The A&G Art Prize consolidates and starts its IV Edition

After the good reception of the first three editions, A&G opens the call for entries for the IV Edition of the A&G Art Award. IV Edition of the A&G Art AwardThe aim is to continue supporting the production and dissemination of the work of emerging Spanish artists.

The A&G Award will select one winner and five finalists, whose works will be exhibited for one year, with retail options, at the A&G offices. This award also includes a 6,000 € for the winning work, which will become part of A&G's which will become part of the firm's collection. This edition will once again count with the collaboration of Arte Global, a firm specialized in international art consultancy, dedicated to art collecting and cultural management projects.

According to Alberto Rodríguez-Fraile, president of A&G, this award "is an opportunity to promote the professional careers of artists in their early stages, as well as to discover and recognize the value of their work. We are very proud of the consolidation of this award, which is now in its fourth edition, and which every year presents us with a new opportunity to show our commitment to art and culture."

Those interested can consult the rules of the Award at www.ayg.es/actualidad and have a deadline for the presentation of the candidatures from on May 16 to July 1, while the jury's decision will take place on September 12. The award will be decided by a jury made up of 11 members related to the art world in different facets: Luis Chillida, Ana Serratosa, Chus Pedrosa, Elisa Hernando, Isabel Alonso, Isabel Ballesteros, León Benelbas, Lucía Ybarra, Mónica Riberas, Pedro Sendagorta and María Eugenia Rodríguez Fraile.

The winner of the first prize will be able to exhibit a total of three works in A&G's customer visitation rooms for one year, the winning work and two more to be chosen by A&G after the jury's decision. The five finalists will exhibit two works each, the finalist work and another one to be chosen by A&G from its repertoire.

In the three previous calls, more than 100 nominations were received in each one of them. The artists awarded with the A&G Art Prize have been Maillo in 2021, Rubén Rodrigo in 2022 and Diego Benéitez in 2023.

This award is part of the social commitment of A&G, which recently also exhibited outside its offices the artistic installation "Take Over Madrid", created by Andrés Reisinger in the context of the celebration of the Fair ARCO.