The Paul Thorel Prize is a tribute to the artist who created the Foundation that bears his name. Because he was a pioneer of the electronic image, the prize was conceived as an observatory on the Italian creative scene, to explore the digital arts with photography as its own language of research and aesthetic horizon. The prize, awarded by invitation and annually starting in 2023, consists of a month-long residency in the Foundation’s spaces in Naples, and reactivates the studio and tools of the Italian-French artist Paul Thorel (1956-2020) to create a new original artistic production. The three winning artists of the first edition of the Paul Thorel Prize (2023/24) are the artistic collective Clusterduck (Tommaso Cappelletti, Silvia Dal Dosso, Arianna Magrini, Noel Nicolaus and Franziska Von Guten), Jim C. Nedd and Lina Pallotta. The artists’ new works were featured in the group show L’Undicesima Casa at the Gallerie d’Italia of Intesa Sanpaolo, partner for the first edition of the Prize, and are the focus of three artist books to be released in November 2024 by the publishing house Nero.

Speakers:  Guido Costa, president of the Paul Thorel Foundation in Naples and founder and director of the gallery Guido Costa Projects in Turin; Antonio Carloni, coordinator of photographic projects and commissions of Intesa Sanpaolo and deputy director of the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin; Sara Dolfi Agostini, curator of the Paul Thorel Foundation in Naples; Lorenzo Gigotti, Head of Content and a co-founder of NERO, an international publishing house dedicated to art, criticism, and contemporary culture; Silvia Dal Dosso, one of five members of the artist collective Clusterduck, among the winners of the first edition of the Paul Thorel Prize dedicated to digital arts; Lina Pallotta is an artist, winner of the first edition of the Paul Thorel Prize

Language: Italian