The Premio Faenza is an international prize for contemporary ceramic art. It is awarded by the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, and is the principal Italian prize of its kind.[2]: 47 

Premio Faenza
Awarded forcontemporary ceramic art
Date1938 (1938)
LocationFaenza
CountryItaly
Presented byMuseo Internazionale delle Ceramiche
Winners
Full list of recipients[1]
  • 1938: Pietro Melandri [it]
  • 1939: Pietro Melandri
  • 1941: Emilio Casadio and Carlo Corvi
  • 1942: Giuseppe Mazzullo
  • 1946: Angelo Biancini and Anselmo Bucci
  • 1949: Anselmo Bucci, Guido Gambone ex aequo
  • 1952: Antonio Scordia and Guerrino Tramonti
  • 1953: Salvatore Meli, Carlo Zauli ex aequo
  • 1954: Leoncillo Leonardi
  • 1955: Carlo Negri, Guerrino Tramonti ex aequo
  • 1956: Germano Belletti, Gian Battista Valentini ex aequo
  • 1957: Angelo Biancini
  • 1958: Carlo Zauli
  • 1959: Guido Gambone
  • 1960: Guido Gambone
  • 1961: Gian Battista Valentini
  • 1962: Carlo Zauli
  • 1963: Fulvio Ravaioli, Pompeo Pianezzola ex aequo
  • 1964:Leoncillo Leonardi, Rogier Vandeweghe [nl] ex aequo
  • 1965: Berndt Friberg
  • 1966: Wilhelm and Elly Kuch
  • 1967: Eduard Chapallaz
  • 1968: Hilkka Liisa Ahola
  • 1969: Vlastimil Květenský
  • 1970: Goffredo Gaeta, Ivo Sassi ex aequo
  • 1971: Panos Tsolakos
  • 1972: Yasuo Hayashi
  • 1973: Wilhelm and Elly Kuch
  • 1974: Georges Blom
  • 1975: Colin Pearson
  • 1976: Alfonso Leoni, Paul Donhauser ex aequo
  • 1977: Gian Battista Valentini
  • 1978: Mirko Orlandini
  • 1979: Maria Teresa Kuczynska
  • 1980: Guido Mariani
  • 1981: Michel Kuipers
  • 1982: Aki Matsui Toshio
  • 1983: Jo-Anne Caron Devroey, Emidio Galassi ex aequo
  • 1984: Giuseppe Lucietti
  • 1985: Sueharu Fukami
  • 1986: (no award)
  • 1987: Franz Stähler
  • 1989: Enrico Stropparo
  • 1991: Svetlana Nikolaevna Pasechnaya
  • 1993: Tjok Dessauvage, Aldo Rontini ex aequo
  • 1995: Ken Eastman
  • 1997: Michael Cleff
  • 1999: Torbjørn Kvasbø
  • 2001: Ana Cecilia Hillar
  • 2003: Jun Nishida
  • 2005: Silvia Zotta, Tomoko Kawakami ex aequo
  • 2007: Simone Lucietti, Ian Mcdonald ex aequo
  • 2009: Tomonari Kato, Andrea Salvatori ex aequo
  • 2011: Shigeki Hayashi, Eri Dewa, Giovanni Ruggiero ex aequo
  • 2013: Päivi Rintaniemi [fi], Alessandro Neretti
  • 2015: Silvia Celeste Calcagno, Helene Kirchmair, Thomas Stollar ex aequo
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History

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The prize was established in 1931. In 1938 it became an annual national award and was named "Premio Faenza".[3]: 48  The first recipient of the Premio Faenza was Pietro Melandri [it], who also won it in the following year.[4]: 284  The award was not made in some years of the Second World War, and recommenced in 1946. In 1963 it became international in scope – although several foreign artists had already been invited to participate in earlier editions – and from 1989 it became a biennial award.[3]: 48 [4]: 284 

Recipients

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Among the recipients of the award are the sculptors Angelo Biancini (1946, 1957), Leoncillo Leonardi (1954, 1964) and Carlo Zauli [it] (1953, 1958 and 1962),[5]: 17  and the ceramic artists Sueharu Fukami (1985) and Ken Eastman (1995).[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Albo d'oro del "Premio Faenza" (in Italian). Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. Accessed February 2018.
  2. ^ Ennio Golfieri (1977). L'arte a Faenza dal neoclassicismo ai nostri giorni, Part 2 (in Italian). Faenza: Amministrazione Comunale.
  3. ^ a b Cristiana Baietta (2001). Le città della ceramica (in Italian). Milano: Touring Club Italiano. ISBN 9788836523641.
  4. ^ a b Aldo Cairola, Angela Cipriani (1981). Ceramica italiana dalle origini a oggi (in Italian). Roma: Editalia. ISBN 9788870600131.
  5. ^ Rolando Giovannini, Lori-Ann Touchette (2016). Ceramics That Change. Ceramics: Art & Perception (103): 16–19. (subscription required).