Also for the 42nd edition of the Masi Prize, 5 high-value personalities will sign the famous barrel of Amarone in Valpolicella on 27 October in the Masi winery ; personalities who, due to their skills and experience, best interpret the common thread " Roots and Perspectives " that the Juries followed in identifying the winners of the three sections. Here are their names. For Civiltà Veneta, the internationally renowned lexicographer Mario Cannella , the hydraulic engineer Andrea Rinaldo , recently awarded the "Nobel for water", and the Stevanato Group , a historic Venetian company leading manufacturer of glass containers for medicines, were awarded. The Civiltà del Vino Award was awarded to two Japanese people, Yuko and Shin Kibayashi , authors of the original manga “The Drops of God” on wine culture. Finally, the recipient of the Grosso d'Oro Veneziano will be the Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad , committed to the fight to promote democracy and women's civil rights, particularly in her country.
“The underlying theme of the 2023 Masi Award is 'Roots and Perspectives'. A contradiction in terms. It is, and it must be: in fact it represents the only possible way for all of us who love to hold dear our precious traditions and together look forward, innovate ” explains the president of the Masi Foundation, the writer, journalist Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti . “In an era in which uncertainty permeates thoughts and behaviors, anchoring to the roots cannot be a chain that inhibits change, but rather the certainty of having a lifeblood that fuels the exploration of new paths”.
The vice-president of the Foundation and president of Masi, Sandro Boscaini , adds: “The jury of the International Civilization of Wine Award could not be more in tune with 'Roots and Prospects'. In fact, it has rewarded a means of communicating wine, manga, which since its birth in Japan and prospectively in many countries recently opened to wine, proposes its appreciation with respect for a symbol of ancient culture. In general, a more appealing communication for young people".
Marco Vigevani, secretary of the Masi Foundation underlines: “ The Grosso D'Oro Veneziano has always brought to light a message of culture, solidarity and civil progress in the world. It seemed extremely topical to highlight the discrimination that afflicts women in Iran and beyond, and we do so through the sensitivity of a great Iranian director, who has dedicated profound thoughts to human rights in her long and award-winning work".
MOTIVATIONS 42nd Masi Award
MASI CIVILTA' VENETA AWARD
Recognition to personalities - Venetian by birth, by family or by adoption - who have distinguished themselves in the fields of literature, art, journalism, science, entertainment and economics, and who with their work have promoted and enhanced the abilities of the Venetian people in the vastest fields of human activity, becoming bearers of the fundamental values of this land.
Mario Cannella
“Lexicographer from Trieste, editor of the Zingarelli vocabulary, curious and tireless investigator of the Italian lexicon for decades. He contributed as a protagonist to affirm and spread, even among the younger generations, the idea of our language as a living and continuously evolving organism, which cannot be arbitrarily deformed or artificially preserved.
He is rewarded for his contribution to the deepening of tradition
and the evolution of the Italian language".
Andrea Rinaldo
“ Venetian hydrologist engineer, professor of hydraulic constructions at the University of Padua, Director of the Ecohydrology Laboratory of the École Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, Rinaldo was the first Italian to have won the Stockholm Water Prize, the “Nobel” for studies on 'waterfall.
One of the pioneers of ecohydrology, which studies the relationship between river water and living communities, whether human, animal or plant.
He is rewarded for the importance of his extremely topical studies aimed at a fair distribution of water, one of the great global issues of today and tomorrow".
Stevanato Group
“Pharmaceutical industry based in Padua: the incredible story of a small Venetian glass factory – Soffieria Stella in Zelarino near Venice, heir to the centuries-old culture of Murano glass art – which, from 1949 to today, has managed to become a leading company world-wide in the medical sector, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with its highly specialized products for insulin, vaccines and many other drugs.
It is rewarded for the global success of the company in the sign of a vocational continuity that draws on the culture and techniques of the Venetians ”.
INTERNATIONAL MASI CIVILIZATION OF WINE AWARD
It is dedicated to the great world of viticulture and rewards the most representative personalities who have contributed at an international level to enhancing the ancient culture of vines and wine.
Yuko and Shin Kibayashi
“Brothers authors of the seinen manga (for young and adult readers) about wine 'Kami no shizuku' – 'The drops of God'. With their work, published in over 500,000 copies per week and translated into several languages, they tell the story of the discovery of wine as an initiation and revelation.
They are rewarded for their important contribution to the understanding and promotion of the ancient culture of wine through an original and completely new form of communication capable of transmitting an unconventional message to an audience that is approaching wine and its culture for the first time. tradition".
INTERNATIONAL MASI GROSSO D'ORO VENETIAN AWARD
It is reserved for personalities who have contributed to spreading a message of culture in the world, generating that understanding between peoples that develops in solidarity, civil progress and peace.
Rakhshan Banietemad
“Iranian film director and screenwriter: with her films and documentaries she has managed to tell the daily life and dramatic events of her country like no other, giving her stories and characters a universal value.
She is awarded for the high artistic value of her work and for her defense of civil rights and democracy in Iranian society."
