Guarene Arte 98 is an international exhibition of young artists which has now reached its fourth edition, following the shows of Campo 95, Campo 6 and Guarene Arte 97, and it underlines the Fondazione’s willingness to promote the most innovative and significant research in contemporary art.
Directors, museum curators and international critics are asked to select a group of young artists who exhibit works and projects. An international jury comprising Alberto Garutti (artist, professor at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera), Jerry Saltz (New York based author and critic) and Rosa Martìnez (curator of Caixa in Barcellona and of the 1997 edition of the Istanbul Biennial) selects from amongst these artists the winner of the Premio Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (for the most interesting work), in this case gained by the South African artist Tracey Rose and of the Premio Regione Piemonte (for the best project) obtained by Chilean artist Cristiàn Silva.
The selection of artists confirms the commitment of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte to provide not only exhibition space but also a place for research, information and exchange in which the risk of globalisation in not seen as a danger but as a fascinating challenge in which different ideas, creative visions and opinions are compared in an attempt to dispense with facile definitions, and a variety is regarded as an indispensable instrument for the forming of our social and cultural future.
Giving complete freedom to the guests invited to select the eight artists of this year, there was a desire to underline a world in which the traditional borders are rapidly becoming mixed up and in which the various languages are blending, pushing our aesthetic and intellectual canons towards a rapid, difficult but fascinating transformation.
Participating artists
Andrea Bowers, Mutlu Cerkez, Zheng Guogu, Boris Ondreicka, Paola Pivi, Tracey Rose, Bojan Sarcevic, Cristiàn Silva.
