AwardApril 10, 2015

Third edition of the TransparentArte award announces winners

This event, open to all Chilean artists without age considerations, was held for the third consecutive year. The winner was Amalia Valdés, who will receive $1.200.00 Chilean pesos (US$2,000 dollars) and airfare to the 10th Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil. One of the main objectives of the TransparentArte contest, an initiative launched in 2013 by FAVA CHILE and the Council For Transparency is to form a public collection of works of contemporary art that will endure in time and become part of the country's cultural patrimony. The contest invites all Chilean visual artists—living in the country or abroad, with produced or unproduced works—to propose each in their own discipline a reflection about the meaning and value of transparency in society. A total of 175 Chilean artists participated in this edition, and first place went to Amalia Valdés for her Retorno (2014). Along with the awards mentioned before, the chosen work will become the official image of the 6th International Transparency Seminar (an activity organized yearly by the Council) and of the 2015 ICIC Summit; the opening cocktail for the latter event will take place in the facilities of the National Archives, and the award ceremony will take place then. The first honorary mention went to Francisca Montes for Agua de Parra (2014), and third place was for Javier Toro Blum for Objeto Fenomenológico (2015). They will receive $1.000.000 (US$ 1,595.33) and $800.000 Chilean pesos (US$ 1,276.26), respectively. The members of the award jury were Vivianne Blanlot Soza, president of the Council for Transparency; Raúl Ferrada Carrasco, general director of the Council for Transparency; Daniela Berger, exhibitions coordinator for the Palacio La Moneda Cultural Center; and Nicolás Cobo, president of FAVA CHILE. The winning works will be exhibited in the Ch.ACO 2015 fair and will become part of the contemporary art collection in development by the Council for Transparency. The collection has at this point six works, all in permanent exhibition in its facilities in order to promote the citizenry's engagement with the issue of transparency through the language of the visual arts.
Third edition of the TransparentArte award announces winners | artnexus