Preamble to all candidate artists

If the beauty must save the world, the Italian writer and philosopher Stefano Zecchi shows us the way:”The challenge of our time is to create beauty. And this depends on our ability to understand the past, and to take it with us into the future, in an aesthetic way”The modern art olympiads are inspired by ancient Greece while projecting themselves into the future to seek and understand what “universal beauty” could mean today.This is why we ask each candidate artist, in all disciplines, to first imagine what they consider to be beautiful in a work of art, in the sense of the joy and emotion they feel when they look at it or listen to it.Then, subsequently, to think about their past personal experience through the artistic creations that they were able to discover in cultures other than their own, in order to create a work that could ellicit a joyful aesthetic feeling in the spectator, whatever their country, their culture and the teachings received.It is about conceiving in the same artistic work a kind of synthesis of the aesthetic and harmonic currents that inspire all cultures in their universal dimension. If the challenge is met, such a work will be truly universal in its expression of beauty.And this is why, only the world public, in its diversity, will be able to determine the universality of the works that will be presented to it in an totally anonymous way.

致全体艺术家

如果美必须拯救世界，意大利作家、哲学家Stefano Zecchi则为我们指明了方向：
“我们这个时代的挑战是创造美。而这取决于我们理解过去并以美学的方式将其带入未来的能力。”
现代艺术奥林匹克竞赛从古希腊汲取灵感，同时展望未来，探索并理解“普世之美”在当今的意义。
正因如此，我们要求每位候选艺术家，无论其艺术领域为何，首先想象他们认为一件艺术品中的美是什么，即他们在观看或聆听作品时所感受到的喜悦与情感。
随后，思考他们过去通过接触其他文化的艺术创作所获得的个人体验，从而创作出一件能够激发观众愉悦审美情感的作品，无论观众来自哪个国家、拥有何种文化背景或接受过怎样的教育。
这关乎在同一件艺术作品中构思一种美学与和谐的融合，这种融合能够启发所有文化在其普世维度中的表达。如果这一挑战得以实现，这样的作品将在美的表达上真正具有普世性。
正因如此，只有世界公众，以其多样性，才能通过完全匿名的方式，决定所呈现作品的普世性。