Registration for a new edition of the BCRA National Painting Award is now open and will continue through July 15. Argentine and foreign plastic artists—having a two-year minimum residency in Argentina—can join the event that attracts a large number of participants: more than eleven thousand artists have already taken part in fifteen editions.
The jury in charge of the selection and award process of this edition is composed of Ernesto Ballesteros, Daniel Fischer, Bárbara Golubicki, Delfina Helguera and Julio Sánchez. Rodrigo Alonso will be curator for this edition.
The contest has two categories: Artists older than 35 years of age, and artists younger than 35 years of age.
In order to participate, artists must fill in a registration form. All data provided in the registration form will be considered an affidavit:
- Personal details.
- Résumé in Word format, with a 2,500 character limit summary—spaces included—on education, career and exhibitions.
- Pictures of three non-winning original works made in or after 2021, regardless of their technique, tendency or support. A picture of each work in JPG format must be included. The name of each file must agree with the title of the work.
The works must have the following measures so as to be admitted:
- Base (width)| minimum: 70 cm; maximum: 150 cm.
- Height | minimum: none; maximum: 200 cm.
Once the selection stage is completed, the BCRA will carry the works from each artist’s home to the location where they will be exhibited. In this edition, the exhibition will also travel across some provinces in Argentina.
The BCRA and the Promotion of Argentine Contemporary Art
The BCRA National Painting Award promotes Argentine contemporary art and brings the work of artists closer to the community.
With this initiative, the BCRA has acquired more than 100 works for the BCRA Collection, which includes works by Carlos Alonso, León Ferrari, Sara Facio, Gyula Kosice, Julio Le Parc, Luis Felipe Noé, Margarita Paksa, Liliana Porter, Alejandro Puente, Josefina Robirosa, Marcia Schvartz, Elsa Soibelman, Clorindo Testa, Luis Tomasello and Luis Wells, among others. This collection, which is part of Argentina’s artistic heritage, stands for our culture and identity.
