The third edition of the CONAI Award Circular Art it was assigned to Milanese Camilla Alberti. On 24 April, the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, together with Michelangelo Pistoletto and the CONAI president Ignazio Capuano, awarded the prize to the winner at the Pistoletto Foundation, in the context of the Planet Week that accompanies the G7 on Climate , Energy and Environment in Turin.
Born in 1994, Alberti distinguished herself with her work “Unbinding Creatures. Organism 30“, a sculpture made with plaster, aluminium, wood, glass, bones, bicycle sprocket and shells.
The winner explains her artistic process as a sort of “urban archaeology“, in which he collects abandoned objects, industrial waste and anthropic elements to create sculptures and installations. “These are traces of life, of contemporary ruins that emerge from explorations in urban spaces,” says Alberti. “Each material collected becomes a map, testifying to the traces left by all the organisms that have interacted and manipulated it over time”.
Camilla Alberti, a visual artist, dedicates his work to exploring the ways in which the world is built and inhabited, with particular attention to the relationships between different living species and the space they share. Among his recent exhibitions, we can mention the Central Pavilion of the Malta Biennale in 2024, the GIAF23 in Gangneung, South Korea in 2023, the Italian Pavilion at the 14th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea in 2023, the Akademie Graz in 2023, as well as exhibitions at the Palazzo Vecchio and the Museo Novecento in 2022, the Palazzo Strozzi in 2021 in Florence, and the Schloss Eggenberg Archaeological Museum in Graz in 2021.
Alberti has obtained significant recognition, including victory in the Cantica21 public notice for Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere – Under 35, promoted by MAECI-DGSP / MiC-DGCC in 2021. She was also selected by Hyundai Europe to create a work as part of the inspiredbybayon launch campaign in 2021.
The CONAI president, Ignazio Capuano, underlines that “Camilla Alberti’s work is striking for its immediate expressive force. Made with different and sometimes unexpected materials, it becomes a metaphor for the complexity of the circular economy system and the challenges it faces. Once again, art demonstrates its ability to tell how matter can regenerate itself, even taking on new forms. In Italy, more than seventy percent of packaging finds new life through recycling. Alberti and the other nine artists participating in the CONAI Circular Art Award underlined the importance of conscious use of the planet’s resources and their protection”.
For the third consecutive year, the CONAI Circular Art Award offered a platform for ten young Italian artists under 35 to reinterpret the concept of sustainability through art. Selected by Marco Bassan and Ludovico Pratesi, founders of Spazio Taverna, based on an approach focused on innovation and the circular economy, combined with a solid international background, these ten artists have transformed ideas and perspectives into works of art.
Their creations offer new perspectives and possible solutions to the challenges of a future that increasingly requires attention to the environment. Through fresh and surprising creativity, they propose visions that respond to the needs of a world increasingly committed to protecting the ecosystem.
In addition to Camilla Alberti, the other nine artists of the 2024 edition of Arte Circolare include Sveva Angeletti, Paolo Bufalini, Ambra Castagnetti, Francesca Cornacchini, Lucia Cristiani, Daniele Di Girolamo, Andrea Mauti, Iacopo Pinelli and Gabriella Siciliano.
