5th Premio Cairo
The editorial team selected 50 participants and the readers of Arte chose the twenty finalists from among them. There are 40 works on show.
Selected artists
Guests: Chiara Albertoni, Agostino Arrivabene, Alessandro Busci, Stefano Cagol, Andrea Chiesi, Roberto Coda Zabetta, Davide Coltro, Paolo Fiorentino, Marco Grassi, Vittorio Gui, Ali Hassoun, Giovanni Iudice, Sarah Ledda, Daniela Montanari, Roberto Morone, Fabrizio Musa, Alex Pinna, Filippo Robboni, Elisa Rossi, Luigi Russo
The Jury
The Jury is composed by: Daniela Clerici, Rosellina Archinto, Fabio Cavallucci, Massimiliano Gioni, Marco Pierini, Ludovico Pratesi, Carlo Fini Testoni, Stefano Zecchi.
The winner
Andrea Chiesi
oil on canvas, 140x200 cm.
Award-winning work
Andrea Chiesi composes an elegy of the contemporary landscape, laying bare, in livid and somber canvases, the lost soul of abandoned factories. Theater of workers' struggles and haunt of the punk culture from which the artist comes, these places are stripped of the superfluous, until they reveal a romantic and metaphysical essence. Tempo06 is the final act of a work that began on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2000, at 2:37:12 p.m., with a performance by the artist who illegally broke into a warehouse in Sesto San Giovanni to photograph it before its demolition. The pools of water to suggest underground worlds and the theory of poles driven into the ground like spears transform the steel and concrete skeleton into a fantastic architecture, worthy heir to the charm of Piranesi's designs (licia spagnesi).
Award citation
Architecture of an old shed lightened of the signs of abandonment to highlight its skeleton, in a neo-Piranesian vision.