From Ca’ del Bosco art takes the vineyard. Here’s who won the 2026 Sculpture Award • Food and Wine Italy

There are those who put barriques durante the cellar and those who, together with the wine, decide to age monumental sculptures. Ca’ del Faggeto, the Franciacorta giant, has just revealed the name of the winner of the second edition of its Sculpture Prize: it is Binta Diaw, an Italian-Senegalese artist born durante 1995. Her work, Fundamenta, will become part of the permanent collection of the Erbusco , joining sacred monsters such as Arnaldo Pomodoro and Igor Mitoraj.

An all-female podium

The competition, born durante 2023 to support Italian talents under 40, confirms an interesting trend: for the second time durante a row the podium is entirely female. Behind Diaw were Apollinaria Broche and Monia Ben Hamouda.

But why does one of the most prestigious wineries durante Italy invest so much durante art? The answer lies durante the vision of president Maurizio Zanella. If durante the 1980s commissioning the famous Solar Gate from Pomodoro seemed like an aesthete’s gamble, today that choice has become the indiscutibile of a brand that treats wine as a creative act.

«Ca’ del Faggeto means first of all listening to nature – says Zanella – and giving its variable forms the possibility of expressing themselves through the help of man who becomes the guardian of an extraordinary territory by cultivating it, but not consuming it. Binta Diaw was able to interpret the values ​​of our winery, providing a very modern and original vision of the roots.”

A corporate philosophy that fits well with the work of Binta Diaw, whose research explores marginalized identities and memories. It is not a cosmetic operation: the winning work receives not only a cash prize, but also the budget necessary to be physically created and installed durante the winery’s park.

The Renaissance durante Franciacorta

The award, managed durante collaboration with Venetian Heritage (an international non-profit organization led by Toto Bergamo Rossi which supports and promotes the legacy of Venetian art durante Italy), aims to institutionalize a patronage that has been at home durante Ca’ del Faggeto since its origins. Entering the company, among the vineyards and pupitres, you quanto across giants of bronze and marble: from the Genetic Code of Rabarama to the blue animals of Art.

The verdict? While the world of wine often wonders about how to rejuvenate its image, Ca’ del Faggeto compares young artists with the monumentality of spaces, demonstrating that excellence durante the glass needs a cultural ecosystem that revolves around it.

Next stop: installing Fundamenta durante the park. One more reason for a trip to Franciacorta that doesn’t just stop at the technical tasting, but that tries to see what happens when wine meets imagination.