ANSA English Media Service
February 8, 2008 Friday 3:33 PM CET

ARMENIAN, SERB DESIGNERS WIN TARGETTI LIGHT ART AWARD

1,000 international creative designers take part

Florence

(ANSA) – Florence, February 8 – Armenian Gevorg Zigzabian and Serbian
Alexandra Stratimirovic have won the 20,000-euro prize in the fifth
edition of the Premio Targetti Light Art international competition.
The contest, sponsored by the Florentine company Targetti and
dedicated to artists under the age of 40, drew the particpation of
1,000 creative designers from all over the world. Amnon Barzel
(former director of the Pecci museum in Prato and curator of the
project) worked in collaboration with a jury made up of David
Sarkisian (director of the Moscow National Museum of Architecture),
Peter Noever (director of Museum of Design in Vienna-MAK), Alessandra
Mammi’ (Espresso correspondent) and Omar Calabrese (semiologist).
Also on the jury was Paolo Targetti, president of the Targetti
Poulsen group – the third largest player on the international
architectural lighting stage. Zigzabian’s and Stratimirovic’s pieces,
along with those of second third place winners Stefano Cagol and
Alice Azario, and runner-up Michela Colasuonno, will become part of
Targetti’s art collection (considered the most important in Europe
dedicated to Light Art). The pieces will be part of Florence’s Villa
La Sfacciata program which will take works by over 40 young and
established designers on tour of the most important museums in the
world.