Don't Miss Your Chance to Design a Unique Retreat for Artists! Register to the Hill of the Arts Competition! [Sponsored]

Hurry and don't miss your chance to register to HILL OF THE ARTS competition with a discounted fee: early birds will end on Sunday, 1st March!

HILL OF THE ARTS is the latest call for ideas launched by YAC - Young Architects Competitions - in collaboration with Unipol l Urban Up. Designers from all around the world are invited to conceive  a refuge for avant-gardists featuring music, painting, video-art and acting in the astonishing scenario of a historic villa near Turin. Patrik Schumacher (Zaha Hadid Architects), Daniel Libeskind, Emmanuelle Moureaux, Edoardo Tresoldi, Lukas Barry (Carmody Groarke architects), Paolo Danelli (DAP studio) and other eminent professionals will evaluate the submissions and reward the most worthy projects with a cash prize of € 20,000. 

BRIEF
Cantabria, Spain. Upper Paleolithic.

A man- in all likelihood a Sapiens Sapiens- dips his fingers in a reddish hematite-based solution and traces the unequivocal traits of bisons on the bare stone of his cave.  

This is the beginning of the history of art. 

Over the centuries, human beings have been looking for different ways to express themselves. Over time, maybe they have lost the meaning of such revolutionary and avant-garde gesture. However, art is still the most efficient human instrument to explore what lies beyond, what is unsaid and unthought. 

Art is the relationship between the artist and the viewer. It is the relationship between artists and the context they live in. Art implies the observer’s involvement. It requires an effort of attention and contextualization. Art takes time. It takes time to be made. It requires time to be understood. In a world that has everything but the ability to take time, art is the most refined form of luxury people can pursue.