METAMORPHOSIS PRESENTS OGR AWARD WINNER REBECA ROMERO

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Torino, 18 May 2023 – The artwork Semilla SAGRADA by artist Rebeca Romero (Copperfield gallery, London), the winner of the fifth edition of the OGR Award, was presented for the first time on May 17 during the official public award ceremony at OGR Torino.

The METAmorphosis project, the second episode of the Beyond Production platform, promoted by Artissima and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, reflects on the most innovative trends in contemporary art. The edition launched in 2 022 focused on the complex phenomenon of the Metaverse.

As with Surfing NFT, which was the first episode of Beyond Production, the Metaverse proposed here takes a critical view of the phenomenon, which is formative for art world professionals and educational for the public. The METAmorphosis project has seen confirmed partnerships with Artshell, a software house for the art market, and with LCA Studio Legale, in addition to the activation of a new dialogue with REVIBE – Metaverse Experience Factory, resident in OGR Tech.
Rebeca Romero, selected as the winner by the international jury of the OGR Award, produced the work Semilla SAGRADA thanks to the support of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and the technological support of the partners involved in the project.

The work was presented both in its physical version, in the spaces of the Duomo at OGR Torino, and in its 3D version in a virtual version of the Duomo hosted on the Spatial platform in the Metaverse usable free of charge over time. The work, thanks to the synergy with the OGR Award, is acquired by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and becomes part of the Fondazione‘s Collection on free loan to OGR Torino.

Following the event, the work, in its digital version in the Metaverse, will continue to be available at this link: https://bit.ly/METAmorphosis

 

Semilla SAGRADA

The project investigates the history of a future-ancient civilization worshipping the Sacred Seed, a mutable plant endowed with miraculous properties. With an animistic perspective reminiscent of Inca myths that attributed vitality to elements of nature such as mountains, bodies of water, stars, stones, caves, atmospheric events and the firmament above, the artist addresses the urgency of investigating, in an era of continuous environmental upheaval, the ontological connections between human and non-human entities and possible worlds.

Semilla SAGRADA exists in two complementary spaces or “planes”, moving fluidly between the digital and the material.

The physical work installed in the Duomo of OGR Torino presents the result of a study of pre-Columbian textiles, which has provided valuable information on both the technological and cultural advances of these societies and their economic and social structures. Building on this concept, Semilla SAGRADA takes the physical form of a carefully crafted garment that represents a fictional product of the enigmatic Seed-worshipping civilization. The garment is inspired by museum collections of ancient tunics and cloaks and the costumes of Peruvian folk dances. It was made using digital embroidery techniques and specially created fabrics centered on the iconography associated with the Sacred Seed.

The OGR Torino Duomo in the Metaverse has been recreated to host a spiritual encounter, featuring three floating manifestations of the Sacred Seed in 3D that visitors can explore and interact with. Each of these sacred seeds is presented as a deity and if clicked will act as a portal. Through this interaction (one pop-up video per seed), the visitor is encouraged to contemplate the meaning and symbolism of each seed, enabling a deeper understanding of the relationships between technology, nature and spirituality.

From the artist’s words, “Semilla SAGRADA aims to identify a unifying feature between Amerindian animistic cosmogonies and post-humanist futures where traditional boundaries between human and non-human are very blurred and divinity and individuality are dispersed across a wide spectrum of beings.”

 

Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the National Museum of Digital Art in Milan and curator of METAmorphosis, comments on the winning artist’s work as follows, “Rebeca Romero’s Semilla SAGRADA project innovatively articulates the relationship between past and future through a surprising link between virtual and physical. Giant divine seeds seemingly symbols of Amerindian cosmogonies project us into a Meta-future inspired by the world of video games by questioning the relationship between art and craft, video and gaming. Beyond Production stems from the need that art has always manifested in questioning the relationship with new technologies. We live in a digital age and imagining how art and its issues can impact the lives of digital natives is a responsibility of cultural institutions.”

Luigi Fassi, director of Artissima, recounts that “Rebeca Romero‘s digital and sculptural elaborations of seeds appear as epiphanies between past and future, representations suspended between the evocation of an ancestral past and a futuristic projection of the relationship between art and the sacred. Romero thus opens to an unprecedented dimension of development, capable of inspiring new modes of creation in which the artists’ imagery can move in complete fluidity between sculptural concreteness and image virtuality. METAmorphosis is the second episode of Beyond Production and explores such a complex and developing territory as the Metaverse, in which artists’ creative experience is placed in direct confrontation with the most advanced digital technologies, while maintaining a critical and non-apologetic gaze toward them.”

The Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT is supporting Artissima and Beyond Production in the belief that investigating new languages of artistic expression is essential to enable art to reflect the complexity of the contemporary world. To this end, the Fondazione has provided a production budget for the development of the winning artist’s project idea. The President of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Luisa Papotti, said, “The intertwining of emerging technologies and art, from photography to the Metaverse, has always offered creativity renewed tools, opening wider expressive horizons. Beyond Production is the project that the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT wanted to promote with Artissima to investigate its potential and explore its latest boundaries. The outcome of this journey, launched in the 2022 edition of Artissima, is combined with the OGR Award, the prize that the Foundation has been dedicating to OGR Torino since 2017, awarded this year to Rebeca Romero. For the first time, the award-winning work, Semilla SAGRADA, will find complementary spaces in the imposing halls of the OGR Torino and their Metaverse, offering the public an unprecedented experience, between the tangible and the virtual.”

 

OGR Award in dialogue with METAmorphosis

The OGR Award was created in recognition of the artist who best renders the complex and sophisticated relationship between art, technology and innovation, with a particular emphasis on digital developments.

The winner was chosen from among the artists selected during the 2022 edition of Artissima: Marcos Lutyens – Alberta Pane, Paris and Venezia; Eva & Franco Mattes – Apalazzogallery, Brescia; Rebeca Romero – Copperfield, London; R M – Martina Simeti, Milano.

The prize was awarded by an international jury composed of Amira Gad, curator and writer, Rotterdam, Lars Henrik Gass, director, Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Samuele Piazza, senior curator, OGR Torino, and Domenico Quaranta, art critic, curator and lecturer specialised in media art, Milan.

Under the guidance of technical partners Artshell, LCA Studio Legale and Revibe – Metaverse Experience Factory – specialists in digital technologies, legal issues connected with NFTs and the computer 3D graphics inside the metaverse respectively, the artists participated together with their galleries in an educational series of meetings on the Metaverse and its potential and limitations in the artistic sphere.

The four artists then created a physical artwork and a digital alter ego of the work in the Metaverse, supported by Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale in Milano, with budget provided by the Fondazione per l’Arte Contemporanea CRT. The projects are hosted online on a digital platform by Artshell.

 

Bio Rebeca Romero

Rebeca Romero is an interdisciplinary artist born in Peru and based in London. She received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University of London (2020). Her work has been exhibited internationally with exhibitions including Oracles and Algorithms, Copperfield London, UK (2022), and so on, Das Weisse Haus, Austria (2022), Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Firstsite Colchester & South London Gallery, UK (2021), The Obsolete in Reverse, Springseason Gallery, UK (2020) and London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, UK (2020), Her text/sound work has been featured in platforms like New Writing with New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, UK (2022) and Future Artefacts, RTM.FM (2021).

Through a wide range of media including sculpture, ceramics, textiles, sound performance, and video, Rebeca Romero explores concepts of diasporic identity, truths, fiction, and their relationship to the digital age.

è un’artista interdisciplinare nata in Perú e con base a Londra.

Nel 2020 ha conseguito un master in discipline artistiche alla Goldsmiths University di Londra. Le sue opere sono state esposte in tutto il mondo in importanti mostre come Oracles and Algorithms, Copperfield Londra, UK (2022), and so on, Das Weisse Haus, Austria (2022), Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Firstsite Colchester & South London Gallery, UK (2021), The Obsolete in Reverse, Springseason Gallery, UK (2020) e London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, UK (2020). Le sue performance sonore e i suoi video sono stati ospitati su piattaforme come New Writing with New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, UK (2022) e Future Artefacts, RTM.FM (2021).

Attraverso un’ampia gamma di media che includono sculture, ceramiche, tessuti, performance sonore e video, Rebeca Romero esplora i concetti dell’identità diasporica, le verità, la finzione e il loro rapporto con l’era digitale.

 

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Photo credit: METAmorphosis Project: OGR Award. Winning artist Rebeca Romero together with project partners, a jury member of the OGR Award and the curator of METAmorphosis. Photo © Giorgio Perottino / Artissima

From left to right: Flavio Trione (Revibe – Metaverse Experience Factory), Ilaria Bonacossa (Curatrice del progetto e Direttrice Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale di Milano), Luigi Fassi (Direttore Artissima), Rebeca Romero (artista), Luisa Papotti (Presidente Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT), Lars Enrik Gass (Direttore Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen e membro della giuria dell’OGR Award), Miriam Loro Piana (LCA Studio Legale), Bernabò Visconte di Modrone (Artshell), Fulvio Gianaria (Presidente OGR Torino).

 

METAMORPHOSIS PRESENTA OGR AWARD

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Nel 2021 Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT e Artissima hanno dato il via a Beyond Production, una piattaforma concettuale in sinergia con OGR Torino nell’ambito di OGR Award, capace di stimolare e promuovere riflessioni sulle tendenze più innovative dell’arte contemporanea per indagare come queste si relazionino con le trasformazioni della società mettendo al centro le opere d’arte e il valore storico e culturale del collezionare.

Beyond Production sintetizza i tratti focali dell’identità di entrambi i soggetti: la ricerca di progettualità innovative, l’attenzione alla curatela, l’apertura alla contaminazione e alla sperimentazione.

Dopo il primo capitolo dedicato agli NFT, il nuovo progetto METAmorphosis si propone di indagare il fenomeno del Metaverso, mettendone in risalto i punti di forza e di debolezza, offrendo una visione critica, formativa ed educativa per il professionisti del mondo dell’arte (gallerie e artisti) e per il pubblico.

Il 17 maggio il progetto giungerà alla sua tappa conclusiva, presentando al pubblico “Semilla SAGRADA”, l’opera prodotta dall’artista vincitrice dell’ultima edizione di OGR Award, Rebeca Romero; l’opera verrà infatti allestita nella sua forma fisica all’interno del Duomo di OGR Torino, e sarà fruibile nella sua forma digitale nel Metaverso delle OGR, sia attraverso la navigazione sul web che attraverso una esplorazione immersiva, utilizzando appositi visori. Un’occasione unica per fare esperienza delle potenzialità del Metaverso nel mondo dell’arte.

Interverranno: Luigi Fassi (Direttore della Fiera internazionale di Artissima), i partner di progetto Artshell e Studio Legale LCA, Ilaria Bonacossa (Direttrice del Museo Nazionale di Arte Digitale di Milano), Lars Henrik Gass (Direttore del Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen), Rebeca Romero (artista), Revibe Metaverse Experience Factory.

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Torino, 4 aprile 2023. È stato pubblicato il Bando aulArte, un progetto ideato e promosso dalla Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT e rivolto a tutte le scuole primarie della regione Piemonte, volto a favorire la conoscenza e la divulgazione dell’arte contemporanea nell’ambito dei programmi scolastici.

Ponendosi in continuità con le molte edizioni del progetto zonArte, sostenuto dalla Fondazione sin dal 2010, il progetto aulArte si rivolge alle scuole con l’obiettivo di promuovere percorsi di approfondimento e spazi di riflessione mirati alla divulgazione dell’arte nella sua declinazione più contemporanea, soffermandosi su come questa si relazioni con temi e problematiche d’attualità.

“Educare al presente, nella complessa realtà che viviamo, richiede nuovi strumenti e linguaggi. Tra questi non può mancare il linguaggio dell’arte, capace di sollecitare il confronto e generare condivisione” dichiara Luisa Papotti, Presidente della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. “Confido che la formula adottata, con un bando indirizzato a raccogliere e sostenere le progettualità dei diversi istituti scolastici, possa contribuire a rafforzare i percorsi educativi con nuove esperienze”.

L’impegno messo in campo dalla Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT comprende l’ideazione e progettazione dell’iniziativa, le linee guida per la sua messa in pratica e un investimento di 40.000 euro da erogare a 8 istituti, selezionati da un’apposita commissione secondo i criteri indicati nel bando, redatto in collaborazione con la Fondazione CRT e la Direzione Scolastica Regionale del Piemonte.

La valutazione da parte della commissione terrà anche conto dell’accessibilità da parte delle persone con disabilità delle proposte progettuali, con particolare attenzione agli strumenti in grado di generare buone pratiche in materia di accoglienza e accessibilità for all; il progetto aulArte infatti è pensato in aderenza ai punti 4 e 10 degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell’Agenda 2023, favorire “istruzione di qualità” e “ridurre le diseguaglianze”.

“La sfida della formazione delle competenze e dell’educazione alla cittadinanza attiva è legata anche alla diffusione nelle scuole di percorsi didattici innovativi e contemporanei come quelli promossi dalla Fondazione per l’Arte, che è parte della ‘famiglia’ della Fondazione CRT. Il valore culturale e sociale dell’arte aiuta gli studenti a sviluppare la conoscenza di sé e degli altri in una prospettiva di rispetto reciproco: elementi alla base di una comunità aperta, inclusiva e democratica” afferma il Presidente della Fondazione CRT Giovanni Quaglia.

Alle istituzioni scolastiche viene richiesto di presentare un’idea progettuale in dialogo con la programmazione annuale o argomenti di attualità, basata su tematiche ampie e legate alla contemporaneità, da approfondire nel corso del progetto utilizzando i linguaggi, i temi, le opere, gli artisti e le correnti dell’arte contemporanea. La scadenza per l’invio delle candidature è fissata per il 31 di maggio, mentre gli otto istituti selezionati verranno annunciati tra giugno e luglio.

“Il DLGS n. 60/2017 ‘Norme sulla promozione della cultura umanistica, sulla valorizzazione del patrimonio e delle produzioni culturali e sul sostegno della creatività’ e il ‘Piano Nazionale per l’educazione al patrimonio culturale’ del 2021 promuovono un’offerta educativa integrata e innovativa, nella quale il progetto aulArte ben si colloca, attualizzando il significato e le finalità dell’educazione al patrimonio artistico nell’ambito del NextGenerationEU,” commenta Stefano Suraniti, Direttore Generale dell’Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per il Piemonte. “Gli obiettivi della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT sono dunque pienamente condivisi dall’Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per il Piemonte per accompagnare i giovanissimi alla comprensione dell’arte contemporanea sin dalla scuola primaria.”

Ogni docente responsabile del progetto dovrà documentare il processo, organizzare un momento di restituzione finale per la propria classe, e programmare almeno due visite scolastiche alle istituzioni delle eccellenze museali del territorio piemontese che collaborano al progetto, offrendo il supporto dei propri Dipartimenti Educazione: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, GAM – Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Merz, Parco Arte Vivente, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto e Fondazione Piera, Pietro e Giovanni Ferrero. Al termine del progetto aulArte è prevista l’organizzazione di un evento corale di presentazione cui saranno invitati a partecipare docenti e studenti di tutte le classi coinvolte.

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Rebeca Romero, winner of the 5th edition of the OGR Award.Ingrid Pumayalla

ARTISSIMA OGR AWARD

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Torino, 9 March 2023 – Rebeca Romero represented by Copperfield gallery based in London is the winner of the OGR Award 2023 with the project Semilla SAGRADA. Organised by Artissima and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, the OGR Award has been created to identify an artist who effectively conveys the complex, sophisticated relationship between art, technology and innovation, with a particular focus on digital.

This year, the prize was awarded by an international jury composed of Amira Gad, curator and writer, Rotterdam, Lars Henrik Gass, director, Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Samuele Piazza, senior curator, OGR Torino, and Domenico Quaranta, art critic, curator and lecturer specialised in media art, Milan.

The jury expressed the following statement:

“We decided unanimously to award Rebeca Romero, represented by Copperfield gallery based in London, for her project Semilla SAGRADA. As is exemplified by her artistic practice whereby she adopts an archaeological approach, the project excavates ancient histories into a future civilization, evoking the complex relationships between the real and the virtual, the digital and the material, heritage and symbolism. The jury appreciates the analogue angle of using materials such as textiles in her engagement with the metaverse as well as the links drawn between shamanism and the digital. Additionally, with this prize, the jury supports a project that addresses the metaverse as a shared place that can be actively and collectively designed, contributing alternative, non-Western histories and imaginations to its development.”

Link – images of the winning project Semilla SAGRADA

 

OGR Award in dialogue with METAmorphosis

 In this edition, the Award has been in dialogue with METAmorphosis, the second initiative of the Beyond Production platform, in which Artissima and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT reflect annually on the most innovative trends in contemporary art. The 2022 edition is focused on the complex phenomenon of the Metaverse and was divided into four phases.

Four artists were shortlisted for the OGR Award during Artissima 2022: Marcos Lutyens – Alberta Pane, Paris and Venice; Eva & Franco Mattes – Apalazzogallery, Brescia; Rebeca Romero – Copperfield, London; R M – Martina Simeti, Milan.

Artists and their galleries were subsequently involved in a training cycle that enabled them to explore the potential and limits of the metaverse under the guidance of technical partners Artshell, LCA Studio Legale and Revibe – Metaverse Experience Factory – specialists in digital technologies, legal issues connected with NFTs and the computer 3D graphics inside the metaverse respectively.

The four artists then created a physical artwork and a digital alter ego of the work in the Metaverse, supported by Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale in Milan, with budget provided by Fondazione per l’Arte Contemporanea CRT. The projects are hosted online on a digital platform by Artshell.

Finally, the jury determined the winner of the Award, bestowing it on Rebeca Romero. The artwork Semilla SAGRADA will be mounted in the Metaverse and will be unveiled to the public on 17 May 2023, in a dedicated event at OGR Torino. The winning works will be acquired into the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT collection and will go on display at OGR Torino.

 

Upcoming events and presentation of the winning work

Before the closing event on 17 May 2023, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT will organise two talks on the occasion of METAmorphosis that will be open to the public.

 

29 March 2023

Metaversando… Prospettive e percorsi nei metaversi dell’arte

6 pm – Duomo, OGR Torino

Speakers: Luisa Ausenda, curator and digital art specialist, Milan and Marco Mancuso, critic, curator, lecturer and founder of the Digicult project, Milan.

Moderator: Ilaria Bonacossa, director of Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale, Milan.

* The event precedes the 8.00 pm opening of the group exhibition Perfect Behaviors, curated by Giorgio Olivero, hosted at Binari 1 and 2 of the OGR Torino from 29 March to 25 June 2023.

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26 April 2023

Sviluppi METAmorfici. Come si trasformeranno l’arte, la produzione creativa?
6.30 pm – Duomo, OGR Torino
Speakers: Elisabetta Rotolo, business strategist, CEO and founder of MIAT Multiverse Institute For Arts and Technology, Milan and Valentino Catricalà, scholar, curator, contemporary art critic and artistic director of Media Art Festival at Museo MAXXI, Roma.

Moderator: Ilaria Bonacossa, director of Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale, Milan.

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17 May 2023

METAmorphosis presents OGR Award

6.30 pm – Duomo, OGR Torino

Public presentation of the physical and virtual work Semilla SAGRADA by Rebeca Romero. The physical work will be displayed at the Duomo of OGR Torino and the digital one will be in a 3D version of the Duomo hosted on the Spatial platform on the Metaverse, coordinated by Revibe – Metaverse Experience Factory.

 

OGR Award winners over the years

Previous OGR Award winning artists include Rokni Haerizadeh (Isabelle van den Eynde gallery, Dubai) in 2017, Tomás Saraceno (Pinksummer gallery, Genova) in 2018, Yuri Ancarani (Isabella Bortolozzi gallery, Berlin) in 2019 and Damon Zucconi (VEDA gallery, Florence) in 2021.

 

Bio Rebeca Romero

Rebeca Romero is an interdisciplinary artist born in Peru and based in London. She received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University of London (2020). Her work has been exhibited internationally with exhibitions including Oracles and Algorithms, Copperfield London, UK (2022), and so on, Das Weisse Haus, Austria (2022), Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Firstsite Colchester & South London Gallery, UK (2021), The Obsolete in Reverse, Springseason Gallery, UK (2020) and London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, UK (2020), Her text/sound work has been featured in platforms like New Writing with New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, UK (2022) and Future Artefacts, RTM.FM (2021).

Portrait of the artist. Photo Credit: Ingrid Pumayalla

LE NUOVE ACQUISIZIONI DELLA FONDAZIONE PER L’ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA CRT

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Torino, 14 febbraio 2023. La Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT ha acquistato quindici nuove opere di nove artisti contemporanei: Jacopo Benassi, Merlin James, Atelier dell’Errore, Chiara Camoni, Alessandra Spranzi, Bill Lynch, Giuseppe Gabellone, Cooking Sections e Richard Bell.

Le nuove acquisizioni, così come l’intera collezione della Fondazione, sono concesse in comodato gratuito al Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea e alla GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino e rese disponibili per la pubblica fruizione.

“Con la Fondazione per l’Arte CRT contribuiamo da oltre 20 anni a rafforzare il sistema della creatività contemporanea, a valorizzare i talenti e ad arricchire il patrimonio culturale a beneficio di cittadini e turisti”, afferma Giovanni Quaglia, Presidente della Fondazione CRT.

La Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, ente “art oriented” della Fondazione CRT, mette in campo azioni e progetti per lo sviluppo, il rafforzamento e la promozione del sistema della contemporary art. In particolare, attraverso le acquisizioni, la Fondazione alimenta un’estesa collezione di opere d’arte contemporanea, diventata nel tempo tra le più prestigiose a livello nazionale e internazionale: oltre 900 opere realizzate da circa 300 artisti, per un investimento complessivo di oltre 40 milioni di euro.

“Le acquisizioni sono parte fondamentale dell’attività della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, che oggi vanta una collezione di eccellenza riconosciuta a livello internazionale e messa a disposizione dell’intera collettività come bene comune”, dichiara Massimo Lapucci, Segretario Generale della Fondazione CRT.

Le opere acquisite vengono scelte dai direttori dei musei a cui sono destinate, secondo criteri di coerenza con le proprie raccolte e condivisi con il Comitato Scientifico della Fondazione, composto da Rudi Fuchs, in qualità di Presidente onorario, Sir Nicholas Serota, Presidente Arts Council England, Manuel Borja-Villel, già Direttore Museo Reina Sofía di Madrid, Francesco Manacorda, Curatore Indipendente – Londra, e Beatrix Ruf, Direttore Hartwig Art Foundation di Amsterdam. La collezione consente alle due istituzioni museali d’eccellenza un continuo aggiornamento delle proprie esposizioni, rese veramente contemporanee dal costante dialogo con il panorama artistico attuale e i suoi artisti.

“Con le recenti acquisizioni la Fondazione consolida la collaborazione con il Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea e la GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, arricchendone le raccolte permanenti di opere significative e alimentandone l’importante programma di esposizioni temporanee e scambi internazionali. Le proposte curatoriali, avvalorate dalla autorevolezza del comitato scientifico della Fondazione, hanno stimolato l’acquisto di opere capaci di implementare le collezioni già esposte, ma anche di aprirle a tematiche nuove, quale quella ambientale, sostenendo l’impegno dei musei nell’essere sempre specchio di contemporaneità”, commenta Luisa Papotti, Presidente della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.

Segue l’elenco delle opere acquistate dalla Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT nell’anno 2022, a questo link la gallery delle opere a uso stampa.

METAMORPHOSIS: THE TRAINING CYCLE AND THE JURY

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METAmorphosis, the second episode of Beyond Production, the project organized by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT together with Artissima, in collaboration with OGR Torino, begins with the involvement of four artists and four galleries, taking part in an educational voyage to discover the potential of the Metaverse, and with the announcement of the jury of the OGR Award.

As in Surfing NFT, the first episode of Beyond Production, the Metaverse is approached through a critical perspective on the phenomenon, to train art world professionals and to inform the public at large. As in the first chapter, the METAmorphosis project moves forward with the partnership of Artshell software house for the art market, and LCA Studio Legale for the legal aspects. A new dialogue has been initiated with REVIBE – Metaverse Experience Factory, residing in OGR Tech.

The four artists and the respective galleries participating in the project were selected during the fair, based on careful study on the part of Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the National Museum of Digital Art in Milan and creator of Surfing NFT. They are: Marcos Lutyens – Alberta Pane, Paris, Venice / Eva & Franco Mattes – Apalazzogallery, Brescia / Rebeca Romero – Copperfield, London / R M – Martina Simeti, Milan.

The participating artists, thanks to a training cycle of three sessions, are presently exploring the politics and visions of new digital worlds, with the support of the project partners and experts in the field. Above all, they investigate the potentialities and limits of creativity in the Metaverse. The encounters set out to provide the artists with the correct foundations on which to invent a project – thanks to a production budget provided by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT – that narrates the digital transformation one of their physical works might have in the Metaverse, particularly in a 3D digital version of the dome of OGR Torino, uploaded and visible on the Spatial platform.

The projects will be submitted to the jury of the OGR Award, which will choose the artist who has formulated the most innovative, stimulating and critical interpretation of the initial brief: to imagine how their own research and their own physical artworks could be transformed in response to the potential and limits of the Metaverse.

The international jury of the OGR Award will be composed of: Amira Gad, head of programmes of LAS – Light Art Space in Berlin; Lars Henrik Gass, director of the International Festival Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; Samuele Piazza, senior curator of OGR Torino; and Domenico Quaranta, art critic, curator, lecturer and author of Beyond New Media Art and Surfing with Satoshi. Arte, blockchain e NFT.

The winner, to be announced at the start of March 2023, will have the opportunity – thanks to the technological support of the partners involved in the project – to concretely produce their project idea, digitalizing their own physical work in the ways they have imagined. Both the physical work and its digital counterpart will be acquired thanks to the budget of the OGR Award, becoming part of the collection of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT on loan to OGR Torino.

The winning physical and digital works will also be set up in the physical and virtual dome of OGR Torino, during an event on METAmorphosis in the month of May 2023.

METAMORPHOSIS

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Sunday November 6 | 4 artists announced for METAmorphosis, the second edition of the Beyond Production platform born from the collaboration of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and Artissima that in 2022 invites contemporary artists to explore the phenomenon of the Metaverse. After careful selection of artists taking part in the fair on the part of Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the National Museum of Digital Art in Milan, the four artists have been announced during a talk at the Meeting Point:

Marcos Lutyens – Alberta Pane, Paris, Venice
Eva & Franco Mattes – Apalazzogallery, Brescia
Rebeca Romero – Copperfield, London
R M – Martina Simeti, Milan

METAmorphosis, after offering the participants a formative journey in the Metaverse, its politics and visions, will ask the artists to present an idea that illustrates the digital transformation of one of their physical artworks within the Metaverse.
An international jury will choose the artist who has interpreted – in the most original, stimulating and critical way – the request to imagine how their research, and therefore their work, could be transformed if their life environment was deeply influenced by the logic of existence in the Metaverse. The winner will have the opportunity to digitalize a physical work in keeping with their own imagination. Both the physical and the virtual works will be acquired thanks to the OGR Award and will become part of the collection of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, on loan to OGR Torino.

NEW ACQUISITIONS OF FONDAZIONE PER L’ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA CRT AT ARTISSIMA 2022

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Turin, 5 November 2022 – Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT continues its two decades of support for the international fair Artissima in 2022, acquiring 10 new works created by 7 artists. The works become part of the collections the Foundation has been building for years, earmarked for public viewing: important pieces by Klaus Rinke, Rossella Biscotti and Pietro Moretti enter the permanent holdings of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, while 4 works by Claudia Losi, Francesco Gennari, Simone Forti and Nicolò Cecchella will be exhibited in the spaces of GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna di Torino.

 

For 20 years, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, the operative agency of Fondazione CRT, has been a constant partner of Artissima, supporting it with an extensive programme of acquisitions, with the conviction that Artissima represents an extraordinary opportunity for the city of Turin, consolidating its role in the international scene.

 

“Once again this year, Fondazione Arte CRT confirms its support for Artissima – says Luisa Papotti, president of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT – through a process of acquisition from the galleries taking part in the fair, selecting works for the permanent collections of museums: the choices have been made by the directors according to coherent criteria in relation to their holdings, in collaboration with the Committee of Experts of the Foundation. The two museums are thus able to expand their collections, conserving their truly contemporary character”.

 

Over the years, through the acquisitions inside Artissima the Foundation has fostered an extensive contemporary art collection, now one of the most prestigious on a national and international level: over 900 works that range from painting to sculpture, video to photography, large installations to NFTs, created by about 300 artists – for an overall investment of over 40 million euros.

The works have all been made available for public viewing through loan agreements with the two museums, which are responsible for the display of the works inside the museums or in other exhibition contexts. The program confirms the importance of the Foundation’s action to support contemporary art museums in the metropolitan area.

 

Works acquired for the benefit of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art

“The new acquisitions for Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art augment the collection in line with the museum’s focus on national and international developments in art from the 1960s to the present, concentrating on highly acclaimed artists as well as rising talents. In tune with the important body of works of Arte Povera, one of the acquisitions brings a piece by the artist of the Düsseldorf group Klaus Rinke (1939), titled Durchs Bild Format gehen von rechts nach links (Through the image format go from right to left), 1972, into an Italian public museum for the first time. This unique work has an important background of exhibitions and was shown at MoMA – Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1974. A second acquisition involves the Italian artist Rossella Biscotti (1978), with the purchase of the work Trees on Land, 2021, in reference to the epidemic of Xylella fastidiosa, which since 2013 in Puglia has seriously damaged the olive groves. The four amphorae in clay mixed with ashes from burnt trees form a large installation. Finally, another acquisition is from the emerging artist Pietro Moretti (1996), whose painting of an expressionist character narrates the fragility of the present moment. The work by Moretti is La visita, un’altra visita (The Visit, Another Visit, 2022), a large canvas whose subject is a hospital scene with Kafkian overtones, rendered with acid colours and unnatural tones”, says Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, director of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art.

 

Works:

Rossella Biscotti

Trees on Land, 2021

4 unique artworks

handmade jars with terracotta and ash

60 X 60 x 100 cm each

Galerie mor charpentier

 

Pietro Moretti

La visita, un’altra visita, 2022

Oil on canvas

150 x 250 cm

Galleria Doris Ghetta

 

Klaus Rinke

Durchs bild format gehen von rechts nach links, 1972

Silver salts print, one-of-a-kind work composed of 16 photographs

59 X 42 cm each

Galleria Thomas Brambilla

 

 

 

Works acquired for the benefit of GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna di Torino

“With the acquisitions at Artissima 2022, GAM expands the collection of Fondazione per l’Arte CRT and the collection of the museum with works by artists that represent the best of internationally acclaimed Italian art, ensuring the presence of rare historical pieces and recent creations, to carefully weave meaningful relationships with the already acquired heritage. The historic series by Simone Forti, Illuminations (Illuminazioni), from 1972, joins a video from 1973 by the same artist, already in the CRT collection. “Arazzo” (Tapestry) by Claudia Losi enters the collection as a living work that began in 1995 and is still in progress. The museum will welcome the artist on an annual basis to continue the embroidery with a seasonal rhythm. The Autoritratto su menta (Self-portrait on mint) by Francesco Gennari, 2020, joins the sculpture by the same artist inside the collection, triggering a dual presence that is both metaphysical and figurative. Finally, with the desire to grant space for the research of younger artists, GAM has selected the work Marsia (2017-2022) by Nicolò Cecchella, reflecting the force of rethinking and updating the ancient technique of casting”, says Riccardo Passoni, director of GAM– Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna di Torino.

Works:

Nicolò Cecchella

Marsia, 2015-2022

Cement, river sand, iron, paper, rubber, platinum silicone

103 x 82 x 23 cm

Galleria Cardelli & Fontana

 

Simone Forti

Illuminations (Illuminazioni), 1972

Vegetable ink and graphite on parchment

33 x 26.7 x 3.8 cm (with frame)

Galleria Raffaella Cortese

 

Francesco Gennari

Autoritratto su menta, 2020

Ink print on 100% cotton paper, in walnut frame by artist

44 X 31.5X 4 cm (with frame)

Galerie Ciaccia Levi

 

Claudia Losi

Arazzo, 1995 in progress

Cotton and wool fabric with blackberry vegetable dye

250 X 150 cm

Galleria Monica De Cardenas

 

Here is the link to available images and photographic credits

ARTISSIMA 2022 | METAMORPHOSIS

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Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and Artissima continue their reflections on the most innovative trends in contemporary art, investigating their relationship with transformations of the society, with a central focus on works of art and the historical/cultural value of collecting. Beyond Production sums up the key identifying aspects of both: research on innovative projects, an accent on curating, with openness to contamination.

After the 2021 edition featuring the project Surfing NFT, in 2022 during the fair Beyond Production launches its second episode METAmorphosis, to explore the phenomenon of the Metaverse.

As in the case of Surfing NFT, here the objective is to explore the Metaverse and to reveal its strong points and shortcomings, providing a critical vision of the phenomenon that can be informative and instructive for art world professionals (galleries and artists) and the general public. Offering participants a formative journey in the Metaverse, its politics and visions, the project stimulates reflections on the potentialities and limits imposed on creativity by these new worlds, which like the real world have their own physical laws and tenets of sustainability.

Not lastly, the project reminds us of the fundamental values and processes that form the basis for the art market and its value chain, in order to continue to grasp the underlying impact of human relations, both in the enjoyment of art and in its production and sale.

After careful selection of artist taking part in the fair on the part of Ilaria Bonacossa, director of the National Museum of Digital Art in Milan and creator of Surfing NFT in 2021 as director of Artissima, during the days of the fair, a talk at the Meeting Point on Sunday 6 November at 4:30 PM will include the announcement of the 4 galleries and 4 artists who will participating in the project in the months following the event.

After having involved the selected galleries and artists in an educational cycle of encounters on the Metaverse and its potential in the field of art, thanks to a production budget provided by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT the artists will be able to present an idea that illustrates the digital transformation of one of their physical artworks within the Metaverse. The artists will have to imagine a 3D digital alter ego of the work, which will find a place in the virtual 3D space of the Cathedral of OGR Torino, visible on the Spatial platform, an environment of the Metaverse.

The project ideas of the four artists announced during the fair will be evaluated by an international jury of the OGR Award, to be announced in the month of December. The jury will choose the artist who has interpreted – in the most original, stimulating and critical way – the request to imagine how their research, and therefore their work, could be transformed if their life environment was deeply influenced by the logic of existence in the Metaverse.

The winner will have the opportunity to digitalize a physical work in keeping with their own imagination. Both the physical and the virtual works will be acquired thanks to the budget of the OGR Award and will become part of the collection of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, on loan to OGR Torino.

The project also confirms its partnership with the contemporary design studio Artshell, and the law firm of LCA Studio Legale, along with the activation of a new dialogue with REVIBE – Metaverse Experience Factory, a resident start-up in OGR Tech.

 

Domenica 6 Novembre h 4.30 @ Artissima Meeting Point
will be announcement of the 4 galleries and 4 artists who will participating in the project!

ACCRESCERE LE COLLEZIONI, ACCRESCERE LE COMPETENZE

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Sabato 5 November h 4.30 @ Artissima Meeting Point 

Artissima, which the Fondazione Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT has been actively supporting for 20 years, represents an extraordinary opportunity to promote the territorial public museums, GAM and Castello di Rivoli, through the acquisition of works intended for museum exhibition.

On this occasion, President Luisa Papotti will announce the new acquisitions concluded at the fair to confirm the importance and continuity of the support from Fondazione Arte CRT to the Turinese event. The Museum Directors, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Riccardo Passoni, will then present the selected works of art, which will implement the Foundation’s collection while supporting the exhibition and curatorial activity of the two institutions.

The meeting will also be a chance to underline the Foundation’s commitment to offering and promoting real opportunities to grow professional skills in the world of art and culture, by inviting Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo to talk about the CAMPO – Curatorial Studies and Practices program, proposed by the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, a training course of excellence established over 10 years ago, and supported since the first editions by the Fondazione Arte CRT.