contemporary art contest
concorso internazionale
d'arte contemporanea
the dam before the tragedy - archive photo (courtesy fondazione vajont)
On Thursday, June the 2nd, at 3 PM, inside the Nuovo Spazio di Casso, Two Calls for Vajont, the International Contemporary Art Contest that Dolomiti Contemporanee launched in June 2014, is going to be reintroduced.
A few months after the proclamation of the Contest’s results, with the selection of the winners, the project, thus, begins again.
We’d like to remind that the Contest is going to lead to the realization of two pieces of public art, which are going to be installed on two locations that are symbols of the tragedy of October the 9th 1963: the Vajont Dam and the southern façade of the former elementary school of Casso, transformed into the Nuovo Spazio di Casso in 2012, handled by Dolomiti Contemporanee.
The Contest’s winning projects are 90° CW by Andrea Nacciarritti, for A Call for a Line, and remrite/rewrite by Dimitri Giannina, for A Call for a Wall.
On Thursday, June the 2nd, we will therefore take stock of the Contest’s state, and of the work phases that are to come, which will lead to the opening of new “construction sites”.
We will then proceed to the award ceremony for the four artists selected for the Special DC/Acqua Dolomia Prize, that is so say Monica Biancardi with Ritratti and Daniela Di Maro with Riflessione estatica, joint first-place holders for the Special Prize Wall, as well as the couple Mahatsanga Le Dantec/Micol Grazioli, winners of the Special Prize Line with Tra le linee.
We’d like to remind that the Special DC/Acqua Dolomia Prize consists of 2000 euros, made available by our main partner Acqua Dolomia, which will be shared among the winners.
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Giovedì 2 giugno, alle ore 15.00, presso il Nuovo Spazio di Casso, si rilancia Two Calls for Vajont, il Concorso Internazionale d’arte Contemporanea che Dolomiti Contemporanee ha avviato nel giugno 2014.
A distanza di alcuni mesi dalla promulgazione degli esiti del Concorso, con la determinazione dei vincitori, il progetto dunque riparte.
Ricordiamo che il Concorso dovrà condurre alla realizzazione di due opere d’arte pubblica, che verranno installate su due luoghi-simbolo della tragedia del 9 ottobre 1963: la Diga del Vajont e la facciata meridionale dell’ex scuola elementare di Casso, dal 2012 trasformata nel Nuovo Spazio di Casso, gestito da Dolomiti Contemporanee.
I due progetti risultati vincitori del Concorso sono 90° CW di Andrea Nacciarritti, per la Call for a Line, e remrite/rewrite di Dimitri Giannina, per la Call for a Wall.
Giovedì 2 giugno, si farà dunque il punto sullo stato del Concorso, e sulle prossime fasi del lavoro, che condurranno all’apertura dei cantieri.
Si procederà inoltre alle premiazioni dei quattro artisti risultati vincitori del Premio Speciale DC/Acqua Dolomia, ovvero Monica Biancardi con Ritratti e Daniela Di Maro con Riflessione estatica, vincitrici ex eaequo del Premio speciale Wall, e della coppia Mahatsanga Le Dantec/Micol Grazioli, vincitori con Tra le linee del Premio speciale Line.
Ricordiamo che il Premio Speciale DC/Acqua Dolomia consiste in 2.000 euro, messi a disposizione dal main partner Acqua Dolomia, e che saranno suddivisi tra i vincitori.
14/07/2015
On 18th July, at 5 pm at the Nuovo Spazio di Casso, the results of Twocalls will be presented to the public.
During the event there will also be the opening of twocalls, la forma delle idee (twocalls, the shape of ideas, in English), where a selection of the finalist projects will be exhibited.
19/05/2015
The Twocalls Contest entered its second phase. Lots of projects have been submitted in the latest days of the first phase, kept the Evaluation Committee busy longer than expected.
The Jury will nominate the winners in June.
Here a video, realized with the event Vajont 2015 – Progetti, held on 2 May in Casso, in which some members of the Jury, participants, inhabitants of the Vajont area, intertwine their opinions and ideas on the meaning of Twocalls regarding the history of Vajont and of its territory.
12/05/2015
On April the 30th the first phase of the International Artistic Contest Two Calls for Vajont, launched in June 2014 by Dolomiti Contemporanee drew to a close.
The Contest was conceived as an open platform of reflection on the territory of the Vajont and on its terrible history (October the 9th 1963), and as an opportunity to rethink, through the production of a series of renovating images, the landscape and some of the main symbols of that history today, transforming them from still objects-memories of the tragedy into active and shared “construction sites” of the mind and spirit.
