A Chance to Win € 12,000 at the 2021 Carapelli for Arts Competition

Carapelli announced the third edition of Carapelli For Art competition, an award for visual art promoted by the historic Tuscan company Carapelli.

Theme:

"Sustainability: There are values that in a particular historical period become more than important: they become necessary. Sustainability is the model of development indicated as the solution now achievable since it is able to balance the growth of the current generation with that of future generations. There is a close proximity with a concept that runs through entire eras of human culture, namely harmony, as an agreement between equal and different elements from which a positive result derives. Art certainly has a central role in the construction of a sustainable and harmonious present: the artworks propose visions, meanings, realizations, behaviours, and responsibilities - from economy to environment, from work to social relations - fundamental for our, still new, twenty-first century."

Categories:

The "Academy" category is reserved for students regularly enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts. In the event of a win, the certification of regular registration to the Academy declared during the application phase will be required. The "Open" category is reserved for all the other artists.

There are two categories of prizes, for a total prize pool of € 12,000:

• Open Category: reserved for all professional artists. For this category, Carapelli Firenze S.p.A. will purchase two winning works worth € 5,000 each.
• Academy Category: reserved for students enrolled in the Academies of Fine Arts, for which two prizes are worth € 1,000 each.

• The "Carapelli for Art" competition is open to all professional visual artists operating in the various artistic fields and to students of the Academies of Fine Arts.
• Participants must indicate whether they intend to participate in the "Open" or "Academy" category and in this last case attach the registration declaration and the data of the belonging Academy of Fine Arts.
• Students enrolled in public academies and students enrolled in private academies can participate.
• Carapelli Firenze reserves the right to verify the actual enrolment in the Academy of Fine Arts, for the winners of this category.
• There are no restrictions regarding the type of artwork, nor regarding the size of the same.
• It will be possible to apply for works created with any technique and material and any type of expression will be admitted to the competition.

Selection Criteria:

The participating works will be selected by a jury made up of four expert critics and curators of contemporary art and a representative of Carapelli Firenze S.p.A. In assessing the candidates, both the formal and conceptual elements of the artwork presented, and the description provided by the artist will be taken into consideration.

About Carapelli:

Carapelli (Carapelli Firenze SpA) is an Italian food company, currently owned by Deoleo, S.A, based in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, which is a small town in the Metropolitan City of Florence, most famous for its extra virgin olive oil. The company was started as a home business in 1893 by Cesira and Costantino Carapelli. Other members of the Carapelli family joined the business and the company rapidly grew in size and popularity, to become the most modernised food company in Italy by the 1940s.

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