Fondazione MAIRE rewards young talents!
NEWSAIPAI Photo Contest 2023 rewards its talented winners! Our “Mecenati di Giovani Talenti” award [‘Patrons of Young Talent’ award] went to Claudia Mencarelli for her photograph ‘Lo scrigno” [“The Treasure Chest”].
It took place in Rome, at the RO.ME Museum Exhibition, on Friday 17 November, the award ceremony for the AIPAI Photo Contest 2023, promoted by AIPAI, the Italian Association for Industrial Heritage, and TICCIH Italia, the International Committee for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage, in collaboration with DICEA Sapienza University, Do.co.mo.mo Italia, Fondazione AEM, ISEC Foundation, Maire Tecnimont Foundation, Musil Foundation and Rete Fotografia.
This year, the Maire Tecnimont Foundation chose to be part of this initiative and competition, created to promote industrial heritage culture, by supporting the ‘Mecenati di giovani talenti’ award [“Patrons of Young Talent” award], offered for the first time and reserved for young amateur photographers under the age of 35.
The award was given to young Claudia Mencarelli, author of the project ‘Lo scrigno’ ["The Treasure Chest”] dedicated to the Ex Alc.Este distillery in Ferrara.
The work is a precise story – declares the jury – of this young photographer who offers us an artist's look at industrial architecture and gives us a profound vision of the possible protection of this heritage where nature emerges in the details. And everything is wrapped in soft, warm color in this visual "treasure chest" of memory and the unobserved. The precise, clear and poetic attention of the photographs of these spaces of a former distillery in Ferrara, witnesses of a bygone era, give a strong narrative value to the entire photographic project.
Maire Tecnimont Foundation thus continues its work in support of young artistic talents who know how to interpret the human and technological challenges of the present and future in a new way and with transversal sensitivity, with a multidisciplinary approach capable of bringing together art, photography, industry, man, environment.
The Foundation will offer the winner a contract worth €1,000 for the creation of a special photography project dedicated to the MAIRE historical archive.
Stay tuned for more information!
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