FiloRosso Competition 2010

There is always an invisible thread that binds our done in continuous succession of days, actions as our desires. A thin plot unites people to places, feelings to memories, desires to hopes. How much of this invisibile is expressed, content, expressed, concentrated in the objects we call to live our lives. An object sought, found, wanted is familiar, speaks of us, keeps better memory moments, the cradle in the affected distant memory, expresses for forms and colors preferences and fantasies. And what better subject of a gem in itself inherently leads this important set of messages, this code of values, this secret legacy that we unwittingly resembles?

A jewel speaks of us and belongs to us. Don’t define it accessory but complement ornament, symbol, emblem of beauty, faith, time, love, death and if you want vanity, the infinite vanity of evrything in the seventeenth century Adriaen van Utrecht made with the luminescent transparency a string of pearls mollemente lying between cut flowers and a skull warner.

FiloRosso wants to make manifest in a subtle interplay of subtle indications that bond that made explicit by the same materiality of jewellery, made using the fabric, expresses the value of continuity and belonging that keeps the jewel in its essence.

FiloRosso, playful transliteration of invariable French phrase fil rouge, took this continuity in its broadest sense, as a basic element of his own identity as presenting a double contest aimed at artists already well established and in parallel with young talent, involving artists of different realities and cultures, eager to act as appointment biennial contemporary jewel. The same prize, a simple wire red sign of unity and belonging, dedicated to a young artist will be transposed to every edition by a winner to perpetuating one that wants to begin to be a tradition in the world of gold and its contemporaneity allowing us to recognize in time the new row behind to the intimate importance that every jewel brings to our life.

- Isabella Bembo

Target:
FiloRosso competition is open to artists, designers and goldsmiths. 


Works:
All entries submitted must include fabric or eventually be made out of fabric. 
Competitors will be required to submit: 
1 or 2 work belonging to any of the following: necklaces (length at pleasure), rings, bracelets, ear-rings, pendants, brooches. 
Competitors will be allowed to use any kind of technique and material but they will be bound to include fabrics both in the design and in the final production of their entry. 
Entries not containing fabrics will not be judged. 
The association reserves the right to publish texts, images, musical or video-recording for promotional purposes.

Entry procedure:

All entry forms, to be submitted within 25th May 2010. 
Applications will be accepted until fabric is in stock. 
On the entry form applicants are required to state their preference order relating to the fabrics to be used (3 at least). 
As for the allocation of fabrics, early applications will be given priority of choice. 
Fabric samples size will approximately be: 25 x 50 cm for the creation of rings, brooches, ear-rings, pendants, bracelets. 50x 100 
cm for the creation of necklaces. 
The applicant can choose fabric on Facebook: FiloRosso profile

Fabrics will be sent by Filorosso organizers to the applicants.
We accept jewelry made from fabric of the artist.

Presentation of entries
In order to participate in the competition it is necessary to submit:

1. curriculum vitae 

2. personal data processing form as per the Italian Data Protection Code (Legge 675/96) 
3. project tables in black and white and/or in colours
4. maximum 10 line-description of the work submitted’ - title, materials ad special techniques 
used, dimensions
5. jewels;
6. photos of jewels

ll entries and CDs will have to be clearly labelled with the author personal data: name and surname, date and place of birth, telephone and fax number, email address, web site, name of the institution or association the author belongs to, work dimensions, materials ad special techniques used, title.

Entries sent by post will have to be set on a rigid support for protection (i.e. not to be bent). It is advisable to write on the parcel: photos do not bend. 
Projects and CDs o DVDs must be sent not later then the 2th June 2010 to:

Laboratorio STAGNI-NEW SPACE FOR GOLDSMITH’S ART
via degli Artisti 9/b
34121 Trieste, Italy

Upon receipt material on CD will be available on Facebook: FiloRosso profile


Not later than 3th June 2010 the Jury  will select the 20 finalists who will immediately be sent a mail with a written communication endorsed by Filorosso organization.