The Nasevo Award was born as a mission to give importance to the sense of smell, teaching to smell through art. The mission of The Ernesto Ventós Foundation is totally linked to the will of its founder. “NASEVO” was the alias of Ernesto Ventós Omedes. The use of the word nose in catalan (nas) as an artistic nickname, accompanying the author’s initials, gives us a first clue to the importance of this appendix to him. For this reason, the Foundation wants to highlight the importance of this sense in our lives through this award. It is a search to generate connections between art, science and technology through olfactory memory. Smell is taken further, being an object and source of creative inspiration.
The call for this award is open at an international level and aimed at artists, students and artistic groups –or from other disciplines– interested in the world of smell. The general technique of this exhibition is free, always based on an olfactory memory in two-dimensional formats (minimum 50 x 50 cm – maximum 100 x 100 cm). The award seeks to delve into the sense of smell as a tool and instrument to deepen our most intimate self, our emotions and thus connect with memories and lived experiences.
III Edition contestants
Alejandro Martínez García
Mientras tanto…, 2021
Mixed (acrylic, spray, oil)
90 x 100cm
Lucrecia de Fazio
Jardín (1,2), 2021
Ink printing on cotton paper
68 x 48cm
José Bonell
El perfumista, 2021
Oil on canvas
73 x 60cm
Gerard Torres
Landscape 7, 2021
Collage of paint and spray on linen in methacrylate box
92 x 65cm
Edu Fernández
El episodio de la magdalena proustiana narrado con emojis, 2021
Markers on glossy paper
74 x 55cm
David Vimar
Los que no se olvidan, 2021
Digital collage, printing on 100% cotton paper
50 x 60cm
Jorge Isla
Le Reflet, 2021
Assembling mobile screens on pine wood
60 x 60cm
Héctor Prats
Claro, húmedo, vetusto, opaco, 2021
Graphite, unpigmented acrylic and encaustic emulsion on board
60 x 100cm
Viktor Kucheruk
La Peste, 2021
Enamel on canvas
100 x 100cm
Madison Tyrell
The Backyard, 2021
Oil on canvas
100 x 100cm
Juan Ortiz
La Guanabana, 2021
Colored pencils on cotton paper
76 x 56,5cm
Laia Noal
Paisatge fragmentat (I, II, III) 2021
Mixed on methacrylate
52.8 x 68.3 x 4cm
Sara Bonache
Archaeology, 2021
Pastel on paper
70 x 50cm
Alícia Vogel
All these unexpected journeys (to all these treasured moments), 2021
Mixed media (Canson Mitients 160 gr. paper)
65 x 50cm
Adrià Gamero
Intus et in cute, 2021
Collage and drawing. Graphite pencil, DinA3 graph paper and printing