VOTES FOR THE SOCIAL MEDIA PRIZE "THE WEIGHT OF MEMORY"
- karen lojelo
- 15 hours ago
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NB This poll will only and exclusively decide the winners of the 'Social' category and the results will be hidden from November 20th as the winners will only be announced at the Awards Ceremony on November 22nd 2025.
The unquestionable vote of the expert jury, completely separate from this, will instead decree the winners of the official category of the Award.
PHOTOS AND CONCEPT OF WORKS IN COMPETITION:
Emiliano Alfonsi
Title: Silentium
Measurements: 30x30 cm
Technique: tempera and pure gold on wood
Concept : The painting explores vulnerability and the exposed heart as a symbol of emotions and memories. A black bird, tied to the heart by a red string, represents the burden of the past, while a white bird brings hope and new memories. The figure embraces this emotional duality, with bees symbolizing constant mental activity. The work demonstrates the dynamic connection between past and future.
Marco Bischisecchi
Title: Nina
Measurements: 90x40 cm
Technique: synthetic and acrylic on wood
Concept : The artist describes his painting as a fragment of his memory, a youthful recollection that represents one of his first attempts to give form to matter. It is an evolution of the present rooted in the past, a journey through "memory."
Marco Bischisecchi
Title: Short Memory
Measurements: 60x60 cm
Technique: synthetic acrylic powder dye on jute and wood.
Concept : This work reflects on our tendency to ignore the lessons of history, leading us to repeat the same mistakes like a looping pattern from which we cannot escape. It invites us to awaken our collective memory to avoid falling into the horrors of the past.
Alessandro Tasselli
Title: Whispers of Resilience
Measurements: 30x40 cm
Technique: engraving on slate (2024)
Concept : explores memory as a gaze seeking light among shadows, preserving and regenerating the past so as not to forget it. Silence preserves unspoken stories and enduring truths. Every mark becomes a scar, bearing witness to the past. Memory, though burdensome, protects and connects us to the past, pushing us towards the future.
Marco Massarotti
Title: Blue
Measurements: 70x100 cm
Technique: oil and acrylic on paper (2023)
Concept : The work represents memory as a skin showing signs of aging. The abrasions on the paper reveal hidden layers, while the bluish face symbolizes the boundary between memory and loss. The abraded paper reflects the mind that preserves and erases, transforming every wound into an act of memory and oblivion, a process of appearance and disappearance.
Rosy Mantovani
Title: Moments 1
Measurements: 70x50 cm
Technique: oil, graphite, gauze and gold leaf on canvas (2025)
Concept : A fleeting memory of a profound encounter. The woman relives an exchange of glances, a symbol of understanding and silent communication between souls. The nuances and delicate light reflect the emotion and complexity of that moment, highlighting intimacy and distance.
Rosy Mantovani
Title: Moments 2
Measurements: 70x50 cm
Technique: oil, graphite, gauze and gold leaf on canvas (2025)
Concept : A woman lost in thought, the sounds of the city blending with her memories. It illustrates the choice to leave the past behind to embrace the uncertainty of the future, expressing hope and nostalgia in a balance between what has been and what could be.
Giulia Efisi
Title: It was them
Measurements: Polyptych – 36×36 cm x 4
Technique: Photographs printed with the ancient platinum-palladium technique
Concept : It Was Them. When They Were, It Was Them. They Always Are, Vibrant Presences and Absences, Heavy and Light
scrutinizing, reassuring, forever present
that are beyond the threshold.
(Giulia Efisi)
"They Were Them" is a poignant song about the balance between presence and absence, between the past and what still pulses in silence. This work captures the memories of four children, immortalized through photographs collected in a cemetery with the loving consent of their heirs, becoming a tribute to eternal remembrance.
The images, reworked using the platinum-palladium technique, defy time, giving the work an almost sculptural consistency. The deep tones and soft light weave a visual narrative in which every detail comes alive, while the material's durability symbolizes resistance and permanence. The choice of this ancient technique is a symbolic gesture: to capture in eternity lives that live beyond the visible.
"They Were Them" is a silent dialogue between vibrant absences and whispering presences. It invites a journey through time, where memory transforms into light and light becomes memory. It is a tale of what is perceived without appearing, evoking the invisible in its purest essence.
Aseptic Void
Title: Mind Control 3
Measurements: 40x50 cm
Technique: Tempera, acrylic, acrylic spray and gold glitter on canvas (2025)
Title: Doll
Measurements: 30x30 cm
Technique: tempera, acrylic and acrylic spray on canvas (2018)
Title: Androgynous
Measurements: 40x50 cm
Technique: tempera, acrylic and acrylic spray on canvas (2022)
Aseptic Void forges his art around the profound theme of identity, like a traveler carrying the weight of memories. Through moments when he felt his essence floating outside his body, like a soul searching for a reflection among others, yet unable to find it. This feeling, guarded like an ancestral secret, proved to be an indelible mark of his individuality, a glass crystal separating him from the world. Over time, the artist says he learned to breathe life fully, casting aside the ruminations that anchored him. But the shadows of forgotten identities resurface, merging into dreamlike visions, transforming into chimeras: ectoplasmic creatures that dance on the canvas, becoming tempera and acrylic.
These fragments of herself, distant and intimate, find a purpose: she loves to paint faces that recall both dolls and the figure of Grimilde, because in these forms she glimpses an unexpected freedom, a poetic anchoring to reality.
Oliver Hitzmann
Title: The past self
Measurements: Polyptych – 36×48 / 24×32 / 24×32 / 16×24 cm
Technique: stippling art (2025)
Concept : The Lost Self, The Fused Self, The Buried Self and, at the center, The Self.
A reminder that it is not our past selves, but our perception of them that continues to shape and influence who we are.
Sascha Lantzsch
Title: In the end it was all just smoke in the wind
Measurements: 70x50 cm
Technique: oil on canvas (2024)
Concept : 'In the End It Was All Just Smoke in the Wind' explores how memory influences our perception of the present and vision of the future. It can be a burden or a source of momentum, but it is often distorted by emotion. Reflecting on it can free the mind or lead to acceptance of its inescapable impact.
Agnes Cabano
Title: Beyond the Door
Dimensions: 33x20x54 cm
Technique: mixed media installation: wood, oil paint and vintage barbies (2025)
Concept : The setting of the wooden part is inspired by Magritte's surreal shapes and skies and the installation as a whole is a gesture of passage, a reflection on the transformation of female identity, but also on time, on play, and on the silence that becomes voice.
Emanuele Santovito
Title: Engraved
Measurements: 35x25 cm
Technique: ink on cardboard
Concept : The work seeks to explore the role of memory in personal, emotional, and intellectual growth. The choice of only black and white is intended to convey both a nostalgic effect and to question the vividness of memories.
Pasquale Mazza
Title: Rebirth
Dimensions: 80x60 cm
Technique: oil on canvas with gold contamination
Concept : The symbolic rebirth of the soul, represented by a woman who embodies life and healing. Inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where gold heals broken bones.
Pasquale Mazza
Title: The Epilogue - The Dance of the Soul
Measurements: 80x80 cm
Technique: oil on canvas with jute
Concept : The work explores the weight of memory through the theory of Twin Flames. Souls who search for each other over the course of many lifetimes even when fate separates them. The two souls are represented by the two pieces of jute.
Federica Zanatta
Title: Remembrance
Measurements: 25x30 cm
Technique: acrylic on canvas (2025)
Concept : For the artist, these signs are vortices of intertwined memories, with rhymes that are not always light.
Michael Praticò
Title: The Guardian in Heels
Measurements: 70x100 cm
Technique: mixed media on canvas
Concept : Explores strength and fragility in a symbolic figure, a guardian who combines elegance and resistance. Heels, a symbol of femininity, become armor that helps defend memories and maintain dignity. It suggests that remembering implies not only preserving, but also moving forward despite adversity, carrying the past with you.
Simone Bellucci
Title: Ship
Measurements: 90x90 cm
Technique: digital
Concept : for the artist, memory comes to life in thought and he sees in this sailing ship a fascinating way to sail its routes and capture the essence of the past to design the destinations of the future.
Pamela Marinelli
Title: Healing Day
Measurements: 50x70 cm
Technique: watercolor, pencils and gold leaf on cotton paper (2025)
Concept : Explores physical healing through releasing the burden of painful memories, comparing it to the alchemy of turning lead into gold. Healing comes from within, reconnecting us to the soul. Healing symbols, such as the whale and the badger, represent the profound connection with the sun, the source of light and rebirth.
Maria Romano
Title: The Garden of Thoughts
Measurements: 50x60 cm
Technique: oil on canvas (2025)
Concept : Explore the intimate space of the mind, thoughts growing like flowers in a secret garden. The female face expresses introspection; the hair becomes fertile ground for flowers, symbols of ideas and emotions. The red hand represents the physicality of thought. The geometric background contrasts with the vitality of the flowers, symbolizing the dialogue between rationality and emotion.
Francesco Bagnoli
Title: Fransis
Measurements: 30x40 cm
Technique: oil on canvas
Concept : Remembering what has happened gives us the opportunity to do something better, according to the artist. Perhaps Fransis' gaze means this.
Irene Andrei
Title: Plot
Dimensions: 80x60 cm
Technique: mixed with inclusions (2025)
Concept : Memory is like a tangle of threads between the fingers, lasting connections that unite and imprison: red for wounds, yellow for vitality in adversity, and black for the passing of time.
The Little Black Man symbolizes the human being and his connection to the past, reflecting memory as a burden and nourishment that defines our existence.
Ermelinda Nigro
Title: The Weight of Memory
Measurements: 65x100 cm
Technique: mixed media fabric on canvas (2025)
Concept : The work creates a dialogue between lightness and gravity, showing memory as a precious yet imprisoned nucleus, capable of illuminating and at the same time weighing on the soul.
Paul Paolini
Title: Mnemosyne
Measurements: 50x70 cm
Technique: acrylic, quartz acrylic, charcoal and oil pastels on canvas
Concept: Mother of the nine muses, Mnemosyne embodies the principle of preserving knowledge and history. Her image is surrounded by folds that symbolize the complexity and depth of the human mind. The nine vortices represent the muses, each tasked with preserving and nourishing memory through the arts and creative inspiration. This connection between Mnemosyne and the muses emphasizes how memory is not merely a passive repository of information, but a dynamic and vital element that continues to influence and shape our culture and creativity. The work, therefore, invites us to reflect on how the weight of memory is not merely a burden, but also an inexhaustible source of inspiration and knowledge.
Sara Marine
Title: The Voice of Poverty
Measurements: 80x100 cm
Technique: mixed technique decoration of white and raw concrete plus acrylic on wooden board (2025)
Concept : The work speaks of faces that want to be remembered, of material poverty, but above all of richness of memory, of lives that, although marked by pain, do not want to be forgotten.
Seventeen
Title: The Bibas. No. 91
Measurements: 100x80 cm
Technique: oil on canvas (2025)
Concept : A tribute to the Bibas family and all the innocent children victims of forgotten wars. The pumpkin carriage, a fairytale symbol of travel and rebirth, here becomes a vehicle of the soul: a winged diligence carrying broken lives toward the light. The contrast between the bright tones and the dramatic text expresses the weight of memory as a transition from horror to hope.
Laura Vacca
Title: Mnemosyne - room No. 10
Dimensions: 67x87 cm
Technique: acrylic, stucco, gold leaf, feathers and resin on linen
Concept : This work also depicts Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory, symbolizing the power of remembrance between darkness and light after a loss. Shadow memory transforms pain into gold, while light memory guides one toward purity and strength, uniting both for inner and spiritual growth.
Alessandro Villanucci
Title: Memory is a light bulb turned on in a dark room
Measurements: 40x50 cm
Technique: photographic print on forex (2010)
Concept: It represents the fragility of memory, capable of fading unexpectedly and often incapable of fully illuminating the past. The darkness of the room symbolizes the weight of memories within us, indelible marks that light cannot erase.
Francesco Milicia
Title: The Wheat Field
Measurements: 100x100 cm
Technique: mixed media on canvas
Concept : The countryside landscape evokes a timeless memory. Golden fields sway in the wind, while a dirt road separates past and present. Ancient trees shade ruined houses, creating an image that draws memory, not as a burden, but as a connection to what is lost.
Cristina Meotto
Title: Removed from Complicity
Measurements: 50x40 cm
Technique: oil on canvas
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Concept : The woman, curled up, seems suspended in a time that no longer belongs to her. Her body is a closed curve, fragile and necessary, trying to contain pain and memory. Around her, a deep blue expands like a silent tide: it is the color of memory, which envelops but does not console.
The purple, dense and pulsating, shapes the shadows and gives weight to her skin. It is the color of introspection, of the threshold between what is remembered and what one wishes to forget. On her head, her hair glows copper—a final sign of life, a fire that resists silence and loss.
The complicity that has been taken from her lives in the absence of a glance, in the air that no longer finds a response. The surrounding space is rarefied, as if reality itself had retreated, leaving her alone with the weight of her memories, letters engraved in her heart, in essence and in absence.
In The Weight of Memory, this work aims to recount the moment when intimacy dissolves and what remains is the colored trace of memory: a body that bends so as not to break, a light that resists within the melancholy of blue.
Antonio Nastro
Title: Back to the Origins
Measurements: 50x60 cm
Technique: oil on canvas (2025)
Concept : In this surreal and metaphysical work, the mountain represents the mother who welcomes humanity back into her womb, allowing the birth of a new human, in an anthropological sense, and with it a new humanity free of all evil. For the artist, this reflects the weight of memory and an invitation to travel back in time.
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