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DISCOVER AND ENJOY
This month’s round-up of shows, art exhibitions, and entertainment.
ARTISSIMA FAIR
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Oval – Lingotto Fiere • 5-7 November
VOGLIAMO TUTTO. ART & EVENTS Ogr Torino • until 16 January 2022
MARISA E MARIO MERZ. CONTEMPORARY ART
Fondazione Merz • Until 31 December
Luci d’Artista 2021/2022 ENTERTAINMENT
Several location • Until 9 January 2022
FATTORI. Capolavori e aperture sul ‘900 MODERN ART
GAM | Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea • 14 October 2021-20 March 2022
INFINITE BEAUTY. EXIBITION
La Venaria • until 9 January 2022
Giardini Reali GARDEN
Musei Reali
A TU PER TU CON LEONARDO EXTRAORDINARY EXIBITION
Musei Reali - Biblioteca Reale
2022-2025
ARTISSIMA International Fair of Contemporary Art
Oval – Lingotto Fiere
COSTAS VAROTSOS La luna, 1995 Courtesy Galleria Giorgio Persano Photo: Nicola Morittu
SEVERAL LOCATIONS, 5-7 NOVEMBER CONTEMPORARY ART FOR SALE
Artissima, Italy’s most important contemporary art fair, is one of the most eagerly awaited events on the international art scene. Thanks to the quality of its offerings and its focus on experimentation, the Turin fair is intended as a launch pad for emerging artists and galleries. This year’s event offers a hybrid formula, physical and digital, and launches the theme of “Counter-Time” as a transversal reflection, in reference to the history of art as a polyphony of voices in time and against time, linked in a unique and surprising symphony. By collaborating with numerous public institutions, museums and galleries, during the fair days, Turin is transformed into a mega happening, with myriad,city-wide events.
ARTISSIMA International Fair of Contemporary Art
Oval – Lingotto Fiere, via Giacomo Mattè Trucco, 70 www.artissima.art
EMILIO ISGRÒ Where is Johannesburg?, 2016 Courtesy Archivio Emilio Isgrò and M7
NUMBERS 2021
20,000 S.Q.M. OF EXHIBITION SPACE 154 GALLERIES 56% FOREIGN EXHIBITIONS 50+ CURATORS AND MUSEUM DIRECTORS 37 COUNTRIES 30 PROJECTS BY ARTISTS AND GALLERIES AT ARTISSIMA XYZ 9 PRIZES ASSIGNED 7 SECTIONS
XIAOYI CHEN Foam, Form – Phase II: do, do+, re, fa, sol, la, si, mi, 2020 - Courtesy the artist and Matèria, Rome
ANNA BOGHIGUIAN Back to the Roots, 2019 Installation view at Spark Vienna 2021 Courtesy the artist and KOW, Berlin Photo: Markus Wörgötter
INDIA HUB
Among this year’s novelties, a new geographical focus offers a survey of Indian galleries, institutions and artists: at the fair, works will be on sale, while exhibitions of Indian modern art will be located in the spaces of the Fondazione Torino Musei, Palazzo Madama, MAOMuseo d’Arte Orientale, and at the Accademia Albertina.
GILLIAN BRETT Smart food: better for you and the planet #Rosary 1.0, 2019
SEROJ BARSEGHIAN Untitled, 2019 Courtesy the artist and +2
KEITA MIYAZAKI Double spiral, 2020
JUDITH FEGERL Copper (225 bars) Courtesy Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
CLAUDIO PARMIGGIANI Untitled, 2019 Harp and butterflies Courtesy Galleria Poggiali Photo: Michele Alberto Sereni
OGR TORINO, UNTIL 16 JANUARY 2022
ABOUT LABOR
ART & EVENTS In a place symbolic of the transition towards new models of productivity, the installations, sculptures, videos and performances of 13 artists invite us to observe the remains of a recent industrial past and the ambivalence of today’s working conditions: OGR Torino hosts a collective exhibition to reflect on the transformation of work in the post-industrial and digital context, between awareness and disillusionment, precariousness and redemption. The exhibition includes works by: Andrea Bowers, Pablo Bronstein, Claire Fontaine, Tyler Coburn, Jeremy Deller, Kevin Jerome Everson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Elisa Giardina Papa, Liz Magic Laser, Adam Linder, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Mike Nelson, and Charlotte Posenenske. Free entrance. T hurs and Fri, 12noon to 8pm; Sat and Sun, 10am-8pm.
VOGLIAMO TUTTO. An exhibition on work, between disillusionment and redemption
OGR Torino (Binario 1 & 2, Duomo). Corso Castelfidardo, 22 - www.ogrtorino.it
FONDAZIONE MERZ, UNTIL 31 DECEMBER
MARISA AND MARIO MERZ. TOGETHER
CONTEMPORARY ART A new exhibition project presents in a single path the work of Marisa and Mario Merz, two different but intimately linked modes of expression, an artistic dialogue through a reflection on the sense of time and space. Marisa dedicates herself to studying the structure of female faces through drawing, painting and sculpture; here her activity is intertwined with that of Mario, who on each occasion has reinvented his igloo through the use of ever different materials. The domestic dimension is no different from the museum: as in their homestudio, the visitor will be immersed in a continuous dialogue, discovering works that have never been seen before.
>> From Tuesday 2 November, the exhibition will be enriched by new works from Richard Long, Giulio Paolini and Remo Salvadori: three works that discreetly fit into the dialogue between the Merz, occupying spaces that had been left vacant in anticipation of this event.
MARISA E MARIO MERZ. La punta della matita può eseguire un sorpasso di coscienza.
Fondazione Merz, via Limone 24 - www.fondazionemerz.org
© RENATO GHIAZZA. COURTESY FONDAZIONE MERZ
SEVERAL LOCATIONS, UNTIL 9 JANUARY 2022
CITY LIGHTS
ENTERTAINMENT November is the month of contemporary art in Turin and, for the past 24 years, it has kicked off with ‘Luci d’Artista’, a light art show featuring exquisite luminous artworks that, like an open-air art gallery, light up numerous squares and streets throughout the city. As dusk falls (from 6pm until midnight), take a stroll and look upwards to admire installations, known and loved by the Torinese, like Daniel Buren’s ‘Flying Carpet’ in piazza Palazzo di Città, Michelangelo Pistoletto’s ‘Love Difference’ and Mario Merz’s ‘The Flight of Numbers’ which this year will once again illuminate the dome of the Mole Antonelliana with the Fibonacci’s sequence.
Luci d’Artista 2021/2022
Several locations in Turin
GAM TORINO, 14 OCTOBER 202120 MARCH 2022
DIGNITY AND SOLEMNITY OF FATTORI
MODERN ART A major retrospective devoted to the work of the Leghorn artist Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908), one of the absolute masters of nineteenth-century Italy who was able to interpret the themes of the great Risorgimento battles and also subjects linked to life in the fields and the rural landscape. Sixty masterpieces arranged in chronological and thematic sequence, from 1954 to 1984, when his gaze opened up to the imminent twentieth century.
FATTORI. Capolavori e aperture sul ‘900
GAM | Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Via Magenta, 31. www.gamtorino.it
▲ Giovanni Fattori, Gotine rosse (1882 ca.), GAM - Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino
▼ Giovanni Fattori, Le macchiaiole (1866) Società di Belle Arti
Francesco Gamba, Panorama di Torino dalla villa Barbaroux, 1851
LA VENARIA UNTIL 9 JANUARY 2022
ARTIST LANDSCAPESES
EXHIBITION The purpose of the exhibition held in the majestic
Citroniera of the Juvarra Stables
(once a shelter for the citrus plants of the Gardens) is to document interest and passion for love, sensitivity for Nature and passion
for uncontaminated landscapes
of numerous artists of the past, from pre-Romantic painters of the late eighteenth century to contemporary masters. Over 200 works including paintings, photographs, videos and installations from important Italian museums and private collections are the protagonists of this event dedicated to the “green” theme.
© LUIGI DE PALMA
INFINITE BEAUTY. Landscape and Environment in Italy from Romantic painting to contemporary art.
Juvarra’s Citroniera (Giardini della Reggia). La Venaria Reale. www.lavenaria.it
A GREEN HEART FOR THE ROYAL CITY
GARDEN After a long wait of more than five years, the Giardini Reali - the green heart embracing Turin’s Royal Museums complex - have recently reopened to the public. The route includes the Ducal Garden, north of the Royal Palace, the Levante Garden and the Boschetto.The important restoration work on the Fountain of the Nereids and the Tritons in the Giardino di Levante, the surrounding wall and the Bastions completes the restitution of one of the most evocative places in the city and of great importance for its high historical and artistic value. Playful perspectives and sculptures created according to the Baroque taste, a natural continuation of the tour that flows from the halls of the Royal Palace and the Galleria Sabauda to the outside. On this occasion the archaeological area of the Roman Theatre was also recovered, which together with the Porta Palatina is the most important Roman monument preserved in the city.
Giardini Reali www.museireali.beniculturali.it
Fountain of the Nereids and the Tritons
© DANIELE BOTTALLO
2022-2025
LEONARDO DA VINCI
EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITIONS Some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous drawings are preserved in a vault in the heart of the Royal Library of Turin: the “Codex on the Flight of Birds” and 13 drawings, including the famous “SelfPortrait”. The exceptionally valuable works documenting the activity of the great master of the Italian Renaissance – from the beginning of his career in Florence to his Milanese studies of machines – will only be exhibited to the public during Easter Holy Week in the coming years, in order to prevent long exposure from damaging them. This longterm planning will therefore make it possible to plan one's visit at a fixed time, preparing oneself in advance.
>> The dates are: 16-24 April 2022, 8-16 April 2023, 30 March-7 April 2024 and 19-27 April 2025.
A TU PER TU CON LEONARDO
Musei Reali - Biblioteca Reale Piazzetta Reale, 1. www.museireali.beniculturali.it
TORINO + PIEMONTE CARD
© RUSSKYMAVERICK/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
This card can be purchased online or at Turin’s Tourist Offices. With this pass you get free entry to Turin’s most important museums and exhibitions, castles, fortresses and the Royal Residences of Turin and Piedmont for 1*, 2, 3 or 5 consecutive days. It also offers reduced-price tickets to several other cultural sites in Piedmont, discounts on Turin’s main tourist services, plus other benefits. For more information www.turismotorino.org
*The one-day pass is valid for a maximum of three entries to the Turin museum circuit.
2022 EVENTS IN ITALY
JANUARY
14-18/1 | Milan | Milano Moda Uomo. www.milanomodauomo.it 20-23/1 | Cortina d’Ampezzo (Veneto) | Alpine World Ski Championship. www.fsi-ski.com 30/1 | Val di Fassa (Trentino-Alto Adige) | 49th Marcialonga Skimarathon. www.marcialonga.it
FEBRUARY
6-27/2 | Viareggio (Tuscany) | Carnevale di Viareggio. viareggio.ilcarnevale.com 12/2 -1/3 | Venice | Carnevale di Venezia. www.carnevale.venezia.it 22-28/2 | Milan | Milano Moda Donna. www.milanomodadonna.it
MARCH
End of March | Several locations | Spring Days FAI. www.giornatefai.it 27/3| Rome | Run Rome The Marathon. www.runromethemarathon.com
APRIL
1-3/4 | Milan | Miart www.miart.it 5-10/4 | Milan | Salone del Mobile. Milano. www.salonemilano.it Mid-April | Milan | Milano Art Week. milanoartweek.comune.milano.it 10-13/4 | Verona | Vinitaly. www.vinitaly.com 23/4-27/11 | Venice | Biennale Arte 2022 (59th edition). www.labiennale.org 27/4-1/5 | Milan | MIA Fair (105th edition). www.miafair.it
MAY
2-15/5 | Rome | Tennis. Internazionali BNL d’Italia. www.internazionalibnlditalia.com 6-29/5 | Several locations in Italy | Giro d’Italia (105th edition). www.giroditalia.it Mid-May | Brescia-Rome-Brescia | Mille Miglia 2022. www.1000miglia.it 28/5-5/6 | Venice | Salone Nautico Venezia. www.salonenautico.venezia.it End of May | Mugello (Tuscany) | Moto GP. Gran Premio d’Italia. www.motogp.com
2022 EVENTS IN ITALY
JUNE
17-21/6 | Milan | Milano Moda Uomo. www.milanomodauomo.it 17/6-4/9| Verona | Arena di Verona 99th Opera Festival. www.arena.it 20-23/6 | Verona | Vinitaly (54th edition). www.vinitaly.com
JULY
3/7 | Siena | Palio. www.ilpalio.org 8-17/7 | Perugia | Umbria Jazz. www.umbriajazz.it 16/7 | Venice | Festa del Redentore. venice.whereitalia.com
AUGUST
16/8 | Siena | Palio dell’Assunta. www.ilpalio.org
SEPTEMBER
1-11/9 | Venice | International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art. www.labiennale.org 3-11/9 | Venice | The Venice Glass Week. www.theveniceglassweek.com 16-19/9 | Terni | Umbria Jazz. www.umbriajazz.it 11/9 | Monza (Milan) | Formula 1. Italian Grand Prix. www.formula1.com 20-26/9 | Milan | Milano Moda Donna. www.cameramoda.it 21-27/9 | Milan | Milano Moda Donna. www.cameramoda.it
OCTOBER
1-6/10 | Genoa | International Boat Show. www.salonenautico.com 8/10– 6/12 | Alba (Piedmont) | International Alba White Truffle Fair. www.fieradeltartufo.org 9/10 | Trieste | Barcolana. www.barcolana.it 14-23/10 | Perugia | Eurochocolate. www.eurochocolate.com
NOVEMBER
Mid-November | Milan | BookCity Milano. bookcitymilano.it and Music Week. www.milanomusicweek.it 21/11 | Venice | Festa della Salute. venice.whereitalia.com
DECEMBER
7/12| Milan | Teatro alla Scala – Opening of the Opera Season. www.teatroallascala.org
