Ritszel Wins Trieste Contemporanea Award 2015
Dominik Ritszel, a Polish artist who specialises in film and video, has been crowned the 2015 winner of the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award.
This was the fifteenth time the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award has been given. The aim of the award is to promote young, talented artists and their works on the international art scene. Many past winners have become recognised worldwide, such as Paweł Althamer, a Polish artist who won in 2002, and Ivan Moudov from Bulgaria, the winner in 2006.
After a meeting in Trieste during the 7th CEI Forum for Contemporary Art Curators, an international jury including Giuliana Carbi, Maja Ćirić, Emanuela Marassi, Suzana Milevska, Maria Vassileva and Janka Vukmir went through 229 submissions from 22 countries, finally deciding on Dominik Ritszel as the winner.
Born in 1988, Ritszel graduated from the Department of Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. He concentrates on films and videos, using images to create narration in his works. His camera registers, observes, and sometimes peeks at existing and arranged situations. Psychological portraits of groups and individuals are often set in anonymous spaces filled with terrifying silences. Ritszel won the 3rd edition of the Gray House Foundation competition in 2013. The jury appreciated him for:
the courage and remarkable ability to use poetic, metaphysical language to reveal significant details beneath the layers of everyday routine.
His prize includes a solo exhibition of his works at the Studio Tommaseo in Trieste. The opening is due to take place on 26th March 2016. An accompanying monographic catalogue will also be published.
Sources: www.triestecontemporanea.it, csw.art.pl, edited by AS, translated by ND, 23 Nov 2015
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