Entries for the sixth edition of the Fragellae – The Small Sculpture Award, organised by the Municipality of Ceprano (Fr) in collaboration with a team comprising Luca Grossi, Sara Ciuffetta, Nazareno De Santis (artists), Pierluigi Bove (architect and designer), and curated by Ilaria Monti, are open until 15 July 2021.
The competition, which is free to enter, is open to all national and international artists without age limits. The 15 finalist works will be selected by a jury composed of Maria Claudia Farina (curator and professor of sculpture at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin), Michela Becchis (curator and art critic) and Ilaria Mariotti (independent curator, professor of art history at the Accademia di Brera and director of the Centro attività espressive Villa Pacchiani, Pisa).
The Fregellae Prize was created with the aim of illuminating, through contemporary art, the historical reality of the ancient settlement of Fregellae. Situated in the Ceprano area, this city whose real boundaries are still not entirely certain, bears witness to a once flourishing civilisation, soon destroyed and rebuilt, which survives in the numerous archaeological remains – sculptures, ceramics, architectural fragments, votive offerings – found to this day and partly conserved at the Museo Archeologico di Fregellae.
The small format of the works on which this VI Edition of the Prize intends to focus recalls the imagery of the civilization of Fregellae and its archaeological heritage, but also the geographical, peripheral and provincial imagery of the municipality of Ceprano, inviting artists to rediscover small things as a field of imagination, experimentation and creation.
In this land of lower Lazio, far from large urban centres, the Small Sculpture of Fregellae prize promotes the encounter between art and history, between the remains of a fallen civilisation and the present. In this sense, the small dimensions also represent an opportunity to rethink the relationship between sculpture and space, and to rethink the work as a moment of recollection and collection of meanings.
The finalist works will be displayed in an exhibition that will be inaugurated on 4 September 2021, the date on which the first prize will be awarded to the winning work.
The exhibition will be held in the Medieval Tower of Ceprano, the only one of the three surviving towers that formed part of the ancient city walls.
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