Giacomo Segantin wins the Sustainable Art Prize at ArtVerona 2024

As part of the UniPadova Sostenibile project and of its commitment to the promotion of the UN 2030 Agenda 2022, also carried out through its participation in the RUS – Network of Universities for Sustainable Development, the University of Padua has joined the Sustainable Art Prize, an initiative launched in 2017 by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in partnership with Veronafiere S.p.A., and subsequently opened to the collaboration of the other three universities in Veneto, Iuav of Venice, Padua and Verona.
The Sustainable Art Prize aims to award a prize to an artist or a collective that, through the language of art, actively disseminates issues related to the great global challenges of sustainable development, while at the same time creating a path of involvement and awareness for students and the community at large.
The winner of this year’s award at ArtVerona 2024 is Giacomo Segantin, represented by Artropia Gallery, with the following motivation: ‘Giacomo Segantin’s poetics and in particular the project proposal put forward as part of his candidature for the Sustainable Art Prize take their starting point from a profound theoretical reflection on the themes of sustainability and in particular the rethinking of the relationship with nature, organic material and the urban dimension.
His practice makes use of numerous media, including photography, installation and frottage. These techniques lend themselves particularly well to application to workshop and participatory moments aimed at students, also in relation to university and urban spaces. The jury particularly appreciated the artist’s ability to preserve the memory of spatiality in the work, as well as the use of techniques for collecting materials to be regenerated in the works through urban collection practices in the context of a collaborative circularity.
The artist manifested to the jury a particular sharing of the principles underlying Goals 11 and 12 of Agenda 2030.’
Starting in 2025, the artist will collaborate with the universities participating in the project and a group of female and male students, with the aim of realising an original art project on the topic of sustainability.
Photo credits: Resmes.