Canova Prize 2018

What's Canova Prize?

It is now customary that Canova, promoter of the homonymous prize, identifies every two years, in an important international city, making it a cultural HUB and a center of appreciation for artists from all over the world. In this edition the attention has been focused on the city of New York that with its characteristic underground life, will welcome the selected artists with their creations.
Several languages of contemporary expression will be allowed  among which fifty works will be selected, which have always constituted the heart of the Canova Prize.

The idea that underlies Canova Prize is to summarize in New York, the new artistic and cultural infuences coming not only from the western world and from Europe but also from Russia and the Asian continent, to give life to a comparison and a choral dialogue that can be expressed through the all-encompassing language of art: this is precisely in the nerve center of a complex system, that of contemporary art, which finds its bulwark in the Big Apple.

Therefore, Canova Prize stands as the idea of a bridge between the different world artistic cultures, mediated by an Italian team of experts and professionals in the art sector, which actively operates in the field of events and cultural projects with the only objective to promote art in all its forms and to do it in a place that is the symbol of freedom of expression.

Even for the artists that won’t be selected to participate to the exhibition, will be guaranteed great visibility through the CANDIDATE DISPLAY on www.canovaprize.com, which will contain all the works proposed in the selection, available until June 31st 2020.
Enjoy Canova Prize and take part in the selection for the Contemporary Excellence Award of 5.000$

Register

Participation in the Canova Prize is open to all contemporary artists, regardless of age, sex, nationality or other qualications. Each artist can apply with one or more works even in several sections, registering through the website , and thus perform all the formalities (payment of the registration fee included).

Among all the candidates, the scientific committee, composed by important exponents of the art world (museum directors, curators, artists, etc.) will select 50 works (one for each artist) that will be exhibited from June 20 to 24.

The works will be evaluated by the committee taking into consideration the characteristics of contemporary international art and the various artistic strands, according to qualitative standards, research and technical skills.