In the week when Turin becomes the capital of contemporary art, Luci d’Artista presents its big news: Swarms (Sciami), a new light installation by Chiara Camoni (Piacenza, 1974) located on the top floor of theGrattacieloPiemonte. The work, curated by Antonio Grulli and officially lit on Thursday, October 30 at 7:30 p.m., becomes part of the collection of the Turin project, consolidating the link between contemporary artistic research and the city’s urban landscape. The 28th edition of Luci d’Artista, which opened on Oct. 24, marks another step in the format’s transformation into a widespread, open-air museum. Camoni’s intervention, visible from miles away, transforms the top of the Piedmont Skyscraper into a luminous landmark in the cityscape.
The work stems from a desire to enhance the building, the institutional headquarters of the Region, and to introduce an unexpected element within its vertical architecture. The artist devised a composition of lights and scenic objects, including moving mirror spheres, which change color and direction, evoking the hypnotic motion of insect swarms. The title, Swarms, alludes precisely to these natural movements: glows reminiscent of the flight of fireflies or butterflies, light and indecipherable presences that seem to dance to the rhythm of silent music. Light thus becomes an instrument of narrative and poetic matter capable of uniting artifice and nature.
The work was created with the support of the Piedmont Region and the CRT Foundation, and represents the fifth new light presented in 2025, making this edition one of the richest in the event’s history. In fact, Swarmssiadds to the four works already inaugurated: Sex and Solitude, a large neon installation by Tracey Emindonatato the city by the Fondazione Arte CRT for its 25th anniversary; Mummer Love, a project conceived by Soundwalk Collective together with Patti Smith and Philip Glass for the courtyard of the OGR Torino; Riccardo Previdi’s light, created in collaboration with the Nitto ATP Finals; and Gintaras Didžiapetris’s intervention, supported by the Lithuanian Culture Institute. All works will be on view until January 11, 2026, confirming Luci d’Artista as one of the longest-running and internationally recognized public art exhibitions.
“A new light installation adds to the legacy of Luci d’Artista that transforms our city into an open-air museum of contemporary art every year,” says Stefano Lo Russo, Mayor of the City of Turin. “We are really very happy that the Piedmont Region wanted to become a partner of the initiative, now in its 28th edition, which the City of Turin and the Fondazione Torino Musei, thanks to the contribution of numerous sponsors, enrich every year with new works. Today marks the opening of the week of contemporary art in Turin, and there are many curious and passionate people from all over the world who will also come to admire our Luci D’Artista, while waiting for this year’s latest novelty, the light dedicated to the Nitto ATP Finals, which will illuminate Piazza San Carlo starting November 8.”
“We wanted a building that is a symbol of the city and Piedmont, such as the Skyscraper, home to all Piedmontese, to become the protagonist of Luci d’Artista,” say Piedmont Region President Alberto Cirio, Vice President Elena Chiorino and Councillors for Culture Marina Chiarelli and Heritage Gianluca Vignale. “With the installation of Swarms, the building is transformed into a stage of light that dialogues with the urban space and the city itself. The new work, turned on during the very days of Artissima, combines modernity and contemporary art, fitting into a path of cultural enhancement that makes Turin a national and international reference point. It is a clear signal: our city preserves and celebrates its historical and architectural heritage, but it also knows how to open up to the future, creativity and beauty in all its forms.”
“Fondazione CRT has always stood by Luci d’Artista, an event that unites art, public space and community,” says Anna Maria Poggi, president of Fondazione CRT. “We are proud to support this extraordinary project again this year, contributing to the lighting of Chiara Camoni’s new light on the Piedmont Skyscraper and thus inaugurating a collaboration that marks an important new stage for this appointment with art, which this year we have enriched with two new lights. In fact, together with Fondazione Arte CRT and OGR Torino, we have brought to Luci d’Artista two more works of international scope: the neon creation by Tracey Emin and the special project Mummer Love by Soundwalk Collective, featuring Patti Smith and Philip Glass. All these installations testify to Fondazione CRT’s desire to promote wonder, participation and innovation, projecting Turin and Piedmont among the European capitals of contemporary creativity.”
With the 2025 edition, Luci d’Artista continues the path of renewal started in 2023, when the City of Turin entrusted the management to Fondazione Torino Musei. The goal is to transform the initiative into a true institution of artistic research, a museum of light with its own identity, ongoing programming and international relations. The new course, led by Antonio Grulli, has introduced an autonomous curatorial direction, a coordinated visual identity, an official logo and a website tracing the history of the event. The idea is to transcend seasonal and city boundaries, expanding the project’s notoriety and enjoyment in a national and international context.
“As part of an extraordinary twenty-eighth edition of Luci d’Artista, we were able to create and present, on the occasion of Artissima, an important fifth Light entrusted to one of the most relevant Italian artists, Chiara Camoni, a leading artist in the Italian Pavilion of the next Biennale,” says the President of Fondazione Torino Musei, Massimo Broccio. “This Light was conceived specifically for one of the city’s new landmarks, the Region’s skyscraper, and realized thanks to the support of the Piedmont Region together with the CRT Foundation. This intervention is a demonstration of the full harmony between our institutions and of how Turin and Piedmont are the place of choice for contemporary art in Italy. Luci d’Artista, with its new course being progressively consolidated, confirms its role as a fundamental public art project for the community and collective space, understood as a meeting place.”
"Swarms(Sciami) is a magical light, in which the natural and the artificial are inseparably mixed,“ says Luci d’Artista curator Antonio Grulli ”Chiara Camoni is one of the few artists of today still able to create enchantment, to bring people into another dimension charged with meaning. The work from a technical point of view is also extremely intriguing because of the way she manages to experiment using technologies rarely applied to contemporary art. It is a very simple idea from which an effect of environmental and landscape scale arises."
With this in mind, Luci d’Artista is now articulated in a structured format that includes the Main Collection, the territorial and national network called Constellation, the Duet international exchange program, a well-articulated communication plan, new social profiles and a permanent restoration program. TheAcademy of Light, created in collaboration with the educational departments of Turin’s museums, is also active. The project, an asset of the City of Turin, is implemented by Fondazione Torino Musei with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione CRT. Partners include the Piedmont Region, Fondazione Arte CRT, OGR Turin, the Council for the Enhancement of the Artistic and Cultural Heritage of Turin, Unione Industriali Torino, Nitto ATP Finals, Lithuanian Culture Institute and NeonLauro. Main sponsor is the Iren Group.
Chiara Camoni, born in Piacenza in 1974, lives and works in Fabbiano, Alta Versilia. Her practice crosses different languages, from drawing to plant printing, from video to sculpture, with a predilection for ceramics and natural materials. He uses herbs, berries, clay and ashes, which in his hands take on symbolic and ritual values. His research is based on gestures that evoke ancient traditions, combining the craft dimension with spiritual reflection. Camoni often works in collaboration with friends, family and colleagues, involving temporary communities in the creation of the works. With Cecilia Canziani he conceived the seminar cycle La giusta misura, and with the Experimentation Center he develops collective projects that reflect a shared idea of authorship. In recent years he has exhibited in international institutions such as Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, Manifesta 15 in Barcelona, GAM in Turin, CAPC in Bordeaux, Palazzo Bentivoglio in Bologna, and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in the United Kingdom. In 2026 he will represent Italy at the National Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, confirming the prominence of his research in the contemporary scene.
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