TGM Gallery Announces New Edition of Young Artists' Prize
The TGM Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of a new edition of the Young Artists' Prize, featuring a restorative exhibition of the proposed works, starting today, September 18. This event has become a must-attend since its inception in 2020.
A Platform for Emerging Artists
This prize, created since the gallery's inception, is dedicated to emerging artists from diverse backgrounds, including fine arts schools, architecture schools, self-taught artists, and other formations. A theme is proposed each year, allowing participants to express their interpretations freely.
Awards and Support
The gallery awards three prizes each year: 2,000 dinars, 1,500 dinars, and 1,000 dinars. However, beyond the material reward, the idea is to follow the artists, support them, and accompany them by inviting them to participate in future exhibitions. For other participants, this competition represents an opportunity to open new horizons and gain recognition in the art world. This is a great way to continuously promote art in all its forms and support young artists in their careers.
Theme: "90's Reloaded"
The theme of the first edition was the TGM, the iconic little train that gave its name to the gallery. The second edition was "The Movement," the third was one of the stations of this famous little train: La Goulette, and "90's Reloaded" for this 4th edition. This year's batch reveals artists from Generation Z who "have not experienced the upheavals, revolutions, or golden age of the last century." However, they "have collected memories, archaeology, highlights, and codes through the memories and nostalgia of their elders."
A Fresh Perspective
Interpreted through their gaze, these mythical times take on a completely different interpretation and a totally contemporary coloration, as noted by the exhibition curator and art critic Alya Hamza. She adds: "It seemed interesting to ask these young artists, with a totally virgin vision, absent from the 'it was better before,' to revisit these times so distant and yet so close to them, and to detect what, in the 90s, could have crossed the millennium in this collective aesthetic memory."
The 90s: A Time of Cultural and Aesthetic Diversity
Aesthetically and culturally, the 90s were marked by their diversity, combining streetwear and grunge with minimalism, and by the richness of their pop culture, including television, music, and video games. This was the era of pogs, 2-track CDs, VHS tapes, and video clubs. This theme has undoubtedly inspired these young artists with multiple, plural, and surely contemporary pictorial expressions to reinvent the past.
