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

 

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

Wild Boar In A Gallery

Galleria Umberto I is an arcade linking towards the market Porta Palazzo. It has recently becoming more and more artistic.

A few art galleries popped up and interesting displays are starting to appear inside the arcade, such as this wild boar....

Location : Galleria Umberto I

CDP 2022 February Theme : Power

Saw this exhibition in a art gallary along via Consolata, apparently the art pieces are by a chinese artist and one of the display is this Power---Ful Mao.

Featuring the late chinese leader Mao Tse Tung in superman suit.

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Location : Via Consolata

Tattooed Sculptures

A serie of sculptures by artist Fabio Viale are displayed in front of the Royal palace, attracting lots of attention from the locals and tourists.

The sculptures are reproduction of the roman sculptures, except that they are tattooed.

 

Fabio Viale is an italian scuptor, born in Cuneo, Piedmont and after his studies at the artistic high school and at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, Italy, Viale started to work professionally as a sculptor.

'Viale doesn’t paint the marble but rather infuses an arm or chest with color and pattern in a manner that’s similar to tattooing a human body. He collaborated with chemists to refine the blended technique and said that “not surprisingly, each natural material has its strong personality and difficulties connected to it.”'

( Quoted from :  https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/04/fabio-viale-tattooed-sculpture/ )

Location : Palazzo Reale

The Totality

 Saw this strange looking installation at the Grosa garden near to the Intesa Sanpaolo skyscraper.

It is the work of Maestro Costas Varotsos.

The new work of Maestro Varotsos consists of superimposed glass plates resting on a metal structure and fixed together with silicone material. The planes, which completely cover the support structure, follow a helical pattern reaching a height of over 9 meters. The sculpture is also unbalanced in one direction with respect to the support base, providing an overall impression of movement as designed by the artist. The metal structure, which allows the glass sheets to rest, consists of 3 central tube trunks to which pairs of horizontal trays are welded. In the new installation, its inclined trend was more gradually supported by arranging the first section no longer vertical but inclined by 10 ° with respect to the original project. The area where "La Totality" stands is completed by a hill of greenery bordered by shrubs that represent a deterrent against possible vandalism while ensuring a fair overall view of the structure. To maintain the characteristics, functionality, efficiency and value of the sculpture over time, a maintenance plan was finally planned, which will be supported by Intesa Sanpaolo.  

Location : Giardino  Grosa

Fine Art On The Street

Torino is a beautiful city, regardless of the poor management of the governer. Art display can be seen everywhere, not limited in museums or art galleries.

 

Such as this copy of  'Bacco' of Caravaggio, it was painted on the road in via Roma, beautifully done. Of course it wasn't meant to last, after some days, it was long gone.

 

Location : Via Roma

Paolo Ventura Carousel 2

Ventura grew up in Milan with summers spent in the hilltops of Eastern Tuscany. His father, Piero Ventura, was a children's book author during the 1970s and 1980s. At the end of the 1980s, Ventura attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera.

At the beginning of the 1990s he started working as a fashion photographer. In a few years he was working with fashion magazines such as Elle, MarieClaire, Amica, Vogue Gioiello, among others.

 

 Toward the end of the 1990s, ten years into his career, Ventura gradually stepped out of the world of fashion photography and he moved to New York to pursue his personal artistic path. In his studio in Brooklyn he began to build and photograph small dioramas about World War II in Italy, based on memories and tales from his grandmother

 

 

 

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There is a hazy sense of timelessness in the photographs of Paolo Ventura. He makes images out of cardboard and various objects found from flea markets and even eBay, to build into what he calls the 'invented worlds' or 'ir-realities'.

He then photograhs this 'invented worlds' as if they wrere life-size. Results in a dreamy atmosphere, something between fantasy and memory.

 Location : CAMERA

 

Paolo Ventura Carousel 1

Paolo Ventura Carousel is an exhibition at the CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia. It is one of the most interesting and fun exhibition so far this year.

From 17 September to 8 December CAMERA hosts Carousel, a journey within the eclectic career of Paolo Ventura (Milan, 1968), one of the most recognized and appreciated Italian artists in Italy and abroad.

 

After working for years as a fashion photographer, at the beginning of the 2000s he moved to New York to devote himself to his artistic research. From his earliest works, he combines great manual skills with a poetic vision of the world, building sets within which short fairy-tale and surreal stories come to life, then immortalized by the camera. With "War Souvenir" (2005), a reworking of the atmosphere of the First World War through small theatrical sets and puppets, he obtained his first important awards, such as being included in the BBC documentary "The Genius of Photography" in 2007. 

 

After ten years in the United States, he returns to Italy where he realizes some of his most famous projects, within which he mixes photography, painting, sculpture and theater, such as in the scenography of "Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo, the result of the important collaboration with the Teatro Regio di Torino, of which CAMERA exhibited some preparatory works in January 2017.
 

 

On this occasion, the rooms of CAMERA present some of the most evocative works of the last fifteen years - from various collections, as well as from the artist's studio - in an absolute mixture of languages ​​that includes drawings, models, sets, papier-mâché masks and theatrical costumes. However, it is not a linear path or a retrospective, but rather a staging of all the recurring themes of his poetics, among which that of the double and fiction stand out. Two unpublished projects are also on display: «Grazia Received», an affectionately ironic reinterpretation of the ex voto theme, and "La Gamba Ritrovata", the result of a residency carried out at the Central Institute for Catalog and Documentation in Rome, launched thanks to collaboration between CAMERA and the ministerial body.

Location : CAMERA

 

Museo d'Arte Urbana (1)

Located in the area between Via Nicola Fabrizi-Corso Svizzera-Via Levanna-Via Netro, The MAU - Museum of Urban Art in Turin - is the first project of its kind to be realized in Italy. Its aim is to create a permanent artistic outdoor structure situated within a big metropolitan space.

It is like a tiny artistic village with  paintings painted on the wall of the houses, in the Borgo Campidoglio.

Location : MAU