The countdown has begun for the debut of the 16 winners of the Terna Prize 01 at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, next June 25th. Ready for the new challenge, enthusiastic about their experiences following their being awarded, Davide Eron Salvadei, Gabriele Giugni and Davide Bertocchi, talk of their latest projects.
“My solo exhibit is presently under way at the Arte Due Gallery in Milan entitled ‘Never say never’ – explains Davide Eron Salvadei, awarded for the artwork "Untitled" -where about fifteen of the artworks from the series ‘Mindscape” and various videos filmed for a parallel project aimed at documenting the work in progress of each artwork are being exhibited. Shortly after returning from New York, I will also display some of my artworks in Berlin – continued the talented graffiti artist with a background rooted in street-art such as Sharp, Mode2, Delta, Banksy and others. During this period, I am also involved in planning an artwork for the interior and the vault of a church commissioned by an important architectural studio in Rimini”.
This is also a very fruitful period for Gabriele Giugni, awarded in the Terna Prize’s 2008 edition for the light box “Kumbh-mela night”. “ I just finished a solo exhibit at the Galleria dell'Orologio, in Rome, entitled ‘War_zone’, a shooting of impenetrable intimacy, almost imprinting the trace of existential analysis into matter that is only apparently inert, like the one used for toy soldiers. I am also starting a project with a New York artist in September which will be a collaboration for an artistic mapping of the Mediterranean coasts– explains enthusiastically the world traveller photographer – following Odysseus’s old route. I will take the underwater pictures and then will create light box installations that describe the submerged coast. I am also preparing an exhibit in Berlin at the Artmbassy Gallery that will follow the preceding one held in Rome by Pino Casagrande entitled ‘Evasioni’.
A golden moment also for Davide Bertocchi, who has been extremely busy in the past 3 months. “In April I presented a new project specifically created for the Baseitaly venue in Florence entitled ‘Divide Bertocchi’ that demonstrates from the very beginning my projects, not only physical entropy, but also of objects, also existential. I also presented a personal reflection at the N.O.GALLERY in Milan entitled ‘Petaflops’ – commented the artist who was awarded for “Endless"-, the story of a cosmogony of little big flops, accompanied by an impressive conversation with Raimundas Malasauskas. In September I will be participating in a collective exhibit “Art-O-Rama” at the Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseilles.”
2009-06-15
