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 31^st 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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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.

 

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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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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.

 

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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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During the ARCOmadrid fair, the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT announced the winners of the first edition of its new acquisition prize: Tomás Saraceno (Pinksummer Gallery, Genoa, Italy) and Abraham Gonzalez Pacheco (Campeche Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico).

The Foundation has acquired TBC, a painting by Tomás Saraceno and a set of 15 drawings by Abraham Gonzalez Pacheco for the benefit of GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino for a total of 36,000 euro.

The winning works were selected by a board including Chiara Bertola (Director of GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea), Manuel Segade Lodeiro (Director of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia) and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Co-Director of Serpentine Galleries).

The acquisition prize forms part of the Fondazione Arte CRT’s 2024-2027 programme and marks the first time the Fondazione has collaborated with an art fair outside Italy.

Each year, the Fondazione will acquire new work at ARCOmadrid, which will enter its collection and will go on long-term loan to one of two partner museums: GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino and Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. This year, the works by Tomás Saraceno and Abraham Gonzalez Pacheco will go on long-term loan to GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino. In 2025, the winning artwork will go on long-term loan to Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.

Since 2000, the Fondazione has been building a collection of modern and contemporary art for the benefit of the Piedmont region and its museum network. The collection includes more than 930 works by over 300 artists across multiple mediums, including painting, sculpture, video, photography, and large installations for a total investment of more than €41 million. The Fondazione’s acquisition budget for 2024 is €1 million, up from €515,000 in 2023.

The collection is publicly accessible at GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino and Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, with site-specific works on show at OGR Torino.

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, President of the Fondazione Arte CRT said: “Today the Fondazione Arte CRT inaugurated its first acquisition prize at ARCOmadrid. It is the first time the Fondazione has collaborated with an art fair outside of Italy, forming part of its mission to expand its collection and reach an international audience. I am pleased to announce Tomás Saraceno and Abraham Gonzalez Pacheco as the inaugural winners of the prize. The acquired works will enter the Fondazione Arte CRT collection and be publicly accessible at GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino.”

Hans Ulrich Obrist, representative of the Board, said: “At Arco Madrid 2024, the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT acquired works by the established Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno and the young Mexican artist Abraham Gonzalez Pacheco for GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino. The acquisitions are united by two imaginaries, one based on the power and invisible work of nature, the other on the history of myth and the archaeological fragment.

Abraham Gonzalez Pacheco is one of the most interesting young Mexican artists on the burgeoning Mexican art scene. His practice focuses on drawing, which he develops and applies at different scales, from micro to macro, treating the large dimension with the same intensity as a detail. Gonzalez Pacheco looks at archaeology, but not in a nostalgic way, to show that the future can be reinvented from fragments of the past. He brings the narrative of myth into an everyday, present dimension. 

The role that Tomás Saraceno entrusts to animals, his precious collaborators for more than ten years, is well known. He works with spiders, dogs, insects, leading us to see in nature techniques and solutions that we discover close to our own existence. The work acquired is the imperceptible golden web of a spider, transformed into an extraordinary and precious drawing. We can say that we are in front of an amazing collaboration between species that confirms the necessary relationship between science and art, between ecology and the environment.”

Photo credits ARCOmadrid

 

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