Veronica Neri, student ofAcademy of Fine Arts of Frosinone, is the winner of the XV National Arts Award (‘Figurative, digital and scenographic arts’ and ‘Restoration’) in the Decoration section. This morning, in the Sassu room of the ‘L. Canepa ‘di Sassari, the award ceremony in the presence of the Minister of University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa. Starting tomorrow, December 4, and until next January 15, space for an exhibition of the selected works including, in addition to that of Veronica, also those of two other students of the Academy, Emanuela Moretti and Linda Arduini, present at Sassari and accompanied, together with the winner, by the director of the Academy Loredana Rea, who collects yet another success from the students of the Frosinone institution, testifying to the goodness of the courses and the preparation of the teachers transferred to the children.
“It is with immense satisfaction that today we are here to applaud Veronica but also Emanuela and Linda, protagonists in one of the most prestigious and important exhibitions dedicated to the world of art scheduled in our country. At the Academy – underlined the director Loredana Rea – we train students who have decided to invest their talent and their sacrifices in this world. So when these results arrive we have the confirmation of the excellent work we are carrying out together with the president Ennio De Vellis and the entire teaching staff. immersed in the last two years due to Covid-19 The need is to unhinge the feeling of fear through the power of artistic expression in its infinite variables and in its multiple techniques, between ancient and new technologies.
Now in its fifteenth edition, the Pna Afam, Visual Arts section, aims to regenerate the dominance of talent in the highest level of artistic education. The journey, therefore, contains the whole chessboard of destiny that turns towards a beginning without an end. I am 136 works selected by the jury made up of the famous estheticologist Luciano Nanni (aka Nanni Menetti, as an artist), by the art historian and former director of MAMbo, Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, and of the Mart Museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto Gianfranco Maraniello (who awarded Veronica Neri together with the minister Messa) and Mara Delpero, director and author of the acclaimed film ‘Maternal’.
“On all of this – he writes in the catalog Minister Maria Cristina Messa – the young artists who participated with creativity and expressive originality in the current edition of the National Prize for the Arts, curated by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of University and Research, ventured. It is fascinating to see how they interpreted these two elements: the linearity of time and the circularity of the journey. And this is what everyone will be able to find in the works exhibited in the catalog: lived and revised journeys by merging feelings and knowledge, craftsmanship and skills, visions and skills that with lightness, freedom of gaze and techniques also tell of the pandemic time. Works that the artists have reached through quality training courses that the Ministry of University and Research supports with the institutions of Higher Education in Art, Music and Dance (Afam). Privileged places where to foster the encounter between talent, creativity, science, arts, knowledge and craftsmanship to shape the path of knowledge so that everyone can be happy travelers of their time “.