Ettore and Ines Fico Prize

Ettore and Ines Fico Prize 2025 has been awarded to Giovanni Termini presented by the gallery ME Vannucci, Pistoia.

The Ettore e Ines Fico Prize, organized in collaboration with MEF Museo Ettore Fico of Torino and now in its 15th iteration, continues to promote and support the work of young artists through an acquisition.

Remarks: Giovanni Termini is an independent voice on the international art scene, who has steadfastly followed his own personal line of thinking for many years, through exhibitions and installations. Consistent with his research based on conceptual reflections that go beyond the mere use of objects as contemporary ready-mades, he has developed a specific vocabulary that shifts across irony, erudite citations and provocations, like a challenge for collectors and gallerists. Without hiding an aesthetic that crosses the boundary defined by “beauty” and “purity”, his installations and sculptures now express the necessity to stand out in a panorama where everything is expressed only through colours, painting and the romantic poetics of creation through illustrative and recognizable images.

Winners of the previous editions: Daniele di Girolamo,  Traffic gallery, Bergamo (2024); ex aequo Francesca Ferreri, Peola Simondi gallery, Torino, and Samuel Nnorom, Primo Marella gallery, Milano, Lugano (2023), Kate Newby, Art : Concept gallery, Paris (2022), ex aequo Mimosa Echard,, Martina Simeti gallery, Milano, and Namsal Siedlecki, Magazzino gallery, Roma (2021); Alessandro Scarabello, The Gallery Apart, Roma (2020); Guglielmo Castelli, Francesca Antonini gallery, Roma, and Rolando Anselmi gallery, Berlin and Roma (2019); Georgia Sagri, Anthony Reynolds gallery, London (2018); David Douard, Chantal Crousel gallery, Paris (2017); Gian Maria Tosatti, Lia Rumma gallery, Milano, Napoli (2016); Anne Imhof, Isabella Bortolozzi gallery, Berlin (2015); Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Layr gallery, Vienna, Roma (2014); Petrit Halilaj, Chert gallery, Berlino (2013); Luca Trevisani, Pinksummer gallery, Genova (2012); Rä Di Martino, Monitor gallery, Roma (2011); Rossella Biscotti, Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani, Milano (2010).