With the project QUARTA RISONANZA, GAM in Turin continues its research on artistic languages, focusing in particular on drawing, sign and stroke: fundamental elements through which each artist notes visions, develops ideas and builds his or her creative process. In this sphere, paper asserts itself as a privileged support, configuring itself as an open space of experimentation, where it is possible to express oneself with great expressive freedom. Signs and strokes thus take on an immediate and spontaneous value, restoring the most authentic and vital dimension of the artistic gesture.
Within the FOURTH RESONANCE is the exhibition Another Twentieth Century. Works on Paper from the GAM Collections, which brings together for the first time a wide selection of works on paper from the 20th century preserved in the museum. The exhibition also includes the presence of theIntruder of this Resonance, Roman artist Pesce Khete, who, through the use of paper and techniques somewhere between drawing and painting, establishes a direct dialogue with the graphic materials in the collection.
The theme of the sign as engraving and trace is also found in the research of Vincenzo Agnetti, the protagonist of the exhibition Oggi è un secolo (Today is a Century), dedicated to the centenary of his birth and his experimentation with the photographic medium. At the same time, the project Lisetta Carmi takes shape in the spaces of the collection. Eroticism and Authoritarianism at Staglieno, which presents fifteen photographs that became part of GAM’s collection thanks to the Photography Strategy 2025 call.
The exhibition Un altro Novecento (Another Twentieth Century), curated by Fabio Cafagna and Elena Volpato (May 21-Nov. 1, 2026), offers for the first time an organic exhibition of twentieth-century works on paper belonging to GAM. It runs from the early years of the century, through the experiences of the Secession, to the artistic research of the 1990s. The selection includes more than six hundred works including drawings, watercolors, etchings, prints and paintings on paper, many acquired thanks to the support of the Guido and Ettore De Fornaris Foundation and the Fondazione Arte CRT, to offer a never-before-seen perspective on the last century and allow the public to enter the artists’ most intimate and free workshop.
GAM is also dedicating an exhibition to Vincenzo Agnetti, Oggi è un secolo (May 21-Nov. 1, 2026), curated by Chiara Bertola with Virginia Lupo and realized in collaboration with the Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti. The exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of one of the protagonists of Italian conceptual art in the second half of the 20th century. The project starts with the work Photo-graffia (1980), part of the museum’s collection and acquired in 2024 thanks to Fondazione Arte CRT, and presents a selection of works documenting the artist’s experimentation with the language of photography between the 1970s and 1980s.
The spaces of the Turin museum also host the exhibition Lisetta Carmi. Eroticism and Authoritarianism at Staglieno (May 21-Nov. 1, 2026), curated by Elena Volpato. The project introduces a nucleus of the artist’s photographs, made between 1966 and 1976 and recently acquired thanks to the Photography Strategy 2025 program promoted by the Ministry of Culture. The images are placed in dialogue with four sculptures from the GAM collection, selected from works of statuary from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Finally, the project The Intruder. Pesce Khete (May 21-Nov. 1, 2026), curated by Fabio Cafagna and Elena Volpato, invites the artist to include his own works within the exhibition itinerary of Un altro Novecento, creating unprecedented juxtapositions with works by such twentieth-century protagonists as Alberto Savinio, Luigi Spazzapan and Lucio Fontana. Among the Italian artists of his generation, Pesce Khete stands out for having chosen paper as the main support for his research. In the materiality of the sheet he identifies a space open to unexpected interventions, such as “seams” made with adhesive tape, but also a field marked by the presence of white, understood as silence to be preserved or interrupted.
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| Turin's GAM announces its Fourth Resonance: Novecento, Lisetta Carmi, Vincenzo Agnetti and Pesce Khete |
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