OSTEN Biennial of drawing
Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia, 2022
First Prize for Graphics – Anna Montanaro (Italy)
Awarded within the OSTEN Biennial of Drawing, an international biennial dedicated to research in contemporary drawing and practices of the mark, curated by Kornelija Koneska and evaluated by an international jury composed of museum directors, curators, and art historians.
Special Guest:
Joseph Kosuth – Grand Prix for Lifetime Achievement
International Jury:
Dr. L. K. Møller (Denmark)
Dr. Mario Pieroni (Italy)
Dr. Maria Tsantsanoglou (Greece)
Ego, Ecstasy & Passion
fragments of a body in dissolution
The eternal movement of Giambologna's Rape of the Sabine Women, where form never settles, but winds itself into space like a tense prayer.
In that impossible torsion, the body no longer belongs to a single meaning: it is capture, escape, desire, and resistance all at once. The ego tries to define itself, ecstasy unravels it, passion crosses it like a current that asks no permission.
What remains is not the scene, but its vibration: a suspended instant in which flesh becomes emotional architecture. Each figure is simultaneously dominance and loss, balance and surrender.
And in that spiral — which still inhabits The Rape of the Sabine Women in Piazza della Signoria like an unresolved knot at the heart of stone — the human body is no longer narrated: it is consumed, revealed, transformed.
Authorities and Institutions Present
Participation in the OSTEN Biennial of Drawing, an international platform of reference for experimentation in the language of contemporary drawing.
On the occasion of the 2022 edition, the award was received on my behalf by the Ambassador of Italy to North Macedonia, Andrea Silvestri.
The official ceremony took place within the institutional programme of the Biennial, in the presence of the President of the Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski.
Institutional Recognition
On the occasion of the 2022 edition, the award was received on my behalf by the Ambassador of Italy to North Macedonia, Andrea Silvestri.
The official ceremony took place within the institutional programme of the Biennial, in the presence of the President of the Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski.
