Immagini delle opere partecipanti al Concorso PREMIO MATRES FESTIVAL 2024 – PRIMITIVISM
Il PRIMITIVISMO è il tema proposto per la mostra concorso e riporta all’esigenza di un ritorno alle origini, dove la ricerca della vera dimensione dell’essere umano e della società prende il via dal richiamo all’esperienza primordiale e arcaica, quale motivo di ispirazione culturale ed estetica. Un ritorno al passato dove è la stessa ”Matres“ a guidare lo spirito di unione delle tante contaminazioni culturali ed ideologiche sempre più presenti nel nostro contemporaneo, nel segno dell’inclusione e della positiva integrazione.
Per la VII edizione del Festival è stata allestita la Mostra Collettiva Premio Matres 2024 – TERRA E FUOCO: IL PRIMITIVISMO ALLA LUCE DELL’ARTE CERAMICA –
La Commissione giudicatrice presieduta da Elena Agosti, altresì composta da Nurye Donatoni, Maria Grazia Gargiulo, Surisday Reyes Martinez e Stefania Spanedda, ha assegnato i seguenti premi:
1st PRIZE to Angela Maria Johanna Wagner - Germany, with the work Rhinozerus - Fragment, for the expressive power conveyed by the animal symbolizing the primordial, also communicated through the reference to cave graffiti, the color choices and the self-made raw material with silicates. The wood-firing technique with organic material is appreciable.
Her work deals with the issue of vulnerability and denounces the danger of extinction of some animal species, contrary to our duty to ensure biodiversity on Earth for future generations.
2° PREMIO a Ljubica Lovrencic – Croazia, with the work Food & Ceramics / Ancient harmony, for the interpretation of the theme and the execution of the pit-baked pieces.
The art of food preparation and the art of making ceramic vessels have helped nourish the soul and body in a harmonious interaction that is lost in time. The inclusion of iron elements promotes functionality and gives the work an aesthetic attributable to the archaic as well as modern design.
3rd PRIZE to Teresa Sánchez Bravo - Cuba, with the work Némesis for the originality with which the artist was able to deal with the subject matter on a conceptual and technical level. The work of red clay, engobes and glazes mixes in its morphology the elements of many of the traditional functions of the ceramic material. It encapsulates utilitarianism in the evocation of pottery with the salient motifs of ceramic vessels and fragments "found" in archaeological excavations as an inseparable part of the formless mass. It is a form that touches the boundaries between the sculptural and the functional vessel given its organic structure.
Premio primo segnalazione to Rossella Schiavini – Italia -con l’opera Matres, a sculptural triad with rounded volumes that recall the primitive canons of the fecund feminine. Interesting is the sinuous alternation of concave and convex, of fissures and ribs, suggesting the forms of the feminine.
Sono inoltre segnalati i lavori di:
Karina Garrett – Argentina – con l’opera Quilla per il grande valore culturale ed etnografico del suo lavoro;
Maria Valerio – Italia – con l’opera The echo of the earth per l’aspetto giocoso ed interattivo della sua opera dal significato profondo;
Francesca Prinzi – Italia – con l’opera All one before creation for his reinterpretation of the theme of death and study of primitive graffiti.
ROBERTA D'AQUINO AND CRISTINA BERNARDI
Matres Prize 2024 Group Exhibition - EARTH AND FIRE: PRIMITIVISM IN THE LIGHT OF CERAMIC ART -
Matres International Festival of Women's Ceramics 7th edition - San Giovanni Monumental Complex - Cava de' Tirreni (SA) August 21- 25, 2024
Catalog of works on display and references to individual participating artists edited by Miriam Gipponi and Amalia Ferrigno.
Photo credit by Paolo Celentano and photo contributions by Giovanna D'Ausilio, Maria Valerio, Lucia Vecchiarelli, Nicola Amato and Matteo Fasano.
Published December 31, 2024