Illycaffee’s
Coffee Art Award Goes to Daniela Ortiz from Angels Barcelona Gallery
July 17 - 2021
Coffee Geography Magazine
Daniela
Ortiz represented by Àngels Barcelona gallery, won the 14th edition of the
illySustainArt Award with her work Papapatriarchy, a representation of the
father figure, based on her own personal experiences and the one of many women
and mothers. Her work is inspired by current social issues such as diversity,
feminism, immigration, and racism. The art piece presented at the fair, is
composed of 19 pieces of acrylic paintings on wood, representing the role of
parenthood.
illycaffè is
devoted to promoting contemporary art and emerging artists by illySustainArt, a
project aiming at recognizing the work of artists born in coffee-producing
countries and exposed at ARCOmadrid art fair, of which illy has been official
partner since 2005.
An
independent jury composed by Patrizia Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, founder of Sandretto Foundation, Agustín Pérez
Rubio, independent curator, and Carlo Bach,
illycaffè's Art Director, awarded Daniela Ortiz selected
among the emerging artists born from 1981 and exhibited by 130 art galleries
presented at ARCOmadrid 2021. The jury considered her work as part of the
Spanish colonial heritage, using the tools of a conqueror to express a current
issue through the aesthetics of contemporary art.
Since
its foundation, the illySustainArt project has served as a meeting
place and venue for cultural exchange among artists and curators coming mainly
from Spain and South America coffee-producing countries, who today
tell of the new lands of creativity and reach out to the international
contemporary art community. Conceived to explore new frontiers of creativity,
illy SustainArt Award recognizes the winning artist with a prize of 15000€
without purchasing the artwork.
In
previous edition, the artists who won this recognition were:
2008: Matheus Rocha Pitta (Brazil)
2009: Avinash Veeraraghavan (India)
2010: Camilo Ontiveros (México)
2011:
André Komatsu (Brasil)
2012: Voluspa
Jarpa (Chile)
2013: Julia Rometti and Victor
Costales (México)
2014: Diego Bruno (Argentina)
2015: Sergio Zevallos (Perú)
2016: Felipe Cohen (Brasil)
2017:
Iván Argote (Colombia)
2018: Marcelo Cidade (Brasil)
2019:
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe (Venezuela)
2020: Hellen Ascoli (Guatemala)
The
aim of the prize, which has become a benchmark among art operators, is to give
visibility to young artists coming from coffee-producing countries from which
illycaffè sources its raw materials.
illycaffè
is present at the fair also with a tasting space in pavilion 7, at stand B22,
where visitors have the chance to discover the new illy Art Collection designed
by Ai Weiwei, a personal interpretation of the series of art cups
by the Chinese artist who is one of the 21st centuries most
influential people.
Visitors
could also enjoy #illyWalk, a route especially created amongst a selection of
bars, restaurants, and hotels, where they can taste a free espresso in the
center of Madrid during the days of ARCOmadrid.