 | Pierluigi Febbraio’s “Mania 186” won the 3 International Art Prize Arte Laguna |
The skill of his gesture, associated to a technical and formal originality, suitable to testify the typical weakness of contemporary man.”(Viviana Siviero, President of the Jury – painting section).On 18th October Febbraio was rewarded with a 4.500 euro cheque at Brolo Centro d'Arte e Cultura in Mogliano Veneto (Treviso) in occasion of the opening of the collective exposition of the 31 most suggestive art pieces that entered the contest.
The work belongs to the project “Archivio delle esistenze” (trad. “Archive of existences”), an archive of images in where every man represent a mania and each mania is identified by a number. The artist represents some sort of icons of “normal” persons, who live in a precarious mental equilibrium. He uses the childish drawing as a primordial track of the existence of every man, that in part reveals the origin of an uneasiness. The works puts itself without any psychoanalytic pretention as a “pretence” where the boundary between interior and exterior vanishes until the integration.
“Mania 186” will be exposed until 2nd November at the collective of the finalist artists, cured by Viviana Siviero (President of the Jury, painting section). The exhibition reproduces a cross section of the evolution of painting. Many different branches are purposed or simply alluded: from experimentation next to realism up till realizations at the limit of technique, where any definition is useless: visitors can appreciate materic, graphic, conceptual experimentations where astonishment and provocation are pursued.
 | Nebojša Despotović (Serbia) Great Mention of the President of the Giury at the best Foreign Artist |
 | Benny Katz (Brazil) Special Prize Giudecca 795 Art Gallery - Venice |
 | James H. King (México)* Special Prize Giudecca 795 Art Gallery - Venice |
 | Luca Bidoli (Italy) Special Prize L'Occhio Art Gallery - Venice |
 | Marta Bettega (Italy) Special Prize Perelà Art Gallery - Venice |
 | Stefano Bolcato Special Prize ScalaMata Art Gallery - Venice |
 | Iacopo Raugei (Italy) Special Prize Wannabee Gallery - Milan |
 | Michela Pedron (Italy) Special Prize Inside Art |
 | Alexandre Eudier (France) Special Prize Radio Imago |
 | Cholla Chambers - Horse (Usa) Honor Mention of the Giury |
Here the artists: Manuel Baldini, Alberto Barazzutti, Luca Bidoli, Marta Bettega, Stefano Bolcato, Chambers Cholla, Davide Comandè, Oscar Colombo, Nebojsa Despotović, Giuseppe Donnaloia, Giuseppe, Alexandre Eudier, Fidia Falaschetti, Damiano Fasso, Pierluigi Febbraio, Leslie Jenkins, Benny KatzJames H. King, Ilaria Margotti, Marco Marini, Ito Masaki, Alessandro Mazzoni Costantin Migliorini, Carmelo Nicotra, Michela Pedron, Diego Pomarico, Iacopo Raugei, Vanco Rebac Vanco, Thomas Riess, Peter Senoner, Cristina Stifanic, Angelo Volpe.
A particular mention is to be given to the decision of the Jury to expose Cholla’s watercolor “The Big Red Buck”, next to finalist artworks. Cholla’s work, even if excluded by any Prize, received a special mention of the Jury as a form of provocation, aimed to give a particular attention, not controversial, to the ironic evolution of the myth of art in a epoch of technical reproducibility.
