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