ARTISSIMA 2020 Parallel to the physical exhibitions across the three museums, Artissima Artissima Unplugged will launch Artissima XYZ, an original cross-media platform that

transforms the curated sections of the fair into an immersive digital Torino, 12 October 2020 – Artissima takes place in an Unplugged experience. This year the sections Present Future curated by Ilaria version for 2020. A new format, extended throughout the city and online Gianni and Fernanda Brenner, Back to the Future curated by Lorenzo that brings together physical exhibitions produced with Fondazione Giusti and Mouna Mekouar, and Disegni curated by Letizia Ragaglia and Torino Musei and digital projects. Bettina Steinbrügge will exist on the platform Artissima XYZ, online

from 3 November to 9 December 2020. In its physical guise, Artissima Unplugged will present three exhibition projects in the museums of Fondazione Torino Musei – GAM -Galleria Also in the context of the fair’s digital initiatives, produced thanks to the Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Madama - Museo support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Artissima will present Civico d’Arte Antica and MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale – from 7 an online catalogue. November 2020 to 9 January 2021 (preview by invitation on 5 and 6

November 2020). The exhibitions, presented under the theme Frenetic Thanks to the synergy and partnership of Artissima with the City of Standstill and curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, will feature works provided Torino, the Piedmont Region, the cultural institutions, as well as the by some of the galleries selected for this edition of the fair, due to take galleries, this Autumn brings an opportunity to explore and enjoy place at the Oval Lingotto. contemporary art in new ways.

Given the latest developments of the continuing global impact of Covid- We believe that art can be our guide, since it has always been a catalyst 19 the fair’s organisers made the difficult but necessary decision at the for the most innovative visions, helping us open up new scenarios that end of September not to open the fair in its traditional format this year, reveal a profound and carefully pondered transformation. inside the spaces of the Oval.

Upholding its commitment to the city and its galleries, its cultural and institutional role has prompted Artissima to reinvent its approach, to continue to offer opportunities for discovery, experimentation and immersion in contemporary art in .

Artissima 2020 is embracing the temporary change of its usual format, systematically building on past experiences of experimentation while building on its investment in digital media that began in 2017. Alternatives developed in the past have included curated off-site exhibitions in the city, such as Artissima Telephone (2019) and Abstract Sex (2019), which brought together works provided by galleries participating in the fair’s

2019 edition.

Maurizio Cibrario, President of Fondazione Torino Musei Ilaria Bonacossa, Director of Artissima

I would like to reassure the civic institutions, the public and all art lovers: In recent months, together with my team, we have worked with the usual Artissima 2020 will take place, physically, though with a different formula, passion and determination on the organisation of a “Covid-conscious” fair less concentrated in a short time span, but spread across a longer period. that could welcome galleries, the public and our partners to Torino in I am certain that the event will be a success, and will fully comply with November, in total safety and in compliance with current regulations. current health regulations. In the context of global uncertainty, the sudden changes of scenario and This has been a difficult decision. Months ago, in the midst of the the resulting insecurity that governs the decisions of individuals have pandemic, we discussed the matter at great length, aware of the fact that forced us not to proceed with opening of Artissima in its usual format. In an unexpected cancellation of the fair for public health reasons would order to avoid squandering the exceptional efforts made to date, pose the risk of very serious problems. We had to get beyond that however, we have imagined new physical and online exhibitions for the obstacle: so we decided to move forward, for the city and for all the presentation of art in Torino. An “unplugged” version of Artissima that people involved in Artissima. Events of such high value, esteemed on an supports the art system and its players in an innovative way, narrating international level, which make a real contribution to the image of the city contemporary art and its discovery through the work of Italian and of Torino, cannot be allowed to simply evaporate. international galleries that have always supported the fair with loyalty and Torino is a city of accomplishments: the industrialisation of began enthusiasm. here, as did radio and television broadcasting, as well as fashion, though A courageous initiative made possible by the support of Fondazione some of these activities have continued their growth elsewhere. Torino Musei, on the front line of culture, and all the institutions that Contemporary art has found fertile ground for action in the city, and this sustain us (Fondazione CRT, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e role must absolutely be preserved. Torino’s citizens should feel proud to Contemporanea CRT, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and be part of an innovative and active city, full of initiatives. For the staff of Camera di Commercio di Torino), together with the City of Torino and the Artissima, it is also important to grant meaning to a year of work Piedmont Region. This dialogue and the desire to work together with the conducted with passion, complicated by on-going uncertainties. museums and foundations of the city have made it possible not to give The formula applied for this edition is that of an exhibition in three up on this appointment with contemporary art, even in a year of such museums of Fondazione (Palazzo Madama-Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, great difficulties. GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, and MAO- I would like to thank the Artissima team, who have worked tirelessly this Museo d’Arte Orientale), presenting works by artists provided by the year, inventing new projects with expertise, creativity and determination, partner galleries of Artissima, for a time span of about two months. dismantling and reassembling the fair in response to changing needs, We feel this is a way to fulfil our commitment to the city, in a version that without ever losing faith in the outcome of being able to bring our galleries is more compatible with the current situation of the pandemic. to Torino. th All that remains at this point is to cut the ribbon of the 27 edition of Artissima, with optimism, knowing that we have utilised all our forces for the success of this event, while once again underscoring the fact that Torino is, and will remain, the heart of contemporary culture in Italy.

THE ARTISSIMA EXHIBITIONS @GAM @Palazzo THE DIGITAL PROJECTS Madama @MAO

From 7 November 2020 to 9 January 2021 (preview 5 and 6 November Since 2017, thanks to the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San 2020), the museums of Fondazione Torino Musei – GAM -Galleria Paolo, Artissima has expanded its digital presence. The main objective Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Madama - Museo of the new developments for 2020 is to integrate technological innovation Civico d’Arte Antica and MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale – will host a in cultural production and experience, reinforcing and amplifying the curated selection of works provided by the galleries selected for Artissima digital component of the fair, on one hand through upgrading of the 2020. The exhibitions will present an overview of highlights of what the existing platform (artissima.art)—already a reference point for audience would have seen in the booths of the fair, under the theme of information on contemporary art—and the implementation of a new Frenetic Standstill curated by Ilaria Bonacossa in close dialogue with cross-media platform on the curated sections (Artissima XYZ). the gallerists involved, and with the support of Valerio Del Baglivo for the New Entries section. Digital catalogue The digital channels launched in past editions have become integral parts The theme Frenetic Standstill prompts reflections on the concept of of the Artissima Digital platform hosted at the site www.artissima.art. acceleration as opposed to inertia, and on the increasingly urgent need Visitors can take advantage of a virtual catalogue of the fair, in order to explore the galleries, artists and works in an interactive way, saving their to change our paradigms and to seek possible responses to the present preferred content even when not in Torino. crisis. Responses through cultural and social evolution conveyed by art, has always borne witness to histories and civilizations in the past, while The online catalogue, to discover the galleries, artists and their works, acting as a catalyst of the most innovative visions. The theme ignites the will be opened to the public (without an online preview) on 5 November most recent debates and is a timely representation of what we have lived 2020 until 9 December 2020. Digital visitors can utilise new functions through in the past months in different modes of lockdown. developed this year to respond to the needs of the moment, including information, for example, on the prices of the works (for the galleries that A synergic effort, undertaken with and for the galleries of Artissima, wish to indicate them). offering both a cultural project and at the same time an opportunity for visibility and promotion for the most important participants of the event. Artissima XYZ

Artissima XYZ is an original cross-media platform that transforms the GAM, Palazzo Madama and MAO will therefore play host to the historic curated sections of the fair into an immersive digital experience. sections of Artissima respectively: the Main Section, presenting a selection of the most representative galleries on the international scene; This year, the sections Present Future curated by Ilaria Gianni and the New Entries section dedicated to emerging international galleries Fernanda Brenner, Back to the Future curated by Lorenzo Giusti e under five years old showing at Artissima for the first time; Mouna Mekouar and Disegni curated by Letizia Ragaglia and Bettina Dialogue/Monologue for galleries with an experimental approach which Steinbrügge will exist on the platform Artissima XYZ, supported by intend to present a monographic booth or a dialogue between the works Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, and online from 3 November of two artists. to 9 December 2020.

The curated sections will be presented in a cross-media space capable The three curated sections of going beyond the classic structure of the viewing room and digital Present Future catalogues, offering fresh experiential content to explore the work of all Present Future is the curated section focusing on emerging talents the main figures involved: galleries, artists, curators. Each curatorial team not yet over 40 years of age. The artists are selected on the basis of has selected ten projects for each section, featuring ten artists each, projects submitted by their galleries of reference, or art research spaces. presented by their galleries, and pursuing a precise thematic orientation. The curatorial team is composed of the independent curators and writers 3 sections, 30 artists for 30 galleries, 10 for each section. Ilaria Gianni and Fernanda Brenner.

The layout of the platform will be immediate in its approach and easy to The curators of Present Future comment: Reflecting on the relationship navigate: after landing on a welcome page, visitors can enter the three between art, language and political turmoil, this special edition of Present sections in which each project has its own page, full of materials of Future will feature artists that see art as a toolbox and a way to explore different kinds for a 360° overview of the work and the artist through their roles as citizens and social actors. Focusing on practices that listen photographs, video and audio. Suggesting the axes of a Cartesian system, the name XYZ refers to the multi-dimensional and multi-media and give voice to those who have not been in a social, political, approach applied by the platform, designed to convey physical geographical or cultural, situation of holding the microphone, instead of experience through virtual experience. Visitors can thus appreciate the labelling and exploiting occurrences, the artists included in Present value of a work of art not only by seeing it, but also by listening to its Future free narratives and imageries incapsulating multiple versions in critical interpretation and discovering its creative genesis through History's timeline. Each work becomes an act of resistance, and as a photographs, videos, interviews and podcasts where artists, gallerists breath itself, one for survival. Present Future 2020 involves the and curators are the protagonists. With the help of the same remote spectators in a complex discourse questioning languages and positions, technologies that have become everyday working tools for all of us in visions and identities, offering a dynamic and plural interactive platform recent months, some of the contents will be produced directly by the for discussion and interpretation that deliberately avoids all sorts of galleries and artists, while others will be created by the editorial team binary oppositions. Ordet—composed of Edoardo Bonaspetti, Stefano Cernuschi and Anna Bergamasco—who produced the Artissima Stories and Pills for Artissima over the last few years. Back to the Future Back to the Future is a curated section of Artissima, focused on the Artissima XYZ is not just a response to the limits imposed by the COVID- rediscovery of pioneers of contemporary art. The section, also open 19 pandemic on fair events: this new online platform also offers an to the estates of artists, presents works made in a specific time span. original and engaging experience to both collectors and those who want This year the period chosen extends from 1960 to 1999. The curatorial to learn more about contemporary art, accompanied by the voices of the team of Back to the Future is composed of the Director of GAMeC- personalities who customarily make the story of the fair, be it physical or Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Bergamo, Lorenzo Giusti, virtual. and the independent art critic and curator Mouna Mekouar.

The curators of Back to the Future comment: We have decided to give ARTISSIMA XYZ GALLERIES this edition of Back to the Future the same title as a work by David Lamelas, one of the artists involved in the project: When the Sky is Low XYZ – PRESENT FUTURE and Heavy. While the representation of the man-nature relationship as a EDU DE BARROS, SÉ GALERIA Sao Paulo – SIMON DENNY, ALTMAN process marked by continuing strains and adaptations seems to shed SIEGEL San Francisco – RADAMÉS “JUNI” FIGUEROA, PROYECTOS ULTRAVIOLETA Guatemala City – SHADI HAROUNI, TIZIANA DI CARO light for an interpretation of our time, the fact that the work is now in Napoli – LUÍS LÁZARO MATOS, MADRAGOA Lisbon – NOE MARTÍNEZ, precarious condition, running the risk of disappearing, also made it seem LLANO Mexico City – SARA NAIM, THE THIRD LINE, Dubai – ANTONIO OBÁ, important in relation to factors that have always been the primary goals MENDES WOOD DM, Sao Paulo, Brussels, New York – MANUEL SOLANO, of this section: the conservation of memories and the current PERES PROJECTS – KANDIS WILLIAMS, NIGHT GALLERY Los contextualization of languages. Angeles

Disegni XYZ – BACK TO THE FUTURE Disegni presents monographic projects open to all forms of GUILLAUME BIJL, HUBERT WINTER Vienna – LISETTA CARMI, MARTINI & contemporary drawing. A medium that, originally associated with RONCHETTI Genova – FELICIANO CENTURIÓN, WALDENGALLERY paper, is being radically transformed in contemporary practice. the Buenos Aires – ISABELLA DUCROT, T293 Roma – ROSE FINN-KELCEY, KATE MACGARRY London – JULIJE KNIFER, FRANK ELBAZ Paris, Dallas – curatorial team is composed of Letizia Ragaglia, independent curator, DAVID LAMELAS, JAN MOT Brussels – IVENS MACHADO, FORTES D'ALOIA and Bettina Steinbrügge, the director of the Kunstverein of & GABRIEL Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro – MOHAMED MELEHI, LOFT ART and managing director of Kunstmeile Hamburg. Casablanca – REGINA VATER, JAQUELINE MARTINS Sao Paulo

The curators of Disegni, comment: We have chosen to deepen multiple XYZ – DISEGNI facets of the “drawing cosmos” through the works of ten women artists of SARAH ABU ABDALLAH, ATHR Jeddah – MONICA BONVICINI, KÖNIG Berlin different ages and origins. We want to explore the fluidity of the borders – ELLEN CANTOR, ISABELLA BORTOLOZZI Berlin – KEREN CYTTER, PILAR CORRIAS London – SARAH FAUX, CAPSULE SHANGHAI Shanghai – of this medium and discover how its inclination to contamination confers HEIKE-KARIN FÖLL, CAMPOLI PRESTI London, Paris – MARGUERITE liveliness to it. Furthermore, we want to point out how every single artist HUMEAU, CLEARING New York, Brussels – BETHAN HUWS, finds freedom and an augmented possibility of experimentation (and risk VISTAMARE/VISTAMARESTUDIO Pescara, Milano – OLIVIA PLENDER, and fun!) in the practice of drawing. That is because we want to see the MAUREEN PALEY London – IVANA SPINELLI, GALLLERIAPIÙ Bologna future even if only momentarily.

DIGITAL CATALOGUE 2020 GALLERIES MARTINA SIMETI Milano – TRIANGLE Moscow – UMA LULIK Lisbon –WHITE NOISE Roma – YAMAMOTO KEIKO ROCHAIX London MAIN SECTION 50 GOLBORNE London – ALMEIDA E DALE Sao Paulo – ANNEX14 Zurich – DIALOGUE/MONOLOGUE ROLANDO ANSELMI Berlin, Roma – FRANCESCA ANTONINI Roma – A+B Brescia – SÉBASTIEN BERTRAND Geneva – CAR DRDE Bologna – APALAZZO Brescia – ENRICO ASTUNI Bologna – PIERO ATCHUGARRY CLIMA Milano – COB London – MAURIZIO CORRAINI Mantova – DIX9 Paris Miami, Pueblo Garzón – AURAL Alicante, Madrid – BALCONY Lisbon – – DÜRST BRITT & MAYHEW The Hague – RENATA FABBRI Milano – DORIS BALLON ROUGE COLLECTIVE Brussels – MARINA BASTIANELLO Mestre- GHETTA Ortisei – IN ARCO Torino – JECZA Timisoara – LABS Bologna – Venezia – BOCCANERA Trento, Milano – ISABELLA BORTOLOZZI Berlin – GILDA LAVIA Roma – EMANUEL LAYR Vienna, Roma – MAAB Milano – THOMAS BRAMBILLA Bergamo – C+N CANEPANERI Milano, Genova – MADRAGOA Lisbon – NÄCHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE CONTINUA San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Havana, Roma – SCHWARZWÄLDER Vienna – NCONTEMPORARY Milano, London – NOSCO RAFFAELLA CORTESE Milano – DAUWENS & BEERNAERT Brussels – DE' Marseille – O GALLERY Tehran – ANCA POTERASU Bucharest – RIBOT FOSCHERARI Bologna – DEP ART Milano – UMBERTO DI MARINO Napoli – Milano – ROSA SANTOS Valencia – KARSTEN SCHUBERT London – JUAN EMALIN London – EX ELETTROFONICA Roma – FRANCISCO FINO Lisbon SILIÓ Santander, Madrid – SZYDLOWSKI Warsaw – VIASATERNA Milano – – FRITTELLI Firenze – KOW Berlin – LOOM Milano – M77 Milano – NORMA ZAAL Thornhill MANGIONE Torino – PRIMO MARELLA Milano, Lugano – MASSIMOLIGREGGI Catania – MATÈRIA Roma – MAZZOLENI Torino, ART SPACES & EDITIONS London – MAZZOLI Berlin, Modena, Dusseldorf – URS MEILE Lucerne, Beijing COLOPHONARTE Belluno – L’ARENGARIO S.B. Gussago, Brescia – – MENO PARKAS Kaunas, Dusseldorf – FRANCESCA MININI, Milano – GRAFICA MANZONI Torino – MARTINCIGH Udine – DANILO MONTANARI MASSIMO MININI Brescia – MOHSEN Tehran – MONITOR Roma, Lisbon, Ravenna Pereto – FRANCO NOERO Torino – NOME Berlin – ÖKTEM AYKUT Istanbul – P420 Bologna – ALBERTA PANE Paris, Venezia – PEOLA SIMONDI Torino – GIORGIO PERSANO Torino – PHOTO&CONTEMPORARY Torino, Milano – PI ARTWORKS London, Istanbul – PODBIELSKI CONTEMPORARY Milano – GREGOR PODNAR Berlin – POGGIALI Firenze, Milano, Pietrasanta – PROMETEOGALLERY Milano, Lucca – REPETTO London – MICHELA RIZZO Venezia – ROSENFELD London – ROSSI & ROSSI London, Hong Kong – LIA RUMMA Milano, Napoli – SMAC Cape Town, Johannesburg, Stellenbosch – SODA Bratislava – SPAZIOA Pistoia – Studio G7 Bologna – SUPRAINFINIT Bucharest – JIRI SVESTKA Prague – CATINCA TABACARU New York, Harare, Bucharest – THE GALLERY APART Roma – TUCCI RUSSO Torre Pellice, Torino – ISABELLE VAN DEN EYNDE Dubai – VIGATO Alessandria – VIN VIN Vienna – VISTAMARE/VISTAMARESTUDIO Pescara, Milano – WHATIFTHEWORLD Cape Town – HUBERT WINTER Vienna – ZILBERMAN Istanbul, Berlin

NEW ENTRIES A.ROMY Geneva – GIAN MARCO CASINI Livorno – CIBRIÁN San Sebastián – ALICE FOLKER Copenhagen – KAJETAN BERLIN Berlin – KOGO Tartu – L’ÉTRANGÈRE London – LAMBDALAMBDALAMBDA Prishtina – LEHMANN + SILVA Porto – FABIENNE LEVY Lausanne – BRITTA RETTBERG Munich –

Artissima srl Fondazione Torino Musei: a reality increasingly connected, The organisation of Artissima is overseen by Artissima srl, a company between past, orient and future affiliated with Fondazione Torino Musei, and formed in 2008 to manage Fondazione Torino Musei protects and manages the historical and artistic the fair’s artistic and commercial relations. The Artissima trademark legacy of the City of Turin: we are proud to be able to offer different belongs to Regione Piemonte, Città Metropolitana di Torino and Città perspectives on historical eras and apparently distant yet intensely di Torino. The 27th edition of Artissima takes place with the support of interconnected worlds. the three brand-owning authorities, jointly with Fondazione CRT, Our mission is to conserve this heritage and bring out its value. Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Fondazione The activities range from continuous research and updating to the display Compagnia di San Paolo and Camera di commercio di Torino. and communication of works, making them available for the experience of a constantly growing and varied audience. Our heartfelt thanks go to all the partners who have worked with us to The museums managed by the Foundation are Palazzo Madama - make the fair a reality. Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale and GAM – Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea; Fondazione Torino Official Partners: Intesa Sanpaolo, illycaffè, Juventus, Lauretana, Musei is the sole partner of Artissima s.r.l., the most important K-Way, FPT Industrial, Fondazione Sardi per l’Arte, international contemporary art fair in Italy. Piemonte Land of Perfection, Professional Trust Company, The foundation pays close attention to issues of accessibility and Tosetti Value - Il Family office, VANNI occhiali, VisitPiemonte, education, for children and young people of all ages and their families; it Turismo Torino e Provincia provides support for the development of artistic and curatorial projects on a regional level; it works with local and international businesses to foster Special Projects Partners: Jaguar Land Rover, Treccani, Combo, collaboration between cultural and entrepreneurial organisations; it Principi di Piemonte di UNA Esperienze, Torino Social Impact defines its cultural contents in relation to a perspective on the world that permits the development of its own heritage, programming and exporting In-kind Partners: 100x100factory, Carioca, Eataly, its exhibitions. Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, maradeiboschi, Pedrali, Palazzo Madama, MAO, GAM and Artissima are deeply connected Pininfarina Architecture, Torino Airport institutions, capable through their activities of triggering relations across Past, Orient and Future, precisely like the works they exhibit, to open a Art Mapping Piemonte Partner: Mondodelvino dialogue with and between the people they welcome into their midst. For all these reasons, we are convinced that art is the most ancient form Official Insurance: Art Defender Insurance of connection.

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THE SYNERGIES - institutional exhibitions around of space, body, exterior and interior, architecture and psychology, the city through the creations of 30 artists including Tauba Auerbach, James Casebere, Douglas Gordon, Alicja Kwade, Sharon Lockhart, Mark

Manders, Babette Mangolte, Paul McCarthy, Kelley Nipper. Artissima 2020 has been organised in synergy with the multiple cultural GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, besides the institutions operating in the region. Coordinated with the fair, Torino hosts exhibition of Artissima Unplugged, will host a major retrospective on an extensive calendar of exhibitions in museums, foundations and Helmut Newton, the exhibition Formless/Form: the Non-Objective Phase galleries. of Italian Photography 1935-1958, on Italian experimental photography from the end of the 1930s to the start of the 1960s, in the Wunderkammer, CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia presents the exhibition and the exhibition Alighiero Boetti, in collaboration with the Historical Paolo Ventura. Carousel, a path through the eclectic career of the artist, Archive of the Biennale, in VideotecaGAM. with some of the most evocative works of the last fifteen years of his MAO-Museo d’Arte Orientale, besides Artissima Unplugged, presents activity. The Project Room of CAMERA hosts Gianni Berengo Gardin the exhibition China goes urban: the city to come, curated by Politecnico and Olivetti, an exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest Italian di Torino, the result of years of research to offer a new perspective, photographers and produced by the Torino-based institution together putting the traditional culture of China into relation with the sweeping with Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti. transformations happening in Chinese cities today. Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with Museo Ettore Fico presents four exhibitions: Massimo Vitali with thirty Artissima, presents a solo exhibition by aaajiao, winner of the Premio illy works illustrating his artistic path from the beginning to today; John Present Future in 2019. It will also be possible to visit the solo exhibition Torreano with an anthology from the Sixties to 2020; Nebojša by , a protagonist of , and the major project Despotovic, a young Croatian Serbian artist who has created a Espressioni which includes the solo show by Anne Imhof, whose works scenographic installation for the occasion; and the exhibition Reinas investigate human subjectivity through relationships of gathering. Imhof’s featuring works by four of the most important women artists on the performances take place on 4, 6 and 7 October. Espressioni includes Sardinian scene: Zaza Calzia, Maria Lai, Lalla Lussu, Rosanna Rossi. historic works like the Narcissus by Caravaggio and Samson and OGR Torino presents the exhibition Unseen Stars by Trevor Paglen, Delilah by Artemisia Gentileschi, as well as contemporary works curated by Ilaria Bonacossa with Valentina Lacinio: an aerospace including the new social fresco made by Patrizio Di Massimo for the laboratory in which three “non-functional” reflecting satellites and a series vertical access system connecting the historical centre of Rivoli to the of elevated structures like scaffolding organize the space of Binario 1. Castle. Starting on 5 November, in Binario 2, visitors can see an important video Fondazione Merz celebrates 15 years of activity with Push the Limits, a work on the relationship between art and technology, in collaboration with group show featuring some of the most representative female voices in Artissima, for a dialogue with the work of Paglen in the context of the international artistic research, whose works address the concept of limits programme of Biennale Tecnologia, the festival organized by Politecnico and how to overcome them. Including works by Rosa Barba, Sophie di Torino. Calle, Katharina Grosse, Shilpa Gupta, Mona Hatoum, Jenny Holzer, For the fourth consecutive year in Torino, World Press Photo is the Barbara Kruger, Maria Papadimitriou, Fiona Tan. world’s leading exhibition on photojournalism, held at Palazzo Madama Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is also celebrating an in the Sala Senato. This edition contains 157 images made by the important anniversary, with 25 years of activity. For the occasion, visitors finalists, including the Japanese photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba who is can see Space Oddity. Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo the winner of the World Press Photo of the Year award for 2020. Palazzo Collection, an itinerary through a series of works that reflect on concepts Madama will also host the exhibition Artissima Unplugged.

PAV-Parco Arte Vivente presents Politics of Disaster. Gender, Environment, Religion, the first Italian solo exhibition on one of the most iconic and well-known artists from Indonesia. Nonconformist, blasphemous and transgressive, Arahmaiani has tackled, during thirty years of research, subjects such as gender and religion, the battles for social justice and ecology. On Thursday 5 November, Pinacoteca Agnelli will be reopened to the public, with its collection and new visiting hours.

The City of Torino with the Piedmont Region, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and Fondazione Comap continue their support for the initiatives of the month of contemporary art, including important events, exhibitions, fairs, performances, concerts, workshops, and light installations by artists. All the appointments of the calendar, in compliance with current health and safety regulations, will be promoted through the communication campaign of Contemporary Art Torino Piemonte. All the activities will be illustrated in the weeks to come at the website www.contemporaryarttorinopiemonte.it

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