In a ceremony at the headquarters of the Central Bank Museum, the XII National Painting Prize of the Central Bank 2019 was awarded today. In this edition, more than 800 plastic artists from all over the country were presented and the selection and award of works was in charge of the jury composed of Carolina Antoniadis, Diego Perrotta, Viviana Usubiaga, Francisco Lemus and Andrea Elías, with the curatorship of Rodrigo Alonso.
After the event, which was attended by Guido Sandleris, president of the BCRA; Gustavo Cañonero, vice president; Verónica Rappoport, second vice president and Nicolás Gadano, general manager; as well as artists, juries and prominent personalities of culture, the exhibition of the National Painting Prize of the Central Bank 2019 was inaugurated, which will be exhibited at the Museum of the Central Bank until February 28.
The list of winners:
Grand Prize Tribute | $300,000
Josefina Robirosa, Untitled
First Prize Acquisition | $225,000
Silvia Gurfein, The Work in the Spoiled
Second Prize Acquisition | $150,000
Veronica Calfat, Untitled
Third Prize Acquisition | $100,000
Mario Scorzelli, The Unknown Ideal (Portraits of Liberals)
Jury Mention
Ernesto Julio Alli, Plundering
Stimulus awards for artists under 35 years of age
First Prize Acquisition | $95,000
Alfredo Frías, I already knew it was breaking
Second Prize Acquisition | $75,000
Emiliano Guerresi, The Virgin of the Suburbs
ThirdAcquisition Prize | $50,000
Daiana Martinello, Franklin
Jury Mention
Ángeles Ascúa, From the Bin Bin series
Grand Prize Tribute
During the event, the artist Josefina Robirosa was recognized with the Grand Tribute Prize, for the significant contribution she made to the history of Argentine plastic arts, having gone through lyrical abstraction and figuration. Robirosa was director of the National Endowment for the Arts and is a member of the National Academy of Fine Arts.
The XII Prize exhibition can be visited from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Central Bank Museum, San Martín 216, between December 4 and February 28, 2020.
During 2020, the 30 selected works will participate in the traveling exhibition, stimulating contact with the community and emphasizing the federal sense that the initiative has.
The Central Bank National Painting Prize promotes Argentine contemporary art and brings the work of artists closer to the community. Thanks to this initiative, the Central Bank acquired more than 100 works that make up the BCRA Collection, composed of works by Clorindo Testa, Carlos Alonso, León Ferrari, Gyula Kosice, Julio Le Parc, Liliana Porter, Alejandro Puente, Luis Felipe Noé, Marcia Schvartz, Luis Tomasello and Margarita Paksa, among others.
This art gallery, which is the heritage of all Argentines, represents the fabric of culture and identity of the country. More than 8,000 artists have participated in the contest over the years and with the traveling exhibition they have traveled to almost all the provinces of the Argentine Republic.
