Cominelli Foundation Award 2011

About Fondazione Cominelli Award
In the extraordinary setting of Lake Garda with its colours and lights, among the moraine hills that stretch from the Gulf of Salò and the Gulf of Manerba, at Cisano di San Felice we find the Fondazione Cominelli.

The splendid building, built in the XVII century by the Cominelli family, overlooks the Gulf of Salò, houses the Foundation. 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.

Here, in this setting, will be held the second edition of the “Premio Fondazione Cominelli”. This year this manifestation will be sided by the start of a new section dedicated to training in the University, Institutes and Schools in this sector. The scope of this section is to present and confront different formative directions within the “jewellery” ambit, the different orientations, from design to artistic and handcraft training, getting the formative peculiarities of each reality to emerge.

An exhibition will present the projects and prototypes produced by 40 students of the Specialization Course in Jewellery Design of the Faculty of Design of the “Politecnico of Milan”, run by the architect Alba Cappellieri, director of the Course.

With the second edition of the Fondazione Cominelli Award for Contemporary Jewellery 2011 there will also be the inauguration of the Permanent Collection of Contemporary Jewellery; each edition will enrich the Collection with new works, some by the competition participants and others by artists selected for this year 2011 by the historian and jewellery critic, Bianca Cappello. The permanent Collection will become an important document of the Fondazione Cominelli, an occasion for a visit by jewellery lovers and those of the trade.

Conditions

Registration and participation

The competition is open to all Italian and foreign artists. There is no set limit to the materials they use, the measurements must not, however, exceed 15x15 cm and diameter 25 cm max.

Registration for selection must be done by, and not later than, the 5th June 2011, and is subject to applications being sent to: rosa.art@alice.it and to the payment, via banker’s draft, of the fee of € 35.00

The material must be sent not later than the 5th June 2011
This material will consist in a CD with N°5 to 8 high resolution digital images of the artist’s own work produced in the last two years, and a brief description of the concept of own work and an updated curriculum vitae, all in Italian and English. For foreign participants: only in the English language.

In this specific case the pictures must have the following characteristics:
Resolution: 300 dpi (minimum).
Format: .tiff o jpg.
Dimensions: smallest side = 15 cm.
Captions: year produced, materials used, title.
The Images should have a neutral background preferably white.

Please send text as word files, not pdf

The material must be posted to:
- Maria Rosa Franzin c/o Istituto d’Arte Pietro Selvatico, Largo Meneghetti 1 35121 Padova, Italy
- The material must also contain: 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 and material sent with the application for participating in the selection will not be returned, but will become part of the agc records.

Selection
- The selection by the Chairman of the Jury, Ms. Graziella Folchini Grassetto will be held by the 18th June 2011
- The participants will be informed of the outcome of the selection via email by the 20th June 2011
- on that same date, the modalities for participating, the number of pieces to exhibit, date of shipment, etc. will also be communicated.

- For those participants selected that come from outside Europe shipping including insurance in both directions will be at their expense (shipping expenses charged to the receiver).