PREMIO PARADISO 2021
In 2016, the CEA – European Council of Art re-established and returned to the art world the ‘Paradiso Prize’, an award assigned, until 1954, to young artists participating in the Venice Art Biennials, years in which artists such as Kandinsky, Chagall, Mirò, Ernst, Calder, Guttuso sat at the Caffè Paradiso.
The Prize is reborn and awarded by the European Council of Art to ‘curators, critics and art historians who in the last four years have distinguished themselves for an exhibition, a text, a monograph, an essay, linked to the development of a greater sensitivity towards all artistic forms, and who have investigated and researched the connection between Beauty and the work of art’. ‘Beauty’, considered for centuries the queen of aesthetic properties, a concept considered universal yet controversial, meaning alternatively – or sometimes synthesizing in itself – the ideas of erotic tension, element of attraction, projection of man towards transcendence, technique, language/freedom of artistic expression.
The European Council of Art is honored to be able to award the 2021 Paradiso Prize to Demetrio Paparoni (art critic, curator and essayist) as author – together with Arthur C. Danto – of ‘Art and Posthistory – Conversations on the End of Aesthetics and More’ (Neri Pozza Editore, Collana Colibrì, 2020) for “having always investigated the meanings of Art, works of Art and Beauty and for having indicated a key to interpretation, a direction of thought, according to which contemporary art has not distanced itself from beauty in a programmatic sense, but has rather contributed to redefining it, following historical changes and the development of new languages’.
The Prize was awarded at InParadiso Art Gallery by Pres. Marina Bertoldini and Fabio Marafatto of the CEA – European Council of Art at 11.00, Thursday 20 May, Giardini della Biennale, Venice.
Date
InParadiso Art Gallery, 20 maggio 2021
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