Award 2021
Welcome to the Social Art Award 2021 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many inspiring contributions from artists around the world. The selected works reflect a broad spectrum of contemporary social art practices and explore new relationships between humans, nature, and technology. They address themes such as ecological regeneration, climate justice, sustainable futures, social resilience, and more-than-human perspectives.
Below you will find the submissions from the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening edition that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and encourages dialogue around their ideas and approaches; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your visionary and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping New Greening.
Toxic Air 11 on/off
stefano.diloreto
Techique: plexiglas, stainless steel, led; whith stand Dimensions: lenght 23cm, height 41cm, depth 15cm About the artwork: The “weight” of the invisible. With this sculpture we want to focus on atmospheric pollution. Plexiglass was used to make the air transparent. With lashes of color the invisible toxic nanoparticles, the so-called air killers, are metaphorically broken. The bees, the first indicator of pollution, were collected dead in fields treated by toxic pesticides and inserted into the sculpture to give them a “new life”. The point on which the artist focuses is the weight of the invisible and how much it actually escapes us; it is not an abstract invisible, but a concrete, material invisible that, escaping our sight, we do not perceive and underestimate, yet it exists. It is an invisible who has a weight, but who, above all, has the strength to penetrate us imperceptibly, and worse, to kill us slowly …with every breath. The invisible toxic nanoparticles that pollute the air and that contaminate our cells and our DNA …the “weight” of the invisible.
Techique: plexiglas, stainless steel, led; whith stand Dimensions: lenght 23cm, height 41cm, depth 15cm About the artwork: The “weight” of the invisible. With this sculpture we want to focus on atmospheric pollution. Plexiglass was used to make the air transparent. With lashes of color the invisible toxic nanoparticles, the so-called air killers, are metaphorically broken. The bees, the first indicator of pollution, were collected dead in fields treated by toxic pesticides and inserted into the sculpture to give them a “new life”. The point on which the artist focuses is the weight of the invisible and how much it actually escapes us; it is not an abstract invisible, but a concrete, material invisible that, escaping our sight, we do not perceive and underestimate, yet it exists. It is an invisible who has a weight, but who, above all, has the strength to penetrate us imperceptibly, and worse, to kill us slowly …with every breath. The invisible toxic nanoparticles that pollute the air and that contaminate our cells and our DNA …the “weight” of the invisible.