ARTIST OF THE YEAR – 2020 WINNERS

ITSLIQUID Group is pleased to announce the WINNERS of the ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2020, a competition open to anyone and established to increase and develop the art market and the dialogue between collectors, art critics, journalist and art lovers. Making contemporary art accessible to all.

Artworks have been judged based on creativity, originality, quality of work, and overall artistic ability. Winners have been chosen based on the quality of single entry as well as quality of overall work.

Winners 2020
Manuel Alvarez Diestro . Spain
Stephanie Langard . France
Vera Nowottny . Germany

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ARTIST OF THE YEAR – 2020 Winners

Manuel Alvarez Diestro . Spain

Manuel Alvarez Diestro (Santander, 1972) is a visual artist working with photography and Film. He grew up in Northern Spain and at early age in 1990 he moved to Los Angeles to study and play tennis. After graduating in Art History at Boston University he decided to travel around the world and start a career as a photographer and combining with filmmaking. Since then, Manuel has lived in many countries across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. His work as a visual artist is regularly published and exhibited in international venues. As a filmmaker many of his films have been screened through film festivals.

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Stephanie Langard . France

Meeting her is like embarking on a quest for truth. A journey, during which you will have to learn how to navigate your way around labyrinthine grounds. The workshop you’ll discover is a secret haven of peace, as if secluded from the world, in the quiet backstreets of Pantin. There, you will find pretty much everything. At first, a lot of light. Light, that pours in and softly touches oak pieces, powdered clay, sculptures and works of art in the making. It is the same light that emanates from Stéphanie Langard’s beaming face.

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Vera Nowottny . Germany

Vera Nowottny, born in Bad Neustadt Saale in 1970, is a German visual artist and photographer based in Munich. In her artistic work she pursues two photographic perspectives. One concerns seeing and the situational reaction to external processes, for which digital photography is used. On the other hand, she works in an analogue manner, with the camera obscura and sheet films as recording media. This allows her technical flexibility in generating images that cannot be implemented using digital photography. In contrast to the former, these images are created in the head and are not based on sight.

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ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2021

ITSLIQUID Group officially presents ARTIST OF THE YEAR, a competition open to anyone and established to increase and develop the art market and the dialogue between collectors, art critics, journalist and art lovers. Making contemporary art accessible to all.
The winner will be awarded as ‘Artist of the Year’, will be represented by ITSLIQUID Group for one year and will take part in some selected exhibitions in Venice and London ITSLIQUID Galleries during 2022. The winner will be featured and interviewed on ITSLIQUID Platform, promoted extensively worldwide and considered for any upcoming curatorial projects of ITSLIQUID Group.

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ITSLIQUID is a web based information platform, founded in 2001 by Luca Curci, dedicated to world wide distribution of information about calls for entries, exhibitions and events at some of the world’s leading art galleries, museums and foundations selected. ITSLIQUID has already built a readership of more than 250.000 qualified subscribers. Among them architects, designers, artists, collectors, art critics, curators, dealers, and other personalities of the International art, architecture and design world. It provides advertising services, press office services for events and projects, articles and specials published on the website, media partnerships services.

During the last 20 years, ITSLIQUID Group has became a cultural hub between creatives, exhibition spaces and art lovers. Among our international partners, Art Now Fair, Art Vancouver, Design Tokyo, INDEX Qatar, INDEX Saudi, The Big 5 Construct Dubai, The Big 5 Construct Qatar, Photo LA Los Angeles and international magazines like Art Style. ITSLIQUID Group supports some of the most important no-profit organizations, like UNFCCC – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, SSCS – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, One Tree Planted, The Ocean CleanUp and Plastic Oceans, with the goal to increase public awareness about environmental issues. Click here to find out more.

ITSLIQUID GROUP includes a section dedicated to the organization of international art events, managing exhibitions of painting, photography, video art, installation and performance; it organizes solo and collective shows, art residencies and international contests. Its object is to use new technologies to globalize the language of art, to connect artists working in every part of the world.

ITSLIQUID Group manages a variety of art spaces all over the world; among them THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space in the heart of San Marco Square in Venice and different historical buildings, THE LINE Contemporary Art Space in the London city center and other different partners worldwide. Since its beginning, the group has organized more than 250 events all around the world, involving more than 5.000 artists, in more than 60 international venues in Italy, USA, Canada, UK, Spain, France, etc. Most of the last events have been realized in museums (CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in Spain, NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow, etc.), galleries and private foundations.

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