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Artissima 25 Edition 2018 OGR Award. Tomás Saraceno is the winner of the second edition of the prize of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT at Artissima. Turin, November the 1 st , 2018 – Tomás Saraceno, presented by Pinksummer from Genoa, at Sound, section focused on contemporary sonic research, is the winner of the second edition of the OGR Award. The award, promoted by Artissima in collaboration with Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, is finalized to the acquisition of an artwork from Fondazione CRT. The winner has been selected from 15 individual projects of the Sound section by an international jury composed of Anna Colin, associate curator of Lafayette Anticipations in Paris and co-director of the Open School East in Margate, Lorenzo Giusti, director of GAMEC Bergamo, and Judith Waldmann, curator and head of Monitoring at Kasseler Kunstverein in Kassel with the following motivation: We were impressed by the quality of the new Sound section of Artissima and by the sensitive approach towards the work, which is placed in an environment dedicated to sonic practices and familiar with the challenges of exhibiting them. As with every jury, making a choice was hard but we felt a unanimous connection to the work of Tomás Saraceno, ‘Radio Galena’, a mineral sound receiver, which plays the sound of a radio station used by native Argentinian people to discuss land rights and independence. We value the work formally and for its social and environmental engagement, and for this reason we have chosen to grant Tomás Saraceno the OGR Award. As jurors we would also like to give a special mention to the historical work of Italian artist Ugo La Pietra, ‘Audio Casco’, which has made an important impact on us. The OGR Award confirms Artissima’s role as a catalyst of creative energies, an activator of synergies across the cultural realities of the territory, with the aim of reinforcing the network of collaborations amongst the cultural forces of the city of Torino.
