CORIN SWORN WINS THE MAX MARA ART PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN COLLABORATION WITH WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

By Crash redaction

The Glasgow-based artist Corin Sworn has been announced as the fifth winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. This visual art prize is a biannual award in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, it aims to promote and nurture female artists. They will have the opportunity to realise an ambitious new project which will show in major solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy in 2015.

Corin Sworn’s Max Mara funded project will look at the relationship between Commedia dell’Arte and Italian cinema. She will spend three months in Rome, before moving to the newly restored Museo dell’Arte Contemporanea in Naples and on to the Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, home to one of the oldest artist residency programmes in Europe. Her pieces will be shown at both the Whitechapel and Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia some time next year.

Corin Sworn said: « It means such a great deal to me to be able to work with the Collection Maramotti and the Whitechapel Gallery on a new commission. The promise of six months in Italy has inspired a host of ideas for new work and I look forward to being able to develop these over the course of my time in Italy. »

Corin Sworn, The Foxes (2012)

Corin Sworn, Lens-Prism (2010)