2009 Biennale of Chianciano, Tuscany, Italy
Gillie and Marc Schattner win first Prize!
October 2009

Gillie and Marc won first prize at the 2009 Biennale of Chianciano Tuscany, Italy.
The Biennale of Chianciano 2009 is a momentous show of contemporary art set in the beautiful Tuscan province of Siena, an area steeped in rich cultural diversity and artistically inspiring scenery. And the birthplace to Dante Alighieri, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Galileo.

The exhibition incorporates some of the finest contemporary painting, sculpture and drawing in the world. A renowned-judging panel chose 150 participants from thousands of contemporary artists.

There were artists participating from countries as diverse as the Philippines, China, the Netherlands, Italy, Canada, England, Australia, the USA and many more. The artists have participated in numerous exhibitions and can be found in museums and in the most important private collections around the world. Similarly, the movements represented were equally varied from the delicate tones of Impressionism to the gestural marks of Abstract Expressionism. The esteemed international jury panel was won over by the painting from husband and wife team, Gillie and Marc Schattner, and awarded it first prize. The winning painting was titled; He’ll never be famous but he doesn’t give a damn, he’s a musician, a portrait of a young guitarist with the head of a Dalmatian.

Gillie and Marc have also been included this week in the Blake Prize Directors Cut exhibition with their controversial sculpture of Jesus riding a skateboard. The sculpture is titled; If Jesus was alive today he would be a skateboarder.

GiGillie and Marc are also invited to exhibit in the 2009 Florence Biennale, which opens in December.

gillie & marc schattner's
'get a dog!' exhibition
at corporate art gallery
from 1 - 28 february 2010

view more of the Schattner's work .

'We, the contemporary artist pull apart the world,
so it can be put back together as something different.'
gillie and marc schattner