Gran Torino Press Review

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Arte targata Fiat. Per tre mesi Miami diventa una Gran Torino…

Impossibile non richiamare alla mente le recenti parole dell’amministratore delegato Sergio Marchionne, che preannunciavano un investimento della Fiat sul mercato automobilistico Usa, un rilancio in grande stile affidato in particolar modo alla nuova 500. Viene da pensare - con piacere, in verità - che la campagna coinvolga in qualche modo anche le arti visive: in questa chiave si potrebbe infatti interpretare la presenza come main sponsor della casa torinese nella mostra Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art, in programma fino a metà aprile al Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum di Miami. Una mostra - curata da Paolo Facelli e Francesco Poli - che presenta opere di un gruppo selezionato di artisti del capoluogo piemontese, creativi impostisi nel corso degli ultimi 15 anni insieme ad altri artisti rappresentativi di generazioni emerse durante fra gli anni sessanta e ottanta. Protagonisti i massimi rappresentati dell’Arte Povera, da Mario Merz ad Alighiero Boetti, Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, ma anche artisti più

giovani come Nicola Bolla, Botto&Bruno, Diego Scroppo, Paolo Leonardo, Francesco Sena.

Dal 26 gennaio al 17 aprile 2011 Frost Art Museum - Miami thefrost.fiu.edu [exibart]

indice dei nomi: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sergio Marchionne, Alighiero Boetti, Francesco Poli, Giulio Paolini, Paolo Leonardo, Francesco Sena, Paolo Facelli, Diego Scroppo, Nicola Bolla, Botto&Bruno, Mario Merz .

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Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art At the Frost Art Museum, Miami

Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art January 26, 2011- April 17, 2011 Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art which is immediately recognizable by North American associations with the car produced by Ford in the 1970's or the Hollywood film of the same name. Torino (Turin) refers to one of Italy's most vibrant cities and one of the most dynamic centers of contemporary art in Europe. GRAN TORINO: Italian Contemporary Art, curated by Paolo Facelli and Francesco Poliwill present the work of a selected group of Torino artists that are representative of not only the local, but also of the Italian perspective, with their own national characteristics in an open

and stimulating debate with the international scene. GRAN TORINO: Italian Contemporary Art is an engaging cultural initiative and introduces significant trends and movements of new Italian art to the North American public

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The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (FIU) presents Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art opening January 26, 2011. Gran Torino, curated by Paolo Facelli and Francesco Poli. The exhibit presents works from a selected group of Torino artists that are representative of not only the local but Italian situation, with their own national characteristics, in an open and stimulating debate with the international scene.

Gran Torino will feature artists who have established themselves during the past 15 years along with works by artists representative of generations that emerged during the 60s, 70s, and 80s. It begins with Torino exponents of the renowned Arte Povera movement, such internationally acclaimed artists as Mario Mertz, Alighiero Boetti, Giulio Paolini and Michelangelo Pistoletto, and introduces significant trends and movements of contemporary Italian art to American audiences.

The Gran Torino artists focus on the concepts of duration and continuity and the relationship between art and time. While tracing different worlds and visions over a period of 40 years, each artist displays singular intentions, reflections and experimentations within a common social, political and cultural matrix. A founding force in the Arte Povera movement, Michelangelo Pistoletto has created works during the last sixty years that unwaveringly reinvented the contemporary art aesthetic. Pistoletto is perhaps most regarded for his Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real time in the work. Interestingly these works embraced perspective, much as it had been during Renaissance, thereby countering the twentieth-‐century avant-‐garde aversion to such artistic devices. Gran Torino will provide visitors to the Frost Art Museum a significant opportunity to view and experience the Italian avant-‐garde of the latter part of the 20th century. It will allow visitors to hopefully gain a richer understanding and appreciation of twentieth-‐century Italian avant-‐garde and the Arte Povera style, which continues to significantly impact the city of Turin and the art world.

About The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University The Frost Art Museum opened its current 46,000-‐square-‐foot state of the art building in November 2008. Over 60,000 people have visited The Museum in its new building since its opening in November, 2008. Admission to The Museum is always free. The Frost is an AAM accredited museum and Smithsonian affiliate and is located at 10975 SW 17thSt across from the Blue garage and adjacent to the Wertheim Performing Arts Center on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sunday noon-‐5 p.m. Closed on Mondays and most legal holidays. For more information, please visit thefrost.fiu.edu or call 305-‐348-‐2890. Find The Frost Art Museum on Twitter (http://twitter.com/frostartmuseum) and Facebook (http://facebook.com/frostartmuseum).

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Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art Exhibit at Frost Art Museum Opens January 26

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Gran Torino Vespa Installation by Luliano Photo: Luliano

Press Release Frost Art Museum The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (FIU) presents Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art opening January 26, 2011.

Gran Torino, curated by Paolo Facelli and Francesco Poli, presents works from a selected group of Torino artists that are representative of not only the local but Italian situation, with their own national characteristics, in an open and stimulating debate with the international scene.

Gran Torino will feature artists who have established themselves during the past 15 years along with works by artists representative of generations that emerged during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

It begins with Torino exponents of the renowned Arte Povera movement, such internationally acclaimed artists as Mario Mertz, Alighiero Boetti, Giulio Paolini and Michelangelo Pistoletto, and introduces significant trends and movements of contemporary Italian art to American audiences.

The Gran Torino artists focus on the concepts of duration and continuity and the relationship between art and time. While tracing different worlds and visions over a period of 40 years, each artist displays singular intentions, reflections and experimentations within a common social, political and cultural matrix.

A founding force in the Arte Povera movement, Michelangelo Pistoletto has created works during the last sixty years that unwaveringly reinvented the contemporary art aesthetic.

Pistoletto is perhaps most regarded for his Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real time in the work.

Interestingly these works embraced perspective, much as it had been during the Renaissance, thereby countering the twentieth-century avant-garde aversion to such artistic devices.

Gran Torino will provide visitors to the Frost Art Museum a significant opportunity to view and experience the Italian avant-garde of the latter part of the 20th century.

It will allow visitors to hopefully gain a richer understanding and appreciation of twentieth-century Italian avant-garde and the Arte Povera style, which continues to significantly impact the city of Turin and the art world.

Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art will show from January 26, 2011- April 17, 2011.

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Title: Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art Opening Reception When: Wed. Jan, 26 6. 00 pm

Where: The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum - Miami Category: Art / Performing

Description Gran Torino, curated by Paolo Facelli and Francesco Poli, presents works from a selected group of Torino artists that are representative of not only the local but Italian situation, with their own national characteristics, in an open and stimulating debate with the international scene. Gran Torino will feature artists who have established themselves during the past 15 years along with works by artists representative of generations that emerged during the 60s, 70s, and 80s. It begins with Torino exponents of the renowned Arte Povera movement, such internationally acclaimed artists as Mario Mertz, Alighiero Boetti, Giulio Paolini and Michelangelo Pistoletto, and introduces significant trends and movements of contemporary Italian art to American audiences

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Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary ArtShareSend to a friendEditor Pick "Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Spades" by Nicola Bolla, playing cards, 2008, courtesy of Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York

..“So we know Torino was the home of the 2006 Winter Olympics, we've heard of the Shroud of Turin, and we've heeded the names of Fiat and Alfa Romeo (...and perhaps Lancia?). Now Torino arrives in Miami at the Frost Museum with a range of Italian visual treats from the Arte Povera movement. Turin-based

masters Michelangelo Pistoletto (who made a smash, literally, at the 2009 Venice Biennale with "Seventeen Less One", busting mirrors with a mallet), Mario Merz (famous for his neon-lit igloos), and Filippo di Sambuy (recently exhibited at the Frost with The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama) are among those featured in this diverse offering. The exhibition promises an enticing dialogue between those on the frontlines of the contemporary Italian art scene and local artists and connoisseurs spurring on the developing creative environment in Miami. The preliminary verdict? Andiamo!�

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Frost Art Museum @ FIU Presents Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art‌27 JAN

Curators of Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art, now at the Frost Museum in Miami.

Francesco Poli, Alessandro Demma (consulting critic) and Paolo Facelli

Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art

Tonight at The Frost Art Museum at FIU a new exhibit focusing on Italian art will open. Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art is curated by Paolo Facelli and Francesco Poli. Last night, the Frost held a special VIP preview with the South Florida Italian community.

Gran Torino presents works from a selected group of Torino artists that are representative of not only the local, but also the Italian situation, with their own national characteristics, in an open and stimulating debate with the international scene. The featured artists include those that have established themselves during the past 15 years along with those that emerged during the 60s, 70s, and 80s. It begins with Torino exponents of the renowned Arte Povera movement, such internationally acclaimed artists as Mario Mertz, Alighiero Boetti, Giulio Paolini and Michelangelo Pistoletto, and introduces significant trends and movements of contemporary Italian art to American audiences.

The Gran Torino artists focus on the concepts of duration and continuity and the relationship between art and time. While tracing different worlds and visions overa period of 40 years, each artist displays singular intentions, reflections and experimentations within a common social, political and cultural matrix.

A founding force in the Arte Povera movement, Michelanelo Pistoletto has created works during the last sixty years that unwaveringly reinvented the contemporary art aesthetic. Pistoletto is perhaps most regarded for his Mirror Paintings, which directly inlcude the viewer and real time in the work, interestingly these works embraced perspective, much as it had been during the Renaissance, thereby countering the twentieth-century avant-garde aversion to artistic devices.

Gran Torino will provide visitors to the Frost Art Museum a significant opportunity to view and experience the Italian avant-garde of the latter part of the 20th century. It will allow visitors to hopefully gain a richer understanding and appreciation of twentieth century Italian avant-garde and the Arte Povera style, which continues to significantly impact the city of Turino and the art world.

The Fiat Cafe at the Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art exhibt at the Frost Museum of Art in Miami.

Contemporary Italian Artist Valentina Ruospo

Italian Consul General of Miami, Marco Rocca, at Gran Torino.

Representatives of the Italian Chamber of Commerce at Gran Torino.

Photos courtesy of The Frost Art Museum. Copyright 2011 Gary Mercer.

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While most art lovers are familiar with Italy's Renaissance masters, the Italian art movement is still going strong 500 years later. Most notably, the city of Torino (Turin) has established itself as a center of European contemporary art. Now, Miami visitors can experience some of Torino's most talented modern artists with the new exhibit: Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art. The exhibit features Italian artists who have come to the attention of the art world within the last 15 years. The selected works aim to give visitors a taste of the Italian avant-garde movement that has evolved in recent decades. Specifically, museums curators have chosen pieces that explore the ideas of art and time, from a uniquely Italian perspective.

Gran Torino will run through April 17th, 2011 at the Frost Art Museum located at the Florida International University.

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Gran Torino dall'Arte Povera a oggi

L'installazione di Iuliano

GUIDO CURTO MIAMI Prende spunto dal titolo dell’omonimo film di Clint Eastwood la mostra Gran Torino che porta a Miami un folto gruppo di artisti contemporanei torinesi. Autori di generazioni diverse, selezionati da un critico d'arte, Francesco Poli, e da un promoter di giovani artisti, Paolo Facelli, per far conoscere Torino come «crocevia della scena artistica italiana contemporanea». In primo piano troviamo gli esponenti dell’Arte Povera affermatasi negli Anni Settanta e poi diventata la più importante neo-avanguardia italiana. Tra i poveristi troviamo lavori di Alighiero Boetti e Mario Merz (opere su carta), Giulio Paolini (un collage), Giuseppe Penone (un frottage tratteggiato sulla fibra interna di un albero), Pistoletto (uno specchio con l’immagine di un coniglio scuoiato) e Zorio (la tipica stella a cinque punte, rossa); accompagnati da «fuoriusciti» dal gruppo come Piero Gilardi (un Tappeto Natura con un gabbiano in volo sul mare blu cobalto) o dai «fiancheggiatori» del movimento: Marco Gastini, Giorgio Griffa, Luigi Mainolfi (con la lucente scultura in bronzo di una Centaura) e Luigi Stoisa (che espone un rugginoso bidone colmo di bitume nero nel quale si riflette il volto di Narciso). Accanto a loro la generazione di mezzo che negli Anni Ottanta era tornata a praticare la pittura: Filippo di Sambuy, Alessandro Bulgini, Daniele Galliano, Paolo Leonardo, Pier Luigi Pusole, Francesco Sena. E poi il gruppo degli oggi quarantenni, che negli Anni 90 adottarono svariate forme espressive, sospese tra fotografia, installazione e scultura: Botto e Bruno con le grandi fotocomposizioni di paesaggi postindustriali; Davide Bramante con vedute decostruite di città; Jessica Carroll con un Concerto notturno per rane e grilli scolpito in marmo. Altro virtuoso del marmo di Carrara è Fabio Viale, autore di un Souvenir della Gioconda . Salvatore Astore porta la grande calotta in acciaio di un Cranio d'uomo , mentre Enrico Iuliano crea un’installazione assemblando uno scooter Vespa e fiasche in vetro colme di vino. Un merito dei curatori è di proporre anche giovani esordienti: è il caso di Francesca Ferreri, Simone Martinetto, Valentina Ruospo e Diego Scroppo. GRAN TORINO MIAMI (USA) THE FROST MUSEUM FINO AL 18 APRILE

The Frost Art Museum presents Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art

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From Jan 26 through Apr 17, 2011.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (FIU) presents Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art opening January 26, 2011. Gran Torino, curated by Paolo Facelli and Francesco Poli, presents works from a selected group of Torino artists that are representative of not only the local but Italian situation, with their own national characteristics, in an open and stimulating debate with the international scene. Gran Torino will feature artists who have established themselves during the past 15 years along with works by artists representative of generations that emerged during the 60s, 70s, and 80s. It begins with Torino exponents of the renowned Arte Povera movement, such internationally acclaimed artists as Mario Mertz, Alighiero Boetti, Giulio Paolini and Michelangelo Pistoletto, and introduces significant trends and movements of contemporary Italian art to American audiences.

The Gran Torino artists focus on the concepts of duration and continuity and the relationship between art and time. While tracing different worlds and visions over a period of 40 years, each artist displays singular intentions, reflections and experimentations within a common social, political and cultural matrix.

A founding force in the Arte Povera movement, Michelangelo Pistoletto has created works during the last sixty years that unwaveringly reinvented the contemporary art aesthetic. Pistoletto is perhaps most regarded for his Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real time in the work.

Interestingly these works embraced perspective, much as it had been during the Renaissance, thereby countering the twentieth-century avant-garde aversion to such artistic devices.

Gran Torino will provide visitors to the Frost Art Museum a significant opportunity to view and experience the Italian avant-garde of the latter part of the 20th century. It will allow visitors to hopefully gain a richer understanding and appreciation of twentieth-century Italian avant-garde and the Arte Povera style, which continues to significantly impact the city of Turin and the art world.

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Target Wednesday After Hours Wednesday, Jan 26 6:00p to 9:00p at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU, Miami, FL Join us for the opening reception of our season's exhibitions: Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art; My Eyes Have Seen by Robert Farber; The Tale of the Unknown Island by Ester Villalobos and Mar Solis; As of 24-03-07 by MarĂ­a Brito.

Also the Crossing the Boundaries: Art & Music series continues with David Amram, who has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the classic scores.

Price: free and open to the public Phone: (305) 348-2890 Age Suitability: All Ages Tags: free, opening reception, miami, art event Join us for the opening reception of our season's exhibitions: Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art; My Eyes Have Seen by Robert Farber; The Tale of the Unknown Island by Ester Villalobos and Mar Solis; As of 24-03-07 by MarĂ­a Brito.

Also the Crossing the Boundaries: Art & Music series continues with David Amram, who has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the classic scores.

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Italy brings turbocharged art to the Frost A A A Comments (0) By Carlos Suarez De Jesus Thursday, Jan 27 2011

At first blush, the crumpled 55-gallon oil drum spilling its contents onto the gallery floor gives the impression that Frost Art Museum's new show might be a knock on the high price of gas or an ironic ode to car culture.

Italy brings turbocharged art to the Frost

By Carlos Suarez De Jesus January 27, 2011

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Details Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art"Through April 17 at Frost Art Museum, 10975 SW 17th Street, Miami; 305-348-2890; thefrost.fiu.edu. Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday noon to 5 p.m.

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Paolo FacelliTurinMichelangelo PistolettoVisual ArtsArts, Entertainment, and Media"Gran Torino," however, is not a stab at America's love affair with the muscle car or a nod to the Clint Eastwood flick of the same name.

Instead it offers a revved up look at the work of artists hailing from Turin, Italy, that nation's version of Detroit and headquarters to automakers Lancia, Ferrari, Fiat, and Alfa Romeo.

"Most people know us best as the home of the Shroud of Turin," says Paolo Facelli, who along with Francesco Poli curated the didactic sprawling group show. "But we are an international center of the contemporary arts and one of the birthplaces of arte povera."

Their high-horsepower exhibit boasts 30 works by 30 artists created using a broad arsenal of materials and styles, and features artists that emerged during the '60s, '70s, and '80s, along with a newer generation that has surfaced over the past 15 years.

The show — culled from private international galleries and collections, as well as from the collections of participant artists themselves — was more than a year in the making, and there are plans to take it across the U.S. and Europe after it leaves the Frost.

The show consists of paintings, sculpture, photography, video, and mixed-media installations. It includes big-name artists such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Merz, Nicola Bolla, Luigi Mainolfi, Filippo di Sambuy, Botto and Bruno, and Fabio Vaile.

Those artists were influential in the development of arte povera (poor art)-style and contributed to the evolution of the Italian avant-garde over the past four decades, according to Facelli.

"Turin is a critical center of the arte povera movement and also one of Italy's most important industrial hubs," the curator says. "Turin is a lab city. Italy's first highway was built there. Our first radio transmission was sent from there, and our first flight took off from there. It was an environment ripe for artistic experimentation at the time."

Arte povera was a term first used by Italian art critic and curator Germano Celant in 1967 to describe an emerging art movement characterized by the use of unconventional materials to shake the status quo. The movement's heyday lasted until 1972, but its influence endures today and echoes across the show's newer works.

"Figures such as Pistoletto, Merz, Alighiero Boetti, and Giuseppe Penone, for example, all used industrial or unusual materials during the late '60s and the '70s, rejecting traditional modes of expression such as oils on canvas or carved marble in their works," Facelli says. "It was a way of exploring new and experimental approaches to creating work during a challenging and radical time."

The movement's penchant for employing a diverse array of materials can be seen in a 1972 piece by Pistoletto that combines the quotidian with art. In The Rabbit, Pistoletto painted a skinned hare strung by its hind legs onto a mirror.

By employing the unexpected surface to render his immaculately executed image, the artist, who often explores themes of reflection in his oeuvre, hijacks unsuspecting viewers into his piece; it's a commentary on vanity.

"He was holding up a mirror for individuals to examine their roles in the greater culture," Facelli explains.

Pistoletto was also experimenting with the concept of vanitas and referencing 17th-century northern European still lifes that contain symbols of mortality and the impermanence of material things, Facelli adds.

Early arte povera artists such as Penone were interested not only in scientific advances, but also man's relationship with nature.

The artist is represented by Il Suo Essere Fino al 49°Anno di età in un'Ora Fantastica, a soaring, papyrus-like scroll depicting a tree. Penone used a frottage technique, rubbing a pencil over the tree's trunk and branches to create the unusual piece. For the artist, the tree, a living organism resembling the human figure, was central to his work. The traces of the tree reflected communion with natural forces and watchful stewardship of our environmental resources.

Perhaps what's most intriguing about the exhibit is how arte povera has continued to influence a younger generation of artists from Turin.

Several of them have raced past the old guard, shifting into high gear when it comes to their choice of media, while at times making sharp hairpin turns with their work.

Among these is Fabio Viale. His Souvenir Giaconda, sculpted in 2008, is a hand-carved statue of the Mona Lisa that at first glance appears to be crafted from Styrofoam. But once the eyes roam over what looks like

the round dimples and dents of the familiar packing material, the viewer realizes the slick opus is, in fact, chiseled out of white Carrera marble.

Nicola Bolla is another artist whose uncanny 2008 sculptures bore into your head. In Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, and Spades, Bolla has created four life-size skulls using only plain decks of playing cards to craft each work. Each of the quartet of leering skulls is rendered from the individual suites of cards.