The jury announced it this Friday at the Art i Copes competition in Sa Pobla.

The work, along with the other six finalists, was based on the concept of the empty land.

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Memòria de l’arròs a les trinxeres, by Jose Larrosa, is the winner of the Art Jove prize for plastic arts 2024

Memòria de l’arròs a les trinxeres, by the multidisciplinary artist Jose Larrosa, has been awarded the first Art Jove prize for plastic arts 2024. This was announced this Friday by Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta, president of the jury, as part of the Art i Copes competition in Sa Pobla, during a ceremony attended by Farners Saneiro, director general of Families, Children, Youth, Equality and Diversity, and Tomàs Amer, manager of IBJOVE.

The work will receive €1,500 in cash and will be exhibited in Girona and Perpignan in 2025, as part of the travelling Art per tot programme. As part of the prize, IBJOVE will pay for the expenses related to the transport of the work.

The jury also awarded second prize to Branques, by Joan Vidal, and third prize to Hora foscant, by Mar Sala. Marga Estelrich’s Marjades was awarded a mention.

‘The Empty Land

The finalists of the Art Jove prize for the plastic arts had to create a work with the slogan ‘the empty land’, based on the concept of emptied Spain, and reflect on issues such as the rural exodus, the transformation of the physiognomy of the village, immigration, gentrification, the disappearance of traditional crops or climate change.

In addition to the prize-winning works, the finalists, which are on display at Art i Copes, are: Noves identitats, by Ana Grajales, A doble cara, by Helena Pons, and Connectant móns, by Pablo Estrada.