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January 2017

Phoenicia Hotel Art Photo (PHAP) Competition

Phoenicia Hotel Art Photo (PHAP) Competition

Rebecca Russo is Honorary Member of the Judges Board for the Phoenicia Hotel Art Photo (PHAP) Competition.
Building once again on its established reputation as an Art Hotel and supporter of artistic talent, the Phoenicia Hotel announces the launch of the Phoenicia Hotel Art Photo (PHAP) competition.
This initiative invites one artist per month to enjoy complimentary room and board for a night at the Phoenicia Hotel and to create a work of art using the medium of photography during the experience. Participating artists will compete for a grand prize of USD 5,000, which comes with a quirky twist: the prize money will be increased by the same amount in dollars as the room number allocated to the winning artist during their stay.
Judging of the 12 pieces of photo art will take place at the end of each year and will be followed by an exhibition of the works.
A limited edition of five prints of each of the 12 works will be made available for sale during the exhibition, with part of the proceeds going to the photographers and part to charities of their choice.
For info visit www.p-h-a-p.com or email us on info@p-h-a-p.com
One photographer per month is invited to the Phoenicia Hotel to produce one Art Photo during a one-night stay.
An annual exhibition, displaying all 12 Art Photos, will be held at the end of the year. A judging panel will announce the winner for the year at the launch of the exhibition.
The Phoenicia Hotel is a place where anything can happen.
It could be magical, romantic, creative, intriguing, inspiring, mysterious… With the click of their fingers, prepare to be enchanted. The captured scene is transformed into art.
The judging panel includes the globally exhibited photographer Roger Moukarzel, Art Collector Tarek Nahas and Rebecca Russo, Art Collector, President of the Videoinsight® Foundation

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Videoinsight® Primary School

The Videoinsight® Foundation applies Videoinsight® Method in Primary Schools for the support of psychological resources, the orientation of attitudes and Talents in the age of development, and the psycho-physical discomfort prevention.

The Videoinsight® Primary School, no profit, provides for the Videoinsight® experience proposal defined on the basis of the diagnosis of psychological, educational and teaching class groups. Based on truly careful consideration of the specific needs of each class group, after a preliminary meeting with the teachers, children watched Contemporary Art images with high Videoinsight® impact , selected on specific objectives for prevention and promotion of psychophysical wellbeing. These images are interpreted by pupils individually and collectively. Spontaneous story-telling are valued by the Videoinsight® expert, and in a second moment elaborated by the children through body expression by theater – therapy. The Videoinsight® Foundation proposes the Videoinsight® experience also to the Teaching staff and the children’s parents involved in.
The general objectives of the Videoinsight® experience are relaxation, elevated mood, stimulation of cognitive functions and creativity, the strengthening of confidence, the feeling of security and motivation, reducing anxiety by performance, the fear restraint and negative emotions, the activation of the developmental resources.
Since 2017 the Videoinsight® School project has been launched by Tita Giunta, Lucia Centurelli, Cristina Botte, supervised by Rebecca Russo, in three public schools of Orbassano: Scuola Rodari, Scuola Gramsci, Scuola C. Pavese.

Purvītis Prize 2017 | Riga

Purvītis Prize 2017

Rebecca Russo, Art Collector, Philanthropist, Maecenas, President of Videoinsight® Foundation, is Member of the Panel of Judges for the Purvītis Prize 2017 in Riga, Lettonia. At a press conference held at the Latvian National Museum of Art on 12 December 2016 the eight finalists for the 2017 Purvītis Prize were announced. The winner of the 2017 Purvītis Prize will be announced on 17 February 2017, at which time an exhibition featuring the works of all eight finalists will be opened in the Great Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. The Purvītis Award is the highest and most prestigious visual art award in Latvia. It was established in 2008 with the goal of regularly and systematically following current events in visual art in Latvia, promoting the intensity of Latvian art processes, encouraging new projects and the development of original ideas, and popularising the creative accomplishments of Latvia’s artists both in Latvia and beyond its borders. According to the Statute of the Purvitis Prize, after evaluating the works selected for The Prize exhibition, the Jury will select the winner of The Prize. The Prize Jury shall take its decisions after discussion by open, simple majority vote on February 16, 2017.

Here the eight finalists:

KRISTAPS EPNERS / Nominated for Solo Exhibition ‘Exercises’
IVARS DRULLE / Nominated for Solo Exhibition ‘To My Homeland’
ARTURS BĒRZIŅŠ / Nominated for Solo Exhibitions Works of Images and Works of Images II
ATIS JĀKOBSONS / Nominated for Solo exhibition ‘Dark Matter’
VOLDEMĀRS JOHANSONS / Nominated for Video installation ‘Thirst’
ANDA LĀCE / Nominated for Performance ‘Decontamination’ at the exhibition ‘Miervaldis Polis. Illusion as Reality’
MAIJA KURŠEVA / Nominated for Art work ‘Joviality’ at the exhibition ‘Bigger Peace, Smaller Peace’
KRIŠS SALMANIS, ANNA SALMANE, KRISTAPS PĒTERSONS / Nominated for Exhibition ‘Song’

Description of nomination and artist, CV, photos of works about all candidates.

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