Section: PAINTING
Prize: Euro  7.000,00

  Ryszard Szozda | Cracow, Poland 1976

Work: Test #03A #03B #03C, 2017
Jury’s statement: The prize is awarded both for the subject matter and for the stylistic choice. The triptych reproduces a well-known photographic image, entered in the collective imagination for the destructive power linked to it, since it refers to the nuclear tests carried out in Nevada in the 50s. The artist restores this strength through a painting that slowly reveals itself to our eye while the surrounding reality dissolves and explodes. The jury found interesting the translation into painting of an image already mediated by photography, through the use of an almost abstractly monochrome pictorial technique, which shows great skill in restoring all the apocalyptic tension of this theme.

Section: PHOTOGRAPHIC ART | DIGITAL GRAPHICS
Prize: Euro 7.000,00

  Silvia Montevecchi | Florence, Italy 1994

Work: Jisei no ku #1, 2017 | Jisei no ku #4, 2017
Jury’s statement: For the quality of the composition, the image, the narrative value and the interesting relationship with the tradition of the JISEI NO KU.

Section: SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION | VIRTUAL ART
Prize: Euro 7.000,00

  Jean-Philippe Côté | Montréal, Canada 1974

Work: Yöti, The Algorithmic Portrait Artist, 2017
Jury’s statement: For the technical research that integrates the millenary tradition of the portrait with a deeply contemporary vision in relation to the new technologies that are taking hold in the world of contemporary art.

Section: VIDEO ART AND PERFORMANCE
Prize: Euro 7.000,00

Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi | Rome, Italy 1985 – Rome, Italy 1985

Work: Jardin / Arsenale, 2016-2019
Jury’s statement: The gestural score of Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi becomes the soundtrack of a garden that is there, in front of us, enfolding us and yet it is not there. The perception of time in the performance refers to the hic et nunc of nature, to a garden which, from a harmonious connection with nature, becomes another place, an anthropocentric garden, a nature that is getting out of hand.

Section: LAND ART AND URBAN ART
Prize: Euro 7.000,00

 Jad El Khoury | Beirut, Lebanon 1988

Work: Burj el Hawa – The Tower of Wind, 2018
Jury’s statement: The most important mission of contemporary art is to change the perspective of the mainstream. The Winner of Arte Laguna Prize for Urban and Land Art 2019 turns an entire abandoned building into a subtle choreographed urban object. The work addresses central issues of today but resists, weirdly and complex, open and beautiful.

Section: DESIGN
Prize: Euro 7.000,00 with the support of Antrax IT

Elena Colombo | Bologna, Italy 1994

Work: Inclusive Tea House, 2017
Jury’s statement: The winning project impressed the jury because it is a project for all that interprets at best the role of the contemporary designer committed to defining and promoting sustainable production and use models to also shape a new extended culture of the profession.