Ettore and Ines Fico Prize

The Ettore e Ines Fico Prize, promoted by the MEF Museo Ettore Fico di Torino, was awarded to Fabrizio Prevedello, with the acquisition of the two artworks: Accumulazione per scomparsa (406 A), 2025, z2o Sara Zanin gallery, and Luogo (436), 2026, Cardelli & Fontana gallery.

Now in its 17th edition, the prize continues to support the work of young artists through the acquisition of an artwork, based on the distinctive quality of the artistic practice.

Jury: Andrea Busto, Director, MEF Museo Ettore Fico, Torino.

“Fabrizio Prevedello’s sculptural research is characterized by the ongoing encounter between industrially produced and naturally occurring materials. This dialogue is mediated by the artist as he seeks a structural and compositional balance that neither solves nor removes this inner complexity. Instead it uses its formal results to pose the viewer more questions, rather than to provide immediate answers. Prevedello’s works offer more than one level of reading, and more than one opportunity to be transported into other mental or narrative places. A primary approach involves materials sourced directly from the marble quarries of the Apuan Alps—the very place where the artist resides. A second level consists of the formal and aesthetic assembly of marble, glass, and iron, through which Prevedello infuses poetic sensibilities rooted in Eastern traditions—drawing, in particular, on the interpretation of nature found in ancient Chinese painting, where the poetics of natural forms are evoked through subtle nuances and faint suggestions of perspective.

The mineral layers within split stones—where one can discern the overlapping veins of various minerals—evoke abstract, infinite landscapes and horizons. The metallic elements that connect the different parts of these works serve as their formal, geometric, and structural framework; by merging and interpenetrating, they come together to give life to structures that exist somewhere between the architectural and the informal. The artist experiences his work so profoundly that he spends solitary days in the quarries and wild woodlands surrounding his studio, immersing himself completely—allowing the landscape and the power of the elements to permeate his being. His courage is an integral part of his work, and vice versa; they identify with and interpenetrate one another within the all-encompassing force of artistic creation.”