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TURIN – The winners of the 13th edition of the illy Present Future Prize, dedicated to the most creative emerging talents, have been nominated today by Carlo Bach, Art Director of illycaffè and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Director of Artissima 2013.

Caroline Achaintre (1969, Toulouse, Francia), presented by the Arcade Gallery of London, and Fatma Bucak (1982, Iskenderun, Turkey), presented by Alberto Peola Gallery of Turin, are the two winners, selected by the international prestigious jury consisting in Defne Ayas (Director, Witte De With Center of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam), Juan A. Gaitàn (Curator, 8a Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art), Matthew Higgs (Director, White Columns, New York), and Katharine Stout, (Head of Programmes, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London).

The jury panel has awarded the winners with the following motivations:

“Caroline Achaintre’s ceramic sculptures, set in customized display units, are part playful, part sinister recalling the carnivalesque and the primitive. In different ways Achaintre’s hand-tufted wall pieces collide the aesthetic of the anthropological museum with Modernist décor.”

“Fatma Bucak employed twelve elderly men – as both performers and audience – to create a kind of improvised theatre. Using humour – that is reminiscent of Samuel Beckett – her work touches on the complex narratives of place, gender and history in unexpected and refreshing ways.”

Since 2012 the partnership between Artissima and illycaffè has been strengthened by a formula attesting their growing and mutual collaboration.

This year the illy Present Future Prize will allow the setting up of an art exhibition scheduled for 2014, in fall, at Castello di Rivoli dedicated to the winners selected by the international jury among twenty-four participants.

This decision stresses once more the will shared by Artissima and illycaffè to keep developing in an innovative way the experience made in the international art research.

illy Present Future becomes therefore a further improvement of the exhibition project of Turin art institutions, and bears witness of a direct link between the research of Artissima on the global young art, and the will of Turin museums to be constantly committed to interpret contemporary art in a critic and profitable way.

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Thanks to the great sensibility of illycaffè, to the passionate work of curators and museum directors involved by Artissima in the curatorship and in the artist selection at Present Future Turin, and to the attention and active collaboration dedicated to this project by Castello di Rivoli, the illy Present Future Prize offers a key support to the success of emerging artists and, once again, it confirms the innovating role of the Turin art institutions in contemporary art.

illycaffè dynamic commitment to spreading contemporary art goes back to twenty years ago. In this time illycaffè has provided artists and international exhibition with the greatest support.

One of the results of this commitment is illy Present Future Prize which in the course of time has become an exceptional mine of talents. And many artists, such as Phil Collins, Mateo Tannatt, Patricia Esquivias, Luca Francescani, Shizuka Yokomizo, Padraig Timoney, Michael Beutler, and Melanie Gilligan – just a few winners of the past editions, now greatly appreciated and famous at international level – bear witness of  this.

Artists and Galleries at  Present Future – ARTISSIMA 2013

Caroline Achaintre  |  ARCADE, London

Xavier Antin | CRÈVECOEUR, Paris

Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck | GREEN ART, Dubai

Andy Boot | EMANUEL LAYR, Wien

Fatma Bucak | ALBERTO PEOLA, Turin

Giulia Cenci |  SPAZIOA, Pistoia

Patrizio Di Massimo | T293, Naples, Rome

Alfredo Esquillo, Jr | TIN-AW ART, Makati City

Josh Faught | LISA COOLEY, New York

Charles Harlan | JTT, New York

Adelita Husni-Bey  | LAVERONICA, Modica

Yee I-Lann |  MAP KL, Kuala Lumpur

Ella Kruglyanskaya |  KENDALL KOPPE, Glasgow

Jumana Manna | CRG, New York

Christoph Meier | COLLICALIGREGGI, Catania

Ceren Oykut |  X-IST, Istanbul

Valerie Piraino | NIGHT, Los Angeles

Florian & Michale Quistrebert | JULIETTE JONGMA, Amsterdam

Soraya Rhofir | NOSBAUM & REDING, Luxembourg

Nora Schultz | ISABELLA BORTOLOZZI, Berlin

Cara Tolmie | ROWING, London

Ned Vena | SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin / REAL FINE ARTS, New York

Matthew Watson | JOE SHEFTEL, New York

Stuart Whipps | EASTSIDE PROJECTS, Birmingham

Curatorial Committee of Present Future – ARTISSIMA 2013

Luigi Fassi (coordinator), Visual Curatore Arti Visive, Steirischer Herbst, Graz

Alex Gartenfeld, Curatore, Moca North Miami, Miami

Krist Gruijthuijsen, Direttore Artistico, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz

Robert Leckie, Curatore, Gasworks, London

Qinyi Lim, Curatrice, Para Site, Hong Kong

Alice Motard, Vice Director and Chief Curator, Raven Row, London

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