The artworks to be displayed have been drawn from the entries of 705 Artists from Celeste.Prize, and its Italian arm, Premio.Celeste.

Now the commission of judges comprising Mark Gisbourne, Adrienne Goehler, Victoria Lu, has whittled this number down to those 10 which will form part of the ‘dependtendency’ Venice 2009 exhibition.

Four of the 10 winners are Italian.

Another 10 artists works have also be selected to be featured in a special ‘dependtendency‘ exhibition catalogue.

The artists whose work will be displayed on the Isola della Certosa are:

1. Erdogan Bulut,
2. Massimo Cristaldi,
3. Claudia Gambadoro,
4. Giuseppe Gonella,
5. Hektor Mamet,
6. Seung Hee Kang,
7. Peter Monkman,
8. Sara Rossi,
9. Ira Schneider,
10. Yea Jin Song

Of the above ten winners, four are Italian artists – Massimo Cristaldi, Claudia Gambadoro, Giuseppe Gonella, and Sara Rossi.

Details and notes, plus links to the works by the Italian artists, follow.

Claudia Gambadoro

This is Catania artist Claudia Gambadoro’s winning entry:

Notes on artwork: Drawing as a form of conquest…
A childhood game or the building of a whole reality.
Balance/order soon becomes chaos.
Every sign leaves a trace,
Accumulation, the sum total, excess impending,
The environment is saturated by deafening noise
That doesn’t leave room for a new reality.

BOX from claugam on Vimeo.

Massimo Cristaldi

Catania photogragher Massimo Cristaldi’s winning entry:

Notes on artwork:
Ground Zero. A thought on the consequences of a terrorist act that made all of us more aware of the interconnections between East and West of the World.

Giuseppe Gonella

Venetian artist Giuseppe Gonella’s winning entry – Installation, Fantasy / Visionary.  To see the artwork, please click on the link below.

Notes on artwork: Yesterday with tomorrow, there are around 1600 drawings.

A cube of variable dimensions filled with signs.  A cube of infinite traces designed to comprehend and follow an account comprising of memories, forms, and objects.  These traces are formed from everyday waste, from the uncertainly of memory and of the individual.  Traces which are drawings employing various techniques, with waste used as fragments that once combined create a story, a diary, a poetic reminder which I hope, as far as is possible, gives the viewer a dimension of intimacy which may for part of the essence of anyone.

Translated by me, Alex Roe, because there was no translation on the English Celeste.Prize site.

Sara Rossi

Perugia artist Sara Rossi’s winning entry.

Notes on artwork: Serie M 01
Walking around in streets of New York in 2006, I started taking pictures.
This was the beginning of “Meeting People”, a journey of encounters between the faces hidden behind the doorbells and those observing them.

The heart of the project is created by collage creations and acrylic painting on canvas on which the pictures are printed.
The wide black surfaces are loaded with strength, also thanks to the collage creations which give thickness to the subject.
The silver assumes the symbolic character representing the composition’s fulcrum.

The Other Winning Entries

The other winning entries can be seen here:  ‘dependtendency‘ Venice 2009

Works Featured in the dependtendency Catalogue

To see the works which will be featured in the event catalogue:  Works in Catalogue

Remember that the ‘dependtendency’ exhibition is to be held on Venice’s Island of Certosa from the 4th to the 7th, June 2009.

An Example of the work of Gaetano Fiore

Gaetano Fiore’s distinctive minimalist style which involves combining abstract and natural forms facilitates the creation of images which are striking in both their simplicity and their employment of a mix of geometric and fluid shapes. His images are also characterised by the use of what at first glance appear to be striking combinations of dominant colours.

In actual fact, however, although the colours and shades of colour he uses are indeed bold, the combinations employed always manage to compliment each other, resulting in visually appetising imagery.

Fiore’s talents were first recognised in 1986 by the Neapolitan art critic Luigi Eboli.  Soon after Fiore held his first exhibition at the Galleria Salammbo in Paris.

Thanks in great part to the efforts and encouragement of his mother-in-law, U. Reiger, Fiore’s work has been widely exhibited in Germany.  As a result of these exhibitions, Fiore has been brought into contact with a number of well known German artists and galleries.

A visit paid by Fiore to Salvatore Emblema’s museum-atelier in 1997 was to have a radical and lasting impact on the creative direction taken by Fiore’s future work.

Interestingly enough, Fiore has also works as a scenographer for a number of theatres around Italy. Indeed, he has worked with the Globe in Rome, and the Nuovo Theatre in Salerno. Additionally, Fiore’s scenographic work also caught the eye of noted Italian actor, theatre director, writer and musician, Tato Russo – who is the artistic director of the Bellini Theatre in Naples.

Another curiosity is that Fiore is considered something of an expert on Afro-American music. Actually, one also wonders whether Fiore’s imagery has been influenced by traditional African art.

His interest in Afro-American music has brought him into contact with Carlos Ward and Bill Dixon , with whom he often shares and exchanges both musical and pictorial musings.

When not painting, Fiore can be found at the Zenale and Butinone Institute in Bergamo, Italy, where he works as teacher of graphic advertising design.

Gaetano Fiore was born in 1960 near Naples, in Italy, and studied at Naples’ Academy of Fine Arts.  You can find a little more information in English about Naple’s Academy of Fine Arts here: Around Naples Encyclopaedia

Fiore has two children, and lives in Bergamo.

Gaetano Fiore has a personal website, in Italian and German, where more of his work can be viewed:

Gaetano Fiore

Some more examples of Fiore’s work is visible below.

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Although primarily self-taught, he has attended courses at the Carrara Academy in Bergamo, and commenced his artistic work when only young under the guidence of under the guide of some masters.

Born in Florence on in 1952, Angelo Mazzoleni, who now lives and works in Bergamo, Italy, has been painting for more than 27 years.

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Italy is in will be inviting Angelo Mazzoleni to display a selection of his work.

Her work is visible on her personal website: Maria Pina Bentivenga

Maria Pina Bentivenga is also a member of the Incisori Veneti Association, which she joined in 2003.

She teaches Graphical Special Techniques at Rome University of Fine Arts.

Her work has already received critical acclaim.

Fragmenta
by Guglielmo Gigliotti
“ When Maria Pina Bentivenga paints or etches, she does not do it to simply reproduce images that she has seen but to develop, step by step, her long and meticulous studies on the nature of marks and line. These are the elements that she uses as the basis for her work and with them is able to create images that can stand on their own. „

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Marta Dell’Angelo won the first edition of Premio New York in 2002, an event which was sponsored by both the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Italian Academy at Columbia University.

Examples of her work have also been displayed in Paris and Milan.

Working in oils and pencil, her subjects are often women. She appears to have penchant for mixing subtle and bold colours to very good effect.

Some examples of her work can be seen here:

Qui Brescia

and here:

Chicken Gang

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Some examples of the work of this young Roman painter can be seen at The Gallery via della Barchetta 11, in Rome.