Maria Giovanna Zanella wins the 24th Cairo Prize

The young artist Maria Giovanna Zanella wins the 24th edition of the Cairo Prize with the unpublished work 'Buoni' during the inauguration evening at the Museum of the Permanente in Milan. The winning work was chosen by the jury chaired by Bruno Corà, president of the Palazzo Albizzini Foundation Burri Collection of the City of Castle, assisted by highly authoritative experts of the art world. Maria Giovanna Zanella, born in Schio in 1991, in her artistic practice, which includes both painting and sculpture, investigates physicality as a place of vulnerability and friction, as well as passion, desire and drives, as the work shows created for the Cairo prize, entitled Buoni. It is about a wood-fired bread sculpture depicting a set of elements that recall fleshy masses, anatomical fragments, so as organic fossils or magmatic concretions. The different qualities of flour and yeast used, and the variable temperatures of the specially constructed oven, have determined combinations of color, density and texture in wide unpredictable parts, with a formal and symbolic outcome that manages to synthesize the immediacy of primitive art with the complexity of contemporary excesses. The opening night with the award ceremony for the young artist, who wins a prize of 25 thousand euros and whose work becomes part of the Cairo Prize Collection, it is available from Tuesday 14 October on corriere.it, in streaming from the prestigious exhibition venue of the Museo della Permanente in Milan. Furthermore, the following will be dedicated to Maria Giovanna Zanella: cover and an exclusive interview in the issue of Arte di December. From 14th to 19th October the exhibition of the 20 works, together to the entire Cairo Prize Collection of all the awarded works in previous editions, it will be open to the public free of charge at the Museo della Permanente in Milan, in addition to the 20 unpublished works of the artists selected by the monthly magazine Arte for the 24th Prize Cairo: Beatrice Alici, Luca Boffi, Martina Cassatella, Guendalina Cerruti, Marco Eusepi, Marco Giordano, Simone Gori, Jack Lumer, Dario Maglionico, Rachele Maistrello, Daniele Marzorati, Margherita Mezzetti, Jimmy Milani, Francis Offman, Chiara Peruch, Mattia Sinigaglia, Danilo Stojanović, Alessandro Teoldi, Natália Trejbalová, Maria Giovanna Zanella.