Torino Art Week: a guide to Torino Art Week 2021. What to see in the city

Off to Turin Art Week 2021: after the stop imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, one of the most anticipated weeks of the year returns with momentum. Here are all the must-see events during this week.

Flashback 2021

Former Dogali Barracks, Nov. 4-7

The 2021 edition of Flashback will be held Nov. 4-7 and will take place at the new location of the Dogali Barracks (known as the “Asti Street Barracks”). The fair reaches its ninth edition by adding a new piece to its narrative that is developed, from edition to edition, through a title or theme that is the new chapter of one big story put forth by the event itself. The theme chosen for the 9th edition is The Free Zone / La Zona Franca, that marginal but prejudice-free zone where art unfolds in all its power: the theme is deeply related to this historical moment and to the choice of the new venue. Read the preview here. Finestre Sull’Arte is at the fair: we look forward to seeing you at booth B-16.

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Artissima 2021

Oval Lingotto, Nov. 5-7

Artissima is back in attendance and preparing for its 28th edition, which will be held, still under the direction of Ilaria Bonacossa, from November 5 to 7, 2021. In 2020 the fair had been held only in digital form, and this year it will offer its audience a combination of physical and virtual. The venue is still the Oval in Turin, where the four historical sections of the fair, namely theMain Section, New Entries, Dialogue/Monologue and Art Spaces & Editions, will be set up again for this 2021. In addition, Artissima XYZ, the digital platform hosting the three curated sections from 2020, namely Present Future, Back to the Future and Drawings, will instead be visible online from Nov. 4 to 9, 2021, and physically in three group exhibitions set up in the fair pavilion.

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DAMA, 6th edition

Various venues, Oct. 30 to Nov. 7

The sixth edition of DAMA, an independent art fair that each year invites to Turin a group of international galleries called to relate to the city’s history, comes from an update of the exhibition project born in 2020, with theintent of integrating the videos and performances of the Live Program with the works of artists represented by their galleries, devising a heterogeneous exhibition itinerary that, from the fifth edition, was to take place through a meeting of languages ranging from sound, performance, video and sculptural works contaminated by a program of conversations, to accompany the public toward a wide-ranging vision. The program of this year’s edition is titled OPEN: in fact, the fair will take place in open spaces and cultural venues, to better integrate into the social fabric of the city, relating to some symbolic sites of Italy’s history, and in the courtyards of some historic palaces (the venues: Carignano Palace, Palazzo Chiablese, Libreria Luxemburg, Libreria Gilbert, Libreria La Bussola, Isola space).

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GAM’s new exhibitions

GAM, starting Nov. 3

Starting Nov. 3, GAM - Turin’s Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art) will be revamping its permanent contemporary art collections, presenting thirty-three major artists from the international art scene. A Borderless Collection, this is the title of the new installation curated by Riccardo Passoni, stems from the desire to give visibility to an important selection of works belonging to the museum’s contemporary collections: fifty-six works, many of which have never been exhibited to the public in recent years or for short periods.

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Factors. Masterpieces and Openings on the 1900s.

GAM, through March 20, 2022

An exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest artists in the history of Italian art, Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, 1825 - Florence, 1908). The exhibition is curated by Virginia Bertone (GAM’s chief conservator) and Silvestra Bietoletti (a great specialist in 19th-century Tuscan art), and brings to the public the works of an artist who was an original and innovative interpreter of the themes of the great battles of the Risorgimento, of subjects related to life in the fields, the rural landscape, and portraits. The exhibition displays more than sixty works by the great Tuscan artist, including large-format canvases, small tablets, and a selection of etchings (Fattori was in fact one of the great masters of engraving), and is composed of nine sections that recount forty years of the great Macchiaiolo’s parabola, from 1854 to 1894, thus precisely from the beginnings of macchia painting to his mature works, passing through fundamental chapters of the 1960s and 1970s. The title of the exhibition is due to the fact that Fattori’s mature works are able to provide openings to the upcoming twentieth century.

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Infinite Beauty. Landscape in Italy from Romantic painting to contemporary art.

Venaria Reale, through Jan. 9, 2022

The Reggia di Venaria Reale is hosting an exhibition entirely dedicated to the theme of nature conservation and environmental sustainability. Set up in the spaces of the Juvarra Citroniera, the exhibition brings together more than two hundred works, mostly paintings, but also sculptures and installations, documenting the attention and love that so many artists have had for the natural environment and specifically for the landscape in Italy, from early Romanticism to contemporary art. The exhibition was born thanks to an agreement between the Consortium of the Royal Residences of Savoy and the Fondazione Torino Musei, under which more than 90 works from GAM - Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino become the core of a review that also brings together masterpieces from Italy’s most important museums and prestigious private collections, in a tour of Italy of loans with paintings arriving from important institutions.

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Cyprus. Crossroads of Civilizations.

Royal Museums, through Jan. 9, 2022

The Sale Chiablese of the Royal Museums in Turin are hosting an exhibition dedicated to the millennial history of Cyprus, the heart of the Mediterranean and a bridge between East and West. Produced in collaboration with the University of Turin, with the patronage of the City of Turin and the Piedmont Region and the support of Fondazione CRT, Reale Mutua, Jubilee and Ribes Solutions. Curated by Luca Bombardieri, a professor at the University of Turin, and Elisa Panero, curator of the archaeological collections of the Royal Museums, the exhibition traces the ancient history of the mythical cradle of Aphrodite, a crossroads of trade and a landing place for different cultures in which the modern conception of the Mediterranean world was formed.

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Piero Simondo. Laboratory Situation Experiment

Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, through Jan. 9, 2022

The Talucchi Rotunda at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts is hosting the first in-depth monographic and retrospective look at the work of Piero Simondo (Cosio di Arroscia, 1928 - Turin, 2020), one of the founders of the Situationist International and particularly attached to the city of Turin, where the artist passed away on Nov. 6, 2020, and where his archive is still based. The exhibition is sponsored by the Simondo Archive and curated by Luca Bochicchio.

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Orazio Gentileschi. Two masterpieces in comparison

Sabauda Gallery, through Dec. 12, 2021

The Royal Museums of Turin are offering, on the second floor of the Galleria Sabauda, the opportunity to admire two masterpieces by Orazio Gentileschi in comparison: Saint Cecilia playing the spinet and an angel, on loan from the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia, and the Annunciation housed in the Royal Museums. The picture gallery, which was already enriched in 2018 thanks to two acquisitions by Carol Rama and Carlo Mollino, has been partly rearranged on the occasion of this new dossier exhibition, especially in reference to the context dedicated to Caravaggesque painters and the Lombard masters of the early 17th century.

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Antoine de Lonhy’s European Renaissance.

Palazzo Madama, through January 9, 2022

Curated by Simone Baiocco and Simonetta Castronovo for the Turin section and by Vittorio Natale for the Susa section (where it was held, at the Museo Diocesano, until Oct. 10), the exhibition aims to recompose the figure of Antoine de Lonhy, a multifaceted artist who played an important role in the renewal of the figurative landscape of the territory of present-day Piedmont in the second half of the 15th century. Lonhy was a painter, miniaturist, stained glass master, sculptor, and author of designs for embroidery. Coming into contact with Flemish, Mediterranean, and Savoyard culture, he was the bearer of a European conception of the Renaissance, characterized by the ability to synthesize different figurative languages. During his lifetime, the artist lived and worked in three different countries: originally from Autun, in Burgundy, he was trained in the texts of Flemish painting, among Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden. Before 1450 he was already in contact with one of the most extraordinary patrons of all time, the Duke of Burgundy’s chancellor Nicolas Rolin, and executed historiated stained glass windows for him, now lost.

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Martin Parr. We love sports

CAMERA - Italian Center for Photography, through Feb. 13, 2022

This is the major exhibition on sports in the shots of renowned photographer Martin Parr (Epsom, 1952). Martin Parr. We ❤ Sports intends to unite photography and sports through an extensive and ironic photographic journey, on the occasion of the first Turin edition of the Nitto ATP Finals, the finals of the ATP circuit where the eight strongest tennis players in the world will compete. Curated by Walter Guadagnini with Monica Poggi and realized in collaboration with Gruppo Lavazza, CAMERA’s institutional partner and historic supporter, and with Magnum Photos, the exhibition traces the career of the British photographer through 150 images dedicated to numerous sporting events, in particular devoted to the most relevant tennis tournaments of recent years.

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Eugenio Tibaldi. Temporary Landscape. Herbaria, Maps, Diaries.

PAV Living Art Park, through Feb. 27, 2022

Curated by Marco Scotini, the exhibition aims to focus on the graphic work of Eugenio Tibaldi, on the borderline between aesthetic representation, photography, architectural design and theoretical reflection. Eugenio Tibaldi’s research has always focused on the informal dynamics of space appropriation and attention to marginal territories; however, this solo show revolves around the graphic diary the artist produced during the pandemic, called Heidi, where the rejection of the rhetoric of an unspoiled nature is accompanied by the categorical rejection of the neoliberal and extractivist project that cannot be cured by a mythical lost world.

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Claudio Parmiggiani

GAM, through Feb. 6, 2022

Claudio Parmiggiani (Luzzara, 1943) is the protagonist of the fourth appointment of the exhibition cycle born from the collaboration between the Historical Archives of the Venice Biennale and the VideotecaGAM, aimed at witnessing the early season of Italian artist video. The exhibition, curated by Elena Volpato, presents Delocazione, the only video work made by Parmiggiani, produced by Art/Tapes/22 in Florence in 1974, along with two works that were capital in the development of his work, from the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia: the 1970 photographic print on panel Delocazione 2, and Autoritratto of 1979, a shadow silhouette brought back onto canvas, also a unique work in the artist’s career.

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We want it all

OGR, through Jan. 16, 2022

Set up in the spaces of OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni, this is an exhibition about work, between disillusionment and redemption. Curated by Samuele Piazza with Nicola Ricciardi, the exhibition aims to reflect on the transformation of work in the post-industrial and digital context, between consciousness and disillusionment, precariousness and redemption. Thirteen international artists will present their installations, sculptures, videos and performances inviting the public to observe the remnants of a recent industrial past and the ambivalences of new working conditions.

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Marinella Senatore. Make it shine

Mazzoleni Gallery, through Jan. 29, 2022

This is the first solo exhibition of Marinella Senatore (Cava de’ Tirreni, 1977) in a gallery in Turin, a city the Campania-based artist considers a “laboratory” of avant-garde, experimentalism and activism. Mazzoleni, who represents Marinella Senatore in Italy and Europe, intends to pay tribute to one of Italy’s most internationally renowned artists, who has found the dynamic of exchange and sharing to be the cornerstone of her artistic research. Pursuing a creative practice that pivots on the aesthetics of resistance and the transformative power of social engagement, Senatore creates multidisciplinary projects (in the last year alone in Berlin, Rome, Graz, Amsterdam and at the São Paulo Biennale) whose main characteristic lies in the relationship between the artist and the communities she involves.

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Fabio Viale. In Between

Royal Museums, through Jan. 9, 2022

Fabio Viale’s sculptures invade Turin’s Musei Reali: until Jan. 9, 2022, the Piedmontese artist’s sculptures are in fact on display in Piazzetta Reale and inside Palazzo Reale with the support of Galleria Poggiali, Viale’s gallery of reference. The exhibition, titled In Between, curated by Filippo Masino and Roberto Mastroianni, brings to the Royal Museums for the first time the monumental works of Fabio Viale, who has gained international notoriety thanks to his ability to transform marble.

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Otobong Nkanga. Ropes Curling Around Mountains.

Castello di Rivoli, through Jan. 30, 2022

This is the solo exhibition of Otobong Nkanga (Kano, Nigeria, 1974), one of the leading artists on the contemporary African scene: her research addresses urgent issues related to the ecological and environmental crisis, resource exploitation and sustainability by investigating histories of colonialism, its repercussions on the social fabric and new forms of material art. The exhibition, designed specifically for the rooms on the third floor of the Castello di Rivoli, is conceived as a large site-specific project. Drawing an unprecedented landscape, the installation includes irregularly shaped works-carpets inspired by minerals, such as quartz and malachite, whose healing properties have been known since antiquity.

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Torino Art Week: a guide to Torino Art Week 2021. What to see in the city

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