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Winners 2009!
Congratulations to all the USA artists that participated.

The Life Time Career Awards are very deserved and appreciated , our sincerest congratulations for Esther and Demetrio. You really deserved this honor ,thank you.

In Photography and Painting, the USA artists were recognised

for their color,sensibility and positive imageary.

Our special thanks to Eisha for organising with the American Consulate to host the group effort

" That the USA artists are embassadors of their culture,

spreading their good will & noble ideas by visual inspiration.''

Ana Bikic & W.M. Coulthard

Career Award

Rosalyn Engelman - Esther Wertheimer - Mario Silva - Yvette Comte Ladet - Demetrio Alfonso - Esmindo Castillo Suarez

Painting

1° Award - Reinder Ourensma

2° Award - Maximino Balatbat

3° Award - Carlos Leon Cruz

4° Award - Nasr Warour - Joanna Lefroy Capelle - Henk Bloemhof - Gino Bernardini - Daniela Raffaele - Mario Sepulcre - Alejandro Peralta

5° Award - Charles Billich - Kateryna Kosianenko - Jenny Ping - Flavia D’Ascoli - In Sook Lee - Adam Glinski - Hugo Oscar Aramburu - Sun Don Lee - Liliana Niceta

Sculpture

1° Award - Emilie Cummings

2° Award - Manuel Gonzalez / Sharle Matthews

3° Award - Karel Vreeburg

4° Award - Emil Kazaz - Marilda Dib - Walter Togni - Eva Moosbrugger - Peter Parkanyi

5° Award - Elisabeth Hoogland - Crt Valencak - Simone Peirache

Works on paper

1° Award - Ismail Acar

2° Award - Munevver Ucer

3° Award - Umberto Casas

4° Award - Bruno Benfenati - Franco Giomi - Maria Bonomi - Monica Paz Muñoz - Natasja de Wet

5° Award - Chloe Holt - Plaindoux - Kikuko Uda

Photography

1° Award - Lu Jun

2° Award - Zhou Kang

3° Award - Al Wildley

4° Award - Richard Lasner - Maria Eugenia Akel - Anshika Varma - Amanda Petrash

5° Award - Aldo Berardi - Nana Vieira - Mihe Shin - Jean Remy Den Haene - Art Ferrier - Yael Kaplan - Chacpol

Installation

1° Award - Yone di Alerigi

2° Award - Eva Beumer

3° Award - Linda Schipani

4° Award - K-Soul - Talita Swarts - Christian Gobbo - Brigitta Rossetti

5° Award - Marie Vallée - Andy Fluon - Marzia Dottarelli

Video

1° Award - Seema Kohli

2° Award - Sieglinde Van Damme

3° Award - Martha Gabriel

President Award

Kristin Berg - John Down - Ida Bentinger - Marcella Kaspar - Symona Colina - Amir Shayesteh Tabar - Maria Angelica Gonzalez - Danielle O’Connor Akiyama - Malgorzata Karp-Soja - Marylinn Gottlieb - Maria Drott - Yael Elrichman - Maggie Magee - Zoya Taylor - Madny Al Bakry - Stans Baker - Daixi Yang - Tatiana Carapostol - Cheng Wei - Alexis West

City of Florence Award

Christian Beck - Luloloko - Paul Lorenz - Danielle Lisney - Barbro Eriksson

Accademy Award

1° Award - Leo Ragno
Special Mention to David Leger

Special Mention

Alice Kettle

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2009 Show is next.

The seventh edition of the Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea of Florence will be held from 5th to 13th December 2009 in the historical setting of Fortezza da Basso. Participants and guest will ahve the chance to meet within the many conferences and events, our Honour guests: Marina Abramovic, Igor Mitoraj and Shu Yong.

Marina Abramovic will exhibit some of her videos at the Fortezza da Basso and will offer a lecture to the audience followed by a book signing and an exchange of thoughts between public and her; Igor Mitoraj will exhibit both at the Fortezza da Basso and in a special solo exhibition organized in collaboration with the Cultural Office of Florence in the Sala d’Armi at Palazzo Vecchio. Shu Yong will exhibit some of the paintings from the series “Chinese Myths”.

Biennale artists from al lover the world will exhibit more than 2,500 works of art and will take part in the exhibition for an extraordinary encounter between different cultures, styles and languages as the “Dialogue among Civilization” program promotes, the Biennale has been officially participating in this program since 2001.

As always, the Biennale will see the presence of important artists: In the 2007 edition, the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" career prize was conferred to Gilbert & George, for the 2005 edition to Christo and Jeanne-Claude and to Richard Anuszkiewicz and in 2003 to David Hockney.

USA Florence Biennale Artists of 2009

Dear USA Florence Biennale Artists of 2009

      The Florence Biennale USA Registry would like to congratulate all for participating this year and welcome you all to the official USA artist registry for the Florence Biennale 2009. We have placed all the names of the participating artists on this years page, please check that spelling is correct.

     This website was constructed last year after many previous attempts, the Biennale's wed site developed too and the present format has three OFFICIAL national registries linked to them, including ours. Other countries are following suit and the next step will be to link them all on another site we have made called FB Global links. We would like to present the merits of the USA Registry and encourage everyone to become acquainted with the site and one and another too.

    Firstly I would like to express that the Florence Biennale is a dynamic experience for visual fine artists. The city, the contacts, new friends, opportunities are set within a congress style format where one can self represent and be heard, be seen and be critiqued by peers and curators.

     Secondly I would like to emphasize that although we attend individually the purpose of the congress/biennale is to promote groups and initiatives. Especial attention has been given to united group projects. Our registry is an important tool that can promote and unite international creative projects.

The FBUSA registry invites you to participate with membership, portfolios and links. Consideration for Group shows will need to be published by early July for the Biennale to fully consider the effect of the group.
Information is on the 'membership' page.

Contact us for postal mailing address and logo downloads to your own site.

Janet Rutkowski has the first published portfolio page.

http://www.usaflorencebiennale.org/janet_rutkowski.html

We look forward to you meeting you in December and discovering the new ideas and talents amongst us.

Sincerely Ana Bikic and W. Mark Couthard.

Editors/ Curators FBUSA

Skype. : usaflorencebiennale

USA Florence Biennale

Artist Registry News Letter April 09

Dear All,thank you for all your responses, suggestions and enthusiasm.

The the Florence Biennale has accepted our graphic changes and line up. We are now "Officially''listed as an International group and we can post all FBUSA artists' news with credits.

The other official International Groups are Australia, Austria, Switzerland, Holland,and many others in the making.

The new participants from this year, 2009 are starting to list themselves and aquire links and network. We would like to encourage everyone to share their positive thoughts and constructive ideas with the USA 09 group.

The Florence Biennale are recognizing the Groups that link together on the web and are willing to credit these projects.

We think this is a wonderful opportunity for everyone to be included, despite the hard times, in a high profile International Arts Forum.

We are interested in hearing about USA Artists' projects from local
communities, environmental and educational events that we know many of you have been doing.

FBUSA artist Registry is a perfect format to show case our collective attitude towards volunteerism and community involvement, the ideals which make the USA really what it is! We think this is as important as any list of prestigious Art show credits. Please send us your news and articles for a possibility of inclusion on the Editors news list, brief summary /headline and the link, however don't forget the Facebook page and blog, " Florence Biennale USA artists Registry''

Ana Bikic will be going to Florence in December & will represent the group, conduct interviews and promote interactive
projects with other registries, artists etc.

This process of curation will be included on the registry too, for 2010.
To recap on Policies.

All USA Participants with the Biennale are listed free!
Membership fees for Links and portfolio pages shown on the new 'membership' page.

Best wishes
William Mark Coulthard.

& Ana Bikic

FBUSA is a not for profit project, edited by Ana Bikic and W Mark Coulthard. Curators of the FBUSA
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Oz Art Auction Crisis

ADOPTED ART BILL

We think this bill is a disaster for the artist. Copyright has been an issue of great importance to us.Currently the Library of Congress allows annual collections to be registered under a series title.Although fees have increased in recent years this new bill will allow others to snatch what ever images they need and fane ignorance of orginal ownership.The Artist will be left with the burden of proof of theft. Fines are expected to be minimal and recompense low.

We strongly recomend that everyone protect their on line images with a dedicated strategy of Pixel tattooing and visible signatures, links and personal records.

The crisis spreads to the art market

The impact of the financial crisis on the art market - traditionally perceived as a financial safe haven - is now clearly confirmed. A market downturn is no longer a theoretical scenario... it is a reality. Since the beginning of September, the art market has contracted for the first time since 1990.

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