Premio Faenza

The Premio Faenza is an international prize for contemporary ceramic art. It is awarded by the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, and is the principal Italian prize of its kind.[2]:47

Premio Faenza
Awarded forcontemporary ceramic art
Date1938 (1938)
LocationFaenza
CountryItaly
Presented byMuseo Internazionale delle Ceramiche
Winners
Websitemicfaenza.org

History

The prize was established in 1931. In 1938 it became an annual national award and was named "Premio Faenza".[3]:48 The first recipient of the Premio Faenza was Pietro Melandri, who also won it in the following year.[4]:284 The award was not made in some years of the Second World War, and recommenced in 1946. In 1963 it became international in scope – although several foreign artists had already been invited to participate in earlier editions – and from 1989 it became a biennial award.[3]:48[4]:284

Recipients

Among the recipients of the award are the sculptors Angelo Biancini (1946, 1957), Leoncillo Leonardi (1954, 1964) and Carlo Zauli (1953, 1958 and 1962),[5]:17 and the ceramic artists Sueharu Fukami (1985) and Ken Eastman (1995).[1]

References

  1. Albo d'oro del "Premio Faenza" (in Italian). Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. Accessed February 2018.
  2. Ennio Golfieri (1977). L'arte a Faenza dal neoclassicismo ai nostri giorni, Part 2 (in Italian). Faenza: Amministrazione Comunale.
  3. Cristiana Baietta (2001). Le città della ceramica (in Italian). Milano: Touring Club Italiano. ISBN 9788836523641.
  4. Aldo Cairola, Angela Cipriani (1981). Ceramica italiana dalle origini a oggi (in Italian). Roma: Editalia. ISBN 9788870600131.
  5. Rolando Giovannini, Lori-Ann Touchette (2016). Ceramics That Change. Ceramics: Art & Perception (103): 16–19. (subscription required).
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