The first month’s outcomes of a brand new regional competitors for budding artists have been just lately summarised by BE OPEN Art, a web-based artwork gallery established by the BE OPEN assume tank, a humanitarian effort sponsored by worldwide businesswoman and philanthropist Elena Baturina.
Beginning in 2023, BE OPEN’s skilled employees has been fastidiously selecting musicians and visible artists that greatest exemplify Eastern Mediterranean cultural and aesthetic traits. The first three months of the yr shall be spent competing in a territory that features Cyprus, Turkey, the Greek Dodecanese islands, and the nations of Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.
Regional Artist of the Month for February belongs to Jovanna Theodosiou, as chosen by nearly all of votes solid by guests to the BE OPEN Art on-line gallery. Jovanna is a wonderful artist who was educated at Kingston University within the United Kingdom and now makes her house and does her work in Nicosia.
BE OPEN’s knowledgeable panel will decide the winner of the Eastern Mediterranean stage from the three Artists of the Month chosen by the general public in March. Each regional winner will get 500 euros in prise cash, and all the artists shall be recognised and honoured with a public exhibition of the works that greatest replicate their space.
There shall be 4 annual phases, with winners decided after every stage’s three-month period. The Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and Central Africa will then grow to be the main focus of the competitors by yr’s finish.
Alongside BE OPEN Art’s persevering with work, the regional competitors will embody the month-to-month choice of 20 artists by gallery specialists, adopted by on-line voting to find out the Artist of the Month and the Artist of the Year.
BE OPEN Art is an initiative that seeks to establish and promote the subsequent technology of influential artists by specializing in these originally of their careers.
Emerging artists from all around the world have an opportunity to have their work observed and appreciated by a wider viewers when they’re included in BE OPEN Art. BE OPEN Art has maintained its vitality as a web-based gallery by offering a platform for dialog between rising artists and collectors who, within the face of mounting humanitarian crises all through the world, are extra motivated than ever to create and purchase works which have a constructive influence on society.
