Francesco Hayez In GAM

Francesco Hayez (10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and portraits.

The Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Italian - Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Torino or GAM Torino) is an art gallery in Turin, Italy, founded in 1891-1895 and located in 31 via Magenta. With the MAO (Museo d'arte orientale), Palazzo Madama e Casaforte degli Acaja (Museo civico d'arte antica), the Borgo and the Rocca medioevali, it forms part of the Fondazione Torino Musei. The lower rooms house important reviews and a large collection of video art. 

It houses the city's permanent collections of 19th and 20th century art, which consist of over 47,000 paintings, sculptures, art installations and pieces of video art. Artists represented include Antonio Canova, Giovanni Fattori, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Antonio Mancini, Giacomo Balla, Paul Klee, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Nino Franchina and Domenico Valinotti. 

Art, history and politics intertwine in the great exhibition that the GAM of Turin dedicates to the romantic genius of Francesco Hayez (Venice 1791 - Milan 1882), accompanying the public to discover the artist's world, inside the painter's workshop, to reveal its techniques and secrets. An original journey that compares paintings and drawings, with over 100 works from prestigious public and private collections to which are added some important paintings by the artist kept at the GAM, such as the Portrait of Carolina Zucchi in bed (The Ammalata) and the 'Analing Angel.

Location: GAM

 

Helmut Newton Show

Visited the exhibition of famous photograher Helmut Newton at GAM (La Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino).

The exhibition project is curated by Matthias Harder, director of the German foundation, who has selected 68 photographs designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the long career of this great photographer whose truly unique visual concepts have, from the very beginning, never ceased to amaze and make a sensation. The result is an exceptionally characteristic and accomplished body of work that has reached a public of millions through magazines and books.
 

 Location : GAM

Horizontal Tree

This ' Tree ' is located just outside the entrance into the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin.

On the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italian Unity, the Foundation De Fornaris commissioned Giuseppe Penone, worldwide known Turin artist , a monumental work positioned in front of the GAM - Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery of Turin in Corso Galileo Ferraris corner of via Magenta, in future memory of the event. The work, entitled "At the outset" ( "In limine" ), was inaugurated on March 18 by President Giorgio Napolitano. The sculpture, made of Carrara marble, bronze, lime and ivy, is presented as a kind of "portal" acting symbolically to the new entrance to the museum.

The Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin (also known as GAM Torino) was founded around 1891-95. It houses the permanent art collections of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

It is part of the Fondazione Torino Musei, which also includes the MAO (Oriental Art Museum), Palazzo Madama (Civic Museum of Ancient Art), the village and the medieval fortress.