Centrale Festival Open Call
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Opens10 Jan 2024
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Deadline31 Mar 2024
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Entry feeFREE
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Centrale Festival invites young artists working with photography and video art to apply for the 15th edition of the festival dedicated to contemporary image that will take place in Fano, Italy, from 7 to 23 June 2024.
Overview
Born in 2009 with the aim of promoting photography and contemporary art, Fano Centrale Festival has come to its fifteenth edition this year. From 2019, Centrale festival is aimed at generations of younger artists generations, selected through an international call, highlighting this way the will to broaden its interests and support emerging research connected with contemporaneity.
Practical Info
Artists Under 30 of all nationalities born after the 1st of January 1994 can submit their projects. The works will be selected by a committee flanked by Luca Panaro, artistic director of Centrale Festival, and by Marcello Sparaventi, president of Associazione Culturale Centrale Fotografia. The subject of the call is open. Photography or video art projects that make an original and attentive contribution to contemporary artistic research will be selected. Special regard will be reserved to works providing non-traditional display solutions that can interact in an original manner with the space. Artists are therefore encouraged to send, if available, images documenting previous installations of the works or potential installation solutions.
Applicant need to send the following material in a single pdf file: a project description (max.1000 characters), images (enough to understand the project; including images of previous installations or potential set up projects, if present), a link in case of video work (with the complete video or with an exemplary extract of the work), a biography (max.1000 characters) and the participation form filled in all its parts.
The selection committee is made up of a team of curators from ICON - Course for Curators of Contemporary Images | FMAV Higher educational school, Federica Benedetti, Maria Cristina Lanzafame, Beatrice Puddu, Chiara Spaggiari, particularly active in promoting research for emerging authors. The Fano Centrale Festival 15 will contact the selected artists and get them in touch with the curators. It will also take care step by step of the technical and organizational aspects for the exhibition set up. The production cost and shipping of the final works will be the responsibility of the artists.
About Centrale
During its early years, the Centrale Festival welcomed several Italian artists well established within the art scene and showed them to the public thanks to a tight program of debates, conferences and guided tours. The venues of the exhibitions have strongly characterized the festival, concerning some particular landmarks of Fano such as Rocca Malatestiana, an ancient late-Roman fortress that became one of the symbolic places of the festival.
