Premio Faenza
| Premio Faenza | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | contemporary ceramic art |
| Date | 1938 |
| Location | Faenza |
| Country | Italy |
| Presented by | Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche |
| Winners | Full list of recipients[1]
|
| Website | micfaenza.org |
The Premio Faenza is an international prize for contemporary ceramic art. It is awarded by the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, and is the principal Italian prize of its kind.[2]: 47
History
The prize was established in 1931. In 1938 it became an annual national award and was named "Premio Faenza".[3]: 48 The first recipient of the Premio Faenza was Pietro Melandri, who also won it in the following year.[4]: 284 The award was not made in some years of the Second World War, and recommenced in 1946. In 1963 it became international in scope – although several foreign artists had already been invited to participate in earlier editions – and from 1989 it became a biennial award.[3]: 48 [4]: 284
Recipients
Among the recipients of the award are the sculptors Angelo Biancini (1946, 1957), Leoncillo Leonardi (1954, 1964) and Carlo Zauli (1953, 1958 and 1962),[5]: 17 and the ceramic artists Sueharu Fukami (1985) and Ken Eastman (1995).[1]
References
- ^ a b Albo d'oro del "Premio Faenza" (in Italian). Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. Accessed February 2018.
- ^ Ennio Golfieri (1977). L'arte a Faenza dal neoclassicismo ai nostri giorni, Part 2 (in Italian). Faenza: Amministrazione Comunale.
- ^ a b Cristiana Baietta (2001). Le città della ceramica (in Italian). Milano: Touring Club Italiano. ISBN 9788836523641.
- ^ a b Aldo Cairola, Angela Cipriani (1981). Ceramica italiana dalle origini a oggi (in Italian). Roma: Editalia. ISBN 9788870600131.
- ^ Rolando Giovannini, Lori-Ann Touchette (2016). Ceramics That Change. Ceramics: Art & Perception (103): 16–19. (subscription required).