Exhibitions
The new section takes a complex look at a country that has been transformed from a simple “geographic expression” into a political and economic reality with a unitarian identity. At the Officine Grandi Riparazioni, from 17 March to 4 November.
The exhibition is a chance to discover two painters – the brothers Bartolomeo and Domenico Guidobono – who left the greatest mark of their artistic inspiration on the ceilings of Palazzo Madama, yet to whom we also owe a vast artistic output which is now mostly scattered through museums and private collections in Europe and the United States. At Palazzo Madama, on the main floor (piano nobile), from 29 May to 2 September.
The first Italian museum exhibition dedicated to German artist Thomas Schütte, arranged in close collaboration with the artist himself. The exhibition looks at the Frauen series, extraordinary female figures whose bodies are subjected to spatial and organic deformations. At the Castle of Rivoli, from 22 May to 23 September.
From 5 April to 9 September, a major new exhibition with masterpieces from the Savoy collections at two prestigious venues: Prince Eugene’s Collections at the Reggia di Venaria and Turin, Europe at the Nuova Galleria Sabauda in the Manica Nuova of the Palazzo Reale.
From March 21st to September 9th, the halls of the Royal Palace will host the anthological exhibition that pays homage to this French photographic genius. More than 130 black&white photographs from the early 1930s and late 1970s will be exhibited, narrating the story of an impeccable sense of perception, the gift of the photographer who was known as “the eye of the century”.
The exhibition deals with the theme of the city as an experimental space for the theories expressed by radical Italian architecture, and is the central event of the Festival Architettura in Città. At the Archivio di Stato, from 30 May to 30 June.
The exhibition presents a variety of both historical – from the late nineteen-sixties – and recent works, many of them on show for the first time, installed under the sharp, meticulous guidance of Marisa Merz, with the aim of expressing the intimate, visionary character of her artistic philosophy. At the Fondazione Merz, from 16 May to 16 September.
From 25 May to 30 September, in the Wunderkammer of GAM-Gallery of Modern and contemporary art, a selection of works by Francesco Mosso, one of the most interesting characters from the second half of the Piedmont Nineteenth Century, who came into premature contact with the modern environment of unconventionality from Milan where he tried to free himself from the suffocating reality of Turin.
An exhibit that has made the rounds of all major museums in the United States: an amazing quantity of original works by the cartoon drawers who gave life to the popular personalities of Warner Bros cartoons during the 1950s and 1960s. At the National Museum of Cinema, Mole Antonelliana, February 23rd - May 27th.
From 29 May to 5 August, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebauderngo will present the works of contemporary artists who experiment strategies for breaking the status quo or who use alternative narration. The presentation, realised in collaboration with the Fondazione Victoria – The Art of Being Contemporary of Moscow, ends the sixth edition of the programme Residenze per Giovani Curatori. Among the artists: Yuri Ancarani, Francesco Arena, Tommaso De Luca, Helena Hladivola, Liliana Moro, Alessandro Quaranta, Mirko Smerdel, Valentina Vetturi.
At the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo from 29 May to 5 August, the one-man exhibition of Chao Kao inaugurates Artland, a new event dedicated to emerging artists curated by Francesco Bonami. The artist’s biography – born in China in 1978, lived for a long period in Poland and currently living in the United States - is marked by extraneousness, being out of place, shown in his works that express desperation, a type of minimalism without theory and ideology.
The first one-man exhibition of Julien Creuzet in Italy, inspired by the name of one of the biggest international rating agencies, made up of works that entwine references to the personal story of the artist with the financial and power dynamics that regulate how the contemporary world works. At the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, from 29 May to 5 august.
The third edition of Greater Torino, a cycle dedicated to artists from the younger generations who have their own training or working space in Turin. Rä di Martino and Laura Pugno, the main artists of the double one-man exhibition, centre their research on the landscape and also on the differences in artistic roads and means of expression. At the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, from 29 May to 5 August.
At Torino Esposizioni, from 19th April to 01st July, a show taking place in the Nervi pavilion, organised in collaboration with palaeontology professionals: 41 robotized dinosaurs constructed at natural size and with all known scientific details set in 17 different scenarios. Visitors will be projected into a sort of guided journey, a time machine, that will take them back 250 million years.
From 16 March a renewed version of the Reggia di Venaria visiting route will be presented that brings to mind the emotions and history of one of the greatest European works of Baroque architecture.
The Tiffany silver service, which was donated by the United States to Federico Sclopis in 1883 as thanks for the political-diplomatic work he carried out, returns to Palazzo Madama on 16 March for the first time in more than one hundred years.
A selection of the most important paperoles or papier roulés – a particular type of reliquary for domestic or convent use, traditionally made from paper by nuns in seclusion – made between the 17th and the 19th century and now belonging to private collections. At the Pinacoteca Agnelli, from 5 April to 2 September.
From 16 March to 10 June the GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea will be presenting Exhibition Area, an exhibition that offers the opportunity to discover an important and generally unknown segment of the rich museum collection, and to go further into the story of the purchasing policies, in this case of “foreign” art.
A project by Etienne De France, half-way between science, reality and fiction, on the recent discovery in Greenland of an extinct species of sea mammal, and an exhibition that becomes a metaphor, halfway between reality and make-believe. At PAV Parco Arte Vivente, from 30 March to 24 June.
The exhibition route is a journey through the 20th Century which tells of the theme of beauty through sculpting, drawing, painting, photography and videos. At the Fondazione 107, from April 12 to July 29.
A solo exhibition by Sergio Cascavilla that delves into the question of a “new abstraction”, that to be truly new will have to be combined with decoration. Al MIAAO - Museo Internazionale di Arti Applicate Oggi (International Museum of Applied Arts Today), from 20th April to 03rd June.
With the exhibition Giulio Einaudi e il suo mondo (Giulio Einaudi and his world) - from 27 February under the porticoes of via Po - the City of Turin and the Piedmont Region remember the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the editor and propose from 17 March, the opening day of the Fare gli italiani exhibition in the Officine Grandi Riparazioni, the same images on totems and a video showing interviews with authors and personalities from the Einaudi publishing house. The exhibition will then be presented in the public libraries and other public areas of the city.
From 24 February Torino: storia di una città, the multivisual spectacle of the city’s virtual museum Museo Torino, returns to the screens of the Medieval Court of Palazzo Madama. Suggestive images and texts tell of Turin’s evolution from prehistoric times to today.
On exhibit are 50 of the 79 drawings by an extremely young Thomas Geve immediately following his liberation from a concentration camp. The works (postcard size) were drawn on the back of SS forms. At the Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà, January 27th - July 1st.
A tribute to Piedmont's artistic civilization and the expertise of the goldsmiths who created superbly beautiful silverware during the 18th century. At the Museo Accorsi-Ometto, February 9th - July 1st.
From 4 March 2011 the GAM - Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art will have a completely fresh set-up following four new themes (soul, information, melancholy and language) articulated through a number of currently exhibited works as well as 160 new ones.
A fresh project and a new space made available by the GAM (Civic Museum of Modern and contemporary Art) to artists living and working in Turin or in Piedmont and who are distinguishing themselves with their work on the domestic art scene.
The dinosaurs are coming to Torino. One-to-one scale specimens of T-Rex, Europasaurus, Eoraptor and Dracorex are the protagonists of an exciting trip back through time. At the Società promotrice di Belle Arti, from 02nd December 2011 to 27th May 2012.
An exhibition staged like a chamber of wonders, born to tell of innovation and at the same time to make people curious and reflect on the most important changes that nature has undergone over the years. At the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, until the 6th of July.