Objectives of the Terna 02 Award

The Award’s principal objective is to support contemporary artists and art and contribute to a new virtuous relationship among businesses, the art world and public authorities through the interconnection between culture and economy.

The Award involves all of the contemporary art world and creates a circuit for promoting new talents and the role of artists as a development and search engine for new creativity. In addition to the participation of artists of all ages who work in Italy, the 2009 edition also includes the participation of Italian and foreign artists who work steadily in New York. The introduction of a new dedicated category “Connectivity New York” reflects Terna’s will to encourage the exchange of experiences and creativity with other countries while internationally promoting Italian contemporary art, thus enhancing one of our country’s aspects that has yet to be discovered.

The Theme

The theme the artists are invited to express themselves on is “Energy: Mankind= Future: Environment. The proportion for new aesthetics”, concepts that guide Terna in defining development strategies of its activities and aimed at creating an awareness among artists and the public regarding the new challenges posed by the future, topics of current interest and sustainability.

The Terna 02 online voting

All the artworks participating in the award categories can be voted not only by the technical jury and by the committee of gallery owners, but also by the public at www.premioterna.it .

The Award’s online portal intends to address in a direct and immediate way the entire community. The visitor can choose among the participating works based on the principle of only one choice and taking on an important and dynamic role, not limited to a mere observation, but with a global involvement and a greater interaction with contemporary art. The artwork that receives the widest number of votes will be awarded, published in the Catalogue and displayed at the Exhibit. The artworks can be voted during the period of time from 8:00 am on October 10, 2009 and 6:00 pm on October 20, 2009, expressing only one choice.

Voting will be anonymous.

The Awards

For the Italian session, the Award is divided into 3 categories (TERAWATT, GIGAWATT, MEGAWATT) and an ONLINE AWARD; for the New York session, it includes 1 category (CONNECTIVITY NEW YORK).

For each category, the works selected as winners will be assigned the following Awards:

TERAWATT Category

TERAWATT Prize: a prize for the value of 100,000.00 euros according to the following terms:
70.000,00 euros to be allocated for the social initiative stated in art.1.2;
30.000,00 euros to be allocated to the artist who, during the next edition of the Prize (2010) may contribute to the prize’s creativity through suggestions and ideas inspired by his own aesthetic and conceptual aspects. The contribution may regard a visual idea, an entire image or a group of images connected with the theme that the company will provide in advance to the artist.

GIGAWATT Category:

For the winner: an “Artist Residency Program” lasting 3 months in New York.
Second prize: a purchase bonus for the value of 4,000.00 euros.
Third prize: a purchase bonus for the value of 3,000.00 euros

MEGAWATT Category

For the winner: an “Artist Residency Program” lasting 3 months in New York.
Second prize: a purchase bonus for the value of 4,000.00 euros.
Third prize: a purchase bonus for the value of 3,000.00 euros

CONNECTIVITY NEW YORK Category

For the winner: an “Artist Residency Program” lasting 3 months in Rome, Italy .
Second prize: a purchase bonus for the value of 4.000,00 dollars
Third prize: a purchase bonus for the value of 3.000,00 dollars

ONLINE PRIZE Category

With the exception of the TERAWATT category, all the finalist artworks that will be competing from Italy will also be voted by the Committee of Gallery Owners that will assign a special award for each category.