Artissima, Fondazione CRT purchases ten new works for Castello di Rivoli and GAM in Turin

The Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT has purchased ten new works by seven different artists for its collection as part of the international fair Artissima 2022. The works thus become part of the collection that the Foundation has been enriching for years, making it visible to the public. They are important works by Klaus Rinke, Rossella Biscotti, and Pietro Moretti that will join the permanent collection of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, while the four works by Claudia Losi, Francesco Gennari, Simone Forti, and Nicolò Cecchella will go to the halls of GAM - Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna di Torino. Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, an instrumental entity of Fondazione CRT, has been a partner of the international fair Artissima for 20 years.

"Once again this year, Fondazione Arte CRT confirms its support for Artissima," says Luisa Papotti, president of Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, “through a process of acquisition from the galleries present at the fair of works destined for the permanent collections of the museums: works chosen by the directors according to criteria of coherence with their own collections, shared with the Foundation’s Scientific Committee, which will allow the two museums to increase, but above all to keep alive and authentically contemporary, the collections themselves.”

The works are all exhibited to the public through loans on loan to the two museums, which manage their exhibition and lending to other museum institutions.

The works acquired for the benefit of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art.

"The new acquisitions for the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemp oranea increase the Collection in line with the Museum’s commitment to developments in national and international art, from the mid-1960s to the present, paying attention to both established artists and younger generations. In dialogue with the important Arte Povera nucleus, one of the acquisitions brings to an Italian museum for the first time a work by the Düsseldorf Group artist Klaus Rinke (1939), entitled Durchs Bild Format gehen von rechts nach links(Through the picture format going from right to left), 1972. The unique work has an important exhibition history, and was exhibited at MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1974. A second acquisition is the work by Italian artist Rossella Biscotti (1978), Trees on Land, 2021, which refers to the xylella fastidiosa epidemic that has severely damaged olive trees in Puglia since 2013. The four amphorae of clay mixed with ashes from burned trees go to make up a large installation. Finally, further acquisition concerns the debutant artist Pietro Moretti (1996), whose painting of expressionist ascendancy recounts the fragility of the present moment. By Moretti is acquired La visita, un’altra visita, 2022, a generously sized canvas whose subject describes a scene in the hospital connoting it with features reminiscent of Kafkaesque atmospheres rendered with acidic, non-naturalistic colors," commented Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, director of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art.

The works acquired for the benefit of GAM - Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna di Torino

"With the acquisitions at Artissima 2022, GAM aims to enrich the collection of the Fondazione per l’Arte CRT and the museum’s collection of works by authors who represent the best of internationally known Italian art, ensuring the presence of rare historical works and recent works, taking care to weave meaningful relationships with the already acquired heritage. Simone Forti’s 1972 historical series, Illuminations (Illuminazioni), will join the 1973 video by the same artist, already in the CRT collection. Arazzo, by Claudia Losi, enters the collection as a living work, begun in 1995 and still in the making. The museum will welcome the artist annually for it to continue its embroidery according to a seasonal rhythm. Francesco Gennari’sSelf-Portrait on Mint, from 2020, will join the sculpture by the same artist in the collection, going to compose a double presence, metaphysical and figurative together. Finally, with the desire to give fair representation to the research of younger artists, GAM has selected the work Marsia 2017-2022 by Nicolò Cecchella, which has the strength to rethink and reactualize the ancient technique of the cast," said Riccardo Passoni, director of GAM- Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna di Torino.

Image: Rossella Biscotti, Trees on land (2021; set of 4 unique art jars handmade with terracotta and ash, 60 X 60 x 100 cm each; mor charpentier, Paris and Bogota). Photo by Perottino-Piva-Peirone / Artissima

Artissima, Fondazione CRT purchases ten new works for Castello di Rivoli and GAM in Turin

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