Frase got talent prize 2018

frase contemporary art is proud to announce that the winner of the 4th Frase Got Talent Prize, “Back to reality”, is the Italian Artist Alice Faloretti (1992) with the work “Twilight”.

“The painting "Twilight" talks about some stories and sensations caught from my daily life, episodes, memories, lived or never known, that converge into a different plans of reality, through illusion, surreal visions, flowing like thoughts and unpredictable connections.

The point of view in this case comes from a window. I research the poetic side of the ordinary, I de-contextualise and transform concrete images into mental, mysterious and illusory spaces, in which figurative elements blend with more indefinite ones. I aim to imagine worlds where nothing is as it seems and establish a sense of immersion inside that apparent flat surface. Surface could be either a monitor, or a window, where we can enter or stay outside.

The virtual augmented reality "surrounds" us with all its music, lights, videos and images in movement; in a kind of sense imposes itself to us, driving us towards a predetermined interpretation where we have only to stay and follow. On the other hand, painting doesn't impose itself on the viewer, it remains with its whole world fixed, waiting. It can give itself totally only if an outward presence establishes a dialogue, but this type of interaction requires an effort, imagination and desire. We have to physically move toward another physic object.

This meeting needs bodies, intimacy, closeness, exchange. It is an open place overlooking on space and time, on past and future, where we can pour our personal and collective dimension. The sense is inside painting and us together, it exists in that "augmented relation".”

Alice Faloretti was born in Brescia in 1992. She lives and works between Venice and Brescia. Main exhibitions included 2018 Open Studio Progetto Borca, curated by Gianluca d’Incà Levis, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Borca di Cadore, IT; 2018 Group Show, ‘ 1, 2, 3 Start! ’, curated by Start Arte Padova prize, Altinate San Gaetano Cultural centre, Padova, IT; 2018 Collettiva ‘ Opera Prima’, curated by Carlo Di Raco, Riccardo Caldura, Paola Bristot, Martino Scavezzon, in collaboration with Viva Comix Association, Trieste Contemporanea e ITIS-ARCA Trieste, Dumbo Docks space, Venice, IT; 2018 Group Show Finalists of Combat Prize , Civico G. Fattori Museum and ex Granai di Villa Mimbelli, Livorno, IT; 2017 Group Show AVU Exhibition , at the Academy of Fine Arts, curated by Lukáše Machalického e Robert Šalanda, Prague, CZ; 2016 Group show Avviso di Garanzia, Fuori Uso Project  XX edition , curated by Cesare Manzo, Pescara, IT; 2015 Group show Biennale internazionale dell’incisione Prize -  Shortlisted for an eatching group show, Mac,n Contemporary Art Museum of Monsummano Terme, IT

She attended the Academy of fine arts of Venice.

A special mention was given to Adelisa Selimbasic (Karlsruhe (D), 1996). Her painting will be the cover of the catalogue.

We are happy to announce that the fourth edition of the Frase Got Talent Prize has been opened.

FRASE GOT TALENT PRIZE aims to encourage the talent of young artists who have distinguished themselves through creative originality and critical interest in the world of visual arts.

This year the theme of the Award on which the artists are called to express their creativity is

BACK TO REALITY

The competition is open to all artists aged 30 or younger from anywhere in the world, working in any medium.