FONDAZIONE ARTE CRT | ACTIVITIES IN THE SECOND TERM OF THE YEAR 2025

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Since 2000, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT (The Foundation), the art-oriented arm of the Fondazione CRT, has implemented concrete actions aimed at promoting talent and enriching cultural heritage. At the same time, it has built up an extensive collection of contemporary artworks which has become one of the most prestigious in Italy and internationally over time.

In its 25th year since establishment on 27 December 2000, the Foundation continues to implement the strategic lines of its programme with growing commitment, consolidating its vision and impact year after year through individual events and special projects. Public Space: chosen as a privileged place to create works through the active involvement of residents, local authorities, and associations to make art accessible and participatory; Internationalisation: openness to projects beyond the borders of Turin and Piedmont; Community: the common thread running through all the Foundation’s projects, understood as both the destination of these projects and a direct approach to building plural groups. The aim is to create connections and strengthen the social fabric through art; Professions: the professions of contemporary art require specific skills that must be encouraged and developed; Education has always been a pillar of the Foundation’s work, providing a fundamental tool for bringing people of all ages closer to the languages of art and promoting understanding and appreciation. The Collection is at the heart of the Foundation’s institutional identity and provides the community with access to an artistic heritage.

PUBLIC SPACE / Radis

Following the highly successful creation of Giulia Cenci’s Le Masche in the municipality of Rittana, the second edition of the project, curated by Marta Papini and once again in collaboration with the CRC Foundation, will see Kosovar visual artist Petrit Halilaj create a new piece in Borgata Valdibà, Dogliani (CN).
This year, the two institutions will continue their dialogue with the local community, turning the concept of shared heritage into tangible actions. This is one of the statutory objectives of the Fondazione Arte CRT and the Fondazione CRT, who have always been dedicated to making culture and art accessible to everyone.

The work will be inaugurated on 5 October 2025 alongside the collective exhibition ‘Tutto ciò che tocchi cambia’ (Everything you touch changes). This exhibition will feature works from the Fondazione Arte CRT and the Fondazione CRC.

INTERNATIONALISATION / The 57th Annual Conference of CIMAM

This year, the Fondazione Arte CRT is opening up to international circuits by providing support, together with the Fondazione CRT, for the 57th Annual Conference of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art). This event will take place from 28 to 30 November at the OGR Torino, making Turin an international capital of art with over 300 delegates arriving from all over the world.

This event is organised by CIMAM and supported by the Fondazioni Arte CRT and CRT. It is curated by the Content Committee in collaboration with the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, the Turin Museums Foundation and the Rivoli Castle Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Turin conference is entitled “Enduring Game: Expanding New Models of Museum Making” and will be guided by the motto “Of Necessity Virtue”.

COMMUNITY / Luci d’Artista

The Fondazione Arte CRT continues to play a pivotal role in Turin’s cultural landscape, demonstrating its ongoing commitment to supporting major contemporary art events such as The Phair, EXPOSED and Artissima. The foundation acts as an open interlocutor, facilitating the exchange of ideas, aspirations and requirements.

To celebrate its 25^ anniversary, the Fondazione Arte will produce a new light installation by a leading international artist for the first time as part of Luci d’Artista. This veritable open-air laboratory and institution for contemporary art has always been supported by the Fondazione CRT. The new work will be added to those already within the project and will be a gift to the city.

PROFESSIONS / Aperto

Aperto, launched in 2024, is a specialist training programme for contemporary art professionals. It is free and of a high level, and is conceived and promoted by the Fondazione Arte CRT. It is now in its second edition. Aperto involves a network of contemporary institutions and spaces with recognised expertise in training. It offers seminars that explore a specific area by combining the acquisition of new skills with theory, reflection, and workshop activities.
The 2025 edition of Aperto will feature four seminars, each lasting three to four days and accessible through open calls. Taking place from July 2025 to February 2026, the seminars will involve the Castello di Rivoli, Almanac Inn, Cripta 747, Mucho Mas!, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Artissima.

The first seminar was titled ‘Raccontare le mostre’. Per una storia della curatela al Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea’ (‘Telling the Story of Exhibitions’. A History of Curating at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art), will take place in two sessions on 24 and 25 July 2025, and 25 and 26 September 2025. It is conceived and organised by the CRRI (Castello di Rivoli Research Centre) and curated by Antonella Soldaini, who is an art historian, curator, author and curatorial consultant, as well as being the head of research at Studio Celant.

EDUCATION / aulArte

Now in its third year, aulArte has two key aims: encouraging engagement with and dissemination of contemporary art in schools and promoting access to cultural venues for students, as well as teacher training.
Through the open call for applications, the Foundation has made a total of €60,000 available to support the costs of educational trips to museums and contemporary art foundations in Piedmont. This is distributed as €2,000 to each of the 30 beneficiary schools (an increase from 25 in the previous edition). These include the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art (Rivoli), Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella), Fondazione Ferrero (Alba), the GAM Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Fondazione Merz, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the PAV Parco Arte Vivente and the Pinacoteca Agnelli (all in Turin).

This will be accompanied by a complimentary teacher training programme organised by the Education Departments of the contemporary art institutions involved. This programme will start in Autumn 2025 and aims to provide teachers with the tools to develop their own teaching methods using contemporary art in school curricula. The last edition saw the participation of over 400 teachers.

COLLECTION / Fondazione Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT’s Collection

The centrepiece of the Foundation’s institutional identity and heritage is the internationally renowned private collection of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. This collection is displayed in various locations and is primarily made available to the two most important contemporary art institutions in Piedmont: the GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, and the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Part of the collection is also housed at OGR Torino and Fondazione CRT headquarters.

 

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photo credit Pino Dell’Aquila

In foto da sinistra a destra: Franco Noero (Galleria Franco Noero), Luigi Cerutti (Segretario Generale Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT), Marcella Beccaria (vice direttrice Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea). Ph. Carolina Lemmi

ACQUISIZIONE A THE PHAIR 2025

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La Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, ente “art oriented” della Fondazione CRT, ha confermato per il 2025 il proprio sostegno a The Phair – la fiera dedicata alla fotografia, giunta alla sua sesta edizione e oggi riconosciuta come appuntamento di rilievo nel panorama artistico nazionale e internazionale. La manifestazione ha potuto contare negli anni anche sul sostegno della Fondazione CRT, a conferma dell’attenzione costante verso le iniziative culturali del territorio. In occasione della manifestazione, la Fondazione ha proceduto all’acquisizione di un’opera che andrà ad arricchire la collezione dell’istituzione, una raccolta affidata in comodato alla GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea e al Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea e dunque destinata ai musei del territorio, ai loro pubblici e alla cittadinanza.

L’acquisizione, con un budget stanziato di 15.000 euro (superiore alla cifra investita nella scorsa edizione), evidenzia innanzitutto la fiducia della Fondazione nella qualità della Fiera, espressa nella selezione delle gallerie e dalle loro proposte e, allo stesso tempo, conferma la volontà di incrementare il proprio fondo fotografico quale nucleo significativo della collezione.
L’acquisizione verrà destinata in comodato d’uso gratuito al Castello di Rivoli.

Paulo Nazareth (1977, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brasile)Untitled (Objects to Keep the Sun out of Your Eyes) series, 2010 Stampa fotografica su carta di cotone 90 × 60 cm Edition 2 / 5 + 2 AP

Paulo Nazareth (1977, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brasile)
Untitled (Objects to Keep the Sun out of Your Eyes) series, 2010
Stampa fotografica su carta di cotone
90 × 60 cm
Edition 2 / 5 + 2 AP

L’opera acquisita è la fotografia di Paulo Nazareth Untitled (Objects to Keep the Sun out of Your Eyes) series, selezionata dalla vice direttrice del Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Marcella Beccaria con la seguente motivazione:

“La pratica nomadica e multidisciplinare di Paulo Nazareth, che vive in Brasile ma è cittadino del mondo, affronta alcune tra le importanti urgenze contemporanee, tra cui diseguaglianze sociali, razziali e la pesante eredità coloniale che ancora grava molte parti del mondo. L’opera acquisita è un potente autoritratto. Parte di una ricerca attraverso la quale Nazareth utilizza la fotografia per esporre sé stesso, quest’opera contribuisce a disegnare nuove iconografie e scrivere storie di persone che la tradizione ha spesso ignorato.

Il Castello di Rivoli ha proposto alla Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT l’acquisizione di quest’opera in linea con una politica museale che mira a rendere l’istituzione sempre più aperta a visioni che restituiscono la complessità del mondo contemporaneo, secondo prospettive non solo occidentali e dal Sud globale.”

«Con il sostegno a The Phair, la Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT conferma il proprio impegno verso una fiera dedicata alla fotografia, un linguaggio capace di attraversare e interpretare gli immaginari del nostro tempo, restituendo la complessità del presente. In questa occasione, la Fondazione ha acquisito una nuova opera a favore del Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, rafforzando così il proprio ruolo di istituzione privata attenta alla cultura e all’interesse collettivo. Supportare The Phair significa per noi credere in una Torino sempre più dinamica capace di proporsi sulla scena dell’arte come laboratorio di ricerca e di innovazione culturale» commenta Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, presidente della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.

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In foto da sinistra a destra: Franco Noero (Galleria Franco Noero), Luigi Cerutti (Segretario Generale Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT), Marcella Beccaria (vice direttrice Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea).

Ph. Carolina Lemmi

SOMETHING BORROWED | FULTON

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Something Borrowed is the social column about the travels of the works of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT that are loaned from Turin to Museums all over Italy and the World. Follow them with us on Instagram, Facebook e Linkedin.

 

The Foundation is proud to announce the loan of a work by the artist Hamish Fulton (1946) from the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Rivoli-Turin to the Museo Nazionale della Montagna in Turin for the exhibition ‘Walking Mountains’, a reflection on walking as an immersive experience in mountain landscapes and on our relationship with the world around us.

A leading figure on the international scene and a pioneer of Walking Art, Fulton’s works explore profound themes such as the feminine, spirituality and the connections between culture, history and everyday life, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in a fantastic landscape. The 2007 work Kailash Kora will contribute to the artistic and cultural exchange between the two institutions.

The exhibition, curated by Andrea Lerda with Hamish Fulton and Michael Höpfner as project mentors, is conceived as a crossing of the mountain: an unprecedented dialogue with otherness, a tool for the evolution of feeling, but also an experience of renewal of individual and collective consciousness. The narrative presents the works of twenty artists – whose research is driven by the awareness that walking can be a revitalising and subversive gesture – in dialogue with those of historical artists such as Richard Long and Joseph Beuys.

Opera Hamish Fulton, Kailash Kora, 2007, pittura opaca, lettere viniliche | Courtesy Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, foto di Museo della Montagna di Torino

Installation view Hamish Fulton, Kailash Kora, 2007, pittura opaca, lettere viniliche | Courtesy Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, foto di Museo della Montagna di Torino

 

THE NEW ACQUISITIONS OF FONDAZIONE PER L’ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA CRT AT ARTISSIMA 2024

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 Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT has reinforced its engagement with Artissima through the acquisition during the 2024 edition of the fair of 10 new works produced by 5 artists. Major works by Sara Enrico, Chiara Fumai and Zhanna Kadyrova will enter the Fondazione Arte CRT’s permanent collection and will be publicly accessible at Castello di Rivoli Museum, while works by Guglielmo Castelli and Chantal Joffe will be publicly accessible at GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino through long-term loan agreements.

For almost 25 years, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, the “art-oriented” initiative of Fondazione CRT, is one of the main partners of Artissima, which it supports through various contributions, the most important of which is acquisitions. The Fondazione is firmly convinced that Artissima represents an extraordinary opportunity for the city of Turin to confirm and consolidate its role on the international scene. The Fondazione expanded the customary funding for acquisitions at Artissima 2024, bringing the total from last year’s 200,000 euros to the current 280,000. This is the highest budget of the last 12 years for acquisitions made at Artissima.

“For the 31st year of Artissima, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT CRT has increased its budget for acquisitions inside the fair to 280,000 euros. This is the largest fund of the last 12 years, a sign of the Fondazione’s commitment and confirmation of support for the fair over the years. The works purchased are the result of a careful selection process, carried out by a prestigious and authoritative committee of experts, in collaboration with the directors and chief curators of Castello di Rivoli and GAM. The works are provided to the two museums with the aim of enriching their public offerings, in keeping with their respective strategies and programs”, says Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, president of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.

The Fondazione supports the galleries and artists taking part in the fair through the acquisition of works, thus fostering the growth of an extensive collection of contemporary art that is now one of the most prestigious: over 930 works ranging from painting to sculpture, video to photography, large installations to NFTs, created by 380 artists – for a total investment of over 41.5 million euros. Confirming the Fondazione’s mission, the works that become part of its permanent collection are immediately made available to the community and to the two museums for their respective exhibition activities and for loans to other institutions, enabling Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea to continue to update their displays, in a constant dialogue with the leading exponents of the international art scene.

For the second year, Artissima has welcomed the Committee of Experts of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, represented this year by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, London), Susanne Pfeffer (Director of Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt), and Manuel Segade Lodeiro (Director of Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid); Suhanya Raffel (Director of the M Plus Museum, Hong Kong), and Vicente Todolì (Artistic Director of Fondazione Pirelli Hangarbicocca, Milano) took part remotely.

As the consultants of the Fondazione for acquisitions, the Committee has participated in the choice of acquisitions in the fair, in synergy with the Directors and Chief Curators of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, selecting works that further enhance the artistic heritage of both museums, centres of excellence in Piedmont and important resources to bring art to a wider, heterogeneous audience on local, national and international levels.

Regarding the acquisitions, the Committee of Experts of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT remarks: “We are pleased that these new acquisitions will reinforce the presence of Italian art in the collections of GAM and Castello di Rivoli. Most of these works are by women artists from different generations. The selection underlines the force of Artissima as a fair capable of revealing emerging talents and artists from previous generations whose work has been undervalued: a protest against forgetting!”

 

 

Works acquired for Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art

“The acquisition of La donna delinquente, 2011-13, by Chiara Fumai, brings to the collection a work by a great Italian artist who passed away prematurely, after having produced an important body of work focusing on the relationship with the world and with supernatural identities. This piece, in which the references to historical figures include Cesare Lombroso, contributes to enhance the value of the Chiara Fumai section of the CRRI of Castello di Rivoli.

The practice of Sara Enrico renews the sculptural language, in reference to the history of a garment, the jumpsuit, which since its invention in the Futurist period crosses the century with multiple political social connotations, all the way to the most contemporary themes of gender equality. The work purchased, The Jumpsuit Theme, 2022, already shown at the last Venice Biennale, is one of the most important made by the artist to date.

Palianytsia (Poland), 2022, by Zhanna Kadyrova, whose title means “bread”, symbolizes the loss of domestic balance caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the artist’s homeland. Through this work the artist sets out to support the humanitarian organizations that seek to benefit those impacted by this war”, says the Director of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art Francesco Manacorda.

 

Chiara Fumai

La donna delinquente, 2011-13
Video installation, single-channel video, b+w, with sound, 10’48”, fabric, conference table, 5 Thonet chairs, invisible thread, iron structure, 5 metal plates, artificial flowers, 2 vases, projector, DVD player, speakers, dimensions variable.

Guido Costa Projects

 

Sara Enrico

The Jumpsuite Theme, 2022
Concrete, pigment
37 x 228 x 50 cm

Vistamare

 

Zhanna Kadyrova

Palianytsia (Poland), 2022
7 sculptures in river stones
Dimensions variable, unique work

Continua

 

Zhanna Kadyrova

Anxiety, 2023
Hand embroidery with text made by hand and machine embroidery
31 x 45 cm, unique work

Continua

 

Zhanna Kadyrova

Anxiety, 2023
Hand embroidery with text made by hand and machine embroidery
31 x 45 cm, unique work

Continua

 

Zhanna Kadyrova

KADYROVA’S PALIANYTSIA, 2023
video
20 minutes

Continua

 

 

 

Works acquired for GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino

 “In recent years the work of Guglielmo Castelli has increasingly shifted towards a small format that allows the gaze to delve into the representation as we delve into our own imagination while reading the pages of a book. The imaginary world of Jingle Jangle Morning sinks, claustrophobic, into the small theater of the painting, pulling the figure into a headlong fall upwards.
Likewise, his production outside of painting often combines elements made on paper – the primary aspect of his artistic expression – with textile materials.

Of Aggression and Possession is a primary work, which Castelli considers a self-portrait and has placed, almost like a family emblem, in the initial spaces of his solo exhibition in Venice, at Palazzetto Tito, on the occasion of the latest Biennale.

Chantal Joffe has represented a reference point in Italian and international contemporary painting in recent years. The two selected paintings are part of an important series titled Writers, in which Joffe continues the tradition of artist portraits. The subjects are writers whose personalities Joffe seeks to celebrate. The subjects are authors, personalities to whom Joffe pays tribute: Jay Bernard is a poet and writer, winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer Award 2020, and of the Ted Hughes Award 2017, while Hanya Yanagihara is a novelist and editor”, says the Director of GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Chiara Bertola.

 

Guglielmo Castelli

Jingle Jangle Morning, 2024
Oil on panel
50 x 40 cm

Sylvia Kouvali Gallery

 

Guglielmo Castelli

Of Aggression and Possession, 2024
Mixed media on fabric
90 x 70 cm

Sylvia Kouvali Gallery

 

Chantal Joffe

Jay Bernard, 2021
Oil on canvas
100 x 70 x 2 cm

Monica De Cardenas Gallery

 

Chantal Joffe

Hanya Yanagihara, 2021
Oil on panel
61 x 46 x 4 cm

Monica De Cardenas Gallery

 

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Brand Identity Artissima 2024 – Graphic by Fionda

Vue du parvis de la Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection Paris-2024 Giuseppe Penone, Idee di Pietra, 2010 Photo credit: Romain Laprade

ARTE POVERA | BOURSE DE COMMERCE

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From today the Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection will host a major exhibition devoted to Arte Povera curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

This exhibition explains both the Italian birth and the international emanation, the show comprises more than 250 works of this movement through works by the thirteen main protagonists of Arte Povera: Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, and Gilberto Zorio – as well as new commissions entrusted to the artists of this historic group and to international artists of later generations whose work resonates strongly with the thought and practice of Arte Povera.

La Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT is proud to take part in this major exhibition project by lending 21 works from its collection, which are on display at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and the GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin:

This important event brings together works from the Foundation’s collection with masterpieces from other prestigious institutions, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein—Vaduz, the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Tate in London, among other major public and private collections. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to reflect on the significance and legacy of a movement that has had a profound impact on the international art scene.

The exhibition will be open from 9 October 2024 to 20 January 2025.

More information, please visit the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection’s website.

 

Vue du parvis de la Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection Paris-2024
Giuseppe Penone, Idee di Pietra, 2010
Photo credit: Romain Laprade

Lorenza Boisi, Orfeo incanta gli animali con la musica

L’OPERA AL NERO | RADIS

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Domenica 14 luglio alle ore 11.00 presso il Centro Civico e Culturale (l’antica canonica del paese) di Rittana (CN) inaugurerà il primo capitolo de L’opera al nero, mostra collettiva che accoglierà opere della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT e della Fondazione CRC, curata da Marta Papini e Leonardo Pietropaolo, con l’artista Giulia Cenci. La mostra, la cui inaugurazione sarà accompagnata alle 16.30 dallo spettacolo LIVES! La vita di Louise Bourgeois in parole e in musica, con Nicolas Ballario e Rodrigo D’Erasmo, nasce nell’ambito di Radis, il nuovo progetto di arte nello spazio pubblico promosso e ideato dalla Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT che nella sua prima edizione è realizzato in collaborazione con la Fondazione CRC.

Il progetto espositivo prende il titolo dall’omonimo romanzo della scrittrice Marguerite Yourcenar. La storia è ambientata nel XVI secolo e racconta la vita dell’alchimista, medico e filosofo Zenone. Al centro della narrazione vi è il corpo del protagonista, luogo di trasformazioni e punto di osservazione per indagare il rapporto dell’essere umano con il mondo. Questa indagine, perseguita da Zenone con un’attitudine libera che fonde l’alchimia con i principi materialisti propri di un medico, lo costringerà a nascondersi, a cambiare identità per sfuggire alle persecuzioni religiose, e infine a essere imprigionato e processato per eresia. Pubblicato nel 1968, il romanzo pone questioni sempre attuali: come cambia la nostra percezione del mondo influenzata dalla scienza e dalla tecnologia? In che relazione sono gli esseri umani con le altre specie viventi? Quali trasformazioni subisce il nostro corpo nel processo di invecchiamento? Che cosa succede al corpo dopo la morte? In che modo il nostro corpo può diventare luogo politico e sociale? Che parte hanno sogno, poesia e metamorfosi nella nostra vita?

Tra questi interrogativi, il primo capitolo della mostra affronta quelli riguardanti i rapporti tra l’essere umano e le altre specie viventi, osservando il rapporto tra corpo e mondo esterno. A partire da riflessioni sulla mitologia e sull’ecologia, le opere di Lorenza Boisi, Lin May Saeed e Tabita Rezaire presentano immagini in cui la figura umana convive con temi provenienti dall’universo animale e vegetale. Il dialogo tra i lavori di Steffani Jemison e Letícia Parente attiva invece una riflessione sul corpo come spazio di riflessione politica, come luogo in cui i tentativi di normare i corpi si scontrano con forme di resistenza individuale e collettiva.

L’opera tessile Mother Earth di Tabita Rezaire celebra la maternità e la fertilità e fa parte del secondo ciclo di una trilogia di divinità ricamate, realizzate in collaborazione con le donne Saramaka (Guyana francese). Mother Earth onora lo spirito della Terra, la sua abbondanza e la sua saggezza, e ci richiama alla responsabilità di prenderci cura dell’ambiente in cui viviamo.

Nella seconda sala sono in dialogo le opere di due artiste che riflettono sul corpo come spazio politico e, quindi, come prodotto culturale soggetto a oppressioni. Nell’opera video di Letícia Parente, Preparação I (1975), il gesto quotidiano di truccarsi davanti allo specchio diventa straniante quando la donna si incolla una striscia di nastro adesivo sulla bocca e sugli occhi, truccandoli. Resa cieca e muta, la donna si trasforma in un ibrido, a metà tra essere umano e bambola. Steffani Jemison riflette sul corpo afrodiscendente come spazio di libertà, contro la violenza in cui è confinato da secoli. I suoi lavori raffigurano corpi afrodiscendenti in movimento, con influenze che provengono dalla danza, dal cinema muto e dalla musica.

Nell’ultima sala le opere di Lorenza Boisi dialogano con il grande bassorilievo di Lin May Saeed NUS (NOC / NUT) in una riflessione sulle relazioni tra umani e animali. I dipinti Winter Life e Orfeo incanta gli animali con la musica di Boisi si collocano all’interno di una ricerca dell’artista legata a tematiche tradizionali e mitologiche, in cui la figura umana e la presenza del mondo animale sono temi ricorrenti. Allo stesso modo, l’opera di Lin May Saeed racconta di un momento originario, quando esseri umani e mondo animale erano un tutt’uno. Interessata alla nostra relazione con gli animali, l’artista immagina il momento in cui tutte le specie erano alla pari, prima che l’essere umano iniziasse il proprio dominio di violenza e sfruttamento.

La scansione in due capitoli della mostra asseconda la parabola narrativa del romanzo di Yourcenar: dopo un inizio in cui il giovane Zenone, errando per l’Europa, entra in contatto con persone provenienti dalle diverse culture e classi sociali del XVI secolo, negli anni della maturità il protagonista si fa sempre più isolato e riflessivo, fino alla minuziosa descrizione delle sensazioni che accompagnano la sua morte. Allo stesso modo, se il primo capitolo della mostra si concentra sulle relazioni tra umani e altri viventi, tra corpo e mondo esterno, nel secondo sarà l’esperienza del corpo dell’individuo a essere protagonista, in relazione alla tecnologia e ai processi di cambiamento e trasformazione.

La mostra L’opera al nero, realizzata con la sponsorizzazione tecnica di Big Broker Insurance Group – Ciaccio Arte, è parte del palinsesto di incontri estivi del public program di Radis, che avvicineranno il pubblico alla pratica artistica di Giulia Cenci e allo svelamento della sua opera, previsto per il 6 ottobre 2024 alle ore 15 nel Chiot Rosa (Rittana), e che la Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT darà in comodato permanente al Comune di Rittana.

Il progetto Radis nasce con l’obiettivo di arricchire il territorio piemontese con un patrimonio di opere di arte pubblica per la comunità, con programmi educativi, incontri pubblici e progetti espositivi che restituiscano alla collettività parte della collezione della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. Un format che nella sua prima edizione è realizzato in collaborazione con la Fondazione CRC e che parte dalla Valle Stura, tra il Comune di Rittana e la Borgata Paraloup, e precisamente al Chiot Rosa, una radura costellata da alberi di betulla a 1.200 metri sul livello del mare.

 

Per informazioni: www.radis-crt.it

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Photo credits: Lorenza Boisi, Orfeo incanta gli animali con la musica, 2019, olio su tela, 120cm x 160cm | Courtesy GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino e Galleria Ribot

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SOMETHING BORROWED | CAMONI

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The Foundation is proud to announce the loan of a work by the artist Chiara Camoni (1974), on loan from the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, to the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, on the occasion of the largest solo exhibition ever held.

A leading figure on the Italian and international art scene, Chiara Camoni’s work explores profound themes such as the feminine, spirituality and the links between culture, history and everyday life, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in an imaginary landscape.  The work Sister #2  (2020) will contribute to the artistic exchange between the two institutions.

The exhibition “Chiamare a raduno. Sorelle. Falene e fiammelle. Ossa di leonesse, pietre e serpentesse”(Call and Gather. Sisters. Moths and Flames Twisters. Lionesses Bones, Snakes and Stones), curated by Lucia Aspesi and Fiammetta Griccioli, is conceived as an immersive exploration of the artist’s practice, bringing together the largest body of her work ever presented, together with a series of new productions, and giving life to an architecture of collectivity and memory, whose forms are inspired by the Italian gardens of the late Renaissance and the ancient amphitheaters.

The exhibition will be open until 21 July 2024.

 

 

SOMETHING BORROWED | ACCARDI

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The Foundation is proud to announce the loan of three works by the artist Carla Accardi (1924-2014) from the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin to the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the centenary of her birth.

The works now on display – Arciere su bianco (1955), Labirinto n. 12 (1958) e Materico con grigi (1954) – are contributing to the artistic exchange between the two institutions.

The exhibition project, curated by Daniela Lancioni and Paola Bonani, brings together around 100 works in the most comprehensive anthology ever dedicated to the artist. The exhibition offers a chronological journey through her extraordinary career, highlighting the different stages of her creative path. A leading figure on the Italian and international art scene, Carla Accardi’s innovative and radical language has had a profound impact on contemporary art. The exhibition explores her pioneering contribution and her constant search for expressive freedom, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in the creative universe of one of the protagonists of 20th century visual culture.

The exhibition, promoted by the Department of Culture of Roma Capitale and the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, in collaboration with the Accardi Sanfilippo Archive and the Silvano Toti Foundation, has been prolonged and will be open until 1 September 2024.

 

Artist Bio

Carla Accardi was raised in Sicily, embracing, as she recalls, the light, the Mediterranean colors, the frontier spirit, and the memory of ancient civilizations that characterize the region. In the immediate postwar period she moved to Rome, where she participated in the climate of renewal, passionately involved in the artistic debate then taking place. In 1947, she was the only woman artist among a group of young artists to sign the Forma manifesto. Openly anti-realist in their polemics, this group promoted abstract painting, ideally reconnecting to the European avant-garde tendencies of the first half of the century. Accardi immediately stood out in the way she broke away from the rigors of geometry. […]

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Vincenzo Agnetti (Milano 1926 • 1981) Photo-graffia 1980 carta fotografica esposta e graffiata exposed and scratched photographic paper pezzo unico / unique piece 25.5x35 cm • 10x13.8 in provenienza / provenance: dono dell’artista a Vanni Scheiwiller già collezione Alina Kalczyńska Scheiwiller, Milano Montrasio Arte, Monza, Milano, Piacenza Gift from the artist to Vanni Scheiwiller Alina Kalczyńska Scheiwiller, Milano Montrasio Arte Monza and Milano

PRIMA ACQUISIZIONE A THE PHAIR

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Sostenitrice della fiera sin dagli esordi, per la prima volta la Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT ha acquistato un’opera nel corso di The Phair, appuntamento annuale dedicato alla fotografia e ormai punto di riferimento per collezionisti, artisti, galleristi e appassionati del settore.

Per la sua quinta edizione The Phair ha cambiato sede, dal 3 al 5 maggio sarà infatti possibile visitare le oltre 50 gallerie europee coinvolte nella Sala Fucine di OGR Torino.

Questa acquisizione contribuisce a sostenere le gallerie e le artiste e gli artisti presenti in fiera, e ad alimentare il fondo fotografico presente all’interno della propria collezione che oggi comprende oltre 930 opere di arte contemporanea di oltre 300 artisti italiani e internazionali, incomodato presso il Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea e la GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino; ed è proprio a favore di quest’ultima che è destinata la nuova acquisizione, dal momento che alla GAM è custodito il fondo fotografico della Fondazione.

Si tratta di un’opera di Vincenzo Agnetti dal titolo Photo-graffia, 1980, della Galleria Montrasio Arte, selezionata dalla direttrice della GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino Chiara Bertola con la seguente motivazione: “L’opera di Vincenzo Agnetti Photo-graffia del 1980 fa parte della serie delle Photo-graffie, realizzata tra il 1979 e il 1981, e rappresenta un momento significativo nella sua ricerca artistica e nel panorama dell’arte contemporanea. La sua pratica sperimentale coinvolge l’uso della pellicola fotografica esposta alla luce e manipolata attraverso graffi e colori, rivelando un approccio unico e innovativo alla rappresentazione visiva. Le Photo-Graffie di Agnetti si distinguono per la loro natura concettuale e poetica, dove l’azione di “recuperare” l’immagine attraverso l’annerimento e la successiva manipolazione diventano un atto di rigenerazione creativa. Questo processo alterato si traduce in opere che sfidano le convenzioni tradizionali della fotografia e della pittura, offrendo nuove modalità di espressione artistica che si collocano al confine tra queste due discipline. L’importanza di acquisire un’opera di Agnetti per la collezione della GAM risiede nella necessità di rappresentare in modo più completo e approfondito la ricchezza e la diversità delle ricerche artistiche italiane del periodo. Attualmente, la GAM possiede solo un libro d’artista di Agnetti, Image of an exhibition, del 1974. L’aggiunta di un’opera di questa serie consente di evidenziare il contributo significativo dell’artista alla fotografia sperimentale e alla pratica concettuale. Inoltre, rappresenta una risorsa per le future generazioni di artisti e fotografi, offrendo loro un esempio di innovazione e sperimentazione.”

 

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Vincenzo Agnetti
(Milano 1926 • 1981)

Photo-graffia, 1980
exposed and scratched photographic paper
unique piece
25.5×35 cm • 10×13.8 in

provenance:
Gift from the artist to Vanni Scheiwiller
Alina Kalczyńska Scheiwiller, Milano
Montrasio Arte Monza and Milano

SOMETHING BORROWED | ANSELMO

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The Foundation is proud to announce the loan of two works by the artist Giovanni Anselmo (1934-2023), on loan from the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Rivoli-Turin, to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to celebrate the uniqueness of his production, fundamental to the Arte Povera movement.

The works Respiro (1969) and Interferenza nella gravitazione universale (1969-2016) are now on display in the exhibition project and will contribute to the dissemination of Italian artistic culture abroad through the dialogue between the two institutions.

The exhibition “Giovanni Anselmo: Beyond The Horizon”, curated by Gloria Moure, brings together the most important works from Anselmo’s career with other works created especially for the occasion. It is intended to be a journey, a continuous flow. Anselmo was instrumental in organising this exhibition until a few days before his death last December. The title, which translates as ‘Beyond the Horizon’, faithfully conveys the depth of his vitality, the size of his legacy and the importance of his contributions.

The exhibition traces the rich artistic production and will be open until 19 May 2024.

 

 

Artist bio

Although his early artistic investigations emerged within the pictorial discipline, Anselmo immediately sought to reject a nostalgic approach to creating a painting, which he saw as a space apart, separate from the artist’s sensibility. As Jean-Christophe Amman relates, Anselmo said: “It is true that the painting has its fascination, but it excludes you, you remain alone with your emotions.” There is a well-known story of how the artist, walking one day at dawn at the summit of Stromboli, had a clear perception of the infinite realm of which, from that point on, all his works would become components. Unlike what occurs outside the closed imaginative plane of the canvas, the fulcra of energy created through his installations include everything within themselves: artist, viewer, cosmic geometries. No element remains isolated in the solitude of its finite reality. Everything is reorganized in relation to the positioning of the work’s elements, and the work responds to the trajectories and lines of energetic tension of earth and sky. […]

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