Night Walk At Via Garibaldi

Via Garibaldi is a pedestrian street, among the main ones in the historic center of Turin, which connects Piazza Castello with Piazza Statuto and represents one of the oldest city streets, as well as one of the main axes of the Iulia Augusta Taurinorum, up to Via della Consolata. Under Vittorio Amedeo II it was extended to the current Corso Valdocco and in the nineteenth century it was finally connected to Piazza Statuto via the last stretch equipped with buildings with porticoes. Always the main street of the city, due to its length, until 1882 it was known to the people of Turin as Contrà Dòira Gròssa (in Italian "Contrada di Dora Grossa"). Surrounded by eighteenth-century buildings, it is considered, with its 963 meters of length and known as "decumanus maximus", the second longest European pedestrian street, after rue Sainte-Catherine in Bordeaux.

The street acts as an ideal "watershed" between the streets that cross it, so streets on the same axis have different names on the north side compared to the south side and the respective house numbers start from the intersection with via Garibaldi.

location: Via Garibaldi

Arte Delle Corti: Il Cielo copre la Terra sostiene

'Il Cielo copre, la Terra sostiene' of artist Marco Bagnoli at palazzo Chiablese. 

The installation art piece is part of the Arte alle Corti 2023 exhibition, it was installed in the courtyard of the palazzo Chiablese.

Arte alle Corti is an invitation to get to know the city through its most hidden places, those courts kept inside city buildings, which tell centuries of Turin history. Architectures that become open-air museums of contemporary art, hosting installations by artists called to measure themselves with these spaces and their identity. A circuit whose points are individual as well as collective installations. The involvement and participation of the public, in fact, are fundamental and define the concept of "public" in all its meanings: from art lovers to the public met and sought out on the street, of all ages and backgrounds. It is a popular and cultured project at the same time, which aims to raise awareness and develop the arts, their presence in everyday life as a non-accessory element, culture as an instrument of well-being, in a dialogue with the urban space which is not only expository and contemplative but experienced by the alive and interactive.

Location: Palazzo Chiablese

Volo Su, Christmas Lights

 Part of the Luci d'Artista, 'Volo Su' by artist Francesco CASORATI was installed along via Garibaldi.

The work "Volo su..." by Francesco Casorati has been part of the Luci d'Artista since 1998, it is a red thread that winds through the streets of Turin, suggesting a possible itinerary, the geometric silhouettes of fabulous birds hold the thread. The location in long and straight streets allows you to grasp the sense of perspective.

 

 

 Location: Via Garibaldi

 

 

 

Beppe Randone At Via Roma

 Beppe Randone is a guitarist, songs writer and composer from Turin.

This is him performing at via Roma and below is a link to his music on youtube....

 Beppe Randone Youtube

Loaction: Via Roma

 

 

 

Wet Market

Mercato Porta Palazzo, the biggest open air market in Europe is normally not a so called 'Wet Market', like those we have in Singapore, but the rain is back and transformed it into a wet wet market.

The ground is wet, the people are less, making shopping seems less chaotic.

Location: Porta Palazzo

National Historical Museum of Artillery

The National Historical Museum of Artillery is a museum center of the history of military technologies, located in the city of Turin inside the Mastio della Cittadella (corner between Corso Galileo Ferraris and Via Cernaia). 

The building is the only fortified surface part of the Citadel left standing, demolished in the various expansions of the city.  

Its collections, around 12,000 objects, include portable firearms, artillery from the fourteenth century onwards, sidearms, uniforms, flags from the eighteenth century onwards, archaeological collections, scale models of the arsenal, paintings and engravings, as well as a rich library. of over 10,000 volumes, a historical archive, a photographic fund.

 

 

Location: Mastio della Cittadella

 

My Noon In Piazza Arbarello

My Noon by Tobias Rehberger is an installation art belongs to the Luci d'Artista and it was placed in Piazza Arbarello last year.

Luci d'Artista is an event born in 1998 from a public lighting project created for the Christmas holidays. Following the success achieved in 1997 with Emanuele Luzzati's nativity scene in Piazza Carlo Felice, the City of Turin extended the initiative to various squares and streets of the subalpine capital. Italian and foreign artists were invited to interpret the illuminations not as simple decorations but as works of art, giving life to a great cultural event, an exhibition of contemporary art which, with the use of light, combines art with urban landscape and encourages encounters between the general public and artistic creation. The exhibition is constantly evolving: the number of artists involved increases, the streets and squares that host the works change to create an ever new and different spectacle of scenographic lighting of the city.

Rehberger's work presents itself as a sequence of geometric shapes that turn on and off according to an apparently random sequence. In reality, the public can interpret the meaning of these lights by observing the work for a certain period of time: white circles, red horizontal lines and white vertical lines correspond respectively to hours, fractions of ten minutes and minutes, by counting the lit elements will know what time it is.

( Texts extracted from : https://www.museotorino.it/view/s/e9f93e6b59d04a9399132e0e07d4654b )

These photos were taken in 2023 during the Christmas period, the installation has since been removed and may be re-erected over the Christmas period this year in the same location or elsewhere.

Location: Piazza Arbarello

Stranger In The Night

Once in a while, someone decides to dress up in a way to suit the atmosphere of the old, narrow street in Torino.

This photo was taken on the new year night, maybe he was on the way back from a New Year Eve celebration?

Location: Via Mercanti

Seniors Performance

It was in September last year, a group of seniors were performing in front of the Galleria San Federico.

They were singing and dancing happily, enjoying themselves and spreading joy to whoever was there to watch.

Location: Galleria San Federico

The World Of Tim Burton

The National Cinema Museum of Turin presents THE WORLD OF TIM BURTON, the exhibition dedicated to the creative genius of Tim Burton. 

For the first time in Italy, the exhibition is set up at the Mole Antonelliana. A journey into the visionary universe and creativity of Tim Burton: the main core of the exhibition focuses on the director's personal archive, showing an incredible variety of his creative production. Therefore not only precious documents but also drawings and sketches with the recurring themes and visual motifs from which the characters that characterize the director's distinctive cinematic worlds came to life. 

The exhibition retraces Burton's footsteps and the evolution of his singular visual imagination as a multidimensional postmodern artist, in a sort of autobiography told through his limitless creative process. Through the unique presentation of the director's work, his unique vision transcends mediums and formats, making it clear how ideas, themes, and even some specific images of his art ended up in the most iconic films we now associate with the glitz of cinematic spectacle.  

Long before critical and commercial success in the live-action and animation genres, Burton drew inspiration from television films, animation, newspaper comics, school myths and fairy tales, and other forms of popular culture, incorporating these everlasting influences in his art and films. His childhood sketches demonstrate Burton's diversity and recall the work of his predecessors, including classic cartoonists and illustrators such as Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, Don Martin and Theodore Geisel.  

The impact of Japanese monster films, expressionist cinema, Universal Studios' catalog of horror, and masters of suspense William Castle and Vincent Price also permeate his work. This major immersive exhibition is a kind of exclusive journey into the mind of a creative genius, the definitive exploration of Tim Burton's artistic production, inimitable style and specific perspective. Divided into 9 thematic sections, it presents over 500 examples of original works of art, rarely or never seen before, from the beginnings to the most recent projects, including sketches, paintings, drawings, photographs, concept art, storyboards, costumes, works in movement, maquettes, puppets and life-size sculptural installations. 

An evocative setting leads visitors and fans to immerse themselves in Tim Burton's extraordinary universe, experiencing a deepening of his sensitivity.

The exhibition will end on the 7th of April.

(Texts Extracted From:  https://www.museocinema.it/it/mostre/il-mondo-di-tim-burton)

Location: Museo Del Cinema

Car Decoration

It was during the Christmas season, this 'well decorated' and 'lighted up' car was parked by the side of via Roma.

Not sure what was the deal, just think that it was a bit over done.

Location: Via Roma

Mimmo Jodice Photo Exhibition Senza Tempo

Domenico "Mimmo" Jodice (born 24 March 1934, in Naples) is an Italian photographer. He was professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli from 1970 to 1996. 

The exhibition of Mimmo Jodice at the Galleria D'Italia was from 29 June 2023 to 7 January 2024.

Mimmo Jodice's exhibition Senza tempo is the second chapter of the project “La Grande Fotografia Italiana” (The Great Italian Photography), launched in 2022 with the exhibition of Lisetta Carmi. This project was created to pay tribute to the great masters of photography in Italy. The exhibition projects also involve another artist alongside the chosen author, in this case Mario Martone, the famous director and author, who has directed and shot a documentary on the life of his friend and countryman Mimmo Jodice, which is being screened in the exhibition rooms for the first time.

Born in Naples in 1934, Jodice approached photography attracted by its ability to create visions. It is a refined and intimate process, nourished by his personal memories, by an existence lived in a city like Naples, both dazzling and secret, made up of places and memories to be unveiled and understood. In short, the exhibition is dedicated to Mimmo Jodice's unique ability to show us reality seen through the filter of a different, suspended time.

The exhibition offers a significant synthesis of Jodice's production, retracing the main inspirational themes of his art in as many sections of the exhibition, Anamnesi, Linguaggi, Vedute di Napoli, Città, Natura, Mari, through 80 photographs taken between 1964 and 2011, including some of the iconic works that have definitively attested to the greatness of the Neapolitan master.

(Text extracted from https://gallerieditalia.com/en/turin/exhibitions-and-initiatives/exhibitions/2023/06/29/mimmo-jodice-senza-tempo/#)

Location: Galleria d'Italia Torino

A Man Under The Arcade

Torino is quite famous for its 'Portici', 18 Km of arcade.

Here is one man standing under one of these Portici at piazza Castello.

Location: Piazza Castello

Remember To Smile

 Just a photo of a motorcyclist with a bunny helmet.

It is Monday, it is not necessary to be blue. Remember to smile!

Location: Via Cernaia

First Flowers 2024

First batch of flowers have blossomed. These are the ones at the giardino La Marmora, the white magnolia denudata.

Of course they are not the very first to blossom in Turin but in this garden, they are the very first ones to welcome the arrival of Spring.

Location: Giardino La marmora

View Of Giardino La Marmora

Giardino La Marmora is a small garden located along via Cernaia, it provides a little green space among the palazzi and the traffic.

It is always a joy to walk through the garden, looking at its towering trees and the flowers arrangement on the side of the road.

Location: Giardino La Marmora

Shapinside

The ShapInside exhibition opens to the public on Monday 4 March 2024 at Palazzo Bricherasio, institutional headquarters of Banca Patrimoni Sella & C.. Rabarama sculptures.

The monographic exhibition - curated by Daniela Magnetti, Artistic Director of Banca Patrimoni Sella & C., and created in collaboration with PhilART, a company that promotes art as a driver of cultural growth and social inclusion - hosts 14 sculptures by the artist Paola Epifani, also known as Rabarama, which will be exhibited in the exedras and courtly rooms of Palazzo Bricherasio, in via Lagrange 20. 

The exhibition focuses on the concept of the dynamism of movement - understood as a retaliation for the static nature of matter, which needs to be shaped to transform itself - to offer a new vision of sculpture, the internal one, as also suggested by the title of the exhibition itself ( the neologism ShapINside which, if pronounced softly, produces an effect of sound circularity recalling the internal world of the shape). 

Location : Palazzo Bricherasio

Pleasant Day

We are having some nice and pleasant days since Monday. The sky is clear, the temperature is warm and the smell of Spring is in the air.

 

A view at the pedestrians walk in the center of Corso siccardi.

Location: Corso Siccardi

She Is Waiting

She wa standing there under the arcade looking somewhat pious and a bit solemn. Maybe it was her attire, maybe it was her posture, it was rather interesting to look at. 

What was she waiting for? Perhaps, her turn to enter the pharmacy which was in front of her.

Location: Via Roma

The Unofficial Name of A Piazza

There are places that the people of Turin usually call by names different from those they have in reality. For example, Piazza Vittorio stands for Piazza Vittorio Veneto just as Corso Vittorio is the abbreviation of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and there is no risk of making a mistake because everyone knows these names (indeed they often don't know the official one).  

 

One of these places is Piazza Carlina, which is actually Piazza Carlo Emanuele II. Its nickname is so famous and recognized by the inhabitants of the city that a few years ago they started writing it in the maps of Turin instead of its real name.  

 

The square, which is located in the historic center of Turin not far from the Egyptian Museum, was built in 1673, during the second city expansion, designed by the architect Amedeo di Castellamonte. The nickname, with which it was called already in 1600, was given to it by the people of Turin because it was the one with which Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy was called due to his effeminate ways.

Location : Piazza Carlina ( Piazza Carlo Emanuele II )

 

 

She Is Reading

There is a school at the junction of the street where I live. Normally, we see parents of different races waiting for their children outside during the end of day of lessons.

One day, I walked on the opposite side of the street and saw a muslim woman reading something outside the school. Nothing special, I just like that image, so I snapped a photo.

 Location : Via Bertola

Men Walk

Take a break from posting raining day photos. 

 Since yesterday was Women's Day, I dug up these older photos.....

These photos were taken in last November, a group of men marched across the Town Hall Square and headed towards piazza Castello. All were wearing suits and red shoes, each carrying a board in hand.

It was to protest violence against women.

Location : Via Palazzo Di Città

The Rain Is Back

 The rain is back again....

The current situation seems to forecast that we are going to have a wet weekend.

Let's hope that next week there will be fine weather, and finally we can begin to enjoy Spring.

Location : Via Lagrange