Pier Paolo Patti is among the ten finalists for the 2019-2020 edition of the Paolo VI Prize for Contemporary Art. The competition, sponsored by the Art and Spirituality Association (managing the Paolo VI Collection – Contemporary Art Museum in Concesio), once again this year recognizes the best proposals on the theme of spirituality by Italian or international artists, with a particular focus on emerging young artists.
The jury chose, in addition to the artist from Campania Patti, the collective CaCO3 (Giuseppe Donnaloia, Pavlos Mavromatidis and Âniko Ferreira da Silva), Angelica Consoli, Elisabetta Necchio, Nadia Nespoli, Laura Patacchia, Massimiliano Pelletti, Teo Pirisi, Giovanni Rossi, Francesco Visentini.
The choice fell on those who best succeeded in embodying the philosophy of the museum and the Paolo VI Award: promoting the "contributions offered by art, in its various manifestations, to the spiritual enrichment of the lives of men of our time". The director Paolo Sacchini, together with the Scientific Committee of the museum, composed of Cecilia De Carli, Paolo Bolpagni, Don Giuliano Zanchi and Sandro Barbagallo, awarded those who presented works not only of a "religious nature" but works that were open and attentive to the themes of spirituality, questions about meaning, the investigation of the interior dimension of man and eschatological questions.
The finalists will participate in a collective exhibition at the Papa Montini museum in spring 2020 and, subsequently, a winner will be chosen among them who will have the opportunity to set up a personal exhibition in spring 2021.
Pier Paolo Patti was born in Nocera Inferiore (SA) in 1978. A multidisciplinary artist, he investigates the terrains of violence and pain generated by conflicts and social contradictions, in a research space that ranges from the extremely realistic to the merely intimate/spiritual. A reflection that infiltrates the interstices of the visible and that translates into a constant and evolving narrative deconstruction of the contemporary. His works reflect a multi-year experimentation of the different languages of an art that combines artisanal techniques and new technologies.
Author of installations, videos and performances, Pier Paolo Patti has participated in art exhibitions and audiovisual festivals in Italy and abroad over the years, making use of consolidated collaborations with internationally renowned artists and musicians.
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