An atlas of beauty

The fragility of beauty

"Never before has beauty shown itself in all its fragility and, seeing with how much work and dedication is produced, we need to reflect a lot on the horror of war and on the importance of giving more and more space to the good and the beautiful, with great pain and concern for current events", underlines Maurizio di Robilant, president of the Foundation.

The awards

Among the four winners of the competition, two will receive a cash prize worth 30,000 euros each, while the other two classified will be able to use a voucher worth 50,000 euros for a rebranding project made available by the consulting company Robilant Associati.

The winning projects

Selected by the members of the Foundation's Advisory Board, the two companies that won the cash prize are:

• Arte Sella, a Trentino project aimed at communicating the ongoing transition of art in nature which involves artists, designers and architects with a strong multidisciplinary connotation in the creation of site specific installations installed open air in the Borgo Valsugana park;
• The Revolution of the Cuttlefish , a hyper-collective that aims to activate forms of regeneration of marginal areas, in particular the town of Belmonte Calabro , experimenting with new models of life and work. By involving the local population and new inhabitants (students, academics, digital nomads, asylum seekers) arriving from different areas of Italy and Europe, it promotes a plural, international and multi-ethnic community.

The two winners who will receive support for rebranding projects

The projects that have won the "in kind" award are:

• Post Disaster Rooftops , a cultural production platform of Taranto that transforms the roofs of the old city into temporary public spaces, to offer an alternative point of view on the transformations underway . With the contribution of artists, thinkers, researchers and designers, it gives life to a renewed imagination, which goes beyond the dominant narrative of the disaster (environmental, economic and social);
• Accademia del Teatro alla Scala , for communication activities aimed at young people relating to the expansion of the training offer and the creation of a new technologically advanced and competitive campus with the most prestigious international universities.

The criteria underlying the awarding of prizes

In defining the winners, a balance criterion was followed that would hold together great cultural institutions and experimental initiatives by young people from north to south. "The prizes awarded include territorial development projects, youth and art", explains Giovanni Lanzone, secretary general and director of the Foundation. "Constant features of almost all projects are the imbalance towards the next generations and the desire to support remote areas of our territory". "Our goal is to discover and reward talents who work in complex areas and to create a network of operators who work for the enhancement of our country", he adds Alessia del Corona , director of the Italy Patria della Bellezza Foundation.

Montenegro Group Award - Human Spirit

Attention to young people and to the relationship with training and work is a living component in many projects, in particular in the one chosen by Gruppo Montenegro for the special prize dedicated to Human Spirit, to aggregation and human value. It is A School, a Job, conceived by the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte to promote throughout the territory the insertion of young talents into the world of high artistic craftsmanship, through masters followed by 6 months of internship in the workshop.

Special prizes

With the Luxottica Digital Award, the company has chosen to give visibility to the The Beauty of the things we are of the FondazioADI, aimed at enhancing the historical Compasso d'Oro, and the Arte Sella project. The IGP Decaux Award aims to increase the visibility of the four winning projects of the call, through some of its own local media.

"This year there are 140 participations in our Call and, among these, 19 will be awarded by the Foundation and its partners, even if, due to the high quality of all the proposals, many more projects would have deserved support to communicate how much work is being done in the country for the development and promotion of Beauty", comments the president of the Maurizio di Robilant Foundation.

Projects ‘adopted’ pro bono

The work done from below , with totally autonomous resources, is a small but substantial contribution to the recovery of our country, strengthened and confirmed by list of 'adopted' projects, which this year will be even longer thanks to the 12 communication agencies that have so far joined the initiative, working pro bono for 13 projects.