RADIS 2025 | PUBLIC PROGRAM

Con la partenza della seconda edizione  il progetto di arte nello spazio pubblico ideato e promosso dalla Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT – ente art oriented della Fondazione CRT – in collaborazione con la Fondazione CRC, tornano anche gli appuntamenti del che avvicineranno il pubblico all’inaugurazione della sua opera, prevista per il 5 ottobre 2025.

The launch of the second edition of Radis, the public art project conceived and promoted by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT – the art-oriented arm of Fondazione CRT – in collaboration with Fondazione CRC, also signals the return of public programme vents. These events will bring the public closer to the inauguration of the work, scheduled for 5 October 2025.

Launched in May with an event entitled L’arte che mette radici (Art that takes root), which was curated by Marta Papini and organised as part of the Dogliani TV Festival, the public programme will continue from June to October with a new edition of Supercondominio and a programme to promote public artworks in the province of Cuneo, with a specific focus on the Fondazione CRC’s A Cielo Aperto project. Barbara De Micheli, a project manager and producer with extensive experience in managing artistic and cultural projects, has conceived these itineraries for discovering the works scattered throughout the Cuneo area. The itineraries will offer the public the opportunity to explore an artistic heritage that blends with the landscape and local communities. The project aligns with the mapping and promotion work initiated by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT (CRT Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art) during the previous edition of Radis, a publication edited by Vittoria Martini that catalogues and describes works rooted in their locations, inspired by their histories and dialogue with the communities that inhabit them.

THE CALENDAR

On Saturday 21 June, from 10 a.m., in Mondovì in the Garden of the Civic Museum of Printing, Susan Philipsz’s work A Song A Part will be activated, in an event curated by the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art. The event will include a conversation between Marcella Beccaria and Maurizio Fornero, as well as free guided tours of the museum and the work curated by the Museum of Printing.

On Saturday 21 June from 2pm and Sunday 22 June from 11am, in Cuneo at Rondò dei Talenti, it will be the turn of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Terzo Paradiso dei Talenti, with cultural mediators involving the public in a participatory and poetic game, whose contributions will be collected and displayed in a temporary collective work, presented inside the Rondò.

On Sunday, 6 July, starting at 12 p.m., in Rittana, there will be a day dedicated to Giulia Cenci’s work Le Masche, created for the first edition of Radis, with a walk along the path leading to Chiot Rosa and a convivial picnic. In the afternoon, there will be creative workshops, games and refreshments for children and families. These will provide an enjoyable way for visitors to discover the sculptures in the woods. Finally, at the Rittana Community Centre, there will be a performance of Famiglia Mirabella, curated by Mirabilia, as part of the Nuovi Mondi Festival programme.

Supercondominio7, curated by Treti Galaxie, will be held in Dogliani on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 September. Following five editions promoted and hosted by the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Supercondominio has become a meeting point for independent projects for the production and promotion of European contemporary art in the Radis area. The aim is to activate a dialogue between spaces and artists, to encourage reflection, mutual understanding, new synergies and collaborations, through moments of sharing with the public. The participating organisations are united by new approaches to public space, involving the themes of education and training new audiences for art.

On Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September, from 11 a.m., Otobong Nkanga’s work Of Grounds, Guts and Stones will be activated in Pollenzo in the green area of UNISG – Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche (University of Gastronomic Sciences), and Olafur Eliasson’s work The Presence of Absence Pavilion will be activated in the garden of Grinzane Cavour Castle. Both events will feature storytelling activities led by cultural mediators in Italian and English.

On Saturday 11 October at 4.30 pm, a walk to discover Hilario Isola’s work I Dormienti will take place in Guarene. The artist will be in conversation with Bianca Roagna, director of the Beppe Fenoglio Study Centre, on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the city of Alba.

On Sunday 12 October at 11 a.m. in Castagnito, a public meeting will take place in conjunction with the children of the Castagnito nursery school. The purpose of the meeting is to present and share the work carried out by the artist Victoria Stoian with the work Paesaggio in 565 giorni e 33 scalini (Landscape in 565 days and 33 steps).

On Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 October, starting at 3 p.m. in Dogliani, Petrit Halilaj’s work, inaugurated on 5 October, will be the focus of cultural mediation activities and workshops in Italian and English, followed by a snack for children.

On the same days, starting at 11 a.m. in Alba, Valerio Berruti’s Alba and Samuel Di Blasi’s Porta di Luce will be presented during a guided walk in Italian and English.

For more information on the complete programme and how to participate, please visit the project webisite.

THE EXHIBITION

On Sunday, 5 October, an exhibition will open in the Chiesetta del Ritiro della Sacra Famiglia in Dogliani. Alongside Petrit Halilaj’s work, the exhibition will feature pieces from the collections of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and the Fondazione CRC. The exhibition aims to return these pieces to the public in the Piedmont region. Tutto ciò che tocchi cambiaTutto ciò che cambi, ti cambia  (Everything you touch changes. Everything You Change Changes You), curated by Marta Papini. The exhibition is inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s dystopian novel Parable of the Sower, whose opening words give the exhibition its title, and by Nolan Oswald Dennis’s Notes for Recovery (hold), which is also on display. The exhibition offers a reflection on art as a tool of hope and openness towards the future, through a selection of works by Marina Abramović, Sol Calero, Chiara Camoni, Bracha L. Ettinger, Dorothy Iannone and Nolan Oswald Dennis, which touch on these themes from multiple perspectives.

THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOLS

In parallel with the public programme, Radis will once again be accompanied by an educational programme for local schools. This programme has been curated by Feliz in collaboration with the association La Scatola Gialla. The initial cycle of meetings, entitled L’Attesa (The Wait), took place between May and June, with primary school classes in Dogliani participating as an accompaniment to the work. The second part, which is aimed at primary and lower secondary schools, is scheduled to take place once the work has been installed, during the 2025-2026 school year.

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