Tra Arte e Industria: si rinnova l'incontro al Combat Prize 2021 grazie al Premio POLIART

Si rinnova anche quest’anno, in occasione della dodicesima edizione del Combat Prize, la fruttuosa collaborazione, già avviata nelle scorse edizioni, con l’azienda POLIART. L’intento reciproco delle due realtà è quello di consolidare il dialogo fra arte, impresa e territorio, così fondamentale per la crescita dell’arte contemporanea. POLIART, che trova sede a Capannori, Lucca, è specializzata nella produzione di prodotti in polistirolo e polistirene espanso di utilizzo prettamente industriale. Dal 2007 decide di dar forma ad una visione più artistica e artigianale dell’azienda, mettendo a disposizione degli artisti le più alte tecnologie, focalizzando l’attenzione sulle potenzialità del polistirolo come materiale dedicato alla pratica scultorea, installativa e di disegno industriale e al contempo portando avanti un costante affinamento delle tecniche robotiche attraverso le quali questo materiale viene scolpito e plasmato.

Maurizio Cattelan, We’ll Never Die, 2019 Vista dell'installazione di Victory is Not an Option: Maurizio Cattelan at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UK, 2019. ® Tom Lindboe, courtesy Blenheim Art Foundation.

L’azienda offre una gamma di strumenti perfettamente sincronizzati pronti a sviluppare idee volte a proporre soluzioni e forme innovative in un mondo a trazione 3D, mirando a rendere la creatività più semplice ed accessibile.

POLIART, che vanta già numerose collaborazioni con artisti di fama nazionale ed internazionale, spalanca le sue porte ad artisti giovani ed emergenti, supportandoli nella creazione dei loro prodotti artistici, attraverso la produzione delle loro opere.

Grazie alla collaborazione con il Combat Prize già due artisti, Giulia Maiorano ed il duo Penzo_ Fiore, vincitori delle edizioni passate del premio, hanno intrapreso una collaborazione con questa innovativa realtà aziendale che li ha supportati nel loro processo creativo. Il nuovo vincitore del Premio POLIART sarà proclamato sabato 9 ottobre presso il Museo civico Giovanni Fattori di Livorno durante la cerimonia di premiazione della dodicesima edizione del Combat Prize.

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Art and Corporate meet at Combat Prize 2021 thanks to POLIART Prize

The fruity collaboration with the company POLIART already started during the pasts years, renews itself iThe fruity collaboration with the company POLIART, already launched during the pasts years, renews itself in 2021 as well, in the occasion of Combat Prize’s twelfth edition. The reciprocal aim of the two realities is to consolidate the dialogue between art, business and territory, so fundamental for the growth of contemporary art. POLIART, based in Capannori, Lucca, Italy, is specialized in the production of polystyrene and expanded polystyrene products for purely industrial use. They decided to shape a more artistic and artisanal view of the company on 2007, providing the artists the highest technologies, focusing on expanded polystyrene’s potentials as a dedicated material of the sculpting and installation practice and industrial design. In addition to this, POLIART has pursued, over the years, a constant refinement of the robotic techniques through which this material is sculpted and shaped.

Maurizio Cattelan, We’ll Never Die, 2019 View of installation - Victory is Not an Option - Maurizio Cattelan at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UK, 2019. ® Tom Lindboe, courtesy Blenheim Art Foundation.

The company offers a wide range of perfectly synchronized tools, ready to develop ideas to propose innovative solutions and shapes in a 3D traction world, aiming to make creativity easier and more accessible.

POLIART, that already counts collaborations with national and international fame artists, opens its doors to young and emerging artists supporting them in the creation of their artistic products through the production of their artworks.

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Thanks to the partnership with the Combat Prize, the artists Giulia Maiorano and the Penzo_ Fiore duo, past editions winners, have collaborated. The new POLIART Prize's winner will be proclaimed on Saturday 9 October at Museo civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno, Italy, during the award ceremony of the twelfth edition of Combat Prize.

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Sillabe has published the catalog for PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE's twelfth edition

Now in its twelfth edition, and in the second year of a worldwide health emergency that gives little sign of ending, the Combat Prize continues to give voice to emerging talent and innovative experimentation.

The climate of contemporary art as a whole is not encouraging; calls for help are heard everywhere, and the timid signs of protest lamenting the lack of a coordinated, forward-looking policy in favour of this sector have practically faded into an awkward silence. For the most part supported by the private sector, the production of Italian artists is at risk of being starved.

Premio Combat Prize's catalog - Sillabe Edition

The more pressing needs stemming from the prolonged health crisis risk marginalizing their production and the motor of the entire art system. The much longed-for end of this crisis situation remains the indispensable precondition for the initiation of something different. Our battle must be to ensure that art becomes an integral part of our lives again, to guarantee that it is not relegated to a peripheral role, disregarded and set aside as superfluous.

Despite all that, like a plant germinating in infertile soil but full of intrinsic life, the Combat Prize resists and, amazingly, even manages to thrive. Our hope is to have created an effective instrument, reliable and capable of making an important contribution to the Italian art scene.

During periods of crisis, there is often a change in the nature of artistic production. Should that occur, we will be ready to support artists by acquiring or commissioning their work and to document the emerging trends within the Italian and international art scene, trying to recognize the most promising and dynamic ones as they develop.

I would like to thank the Communal Administration of Livorno, the Fondazione Livorno, Poliart and the publishing house Sillabe, who have consistently supported the Combat project over these past years and been constantly attentive to our work.

Finally, a heartfelt applause to the more than 1200 artists who participated in this twelfth edition, without whom it would not have been possible.

It is my sincere hope that the Combat Prize represents both a marvellous journey of exploration and a source of self-knowledge for you all.

Paolo Batoni President of the Blob ART Cultural Association

Edited by: Paolo Batoni

Edition (cm): 21x21

Year: 2021

Pages: 144

Illustrations: in colour

Translation by: Lauren Sunstein for Scriptum, Roma

Languages: italiano/inglese

Texts: Simone Lenzi, Paolo Batoni, Francesca Baboni, Francesca Canfora, Andrea Bruciati, Stefano Taddei, Lorenzo Balbi, Davide Ferri, Kiki Mazzucchelli

Prize: euro 20.00

You can order the catalog at the Sillabe Publishing House or by sending your request to: info@premiocombat.it