EDP Foundation Public Art programme announced the competition Illustrate your Homeland, providing the opportunity to take part in the programme, which includes the Fund’Arte project – developed in partnership with the Fundão Municipal Council, throughout 2019, alongside artists such as Nuno Campos and Guga Liuzzi.
Between 30 May and 20 June, the candidates should fill in the application form available from EDP Foundation’s website (here) and attach an illustrated, A4 piece on the subject Illustrate your Homeland. The competition’s jury, made up of João Pinharanda, curator of the EDP Foundation Public Art programme, and representatives from Fundão Municipal Council, Produções Fixe and Gerador, all partner entities in this project, will select the winner, who will be announced on 28 June.
This project takes place in four stages. Firstly, there will be meetings organised to present the project to the population, which will involve a debate with the artists. Next, the artists’ proposals for their interventions will be presented. Lastly, the artists will carry out their interventions in the public space, followed by the final stage, when there will be guided tours of the works.
In this way, the EDP Foundation Public Art programme is democratising access to art, in areas of low population density throughout the country, enabling the population to become involved in new cultural experiences and encouraging local development by performing artistic interventions in public spaces.
The winner of the competition will receive 500 euros to execute a work of public art in Fundão. The work will be previously agreed between the winner of the competition, the project curator and the local community of Fundão. The winning artist will also have the opportunity to work with visual artist Nuno Cunha, who has been working as a curator and collaborating with the media for nearly two decades, and Guga Liuzzi, also a visual artist, who began his career in Rio de Janeiro, in 2000, and who has since experimented with several styles of visual art and street art.
The EDP Foundation Public Art programme, which began in 2015, uses art as an instrument for social inclusion, and is already present in 40 locations – Algarve, Alentejo, Ribatejo, Médio Tejo, Trás-os-Montes and Minho – with works by over 35 artists, including Xana, Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, Mariana A Miserável and Manuel João Vieira.
