SURFING NFT – ROAD TO OGR AWARD

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Cosa sono gli NFT? Qual è il legame tra blockchain e arte digitale?

I Non Fungible Token sono un bene digitale cripotgrafico non interscambiabile, perché unico. Nell’arte digitale risolvono le criticità di una potenziale riproduzione di massa e di una distribuzione non autorizzata in rete, fornendo prove di autenticità e proprietà dell’opera. Gli NFT vivono e sono fruibili grazie alla blockchain, impiegando la stessa tecnologia delle cryptovalute, ma a differenza di queste sono, appunto, non interscambiabili ma unici.

In questo contesto nasce Surfing NFT, un progetto sostenuto dalla Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT con la collaborazione di Artissima Fair e dei partner tecnici Artshell e Studio legale LCA, per ragionare sul rapporto tra arte, tecnologia e innovazione, invitando gli artisti contemporanei a sperimentare la produzione di un’opera digitale registrata con NFT su blockchain.

In OGR Torino, hub della cultura e dell’innovazione contemporanea, si terranno una serie di appuntamenti per approfondire il tema con esperti del settore.

Risultato del progetto sarà la selezione di un’opera digitale da parte di una giuria internazionale. In occasione di un evento dedicato, l’opera sarà insignita del titolo OGR Award ed entrerà a far parte della collezione della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, in comodato a OGR Torino.

 

Surfing NFT – Road to OGR Award
Un progetto di Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT e Artissima
In collaborazione con OGR Torino, Artshell e Studio Legale LCA

Speakers’ Corner OGR Torino, Corso Castelfidardo 22  Torino

13 GENNAIO H 18.30
Il mondo dell’arte è pronto per gli NFT?

Intervengono Domenico Quaranta e Serena Tabacchi
Modera Ilaria Bonacossa

PRENOTA QUI

 

24 GENNAIO H 18.30
Galleries go NFTs 

Intervengono Johann König e Margit Rosen
Modera Ilaria Bonacossa

9 FEBBRAIO H 18.30
OGR Award 2021 – Proclamazione vincitore 

 

In ottemperanza al D.L. del 26 novembre 2021, n. 172, per partecipare agli eventi OGR Public Program è necessario presentare il Green Pass “rafforzato”.

OGR YOU – NOVA CONVENTION | Highlights

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The 2020 edition of OGR YOU – NOVA CONVENTION was the longest ever … the pandemic inevitably caused suspensions, delays, extensions and numerous program changes. But the class was made up of Federico, Davide, Luca, Francesca, Chiara, Camilla, Benedetta, Matteo, Giorgia, Luca, Ludmilla Zoe, Eileen and Tancredi, led by the gallery owner Guido Costa and the curator Sergey Kantsedal, also completed its voyage.

After talking about Death, with the thanatologist Marina Sozzi; Alteration, with the activist Franco “Bifo” Berardi; Money, with the Doge of Mala del Brenta Giampaolo Manca; Silence with the artist Stefano Faravelli; Identity with Vladimir politics Luxuria and activism with Nan Goldin. The group has chosen to decline one of the categories addressed, about money, to carry out the last act of this journey using a part of the budget available to support Maurice, a local association committed for years to assist and support the transgender population.

The story of this last experience was reported by photographs of objects that tell stories and people, taken from the association’s archive, found on the desks or in the basement of their Turin office. They are fragments of the life of a community and their poetic restitution of a path of ideas. They are the last word of the Nova Convention.

SURFING NFT

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La giuria composta da Carolyn Christov – Bakargiev (Direttore del Castello di Rivoli), Daniel Birnbaum (Direttore di Acute Art e curatore internazionale) e Hans Ulrich Obrist (Direttore Artistico Serpentine Gallery e curatore internazionale) ha selezionato i 5 artisti finalisti per il progetto Surfing NFT, sostenuto dalla Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. La Fondazione darà ad ogni artista una fee pari ad euro 8.000 per la produzione di un NFT che verrà caricato sulla piattaforma Artshell, e nel mese di febbraio 2022, in OGR, verrà premiato tra questi il vincitore di OGR Award. La sua opera entrerà a far parte della Collezione della Fondazione, in comodato a OGR Torino.

I 5 artisti finalisti sono:

Matteo Nasini – Galleria Clima

Darren Bader – Galleria Franco Noero

Claudia Conte – Galleria Koenig

Sarah Ortmeyer – Galleria Dvir

Damon Zucconi – Galleria Veda

con la seguente motivazione:

«Stanno sperimentando nuovi lavori che utilizzano gli NFT e la tecnologia blockchain anche se tuttavia hanno avuto poca esperienza diretta con questa tipologia espressiva. Stiamo pertanto contaminando i lavori digitali con quelli tradizionali per vedere cosa succederà. È un esperimento, un laboratorio. Che mescola la realtà eterogenee perché tutti questi artisti sono parimenti nel mondo fisico e virtuale contemporaneamente.
La giuria è estremamente lieta di partecipare alla sperimentazione tipica di Artissima in cui crede molto. È una nuova frontiera stiamo spingendo le arti visive nel XXI secolo e l’arte in futuro potrà abitare molti mondi possibili».

La Fondazione ringrazia la giuria e si congratula con i finalisti!

Buona produzione!

ACQUISITIONS ARTISSIMA 2021

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Twelve works of art by seven artists for Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino

 Once again this year the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT has continued to support Artissima – International Fair of
Contemporary Art, through the acquisition of 12 new works made by artists, to be added to the historic collection of the Foundation, and offered on a loan for use basis to two of the most important museums in Torino. Five selected works by Micol Assäel, Giuliana Rosso, Francis Offman and Gokula Stoffel will be shown in curatorial projects at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, while seven works by Chiara Camoni, Pesce Khete and Davide Sgambaro will be exhibited at GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna di Torino.

«Artissima represents an exclusive showcase for the field of contemporary art, now fully established on an international level – says Anna Ferrino, president of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. Through its support for this event, Fondazione Arte CRT continues to reinforce the art system in Torino and new expressive trends, putting them into historical context through the acquisition of selected new works that become part of the Foundation’s collection. Over time, the pieces will become protagonists of new curatorial projects carried out by two of the city’s most important museums, repositories of the collection, and the works will be available for viewing on the part of a large audience. »

Artissima has always been an important factor of attraction for Torino, and besides being the most authoritative contemporary art fair in Italy, it is also the place chosen by Fondazione Arte CRT, a key part of Fondazione CRT, to invest its resources. While offering concrete support to the exponents of contemporary art in Torino, namely the artists and galleries, the new acquisitions will expand the historic collection of the Foundation, which each year adds works of even greater artistic value, making it comparable in importance to other prestigious public and private collections.

The holdings constitute a case of excellence on the international art scene and include about 870 works created by over 300 artists with their own distinctive languages of expression – from painting to sculpture, video to photography, drawing to installation – representing an investment of over 40 million euros.

The works acquired for the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea

«In line with the collection constructed to date and the curatorial projects of the museum now in progress, the acquisitions made for Castello di Rivoli thanks to the collaboration of Marcella Beccaria and Marianna Vecellio focus on works by artists who perceptively analyse some of the most urgent themes of the present. The sculpture 意見 iken (opinion, 2020) by Micol Assaël reflects a situation made of unstable balances, obtained by combining materials and objects pertaining to obsolete and pre-digital technologies. The installation Finché quel che fantastichiamo (2020) by Giuliana Rosso underscores the paradox of digital hyperconnection, which multiplies relations while formulating a space of disquieting and anguished isolation. Made by using novel self-produced experimental pigments obtained from materials donated to the artist by friends and acquaintances, the Untitled (2020) paintings by Francis Offman employ the language of abstraction to include fragments of painful personal and collective memories. With vibrant colours and features that outline possible non-human presences, the work Fogo (2021) by Gokula Stoffel opens to a spiritual dimension that triggers relations between profound values belonging to multiple cultures», says Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.

List of works:

Micol Assäel

意見 iken (opinion), 2020
Iron, wood, ceramic insulators, telephone; cm 114x227x90,5
Sprovieri Gallery

 

Giuliana Rosso

Finché quel che fantastichiamo è stato, 2020
Mixed media on paper and papier-mâché; dimensions based on display space
Galleria Veda

 

Francis Offman

Untitled, 2021
Acrylic, ink, coffee grounds, 100% cotton, gesso di Bologna on linen; cm 214×146
Galleria P420

 

Francis Offman
Untitled, 2021
Acrylic, ink, paper, linen, coffee grounds, gesso di Bologna on 100% cotton; cm 232×272
Galleria P420

 

Gokula Stoffel
Fogo, 2021
Oil and oil stick on canvas; cm 182×129
Gallery Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel

 

The works acquired for GAM– Galleria civica d’Arte Moderna di Torino

«The opportunity of the acquisitions at Artissima, with the support of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, allows us to enhance the collections with new examples of today’s Italian art, in tune with the focus on this area recently reflected in the exhibition On the Principle of Contradiction, curated by Elena Volpato in the museum over the last months.

Sister by Chiara Camoni (1974), an evocative female figure made with necklaces of terracotta, laden with ancestral memories, and then groups of works by the younger artists Pesce Khete (1980), works on paper full of erudite references and citations, with a tone of fresh Neo-Expressionism, and Davide Sgambaro (1989), with a delicate rendering of the sense of perishability of things and life, help us to reflect with new information on the state of artistic research in our territory, » says Riccardo Passoni, director of GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna di Torino.


List of works:

Chiara Camoni
Sister#1, 2020
Multicoloured terracotta, iron, wood, dry flowers and grasses; cm 125x70x60
Galleria SpazioA

 

Pesce Khete

Untitled, 2021
Pigment stick, graphite, silicone, oil paint and artist tape on cotton paper; cm 277×140
Galleria Colli

 

Pesce Khete

Untitled, 2021
Pigment stick, graphite, chalk, oil paint and artist tape on cotton paper; cm 272×140
Galleria Colli

 

Pesce Khete

Untitled, 2021
Pigment stick, silicone, spray paint, argan oil, artist tape on cotton paper; cm 240×140
Galleria Colli

 

Davide Sgambaro

Parappapparaparapappappara (113C 3 HAG N10) #1, 2021
Cotton sheet, m&m’s; cm 200×90
Galleria Alberta Pane

 

Davide Sgambaro

Parappapparaparapappappara (113C 3 HAG N10) #3, 2021
Cotton sheet, m&m’s; cm 200×90
Galleria Alberta Pane

 

Davide Sgambaro

I push a finger into my eyes (kiss, kick,kiss) #2, 2021
Wood, glass, iron, steel, exploded fireworks; cm 100x70x17
Galleria Alberta Pane

 

Image Credit Patrick De Lorenzi
Link Immagini opere

 

OGR PUBLIC PROGRAM / THE LAST CRUZE, IN TURIN

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Saturday, October 2, h 6.30pm – SALA FUCINE

The Last Cruze, a body of work by artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, centers on the workers at the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. After more than fifty years of automobile production and a commitment to manufacturing the Chevrolet Cruze until 2021, the facility was “unallocated” by GM. This came as the company shifted more production overseas and directed more resources toward electric and autonomous vehicles. Employees in Lordstown have therefore been faced with the difficult decision to voluntarily or involuntarily transfer to plants located in other parts of the country. For many, this meant uprooting or dividing their family, moving away from ageing parents, or leaving behind their support networks and all they’ve ever known. Those who turned down the transfer were cut off from the company, losing their pensions and benefits.

During a period of great uncertainty and change – as UAW International union negotiated with the Big Three automakers: GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler – Frazier was in Lordstown with the workers and their families, recording their stories. Through images and interviews, Frazier conveys their experiences of the quickly developing events, the intense disruption to their lives and their community, and the strong efforts of the local union, UAW Local 1112, on their behalf.
The Last Cruze features over sixty photographs and other elements, presented within an installation that visually echoes the assembly line in the GM Lordstown complex. Part of this body of work, currently on view at OGR Torino in Turin within the Vogliamo tutto exhibition, will be the starting point for a conversation between the artist and the curator of the show, Samuele Piazza. Looking at some of the common dynamics in global neoliberism, the conversation will use the lens of artistic practice to look at the social and economical shifts happening in the Rust Belt, and their multiple links to the post-industrial transition of Turin.

BIO

LaToya Ruby Frazier was born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Her artistic practice spans a range of media, including photography, video, performance, installation art and books, and centers on the nexus of social justice, cultural change, and commentary on the American experience. In various interconnected bodies of work, Frazier uses collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her artwork to address topics of industrialism, Rust Belt revitalization, environmental justice, access to healthcare, access to clean water, Workers’ Rights, Human Rights, family, and communal history. This builds on her commitment to the legacy of 1930s social documentary work and 1960s and ’70s conceptual photography that address urgent social and political issues of everyday life. Frazier’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions in the United States and Europe, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, Belgium; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Carré d’Art – musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France.

Samuele Piazza is Senior Curator at OGR Torino.

At OGR Torino he has curated solo shows by prominent contemporary artists such as Mike Nelson and Monica Bonvicini. He founded and co-curated the experimental series Dancing is what we make of falling, an exhibition format mixing video screenings, talks and performances.
He previously co-curated On Limits. Estrangement in the Everyday at The Kitchen, New York, as 2015 “Helena Rubinstein” Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
He holds an MA in Aesthetics and Art Theory from CRMEP, Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London and an MA in Visual Arts from Iuav University, Venice.

 

For further information, please visit the OGR’s website.

GOOGLE CULTURAL INSTITUTE AND FONDAZIONE CRT

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Starting on 9 September 2014, the Collection of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT will become part of the Google Art Project, a technological platform by the Google Cultural Institute that continues to enrich thanks to the collaboration of hundreds of museums, cultural institutions and archives. The aim is to make the world cultural heritage accessible to an ever wider audience thanks to the Internet.

The Google Art Project uses web technology to allow you to admire and explore over 63,000 works of art made available by the most important museums in more than 40 countries around the world, eager to promote their artistic heritage. A free technological platform open to the public, where to view the works, enlarge images, study their details, carry out searches based on specific criteria, create customized galleries and share them through social media.

The Foundation enthusiastically joined the proposal being aware of the opportunities for international visibility that a project like the Google Art project makes available to its cultural project and collection. The Foundation intends to share concretely by promoting and protecting the cultural and artistic heritage through the Net and technology by joining the project.

In the section of Google Art Project dedicated to the Foundation is now possible to admire a selection of 60 works of Contemporary Art, by Italian and foreign artists, from the 1940s to today; this selection is part of a collection of over 750 works acquired in the Foundation’s 14 years of activity, works granted for use at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and the GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin. The collection is visible in its entirety on the Foundation’s website.

“For over 10 years, the CRT Foundation has been investing in enriching the art collections of Gam and Castello di Rivoli and the contemporary art venue offer in Turin and Piedmont. Today, thanks to the opportunity provided by the Google Art Project, it will be possible to make it accessible to scholars and enthusiasts from all over the world, ” says Fulvio Gianaria, President of the Foundation.

Among the most significant works selected for the project, we find “Concetto Spaziale” (The Spatial Concept) by L. Fontana, “Humbaba“ by A. Kiefer, “Bariestesia” by G. Colombo, “La Venere degli Stracci” (The Venus of the Rags) by M. Pistoletto and many others.

Each work, selected and described directly by the Foundation, and all the works on the platform are visible thanks to a virtual visit.

Visit the project website on artsandculture.google.com and view the collection of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.

 

ACRI – R’ACCOLTE PROJECT

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ACRI – Associazione di Fondazioni e di Casse di Risparmio SpA promotes a census of art collections owing to bank Foundations, with the aim of making them available to the public, through the Project r’accolte.
The database today includes the collections of 54 Foundation, and it is always updating.

The Fondazione CRT and the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT are pleased to join the project, publishing the artworks of the collection on the dedicated page.

For any further information, please visit the project website.