7th Premio Cairo

A tenacious attachment to the image despite the great variety of languages. A strong emotional attachment to the subject. A conscious, at times ironic and disenchanted confrontation with tradition. An exercised gaze on the masters of every era. And an aptitude for experimental research, with the occasional foray into the conceptual.

For the seventh Cairo Prize twenty artists return to challenge each other on the terrain of figuration, in all its declinations. With a return to the origins of the prize, the survey of the contemporary languages of painting, photography and sculpture was carried out by the editorial staff of Arte. A faithful mirror of the work in progress from one end of the Peninsula to the other, the exhibition offers precious and convincing testimony of the artists' relationship with reality, through forty works ranging from portraits to still life to landscapes, with a wealth of techniques ranging from the most recent to ancient ones, bent to new requirements.