Pinacoteca Agnelli's new projects: installations, exhibitions, performances and events

Pinacoteca Agnelli inaugurates new projects. From November 2, 2022 to February 5, 2023, the exhibition Tiepolo x Starling, the second installment of Beyond the Collection, will be on view in the permanent collection spaces. Four new installations by Liam Gillick, Marco Giordano, and Nan Goldin, SUPERFLEX under the curatorship of Sarah Cosulich and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, will then be added to the exhibition on Runway 500. During the days of Artissima, the Art Gallery’s program also includes the performance All Fours by Nina Beier and Bob Kil on the Runway 500 and the launch of the special catalog accompanying the exhibition Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On still in progress. Pinacoteca Agnelli is also participating in Contemporary Art Week with a full calendar of events and a collaborative relationship with both the Artissima fair and the C2C international festival.

Tiepolo x Starling

From Wednesday, November 2, 2022 to Sunday, February 5, 2023 Pinacoteca Agnelli presents the second edition of Beyond the Collection entitled Tiepolo x Starling. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ’s work Alabardiere in un paesaggio, preserved at Pinacoteca Agnelli, becomes the starting point for British artist Simon Starling ’s (Epsom, England, 1967) exhibition project in the spaces of the collection. Continuing a research begun in 2019, the artist imagines reuniting the canvas with its missing part: The Finding of Moses. Through photography, sculpture and installation, Starling rereads the narrative of Tiepolo’s painting and identifies in the cutting of the canvas a metaphor with the history of the context and the collection that houses it. The project is enriched by the presence of other Tiepolo works on loan from national and international collections, which offer new keys to interpreting The Halberdier in a Landscape.

With the exhibition project Beyond the Collection, with each new exhibition project one of the twenty-five works of the Agnelli Collection becomes the focus of new narratives aimed at rereading the historical heritage of the permanent collection in relation to contemporary issues. Through the involvement of contemporary artists and loans from national and international institutions, the Beyond the Collection projects intend to establish dialogues capable of reflecting on the presences as well as the absences of the collection, to bring out forgotten stories and figures and develop narratives that can challenge canonical readings of art history.

New installations on the Runway 500

The Pista 500, the iconic FIAT car test track on the roof of the Lingotto, is enriched with new site-specific installations featuring works by Liam Gillick, Marco Giordano, Nan Goldin and SUPERFLEX. The projects join existing works by Nina Beier, VALIE EXPORT, Sylvie Fleury, Shilpa Gupta, Louise Lawler, Mark Leckey and Cally Spooner.

In line with the idea of continuing to engage with the architecture of the former FIAT factory, the installations on the roof of the Lingotto accompany the public on a journey along the circularity of the runway, which from a closed circuit becomes an open garden. The works intend to deepen the relationship with the street and its fruition in movement: the installation on the ramp by Liam Gillick, the special road signs by Marco Giordano, the billboard with Nan Goldin’s photography, and the SUPERFLEX sign take possession of the imagery characteristic of the urban context and trigger a reflection on the languages of public space today. The works on Runway 500 embrace different languages of sculpture: environmental installations, light or sound works, expanded cinema projects, and sculptures that confront the architecture of the building.

Curated by Sarah Cosulich and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, the project offers plural perspectives on public art, always hosting new works. The idea is to create an outdoor exhibition that develops over time as well as space, with unprecedented dialogues between the works on display, the street and garden that host them, and the surrounding landscape. The Pista 500 project is enriched by the collaboration of iGuzzini illuminazione as inkind sponsor for the lighting of the installations on the Pista 500 and Drivalia, the new rental and mobility company of the FCA Bank Group, as green mobility partner.

Nina Beier and Bob Kil’s performance on the Pista 500

The Lingotto’s rooftop exhibition project is also enriched by Nina Beier and Bob Kil’s performance from Wednesday, November 2 to Sunday, November 6, 2022 on the Runway 500 every hour from 4:30 p.m. until closing time. Beier and Kil’s performance titled All Fours aims to transform and reactivate Nina Beier’s sculpture The Guardians, already installed on the Runway. The five lying marble lions are brought to a standing position and ridden silently by five performers-a choreography that reverses the symbols of power represented in city monuments.

Sylvie Fleury’s publication. Turn Me On

Presentation on November 4 at 6 p.m. at Book Corner by Librerie Corraini at Artissima

On the occasion of Artissima, Pinacoteca Agnelli is launching the catalog accompanying the exhibition Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On. The publication is intended to be an ambitious publishing project that reproduces a fashion magazine, a central object in the artist’s practice. The launch will be held at the Book Corner by Librerie Corraini at Artissima on Friday, November 4, at 6 p.m. The meeting, introduced by Sarah Cosulich and moderated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, curators of the exhibition, will feature a dialogue between Liam Gillick, artist, Rosalind McKever, curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Mariuccia Casadio, art critic.

Between an artist’s project and a critical anthology of Fleury’s work, the magazine explores the main themes of her work through contributions from international authors who engage with features, essays, interviews, fashion spreads and an ever-present horoscope. Designed by RADL and published by Corraini, the publication also brings together previously unpublished materials from Fleury’s archives, exclusive backstage footage of her projects, and full documentation of the exhibition Turn Me On.

Sylvie Fleury’s exhibition, which inaugurated the new course of the Pinacoteca Agnelli, confronts contemporary mechanisms of desire production and value construction, and on their interaction with gender politics. Objects, symbols and imagery from the fields of fashion, cinema, pop subcultures, Formula 1 racing, science fiction and contemporary art of the 1960s and 1970s are absorbed into Fleury’s post-feminist vocabulary and employed to construct unexpected narratives that expose the structural biases of contemporary society.

Programming at Pinacoteca Agnelli has the support of FIAT as main partner.

For info: https://www.pinacoteca-agnelli.it/

Image: The Track 500, Nan Goldin, Monopoly Game, New York, 1980, Photo by Sebastiano Pellion di Persano. Credit Installation view Pinacoteca Agnelli Torino

Pinacoteca Agnelli's new projects: installations, exhibitions, performances and events

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