students, an open call inviting students to design and realize two mural interventions within the spaces of Cittadellarte.

The project invites participants to reflect on the theme of conviviality, understood as a space of encounter, dialogue and shared experience between people, cultures and communities.

Through this call, students are invited to propose an artistic intervention for two wall niches located below the windows along the hall, transforming them into visual works capable of expressing an idea of conviviality.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE

The call is open to all students and former students of Accademia Unidee.

Collectives are also welcome.

GUIDELINES

Participants may submit a proposal for a permanent intervention on the walls indicated below, part of the Caffeteria hall.

The proposal can be bi- or tridimensional, and any medium is allowed.
Every proposal can be 

• single: for one only wall
• double: integrating both walls into one only project

Dimensions:

• Left wall (Lavagna sx) and maximum length and width
  130 cm × 257 cm
• Right wall (Lavagna dx) and maximum length and width
  127cm × 253 cm

Maximum depth for both the surfaces: 30 cm

Figure 1Left Wall – Figure 2 Right Wall

THEME

The theme of the call is CONVIVIALITY.

Participants are invited to interpret conviviality as a moment of gathering, exchange and shared experience, in dialogue with the cultural and social values promoted by Cittadellarte.

Different artistic languages and techniques are welcome, provided they are suitable for a mural art intervention.

AWARD

For each selected wall intervention:

• €200 net fee for the selected artist
• coverage of consumable materials required for the production of the artwork

NOTE: After its completion, the duration of the artwork will be determined by the Commission. The Commission reserves the right to remove or replace the intervention at its sole discretion.

TIMELINE

• April 7 – 12:30 PM – Submission deadline
• By April 10 – Commission evaluation
• April 10 – Announcement of selected proposals
• By May 10 – Artwork realization by the selected artist(s)

SUBMISSION

To apply, participants must send:

• a project proposal for the intervention, including 

• A Title
• A Description of the work
• A simplified  list of the materials and tools needed
• Your Name, Surname and Course of study 
• one or more sketches or visual drafts of the work (add all the materials you think could be useful for the commission to evaluate your work).

Submissions must be sent to: comunicazione@accademiaunidee.it

no later than 12:30 PM on April 7.

SELECTION CRITERIA

The Commission is nominated by the Director of Cittadellarte and Michelangelo Pistoletto and will  take into consideration the following criteria when selecting the winner(s):

• relevance to the proposed theme
• artistic value of the proposal
• feasibility: practical aspects of implementation, such as methods and material costs

PRIZE

For each selected wall intervention:

• €200 net fee for the selected artist or collective (400€ for both walls)
• coverage of consumable materials required for the production of the artwork

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE COMPETITION