I'm happy to announce that the underground and urban gallery in Milan Avantgarden Gallery has selected me as its winning artist in the contemporary art prize "Premio Ora".
I'm very proud of this achievement. I can't wait to work with such a good gallery (whose artist's quality really represents a challenge for me) and I'll do my best to be up to expectations.

Here are the names of all the winning and selected artists (the 20 winning artists will have a two-week solo show in the gallery concerned, while the 40 selected will all be featured, along with the winners, in the prize catalogue that will be published in the early weeks of 2012):

Winning artists:
Claudia Campus for 3)5 Arte Contemporanea
Marco La Rosa for Adiacence
Flavio Romualdo Garofano for Artway Gallery
Vacon Sartirani for Avantgarden Gallery
Annalù for Castellano Arte
Andrea Marcoccia for Contemporanea
Bruno Marrapodi for De Faveri Arte
Agnese Guido for Galleria Delle Battaglie
Andreas Senoner for Galleria Marchina
Fabiano De Martin Topranin for Galleria Marconi
Angela Viola for Galleria Marelia
Silvia Cicconi for Galleria Wabi
Claudia Maina for Gestalt
Stefano Bolcato for GiaMaArt Studio
TTozoi for LakeSide Gallery
Marie-Michelle Letelier for Perlini Arte
Pietro Marchese for SourMilk Gallery
Claudio Cavallaro for Sponge Arte Contemporanea
Silvia Mei for Underdog Studio 
Enrico Piras for Zelle Arte Contemporanea

Selected artists:
Alfredo Aceto
Franco Anzelmo
Nicola Aramu
Simona Barbagallo
Giuseppe Biguzzi
Marco Bolognesi
Pietro Broggini
Gian Marco Capraro
Carlo Colli
Carlo D'Orta
Daniele Duò
Ellepluselle
Armando Fanelli
Robert Frankle
Tea Giobbio
Cristina Gori
Maurizio L'Altrella
Ivan Lardschneider
Marina Legovini
Virginia Lopez 
Sara Magni
Alessandra Maio
Sabrina Marconi
Ilaria Margutti
Alessandro Martinelli
Andrea Martinucci
Jara Marzulli
Sabrina Mazzuoli
Marco Milia
Igor Molin
Giordano Rizzardi
Piero Roccasalvo
Jennifer Rosa
Andrea Rosset
Manlio Sacco
Natalia Saurin
Stefano Scheda
Rossana Taormina
Alessandro Vitali
Giulio Zanet

Cell 63 Art Gallery, Neukölln Berlin
"This is A POP WORLD!"

12th November - 17th December
Opening Saturday 12th November h 20:00 - 23:00

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Pop music, pop art, pop culture. Pop is a familiar label, describing contemporary complex scenarios, depositary of symbolic plots hardly decodable by the human eye.

Cell63 Art Gallery is proud to present “This is a POP WORLD!”, a three-person exhibition featuring work from Vacon Sartirani, Isabelle Gabrijel and Andreas Fischbach. 

Open November 12th through December 17th , the exhibition aims to focus on the visual saturation of contemporary society through the distinct sensibilities of three artists and their different background.
Shapes, colors and atmospheres borrowed from mass culture, and disposed into a puzzle built up with ironic pieces. A diverse body of artwork revolving around one common topic: alienation. That same alienation generated by the excessive acquisition of goods and artificially created needs, which has reached a point of individual saturation and mental block.

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This is a POP WORLD!
vom 12.11. bis 17.12. 

Pop Musik, Pop art, Pop-Kultur. “Pop” ist ein allgemeines Etikett geworden, das aber einen komplexen zeitgenössischen Rahmen beschreibt. In diesem Rahmen verwickeln sich symbolische Inhalte, die auf den ersten Blick schwer zu entschlüsseln sind.

Durch die Sensibilität von drei Künstlern mit unterschiedlichen Hintergründen, Vacon Sartirani, Isabelle Gabrijel und Andreas Fischbach, fokussiert die Cell63 Artgallery ihre Lupe auf die Sättigung der heutigen Gesellschaft.

Die Ausstellung, die vom 12.11. bis 17.12. in der Cell63 zu sehen ist, ist mit dem Ausruf-Titel „This is a Pop World!“ präsentiert. Damit werden Formen, Farben und Atmosphäre der Massenkultur wieder wachruft, die in der verschiedenen möglichen Kombinationen immer unterschiedliche entfremdende Lösungen ergeben, wie in einem Puzzle aus „spöttischen“ Teilen. Diese Entfremdung stammt aus der Überproduktion von Waren und aus künstlichen erregten Verbrauchsbedürfnissen her, um schließlich sich in einen Geisteszustand von Sättigung und Totalblockade zu verwandeln.

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For further informations about the exhibition, the artists or inquire about the artworks on sale please contact luisa@cell63.com

Cell63 Artgallery
Opening hours Tue-Fri+2nd&4thSat 14H00-19H00
+49 30 21973329

I was selected for the 2011 edition of the art and music festival "Alterazioni" that will take place in the castle of Arcidosso, Grosseto from 29 to 31 July 2011.

Here are the names of all the selected artists:

ALESSANDRO BALDONI 
ALVARO SANCHEZ
ANDREA GATTI
ANDREA GUERZONI
ANIA TOMICKA
BABILA BONACCHI
BAFEFIT
BOZENA KROL LEGOWSKA
CLAUDIO CENERINI
CLAUDIO GRECO
DANIELE CATULLI PIRI PIRI ATELIER
DARIA PALOTTI
DAVIDE TISATO
EMMANUEL LA FONT
EMANUELE BIZZARRI
ENRICO FIORASO
ERICA CALARDO
FEDERICA GONNELLI
FRANCESCA FINI 
FRANCESCO ELELINO
FRANCESCO MINUCCI
GINO RUGGERI
GIULIO VESPRINI
GIUSEPPE VIGOLO
JASON SABBIDES
KROPPSLOTION
LUCA BOVERA
LUCA GRECHI
LUCIA LEONILDA MASTROSIMONE
LUCREZIA GANAZZOLI
LUISA MONTALTO
MAD KIME
MARCO REA
MASSIMILIANO PELLETTI
NATALIA CELLINI 
PAOLO PETRANGELI
PELIN SANTILLI
PEPPE CIRILLO
PIERA SCOGNAMIGLIO
ROBERTO BIADI
ROCCO MAFFIA
SONIA CIPOLLARI
STEFANO DE LONGHI 
TERESA TRS
VACON SARTIRANI
VALENTINA BROSTEAN
VANINA MALDINI

I am one of the 45 finalists in the "painting" section of the Combat Prize.
My work "The hand that rocks the cradle" will partecipate at a collective show in Livorno from 10 to 18 June, where there will be the prize-giving.

Here is the list of all the finalist artists:

Selected by Davide Nicola Angerame
region: Liguria, Lombardia, Piemonte, Valle D'Aosta

• Mirko Canesi
• Giuseppe Cannistraro
• Luca De Angelis
• Benedetta Debenedetti
• Krio
• Andrea Mariconti
• Vincenzo Marsiglia
• Francesca Marzorati
• Tommaso Megale
• Gianfranco Milanesi
• Laura Moroni
• Alessandro Pagani
• Ieva Petersone
• Vacon Sartirani

Selected by Daniele Capra
region: Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trentino Alto Adige

• Marco Dal Bo
• Arnold Mario Dall'O
• Alessandro Del Pero
• Tatiana Festi
• Gaia Lionello
• Silvia Giusti

Selected by Francesca Baboni e Stefano Taddei
region: Emilia Romagna, Marche, Toscana, Umbria, Sardegna

• Daniela Alfarano
• Elena Ascari
• Giorgia Beltrami
• Jacopo Casadei
• Rudy Cremonini
• Giuseppe Donnaloia
• Angelo, Lavinia Foschini, Iacomelli
• Francesco Manenti
• Marco Salvetti
• Caterina Sbrana
• Chiara Tagliazucchi
• Sabrina Torelli
• Jairo Valdati

Selezionati da Adriana Polveroni
area geografica: Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Calabria, Basilicata, Puglia, Sicilia

• Edoardo Aruta
• Cynthia Bassan
• Antonio Carbone
• Stefano Divizia
• Loredana Grasso
• Andrea Marcoccia
• Loredana Raciti
• Tina Sgro
• Mari Verriello

Selected by Luca Coser
region: Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Calabria, Basilicata, Puglia, Sicilia

• Angelo Bellobono
• Jara Marzulli
• Andrea Palamà

Finalists - drawing sectionSelected by: Adriana Polveroni, Ausonia, Daniele Capra, Francesca Baboni, Luca Coser, Nicola Davide Angerame, Stefano Taddei

• Stefano Abbiati
• Paolo Angelosanto
• Tiziano Bonanni
• Cristiano Carotti
• Arnold Mario Dall'O
• Jacopo Dimastrogiovanni
• Pietro Di Terlizzi
• Darkam
• Elena Del Fabbro
• Salvatore Di Franco
• Armida Gandini
• Alessandro Giannandrea
• Federica Gisana
• Leeza Hooper
• Cristina Iotti
• Luca Lanzi
• Giovanni Lanzoni
• Andrea Lucchesi
• Luigi Massari
• Marco Manzella
• Dario Molinaro
• Giorgio Rubbio
• Luca Zampetti
• Virginia Zanetti
• Lukas Zanotti

Special mentions:

• Fabio Adani
• Tommaso Andreocci
• Andygrad
• Elisa Anfuso
• Umberto Antonelli
• Tobia Anzanello
• Oscar Baccilieri
• Marco Bernardi
• Maurizio Biagini
• Alessio Bianchini
• Valentina Biasetti
• Giuseppe Biguzzi
• Yari Biscardi
• Giulio Bonatti
• Barbara Bonfilio
• Stefano Bonfreschi
• Andrea Bovara
• Francesco Brunetti
• Cristina Campestrin
• Assia Canonico
• Giuseppe Ciracì
• Carlo Colli
• Luigi Copello
• Annaclara Di Biase
• Lorenzo Di Lucido
• Denico Di Stefano
• Daniele Duò
• Damiano Fasso
• Simone Fontana
• Valter Furlini
• Beatrice Gallori
• Eleonora Genua
• Luciano Gerolamo Gerini
• Simone Gilardi
• Riccardo Giraudo
• Roberto Goldoni
• Lorenzo Guaia
• Barbara Karwowska
• Cristina Larocca
• Leonardo Magnani
• Eleonora Manca
• Marco Mangani
• Giulio Manglaviti
• Davide Marconato
• Federico Mazza
• Flavio Menici
• Salvatore Comminiello
• Miss Maina
• Enrique Moya González
• Giovanna Noia
• Lena Nyman
• Sabrina Ortolani
• Lorella Paleni
• Gioni David Parra
• Parrasia
• Valentina Perazzini
• Davide Peretti
• Arianna Piazza
• Bruno Pierozzi
• Silvio Porzionato
• Emanuele Puzziello
• Jessica Rimondi
• Valentina Ramacciotti
• Riccardo Ruberti
• Anila Shapalaku
• Alfredo Spigliati
• Renato Sorrentino
• Matteo Tenardi
• Maria Vittoria Torrisi
• Tre Punti
• Flavio Ullucci
• Marco Useli
• Vins
• Giulio Zanet
• Francesco Zefferino
• Claudia Zuriato

My next exhibition will take place Saturday the 26th of March, at the One Picture Gallery of Berlin.

That's an independent, special location that I'm contributing to build and keep working. The event will feature one totally new, unpublished artwork and an afternoon of chilled-out discussion and interaction.

Please follow the One Picture Gallery blog for updates.