Cominelli Foundation Award 2014

The Cominelli Foundation, together with agc, organises and promotes the Cominelli Awards. This year once again a section was dedicated to training in Universities, Institutes and Schools in the jewellery sector. In 2011 the Polytechnic of Milan, in 2012 the College of Art of Edinburgh, in 2013 the Tokyo University of Arts and Music.
The scope of this section is to present and confront different formative directions within the “jewellery” field, the different orientations, from design to artistic and handcraft training, getting the formative peculiarities of each reality to emerge.

This year, an exhibition will present the projects and prototypes of the Jewellery and Metalsmithing Departments at the Pietro Selvatico Art Institute in Padua.


About the Fondation

The Fondazione Cominelli, in carrying out its cultural activities has now come up with an articulated project where it becomes a reference point for the applied arts, not only for exhibitions, but also as a place where applied art “is done”; it does this by organising workshops and conferences on the subject; of this complex panorama it has chosen to present and delve into some sectors only: photography, ceramics and jewellery.

The Fondazione Cominelli is sided by agc which organises and promotes the event. Agc has already promoted other projects on the national territory. Agc, (Contemporary Jewellery Association) founded in June 2004, has, among its statutory objectives, that of drawing attention to the value of the contemporary jewellery culture and spreading it. Contemporary jewellery today represents a sector of advanced research and experimentation of new expressive languages as well as exploiting the personal ornament concept. In close contact with the international community, the association follows up a series of initiatives aimed at promoting a constructive and synergistic confrontation with other artistic and productive realities.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the award:

Selection:
Prof. Ramon Puig Cuyas will select 40 participants.
The selection will adopt assessment criteria that will take into consideration the technical/artistic quality, originality and contemporaneity, by accurately assessing, during the registration phase, the photographs of the pieces to be presented.
Agc will have no decisional power, nor will it have any say regarding the applications for participation, due to the fact that the jury is external to the association.
The agc will have no decisional power, nor will it have any say regarding the applications for participation, the jury coming from outside the association.

The Jury:
Michele Cassarino, Chairman Cominelli Foundation
Ramon Puig Cuyas Prof. Escola Massana
Fausto Maria Franchi goldsmith
Rita Marcangelo curator Permanent Collection Cominelli Foundation A member Cominelli Foundation

The Award:
The first prize will be awarded to the participant showing the qualities or abilities that merit special recognition, the second prize to the artist with the most innovative technique and then come the third prize and three special mentions.

Selected artists:
Alejandra Solar, Alja Neuner, Babette Von Dohnanyi, Barbara Uderzo, Claire Lavendhomme, Claude Schmitz, Diana Dudek, Fabiana Gadano, Farrah-Al Dujaili, Flora Vagi, Francine Schloeth, Fumiki Taguchi, Gabi Veit, Hana Choi, Heidemarie Herb, Heiko Nakahara, Isabell Schaupp, Jessica Turrell, Judy McCaig, Karen Vanmol, Karin Roy Andersson, Marco Minelli, Marianne Schliwinski, Melissa Cameron, Michael Berger, Niki Stylianou, Nicole Taubinger, Silke Trekel, Sungho Cho, Trinidad Contreras, Ulrike-Kleine Behnke, Vivi Touloumidi, Yong Joo Kim, Yu Hiraishi

The first prize will be awarded to one of the participants selected for the “Premio Fondazione Cominelli” exhibition on contemporaneity in the jewellery research world.

The competition is open to artists from all over the world.

Target:
The exhibition was conceived as an opportunity for goldsmith artists and designers to show their work and contribute to further spreading the knowledge of contemporary jewellery. There is no set limit to the materials they use, the measurements must not, however, exceed 15x15 cm and diameter 20 cm max.

Registration:
Registration for selection must be submitted no later than 31th March 2014 and is subject to applications being sent to: premiocominelli@agc-it.org and to the payment, via banker’s draft, of the fee of € 35.00
or by PayPal of the fee of € 40.00

The application material must be sent no later than 31st March 2013

The material shall consist of a CD with two folders
- ONE with 5/8 LOW resolution 72dpi digital pictures
- ONE with 5/8 HIGH resolution 300dpi digital pictures of the artist’s own work produced during the last two years
- A brief description of the concept of the artist’s work and an updated curriculum vitae, all in English and Italian. For foreign participants: in English language only.

In this specific case the pictures must have the following characteristics:
Resolution: one folder in 72 dpi and one folder in 300 dpi
Format: .jpg
Dimensions: smallest side = 15 cm.
Captions: year produced, materials used, title.

The images should have a neutral background preferably white.

TEXTS AND CVs SHALL BE IN WORD FILES, NOT IN PDF

- The CD with the information must be sent by post to:
- Maria Rosa Franzin c/o Istituto d’Arte/Liceo Artistico Pietro Selvatico,
Largo Meneghetti 1 35121 Padova, Italy

- The material shall also contain personal details such as: surname and name of artist, place and date of birth, phone, fax, e-mail address, website/blog.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
Quality, innovation and artistic research will be fundamental selection criteria.
The information material sent with the application for participating in the selection will not be returned and will become part of agc records.

Prof. Ramon Puig Cuyas will select 40 participants.

The participants will be informed about the outcome of the selection via e-mail
by 30th April 2013
On that same date, the participation procedures, number of pieces to exhibit, date of shipment, etc. will also be communicated.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
Bank transfer info: payment of registration fee
agc, c/o UNICREDIT BANCA, agenzia di Cremona, piazza Roma.

Bank Coordinates:
COUNTRY: IT
CIN: EU 28
ABI: 02008
CAB:11400
C/C-IBAN: 000040371440
IBAN CODE: IT28 P0200811 4000 00040371440
BIC SWIFT CODE: UNCRITM1320
Referred to: ASSOCIAZIONE GIOIELLO CONTEMPORANEO
Please specify in reason for payment: participation to Premio Fondazione Cominelli