El colectivo colombiano Helena Producciones, recibe premio de la Fundación Zegna y la Fundacion Pistoletto Cittadellarte
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El colectivo colombiano Helena Producciones, recibe importante premio de la Fundación Zegna y la Fundacion Pistoletto Cittadellarte
Este 11 de Enero de 2012, en la Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Serpentine, ubicada en Hyde Park en el corazón de Londres, Helena Producciones en ceremonia de premiación recibirá, elVisible Award en su primera edición de parte de las Fundaciónes italianas, Zegna y Pistoletto Cittadellarte. El 8 Festival de Performance de Cali fue escogido entre aproximadamente sesenta proyectos , como único ganador por un jurado que fue integrado por: Ute Meta Bauer, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Okwui Enwezor, Michelangelo Pistoletto por la Fundacion Pistoletto Cittadellarte y Andrea Zegna en representación de la Fundacion Zegna.
Helena Producciones es un colectivo de artistas visuales radicado en Cali y conformado actualmente por Wilson Díaz, Claudia Patricia Sarria-Macías, Ana María Millán, Andres Sandoval Alba y Gustavo Racines, organizadores del Festival de Performance de Cali y de otros proyectos que adelanta este colectivo (www.helenaproducciones.org).
El premio hará posible la realización de la octava edición del Festival de Performance de Cali, por lo que en esta ocasión, será curado por Helena Producciones con la asesoría curatorial de Matteo Lucchetti y Judith Wielander. Y sera producido por Cittadellarte - Fondazione Zegna. Desde ya el evento se prepara para ser realizado en el segundo semestre de 2012.
Con este premio se busca señalar practicas artisticas que operan en nombre de una transformación social responsable, destacando las luchas por el poder social como indicadores fundamentales para el desarrollo de la sociedad, abriendo diálogos sobre el sistema del arte, la dinámica institucional y las complejas conexiones entre los sistemas de poder.
Las actividades y proyectos de Helena Producciones se destacan por su interes hacia la participación, intercambio y empoderamiento de comunidades urbanas o rurales, haciendo uso del conocimiento y la producción artística de diversas formas y como una fuerza activa, critica y radical en la sociedad contemporánea. Proponiendo modelos sostenibles y mas justos en lo economico, social, ecologico y ambiental.
Aquí presentamos algunos de los argumentos del jurado en relación a este premio:
La realización de un festival, en el contexto específico de Cali, en Colombia, concebido y dirigido por los artistas, es un proyecto construido sobre un potencial transformador fuerte y preciso,que basa su acción en una relación articulada con la sociedad civil de una comunidad local.
Las actividades fomentarán una relación sostenible entre las prácticas artísticas internacionales, necesidades locales y las demandas del público, en relación al espíritu de producción colectiva de conocimiento que el formato del festival puede facilitar.
El Festival de Performance se lee como un laboratorio a largo plazo para experimentar una diversidad de modelos de la imaginación cívica, donde el arte es capaz de potenciar la vida cotidiana.
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The Serpentine Gallery awarded Colombian collective Helena Producciones its new art prize, Visible 2011, which is worth approximately $32,000, in an awards ceremony hosted last week, reports Ermanno Rivetti of the Art Newspaper. The prize was created by Italian artist and art activist Michelangelo Pistoletto, in collaboration with the Fondazione Zegna. Visible is “dedicated to artists and collectives who aim to bring about responsible social change through their artistic practices” and “set firmly against the idea of art for art’s sake.”
Rivetti notes that the jury was an “all-star lineup” including Michelangelo Pistoletto himself; Ute Meta Bauer, the associate professor and director of the visual arts program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Hans Ulrich Obrist, the director of international projects at the Serpentine Gallery, Okwui Enwezor; the director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich; and Andrea Zegna, the cofounder of the Fondazione Zegna.
“We were especially interested in projects with longevity and with specific social goals,” said Obrist. “We live in tumultuous times and have seen many examples of artists with a strong civic imagination at work in the recent political and social uprisings around the world.”
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New prize for art that creates social change
Pistoletto and Zegna foundations present €25,000 award at Serpentine Gallery
By Ermanno Rivetti. Web only
Published online: 12 January 2012
Michelangelo Pistoletto with one of the winners of the first Visible prize, Ana María Millán (of the collective Helena Producciones), and co-organisers Andrea and Anna ZegnaThe Serpentine Gallery hosted an awards show Wednesday night for a new art prize, Visible 2011. The prize, curated by Matteo Luchetti and Judith Wielander, was conceived by the Italian artist and art activist Michelangelo Pistoletto, in collaboration with the Fondazione Zegna. A partnership with the Serpentine was forged during Pistoletto’s 2011 installation The Mirror of Judgement.
Set firmly against the idea of art for art’s sake, the prize is dedicated to artists and collectives who aim to bring about responsible social change through their artistic practices. This idea is rooted in the mission behind Pistoletto’s foundation, that art should not be self-referential.
Four final candidates were chosen from a total of 27 international submissions. The jury assembled for the occasion was an all-star line-up: Michelangelo Pistoletto himself; Ute Meta Bauer, the associate professor and director of the visual arts programme at MIT; Hans-Ulrich Obrist, the director of international projects at the Serpentine Gallery; Okwui Enwezor, the artistic director at the Haus der Kunst, Munich; and Andrea Zegna, the co-founder of the Fondazione Zegna.
In a unanimous decision, the winner of the €25,000 prize was the Colombian collective Helena Producciones, with their submission “8 Festival de la Performance di Cali”. Based in Cali, Colombia, the festival’s influence extends over many parts of the country, acting as a free educational platform and as a vehicle for engaged artistic, social, political and economic debate. The scope and ambition of the project, which is now approaching its eighth edition, secured its place as the winner in the eyes of the judges.
“We were especially interested in projects with longevity and with specific social goals,” says Hans-Ulrich Obrist. “We live in tumultuous times, and we have seen many examples of artists with a strong civic imagination at work in the recent political and social uprisings around the world.”
Even though the prize is still in its infancy, there are already high hopes for the future, especially its international reach. “We presented the award in London to create international awareness, but if you map the competition entries you realise they came from all kinds of social contexts, from Eastern Europe to Asia and Latin America,” says Obrist. “This reflects the growing polyphony of the art world. Often the best entries came from where we least expected.”
Anna Zegna, the co-founder of the Fondazione Zegna, hopes that “Visible can go on to inspire other artists around the world to develop socially engaged projects and that we can continue to benefit from working with important institutions such as the Serpentine Gallery.” So far, there are no indications as to where the ceremony will be held next year.
