Some more of the exhibited arts at the Paratissima 12.
Confrontation
Christ Speed
We were fortunate to arrive early on that Saturday where there were very little queue and more space to move around, looking at the displayed pieces were easier and more comfortable.
The Fisheyes
By 3 pm, the crowd was starting to appear, by then, people watching was added as part of the fun.
Stare
Puller
The Incubator
Shooting Mirror
Paratissima is a project created in Turin (Italy), its aim is to foster
and support emerging artists and creative talents, giving them the
opportunity to join an international network where they have a chance to
promote themselves, to sell their works, to meet other artists and
creative workers and to improve their skills and knowledge.
Paratissima was born in Turin (Italy) in 2005, with the aim of hosting
and promoting artists and creative workers in a context dethatched from
the institutional and elite art scene, giving to emerging talents an
opportunity to surface and grow. In few years it has become one of the
most important events in the national art scene.
This year the Paratissima was held again in Torino Esposizioni, many paintings, sculptures and photos exhibited, somehow, the craziness and weirdness of the displayed arts were toned down and an entry fee of 3 euro was imposted.
Regardless of the changes, it is still an EVENT that we won't want to miss every year. Just hope that it won't try to go too mainstream which will lose it uniquity and fun.
Two enigmatic anonymous characters carrying a vessel overturned on their shoulders, with the head hidden within it. The two naked men (shipwrecked or not) are motionless and wandering. They are metaphysically bewildered figures at the end or beginning of a journey.
This art piece is a part of the Arte Alle Corti, placed in the courtyard of the University of Torino at via Po.....
The shining surface creates a beautiful reflection of the surroundings and their setup presents an enigma of their journey.....
By artist Velasco Vitali, the installation with its mirrored surface also involves the public and the reality that flow around, making them an integral part. Thus the architecture of the courtyard becomes a metropolitan horizon that is emerging along the bow of the canoe. A horizon that evokes, ideally, what the students look out in their university studies. A new world that will change their lives.
In the courtyard of the Palazzo Carignano, which saw the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy and the first seat of the Italian Parliament, a pair of artists from Turin Gianfranco Botto and Roberta Bruno brought in the other part of the city.
The yellow pole of a bus suburban line nailed there waiting for time. Waiting for the last bus. Develops around a visual diorama in which places and architecture blend between real and unreal visions.
When one enters into the courtyard of the palace he will has a strange feeling as if time had stood still, he perceives a world that was and is no longer exist. As if expecting at any moment something can happen. In the diorama peripheral that develops within the structure, the wait component is always present, but from another point of view: areas away from the center of the city, changes never come ...
The Arte Alle Corti, Art In The Courtyards is back.....
Art in the Courtyards is an invitation to discover the city through its most
hidden places, those courtyards kept inside the city buildings, that tell
centuries of history of Turin. Architectures
that become open-air museums of contemporary art, hosting installations
by artists invited to compete in these areas.
The
project is to experience a walk in the open air, moving on foot and with a
map in hand, an invisible thread that connects different parts of the
city center, through the baroque architecture. It
is a way to learn about and take possession of an often unknown
territory, albeit everyday and familiar, made obvious by habit and
inability to truly look around. The
project, in fact, is addressed above all to citizens as well as
tourists: an audience of close eyes and other distant invited to enter
into these wonderful treasures, transformed into the open thanks to the art
scene. In this direction, taking into account the site-specific
installation concept, which blends in the fabric of the place where it
intervenes, excluding, however, the work as a monument isolated from or
unrelated to the context.
The work of David Rivalta fixed a meeting between three different elements: the shape of the animal (in this case bears sculptures, which naturally preserved their presence sacredness of innocent); the Royal Park, a place that does not orient or does not transgress; Finally, all those who are confronted with these guests. Illegal presence of bears pose a question about the identity of the place. Their meeting is epiphanic experience of otherness and index of openness.
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.
Galleria Davico in Galleria Subalpina often displays interesting art pieces which we enjoy every much looking at. They have just finished an exhibition named 'This is not a toy', which toyed with the images of toys in a way we have never seen before.
On top of the entrance, Spiderman with a rather different suit was hanging up there.
Close up of a bronze sculpture by Gianfranco Meggiato, exhibited at Pietrasanta
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