San Giovanni Fireworks

Was festival of San Giovanni again, and as per tradition, fireworks display lighted up the sky of Turin, along the river Po, at piazza Vittorio.

To avoid the crowd, we stayed at piazza Castello , looking toward via Po where the fireworks are visible.

Back Light Of A Church

Walking on a street seldom taken, the sky presented a spectacular light shining through the white cloud, outlining the silhouette of  the church in front.

Just one of the day when observing the sky seemed to be more interesting.....

Arte Alle Corti - Palazzo Civico

The Beehive of Jessica CARROLL, 2 meters diameter Bronze.

"To do work in large bronze, as this hive of two meters in diameter, need many helpers and a foundry of course. I began to tell boys of the foundry stories about bees: that when the cells are disordered born there drones, that bees have six legs and that is why the hexagon , the hexagon is in nature the cheaper and more effective system to build and that some animals have genetic, intrinsic knowledge,  to do certain things, like bees hives or termites bridges for millions of years and that we men instead we must learn to make them and that the observation of these animals can teach us how to do them.

 
So also in the foundry we have become a "Super organism" and a multiple of between 3 and 6 the hive was formed. "

( Words of the artist )

Here Comes The Pope

For the very first time the Pope Francesco came to visit Turin. 

The two days visit is packed, first he went to the Royal palace, then he proceeded to visit the holy shroud at the Duomo. After that, he held a mass in piazza Vittorio which was tightly secured and fully set up for the event, passes to attend the mass had to be booked a month before, huge screens were set up along via po e in various piazza for people who couldn't make it to attend the mass in piazza Vittoria.
After the mass, he traveled to the Archbishopric for lunch. A Roma family, mom, dad and four children who until a few months ago lived in the settlement along Stura Lazio; a lump of homeless; 11 underage boys inmates ; 5 immigrants were the guests of the lunch.
Next he visited the Basilica of Maria Ausiliatrice, and ended the evening by meeting the youth of Piedmont at piazza Vittorio.

 

Three times he past under my apartment and only once I managed to snap some photo of him from the balcony.

Arte Alle Corti - Palazzo Carignano

In the work of Elisabetta Benassi entitled MareoMerz, a fishing boat hangs in the net the last car belonged to Mario Merz. Here it triggers a 'interaction between monumental architectural space, the center of the city and its history (and Italian history), and the open space, that of the journey, with a close relationship with the memory of the art (the car of Mario Merz, master of Turin, which is fished, as emblematic object of Arte Povera). But there is perhaps also an echo of what is happening these days in the "Mare Nostrum".

The opera MareoMerz is located in the courtyard of palazzo Carignano.

Arte Alle Corti - Palazzo Birago di Borgaro

In the courtyard of Palazo Birago di Borgaro includes two art works. After Love, the large installation of Vedovamazzei, alias Simeone Crispino and Stella Scala, is located at the center and is also visible from the street through the main gate. 

The work is the reconstruction of the lopsided house from the famous film of Buster Keaton's One Week (1920). The building, in which you can enter, is based on a careful study of the frames of the film. With the installation of this work creates a paradoxical and unsettling contrast between the refined  symmetrical beauty of the baroque architecture of the court and the deconstruction of messed modest prefab.  

The installation of the Swiss couple Glaser / Kunz, Daniel Glaser and Magdalena Kunz, Autoportrait, helps to create an alienating situation in a noble courtyard. It is a car parked next to the wooden house, inside are two dummies (Talking Heads), which, through a video projection on the faces and their recorded voices, producing a hyper-realistic vital effect .

Arte alle corti - Palazzo Cisterna

"Art courts "is an exhibition of sculptures and installations-paced contemporary art that develops in the open in the courtyards and gardens of seven large buildings of the city.The goal is to let the general public to discover the lesser known aspects of the historic center of Turin. 

 The garden of Palazzo Cisterna is normally closed to public, a nice green area with huge trees and a big fountain in the center, often we can only take a peek of the garden through the metal fence. Finally, with this exhibition, we are allow to enter into the garden and have a walk among the plants and the art.

A visitor admiring the art of Iuliano
 

There are a few installations in the garden and the courtyard, one that catches immediate attention is the work of Enrico Iuliano. His installation designed specifically for the garden of Palazzo Cisterna is formed by joining two existing works:Composition glass of Vespa of 2005 and Hourglass 2008. The Vespa and the APEC, placed both in a tub of aluminum 15 meters long and filled with dyed red water, act as a conduit for the flow of liquid in a continuous loop that creates a kind of post-industrial fountain.

Beside the work of Iuliano, in the garden displayed several pieces of work from other artists as listed:  

Agave leaves with copper, Nicola Bolla;

 Men Blue

Men Blue, pair of human figures, with scale and lighting elements, Richi Ferrero;

 The Herd Of dogs

Herd, group of statues of dogs, and Tree Heart, aluminum, Paolo Grassino;

 The Wolves

Being so the wolves / the most difficult to hunt / how will the men, the group of sculptures of wild wolves, Jelena Vasiljev.
Constraints, installation in wood and concrete, of Francesco Granieri;
Suture and shape, powerful steel sculpture, organic, minimal, of Salvatore Astore;
Cefalopede girl with elephant foot, inquientante and metamorphic figure between the human and the beast of Daniel Spoerri;
Kingdom, ironic banner of Saverio Todaro;