Coffee in one click. Pictures, graphic designs, short films and commercials wholly dedicated to the worldwide beloved aromatic and evocative drink

In the past centuries, artists and scholars such as Rimbaud, Voltaire, Goldoni, Parini, Cezanne and Renoir paid homage in their works of art to coffee and to the vast universe of cultural and social meanings involved in a coffee bean or in cup. Nowadays, the contemporary artistic world has a chance to treasure the artistic heritage of the past and enforce by means of new techniques and digital art forms that exponentially broaden the range of artistic language, thus giving birth to new and extraordinary forms of expression and sharing.
The ANTHARES COFFEE PRIZE Digital Arts Competition offers the chance to draw the ideal line between past and future, inner sphere and sharing, impression and expression making Coffee the outright protagonist of the kermesse. The Competition will have works of visual art in digital formats play a key role; these works will have to be fully focused on Coffee in its broadest meaning: pictures, graphic designs, short films and commercials paying homage to a coffee bean, the drink, a cup.
The second edition of ANTHARES COFFEE PRIZE takes part in the context of the 6th edition of Triestespresso Expo 2012, one of the main fair events specialized on the espresso coffee industry, which is taking place in Trieste in October 25th-27th, 2012 and will welcome hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of professional visitors coming from 85 countries. The panel is made up of international artists, art professors and scholars and leading figures of the Coffee Business who will vote the prize-winner works of art and reserve the right to bestow special mentions on deserving works or signal works of special interest. The award ceremony will take place during the event Triestespresso Expo 2012 and the winners of the competition will have the chance to display their works within the international kermesse, which is going to represent an outstanding opportunity of visibility and sharing.
Entering the contest is free; the entrants are expected to send a maximum of three works which are to be forwarded by July 31st, 2012. For further information please refer to the regulations and the online downloadable notice of completion which you will find in the NOTICE OF COMPETITION section.

ABOUT US

The ANTHARES COFFEE PRIZE Digital Arts Competition has been conceived, nurtured and organized by the Cultural Association Club Anthares Trieste that has been carrying out over the past twenty years several activities of cultural, social, entertaining and sports nature aimed at promoting and enhance on a national and international level the knowledge of the local territory. The flagship of the Club Anthares Trieste is definitely the International Festival Trieste Poesia, which was inaugurated twelve years ago: a winter week wholly dedicated to readings, debates, round tables, displays, literary award ceremonies, exhibitions and concerts that has celebrated over the past years amazing names of the national and international poetry panorama such as Justo Jorge Padrón, Álvaro Mutis, Mateja Matevski, Oliver Friggeri, Arturo Corcuera, Amadou Lamine, Miguel Barnet, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Omar Lara, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Alda Merini e Ion Deaconescu.