FRANCAVILLA NEXT TO THE SEA. Flavio Favelli with the work “Profondo Viola” won the 74th edition of the Michetti Prize, the oldest national prize for contemporary art.
The title of the event, curated by Costantino D’Orazio, is “Freedom to have three conflicting ideas”.
The Michetti Prize has involved 10 artists this year. Special mention from the jury for Sabrina Mezzaqui, with the work “I quaderni di Adriano”. The exhibition, with free admission, is open to the public until October 1 at Palazzo San Domenico in Francavilla al Mare.
This is the motivation for the Prize decreed by the president of the jury Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: “Flavio Favelli’s project is an example of a contemporary reflection on the very idea of painting from a formal, chromatic and conceptual point of view, online with the history of the Michetti Prize and with the main idea of the 2023 edition of the exhibition, which highlights the deep meaning of Mario Merz’s invitation to conquer the “Freedom of having three conflicting ideas”.
Flavio Favelli was born in Florence in 1967. His works are present in public and private collections such as Mambo and BolognaFiere and Furla Foundation in Bologna, La Maison Rouge Fondation Antoine De Galbert in Paris, La Gaia Collection in Cuneo, Civic Art Collections and Fiera Milano, MACRO and Nomas Foundation in Rome, Zabludowicz Collection in London, Elgiz and Yapi Kredi Collection in Istanbul and Unicredit Banca Collection. In 2008 the MAXXI Museum in Rome bought a large installation of his titled “La Terza Camera”.
Michetti Giovani Award to Gaia Liberatore The 2023 Michetti Award Jury also awarded the Michetti Giovani Award in which five students from the Aquila Academy of Fine Arts participated, the result of a selection that included the unprecedented collaboration of the Michetti Foundation with the Academy , the Regional Directorate of Museums of Abruzzo of the Ministry of Culture and the MAXXI Foundation. Winner of the Michetti Giovani Gaia Liberatore, with the work “Studies”.
The Michetti Prize Foundation was established in 1952, following the success of the Michetti Prize born in 1947, and became a non-profit organization in 1955. Michetti Prize curators include Palazzeschi, Angioletti, Apollonio, Bellonzi, D’ Amico, Caramel, Daverio. The Prize has always combined modernist tendencies and traditional artistic languages, in a process of balance between the appreciation of local and national reality. Numerous exhibitions dedicated to Francesco Paolo Michetti. Last homage to the Master of Francavilla in Rome, with the 1999 retrospective at Palazzo Venezia. The Michetti Museum (Mumi) in Francavilla al Mare houses the so-called two giant canvases of the master, The Serpents and The Cripples, created around 1900. The Mumi is located in the underground room next to Palazzo San Domenico, the historical headquarters of the Foundation
