The winning work for the Icona Prize, which involves the acquisition of a work that symbolically represents the fair as an event that promotes the Italian art system and helps to delineate the contours of the contemporary art scene, has been announced.

Icona – the historic ArtVerona award – was assigned jointly to Mattia Barbieri, represented by Rizzuto Gallery(Palermo) and Angela Glajcar, represented by Antonella Cattani Contemporary Art (Bolzano).

In fact, the work acquired will remain on loan for one year to the Achille Forti Gallery of Modern Art in Verona: the artist and the gallery thus have a support that goes well beyond the temporal limits of the event, guaranteeing a museum itinerary and widespread visual circulation.

Angela Glajcar, represented by Antonella Cattani Contemporary Art, Bolzano.

Mattia Barbieri, represented by Rizzuto Gallery (Palermo), with the work Holy Fosbury, from 2022 (oil, tempera and cement on canvas, com 210×110)