INDEX
General Press Release
The Galleries
Main Section
New Entries
Back to the Future
Present Future
Other initiatives at the fair
Con/Text
Art Editions
Book Corner
Meeting Point
Exhibiting Museums
Art Walks
Talks Calendar (Meeting Point, Book Corner)
Collateral projects
It’s Not the End of the World
Artissima / Palazzo Madama
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Fondazione Merz
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
LIDO
Museo Diffuso della Resistenza / 98weeks, Beirut
Museo di Antichità / Auto Italia South East, London
Archivio di Stato (Sezioni Riunite) / Irmavep Club, Paris
Museo della Sindone / Public Fiction, Los Angeles
MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale / SOMA, Mexico City
Artissima 2012
Sarah Cosulich Canarutto
Practical Information
ARTISSIMA 2012
International Fair of Contemporary Art
8 November 2012
9-10-11 November 2012
Press view, preview and vernissage
Open to the public
Oval, Lingotto Fiere, Torino
Artissima 2012, International Fair of Contemporary Art, will be held at the OVAL, Lingotto Fiere in Torino,
from Friday 9 to Sunday 11 November under the artistic direction of Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, who was
appointed last February.
This upcoming edition of the fair will feature many new initiatives, while preserving continuity with the
strengths which have contributed to consolidate its specific identity, and thus its prominent place on the
national and international calendar.
In 2012, Artissima plans to bolster its identity as a special showcase for research and experimentation,
while widening internationally and continuing to build on quality. This year’s fair promises to be a unique
event, due to the outstanding selection of galleries, but also to the new ways in which its sphere of activity
has been extended from the Oval out into the city and its surroundings.
This year, the project conceived by Sarah Cosulich Canarutto includes an innovative collateral programme
of exhibitions in collaboration with the city’s leading cultural institutions, and a twin initiative in town.
These two ambitious, synergetic projects are geared toward expanding the exhibition programme of local
museums and foundations, strengthening and highlighting the vitality of Torino’s cultural life, while boosting
the visibility of Artissima with public and collectors.
In 2012, Artissima’s priority is to respond to the difficulties facing the art market by forging specific contacts
with a larger number of highly-qualified visitors and encouraging acquisitions at the fair: 180 major
international collectors, some of them from countries with an emerging role in the art world, such as
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, will be hosted in town by the fair.
THE FAIR
SECTIONS
In 2012 Artissima will be presenting 172 galleries (53 from Italy and 119 from abroad), divided into four
sections. There will be an increased number of foreign galleries, especially from new countries such as
Brazil, Guatemala, Iceland, Israel, Morocco and Eastern Europe.
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Main Section, which brings together the most representative galleries from the international art
scene, chosen by the Selection Committee. The section includes 96 galleries from Italy, the US,
South America, Asia and the Middle East selected among the best-established names worldwide.
New Entries, devoted to the most interesting young galleries – active from less than five years – that
are being presented for the first time at Artissima. This year the Selection Committee has admitted
32 galleries from 17 countries. During the fair, an international jury will assign the Guido Carbone
Prize to the young gallery whose programme and booth presentation reveals the strongest
commitment to experimentation and the promotion of young artists.
Present Future, which for twelve years now has served as important showcase for the latest artistic
approaches and talents. Focusing on 20 emerging artists invited by a team of young international
curators and presented by their galleries, this section has been created in partnership with illycaffè.
The illy Present Future Prize will be awarded by a special jury consisting of four important museum
directors and curators, who will choose the winner. As from this year the prize will offer the selected
artist the opportunity to exhibit his/her works at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art on
the occasion of Artissima 2013.
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Back to the Future, a section dedicated to artists active in the ’60s and ’70s who are not always
well known to the general public general, yet have played a significant role in the history of art. The
artists have been proposed and selected by a Curatorial Committee composed by four directors of
prominent international institutions. Back to the Future, which since its first year has aroused great
interest among galleries, collectors and the press, will be presenting museum-quality solo projects by
19 artists from 17 galleries.
Art Editions, a new section for 2012, presents a selection of five spaces dedicated to art editions in
a special area of the fair.
CON/TEXT
This year Artissima introduces Con/TEXT, a totally new platform conceived to enhance the visitor
experience: this large space dedicated to publishers, magazines and art editions, together with the bookshop
and book corner, offers the public a unique way of inhabiting the fair, by reading, interacting and sharing
ideas and points of view.
ART WALKS / ART QUESTIONS
Another area of Artissima is dedicated to the Art Walks, a challenging initiative of guided tours held by
collectors and curators. They will lead groups of visitors through their own personal exploration of the fair, in
search for particular works, different approaches, themes and expressive languages.
Also this year Artissima has developed three main Art Questions, based on three topical issues in
contemporary art, and has invited a number of outstanding representatives of the art world to partake in the
discussion: museum directors, curators, critics and artists.
COLLATERAL PROJECTS
In 2012, the Artissima collateral projects will take place in the city.
It’s Not the End of the World has forged a partnership between Artissima and Torino’s leading
contemporary art institutions, who have come together to build a joint exhibition project.
LIDO features five experimental exhibition projects that wind through museums and unconventional spaces
of the Quadrilatero Romano district.
IT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
Artissima 2012 is presenting an exclusive new programme of curatorial events in collaboration with Torino’s
leading contemporary art institutions: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, GAM Galleria
Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Fondazione Merz, and Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo. It’s Not the End of the World includes five different exhibition projects – produced by
Artissima and curated by each of the participating museums and institutions. Artissima’s project will be
hosted in the extraordinary venue of Palazzo Madama – a historic building that now houses the collections of
Turin’s Museum of Ancient Art.
The title, It’s Not the End of the World is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Maya prophecy for December
2012 and a positive rejoinder to the difficulties that culture faces today. The joint project tackles with today’s
society through exhibitions, video installations and performances by five well-known international artists:
Ruin – Politics by Dan Perjovschi at Palazzo Madama for Artissima; Tulkus 1880 to 2018 by Paola Pivi at
Castello di Rivoli; Homeless Paradise by Valery Koshlyakov at GAM; Beirut, I Love You – A Work in
Progress by Zena el Khalil at Fondazione Merz; The End–Venezia by Ragnar Kjartansson at Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. All the exhibitions will remain on view for about two months, thus extending far
beyond the fair duration.
ARTISSIMA LIDO
The second part of the collateral programme offers a new edition of Artissima LIDO, an initiative dedicated to
young experimental art, conceived for the characteristic setting of the Quadrilatero Romano district, in the
historic centre of Torino. Artissima has invited five alternative art spaces from around the world to propose
experimental shows that forge a dialogue with the peculiar identity of five museums and institutions in the
neighbourhood: the Archivio di Stato (National Archives), MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale (Museum of Oriental
Art), Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà (Museum of
Resistance, Deportation, War, Human Rights and Freedom), Museo della Sindone (Museum of the Holy
Shroud), and Museo di Antichità (Antiquities Museum). The non-profit organizations involved are: 98weeks
(Beirut), Auto Italia South East (London), Irmavep Club (Paris), Public Fiction (Los Angeles), and SOMA
(Mexico City).
The programme, organized into a series of site-specific shows, installations, videos and performances, will
complement the fair by offering the city and visitors to Artissima dynamic and stimulating exhibitions. This
initiative is also meant to boost the visibility of Italian artists and encourage cultural exchange, since each of
the alternative spaces invited to participate has been asked to host a project by an Italian artist in their
respective cities.
ARTISSIMA is a brand name of Regione Piemonte, Provincia di Torino and Città di Torino. On behalf of
these three authorities, it is promoted by Fondazione Torino Musei, which has been set up by the City of
Torino to foster and promote its artistic and museum heritage. The nineteenth edition of ARTISSIMA has
been made possible thanks to the support of the three brand-owning authorities, together with Camera di
commercio di Torino, Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
CRT.
The organization of ARTISSIMA is manged by Artissima srl.
Artissima is made possible thanks to the support of:
Main Partner:
Partner:
In-kind Sponsor:
Media Coverage:
UniCredit
Fiat, illycaffè, Iren, Lauretana, Lonmart
CarloAngela, Exclusive Brands Torino, Ferrero Rocher, l’Eclettico, Robe di Kappa,
Tisettanta
SKY Arte HD
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ARTISSIMA 2012: THE GALLERIES
SELECTION COMMITTEE
The Selection Committee of Artissima is responsible for the selection of the galleries taking part in MAIN
SECTION and NEW ENTRIES.
The Selection Committee is composed by:
Daniele Balice, BaliceHertling, Paris
Isabella Bortolozzi, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Mario Cristiani, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulin
Casey Kaplan, Casey Kaplan, New York
Peter Kilchmann, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Norma Mangione, Norma Mangione Gallery, Torino
Gregor Podnar, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Ljubljana
MAIN SECTION
This section includes a selection of some of the most representative galleries on the international art scene.
96 galleries from 21 different countries (44 from Italy e 52 from abroad) have been selected for Main
Section:
1/9 UNOSUNOVE, Roma, Milano, 401, Berlin, A PALAZZO, Brescia, SAMY ABRAHAM, Paris, AMT,
Bratislava, CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, Copenhagen, ANNEX14, Bern, ARTERICAMBI, Verona, ALFONSO
ARTIACO, Napoli, ENRICO ASTUNI, Bologna, BALICEHERTLING, Paris, BOLTELANG, Zurich,
BONOMO, Bari, Roma, ISABELLA BORTOLOZZI, Berlin, BRAVERMAN, Tel Aviv, BUGADA &
CARGNEL, Paris, CARDI BLACK BOX, Milano, CARLINA, Torino, CHARIM, Vienna, CIRCUS, Berlin,
CONTINUA, San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulin, RAFFAELLA CORTESE, Milano, GUIDO COSTA, Torino,
HILARY CRISP, London, ELLEN DE BRUIJNE, Amsterdam, MONICA DE CARDENAS, Milano, Zuoz,
MASSIMO DE CARLO, Milano, London, TIZIANA DI CARO, Salerno, UMBERTO DI MARINO, Napoli,
ELASTIC, Malmö, KONRAD FISCHER, Berlin, Düsseldorf, FOKSAL, Warsaw, HONOR FRASER, Los
Angeles, FRUIT & FLOWER DELI, Stockholm, GENTILI, Prato, GREEN ON RED, Dublin, GIACOMO
GUIDI, Roma, REINHARD HAUFF, Stuttgart, HOLLYBUSH GARDENS, London, ANDREAS HUBER,
Vienna, HUSSENOT, Paris, I8, Reykjiavik, IBID, London, IN ARCO, Torino, INVERNIZZI, Milano,
KALFAYAN, Athens, Thessaloniki, CASEY KAPLAN, New York, PETER KILCHMANN, Zurich, KLEMM'S,
Berlin, KRINZINGER, Vienna, LAVERONICA, Modica, LE GUERN, Warsaw, LETO, Warsaw, JOSH
LILLEY, London, LISSON, London, Milano, MAGAZZINO, Roma, NORMA MANGIONE, Torino,
FRANCESCA MININI, Milano, MASSIMO MININI, Brescia, MONITOR, Roma, MOTINTERNATIONAL,
London, MARK MÜLLER, Zurich, Vienna, NÄCHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER,
Vienna, FRANCO NOERO, Torino, LORCAN O'NEILL, Roma, OPDAHL, Stavanger, Berlin, OREDARIA,
Roma, FRANCESCO PANTALEONE, Palermo, PARROTTA, Stuttgart, Berlin, ALBERTO PEOLA, Torino,
PERES, Berlin, GIORGIO PERSANO, Torino, PHOTO&CONTEMPORARY, Torino, PHOTOLOGY, Milano,
PIKTOGRAM/BLA, Warsaw, PINKSUMMER, Genova, GREGOR PODNAR, Berlin, Ljubljana,
PROMETEOGALLERY, Milano, Lucca, RIBORDY, Geneva, LIA RUMMA, Milano, Napoli, S.A.L.E.S.,
Roma, SAKS, Geneva, SCHAU ORT. CHRISTIANE BÜNTGEN, Zurich, FEDERICA SCHIAVO, Roma,
ESTHER SCHIPPER, Berlin, SUZY SHAMMAH, Milano, SPAZIOA, Pistoia, SPROVIERI, London, SUPER
WINDOW, Bordeaux, Kyoto, CATERINA TOGNON, Venezia, TRIUMPH, Moscow, TUCCI RUSSO, Torre
Pellice, TIM VAN LAERE, Antwerp, FEDERICO VAVASSORI, Milano, VISTAMARE, Pescara, MARTIN
VAN ZOMEREN, Amsterdam.
NEW ENTRIES
This section showcases an important selection of young international galleries – with less than five years of
activity – taking part in Artissima for the first time.
32 galleries from 17 different countries (3 from Italy e 29 from abroad) have been selected for the New
Entries section:
ATHR, Jeddah, BENDANA | PINEL, Paris, JOHAN BERGGREN, Malmö, THOMAS BRAMBILLA, Bergamo,
COLE, London, CRYSTAL, Stockholm, DUKAN HOURDEQUIN, Paris, EXILE, Berlin, FRUTTA, Roma,
FURINI, Roma, CHRISTOPHE GAILLARD, Paris, JEANINE HOFLAND, Amsterdam, KOLONIE, Warsaw,
DIANE KRUSE, Hamburg, LABORATORIO, Prague, EMANUEL LAYR, Vienna, MAX MAYER, Düsseldorf,
ANI MOLNÁR, Budapest, PM8, Vigo, JÉRÔME POGGI, Paris, RECEPTION, Berlin, ROTWAND, Zurich,
MARION SCHARMANN, Cologne, SCHWARZ, Berlin, SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin, JOSEPH TANG, Paris,
TEMNIKOVA & KASELA, Tallinn, TEMPO RUBATO, Tel Aviv, TORRI, Paris, RACHEL UFFNER, New York,
VOICE, Marrakech, WORKS|PROJECTS, Bristol
This year New Entries features the presence of galleries coming from cities and countries represented at the
fair for the first time, such as Jeddah, Vigo, Bristol, Tallinn, Tel Aviv, Marrakech, confirming the vitality of the
international contemporary art scene.
During Artissima an international jury of renowned directors will assign the Guido Carbone Prize for New
Entries, set up in 2006 to award the gallery proposing the most interesting and challenging exhibition project
and programme.
Guido Carbone Award Jury – ARTISSIMA 2012
Rodrigo Moura, Deputy Director of Art and Cultural Programs, Inhotim, Minas Gerais
Nicolaus Schafhausen, Artistic Director, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Laura Viale, Artist, permanent member representing the family of Guido Carbone, Torino
Hamza Walker, Director of Education, The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Chicago.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Back to the Future is a very unique section dedicated to solo presentations of works of the 1960s and ’70s
by relevant artists who are not always well-known to the general public. The works are displayed in solo
exhibition projects of museum quality that highlight these artists’ fundamental influence on the younger
generations and on the development of contemporary art.
Back to the Future, that was created in 2010, is now part of Artissima identity and of its commitment to young
and experimental art. The section itself can be considered “new”, for the innovating role of these artists in the
art scene and the continuing relevance of their work in art today.
This year the Curatorial Committee which has both proposed and selected the artists in the section is
composed by renowned curators and museums directors:
Jan Hoet, Scholar and Independent Curator, Brussels
Vasif Kortun, Director, SALT, and Founding Director, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
Joanna Mytkowska, Director, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Vicente Todolì, Art Advisor Hangar Bicocca, Milano (from 2013)
19 galleries (6 Italian and 13 from abroad) coming from 8 different countries are taking part in the section:
GUGLIELMO ACHILLE CAVELLINI, WUNDERKAMMERN, Roma; HANNE DARBOVEN, CRONE, Berlin;
MARIO DAVICO, BIANCONI, Milano; VALIE EXPORT, CHARIM, Vienna; PIERO FOGLIATI, GAGLIARDI
ART SYSTEM, Torino; POUL GERNES, BJERGGAARD, Copenhagen; JAROSŁAW KOZŁOWSKI,
PROFILE, Warsaw; MARIA LASSNIG, BARBARA GROSS, Munich; ARNOLD ODERMATT, SPRINGER
BERLIN, Berlin; GINA PANE, L'ELEFANTE, Treviso; WALTER PFEIFFER, SULTANA, Paris; JÓZEF
ROBAKOWSKI, PROFILE, Warsaw; ROMAN SIGNER, HÄUSLER, Munich, Zurich; KEITH SONNIER,
HÄUSLER, Munich, Zurich; VITTORIO TAVERNARI, MASSIMO MININI, Brescia; ERWIN THORN, GEORG
KARGL, Vienna; FRANCO VACCARI, P420, Bologna; JOSIP VANISTA, FRANK ELBAZ, Paris;
CONSTANTIN XENAKIS, KALFAYAN, Athens, Thessaloniki
The Back to the Future section is enriched by the presence of three antiquarian bookstores proposing
catalogues, books, unique editions on artists from the ’60s and ’70s:
L’ARENGARIO STUDIO BIBLIOGRAFICO, Gusago BS; LIBRERIA ANTIQUARIA FREDDI, Torino;
GIORGIO MAFFEI, Torino.
PRESENT FUTURE
The long partnership between illycaffè and Artissima continues once again, for the twelve year running, with
Present Future. This special section of the fair devoted to international emerging art has established itself
over the years as a successful launching pad for the latest generation of talented artists.
Present Future features 20 emerging artists invited by a team of young and very active curators coming from
the US, Switzerland, Colombia, Egypt, and Italy. The artists, each presented by his/her respective gallery in
a dedicated exhibition area at the entrance of the fair’s pavilion, propose new projects created for the event
offering the public an exclusive preview of the newest art trends.
During Artissima, a jury of museum directors will be assigning the illy Present Future Award, now in its
twelfth year, to the most significant project. As from this year, the prize will give the artist the opportunity to
exhibit his/her work at Castello di Rivoli Contemporary Art Museum on the occasion of Artissima 2013.
Also, the winner will have the opportunity to present a proposal for the “illy Art Collection” of auteur coffee
cups.
For almost twenty years now, illycaffè has been actively committed to the promotion of contemporary art,
giving its support to international exhibitions and artists. One result of this undertaking is the Present Future
illy Award, which over the years has proved to be an exceptional breeding ground of talent. This can be seen
in the names of many artists, such as Phil Collins, Mateo Tannatt, Patricia Esquivias, Luca Francesconi,
Shizuka Yokomizo, Padraig Timoney, Michael Beutler, Melanie Gilligan, and Dina Danish, who are all past
winners of the Award and who are now internationally established and acclaimed.
Curatorial Committee Present Future – ARTISSIMA 2012
Luigi Fassi, (Coordinator) Visual Art Curator, Steirischer Herbst, Graz
Erica Cooke, Independent Curator, New York
Fredi Fischli, Curator, Studiolo, Zurich
Inti Guerrero, Artistic Director and Associate Curator, Teor/ética, San José, Costa Rica
Sarah Rifky, Independent Curator, Cairo
Jury of the illy Present Future Award – ARTISSIMA 2012
Matthew Higgs, Director, White Columns, New York
Beatrice Merz, Director, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino
Gregor Muir, Executive Director, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Beatrix Ruf, Director, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Artists and Galleries at Present Future – ARTISSIMA 2012
MERIS ANGIOLETTI, SCHLEICHER/LANGE, Paris, Berlin, STUART BAILES, EDEL ASSANTI, London,
STÉPHANE BARBIER BOUVET, GRAFF MOURGUE D'ALGUE, Geneva, SAM FALLS, INTERNATIONAL
ART OBJECTS, Los Angeles, ZACHARY FORMWALT, D + T PROJECT, Brussels, RACHEL FOULLON,
LDT LOS ANGELES, Los Angeles, ANNA K.E., FIGGE VON ROSEN, Cologne, Berlin, LEE KIT, VITAMIN,
Guangzhou, EMIL MICHAEL KLEIN, GAUDEL DE STAMPA, Paris, BASIM MAGDY, NEWMAN
POPIASHVILI, New York, ALEXANDER MASSOURAS, SKYLIGHT PROJECTS, New York, KASPAR
MÜLLER, FRANCESCA PIA, Zurich, JENNY PERLIN, SIMON PRESTON, New York, NAUFUS RAMÍREZFIGUEROA, PROYECTOS ULTRAVIOLETA, Guatemala City, MATHEUS ROCHA PITTA, SPROVIERI,
London, VANESSA SAFAVI, JENNIFER CHERT, Berlin, DANIEL STEEGMANN MANGRANÉ, MENDES
WOOD, Sao Paulo, SANTO TOLONE, LIMONCELLO, London, NICK VAN WOERT, YVON LAMBERT,
Paris, MOLLY ZUCKERMAN-HARTUNG, KADEL WILLBORN, Karlsruhe
OTHER INITIATIVES AT THE FAIR
Con/TEXT
This edition of Artissima is characterized by the presence of a new platform aimed at enriching the visitor’s
experience: a large space dedicated to publishers, magazines and art editions which, together with the
Bookshop and Book Corner, introduces the public to a unique way of inhabiting the fair, reading, interacting
and sharing points of view.
Design by Tisettanta
ART EDITIONS
Artissima introduces in 2012 a new section dedicated to Art Editions, a select group of galleries and
institutions in a special area of the fair. This year, Art Editions will include five renowned names such as
White Columns from New York, taking part for the first time in an Italian art fair.
GDM …, Paris
ICA, London
OTHER CRITERIA, London
WHITE COLUMNS, New York
WHITECHAPEL, London
ART MAGAZINES
ART TEXTS PICS, Milano, ARTE - Cairo Editore, Milano, ARTE E CRITICA, Roma, ARTESERA, Torino,
ARTFORUM, New York, ART REVIEW LTD, London, ARTRIBUNE, Roma, BENGAL FOUNDATION,
Dhaka, CURA.MAGAZINE & BOOKS, Roma, DROME, Roma, Brussels, EXIBART, Roma, FLASH ART Politi Editore, Milano, FRUIT OF THE FOREST, Miami, IL GIORNALE DELL’ARTE - U. Allemandi Editore,
Torino, INSIDE ART, Roma, JULIET, Muggia (TS), KALEIDOSCOPE, Milano, LA STRADA, St. Laurent du
Var, MONTANARI EDITORE, Ravenna, MOUSSE - Magazine and Publishing, Milano, NERO MAGAZINE,
Roma, PIPELINE, Hong Kong, EDITRICE QUINLAN, Castel Maggiore (BO), SEGNO, Pescara,
ZÉRODEUX, Nantes, ZÉROQUATRE, Lyon
BOOK CORNER
COMPAGNIA DI SAN PAOLO
The Book Corner is dedicated to presentations of books, catalogues and special projects by institutions,
galleries and publishers, with the participation of artists, museum directors, curators, critics and experts. Next
to the Book Corner the space Generazione Creativa curated by Compagnia di San Paolo, will host projects
and events by young art associations and collectives.
OTHER EXHIBITORS
CASTELLODIRIVOLI.TV, EXCLUSIVE BRANDS TORINO, FESTIVAL CLUB TO CLUB, FIAT,
LAURETANA, LONMART, L’ECLETTICO, SKY ARTE HD
BOOKSHOP BY LUXEMBURG LIBRERIA INTERNAZIONALE
MEETING POINT
FONDAZIONE PER L’ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA CRT
The Meeting Point is a special area at the fair devoted to the presentation of projects, events, and initiatives
by museums, public and art institutions. This year Artissima has developed three main Art Questions,
based on three topical issues in contemporary art, and has invited a number of outstanding representatives
of the art world to partake in the discussion: museum directors, curators, critics and artists.
EXHIBITING MUSEUMS
Artissima continues its special project devoted to museums, foundations and art institutions in Torino and in
the Piedmont region. Each institution has been invited to show one work from its collection or a work
associated with its current exhibition in a large area of the fair pavilion.
This section constitutes an authentic museum space, where visitors will discover previously unseen works
and preview exhibitions and events of the region. The initiative is enriched by the collaboration with the
Education Departments of the network ZonArte through workshops, labs, meetings and a discussion area
open to the public as well as professionals.
Participating Institutions
Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti, Associazione Artegiovane, Barriera, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte
Contemporanea, CeSAC Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Città di Torino, CittadellarteFondazione Pistoletto, Collezione La Gaia, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT,
Fondazione Merz, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte,
Fondazione 107, Fondo Giov-Anna Piras, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino,
PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Provincia di Torino / Eco & Narciso,
Regione Piemonte, Resò.
Artists
Talgat Karim Asyrankulov, Banksy, Ettore Favini, Andrea Guerzoni, Giorgio Guidi, Zhang Huan, Marco
Illuminato, Alfredo Jaar, Robert Kusmirowski, Mario Merz, Aleksandra Mir, Remo Salvadori, Anna Scalfi,
Simon Starling, Vedovamazzei.
Resò (Paola Anziché, Ottavia Castellina, Dina Danish, Eva Frapiccini, Francesca Macrì, Magdi Mostafa,
Amilcar Packer, Irene Pittatore, Alessandro Quaranta, Sunil Vallu). Six-coups-de-dés (Aurora Meccanica,
Michela Depetris, Roberto Fassone, Maya Quattropani, Juan Sandoval, Driant Zeneli).
ZonArte is a project supported by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT which brings
together the Education Departments of the leading institutions in Piedmont that are dedicated to the art of
our time: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, GAM Galleria
d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Fondazione Merz and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, in collaboration with
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
ART WALKS
Artissima proposes an exclusive programme of guided tours of the fair. In 2012 a select group of important
Italian and foreign collectors and curators will lead the visitors through their own personal exploration of
the fair, in search for particular works, and different approaches, themes and expressive languages.
Free tours can be booked by calling +39 011 19744106 or sending an email to [email protected]
Friday 9 November
12pm Filipa Ramos (in Italian)
Independent writer and curator. She has worked at Joseph Kosuth’s Studio, and she is currently coordinating
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como. Ramos is teacher of History of Contemporary Art at the Accademia di
Brera, Milan and at IUAV/University of Venice. She is currently Associate Editor of Manifesta Journal.
3pm Flavio Albanese & Mariuccia Casadio (in Italian)
Architect, designer and collector, Albanese was the editor of Domus magazine from 2007 to 2010. He is vice
president of CISA (International Center for Architecture A. Palladio) / Mariuccia Casadio is art consultant for
Vogue Italia. She has collaborated as curator or advisor in the production of many exhibitions and
catalogues in art, culture fashion fields. She realised the Permanent Food magazine with Maurizio Cattelan.
4.30pm Matt Aberle (in English)
A record executive based in Los Angeles, Matt Aberle began collecting in 1994 with a focus on emerging
artists from the city and its surroundings.
Saturday 10 November
ore 12 Andrew Berardini (in English)
Art critic, Berardini contributes to Artforum, LA Weekly, Mousse, and Purple and numerous fictions
occasionally appearing in books. Recently, he launched with his friend Sarah Williams a new publication
called The Art Book Review.
3pm Sandra Mulliez (in French)
Collector since 2005, Mulliez created the SAM Art Projects foundation which aims at promoting the work of
foreign artists in France and French artists abroad. A draughtswoman and militant artist on the Sao Paulo
scene, she undertook several performances in the early 1980s.
4.30 pm Wilhelm Schürmann (in English)
A collector since forty years. In 1984 his photography collection was sold to the Getty Museum. During the
last ten years the Schürmann collection lent more than 900 artworks to more than 100 international
institutions.
Sunday 11 November
1pm Flaminio Gualdoni (in Italian)
Art historian and curator. He teaches History of Art at the Accademia di Brera, Milan. He is contributing editor
to Il Corriere della Sera and since 2006 has been writing a column on Il Giornale dell’Arte.
3pm Fanny Gonella (in English)
Curator at Bonner Kunstverein, she founded the independent project space Korridor in Berlin. Gonnella
curated exhibitions in Vienna, Copenhagen, Paris and Berlin. Her latest project, Keys to our heart, is an
online streaming programme based on the format of television series.
The curators taking part in the Art Walks will propose in their tours new, peculiar and surprising approaches:
Andrew Berardini – A Somewhat Bleary-Eyed Approximation on the Magic of Saleable Objects / Fanny
Gonella – Cherchez la femme: a re-feminisation of the art fair landscape / Flaminio Gualdoni – Back to the
Future / Filipa Ramos Bestiary: a tour in search of the bestial in art.
In collaboration with Lonmart Insurance
CALENDAR MEETING POINT
FONDAZIONE PER L’ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA CRT
FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER
11.30am
artmob: tracce di mobilitazione.
10 art interventions in the urbanspace in Piedmont
curated by Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto with the support of ANCI; in collaboration with the Cities of
Alessandria, Asti, Casale Monferrato e Giaveno.
1pm
Dall’arte che cura alle donne del Terzo Paradiso.
The project Re-birth by Michelangelo Pistoletto meets the Foundation Medicina a Misura di donna.
Speakers: Michelangelo Pistoletto; Chiara Benedetto, director Gynaecology and Obstetrics Unit Ospedale S.
Anna, Torino, president Fondazione Medicina a Misura di Donna – MAMD; Gabriella Gabella Baima Bollone,
Distretto Rotary 2031; Anna Pironti, head Education Department Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte
Contemporanea.
Moderator: Catterina Seia, vice president MAMD.
2.30pm
Let’s talk Resò II edition.
Speakers: Fulvio Gianaria, president Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT; Eva Frapiccini,
artist; Massimiliano e Gianluca De Serio, artists.
Moderator: Claudio Cravero, curator PAV Parco Arte Vivente.
4pm
ARTISSIMA ART QUESTIONS
Spending Reviews or Saving
Previews? A Propositional Toolbox for the (Italian) Museum.
Speakers: Douglas Fogle, independent curator; Vasif Kortun, director SALT, Istanbul; Joanna
Mytkowska, director Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; Vicente Todolì, artistic advisor Hangar Bicocca,
Milano (from 2013).
Moderator: Nicolaus Schafhausen, artistic director Kunsthalle Wien.
SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER
11.30am
Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli and Eni present a new project for understanding art in
collaboration with Primo Liceo Artistico di Torino.
Speakers: Marcella Pralormo, director Pinacoteca Agnelli; Lucia Nardi, cultural affairs manager Eni;
Alessandro Fabbris, Education Department Pinacoteca Agnelli; Claudio Donzelli, Primo Liceo Artistico.
1pm
Contemporary art in the Middle East.
Speakers: Mario Cristiani, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulin; Mohammed Hafiz, Athr
Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Véronique Rieffel, Institut des Cultures de l’Islam, Paris.
2.30pm
The Strategic Programme for Italian Art
curated by AMACI Associazione Musei Arte Contemporanea Italiani.
4pm
ARTISSIMA ART QUESTIONS
Clash or Crash? A Few Fresh Thoughts on a Very Old Generational Game.
Speakers: Rodrigo Moura, director of Art and Cultural programs Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gregor Muir,
director ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Beatrix Ruf, director Kunsthalle Zurich; Hamza
Walker, director of Education, The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago.
Moderator: Barbara Casavecchia, art critic and independent curator.
5.30pm
Grant for Italian Young Artists, 2012 edition.
Meeting with the artists taking part in the exhibition ‘History I Never Lived Through (Indirect Witness)’ and the
president of Amici Sostenitori del Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Curated by: Marcella Beccaria, curator Castello di Rivoli.
SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER
11am
TOO MUCH? Investment in art and its tax implication.
Speakers: Franco Dante, business consultant and expert in art taxation system; Marilena Pirrelli, journalist Il
Sole 24 Ore and creator of ArtEconomy24; Marina Mojana, art advisor and journalist.
With the support of Arteconomy 24 – Plus24 / Il Sole 24 Ore.
1pm
Wasted opportunities: the Italian Law on 2% for the work of arts in public buildings.
Promoted by Benvenuti in Italia, Associazione Piemontese Arte APA, Artegiovane.
Speakers: Davide Mattiello, president Benvenuti in Italia; Riccardo Cordero, president Associazione
Piemontese Arte APA; Roberto della Seta, senator, president Ecodem; Anna Maria Tatò, director Ministero
Infrastrutture; Antonio Zavaglia, manager Assessorato Cultura Regione Lombardia; Cesare Burdese, expert
in prison buildings.
Final considerations: Michele Coppola, Culture Councillor Regione Piemonte.
Moderator: Alvise Chevallard, president Artegiovane.
2.30pm
Paola Pivi present the project Tulkus 1880 to 2018.
4pm
ARTISSIMA ART QUESTIONS
Surviving or Compromising? (New) Possible Responsibilities of the Independent Art Spaces.
Speakers: Julieta Aranda, artist and co-founder e-flux, New York; Luigi Fassi, Visual Art curator, Steirischer
Herbst, Graz, Austria; Matthew Higgs, director White Columns, New York; Sarah Rifky, independent curator;
Anton Vidokle, artist, founder & director e-flux, New York.
Moderator: Ana Teixeira-Pinto, independent curator.
5.30pm
Anomalie di gravità.
A conversation about the ‘Climate Aesthetics’.
Speakers: Ettore Favini, artist; Heiko Hansen, artist duo He-He; Irina Novarese and the artists taking part in
the exhibition Hydromemories; Daniele Fazio, agronomist.
Moderators: Lisa Parola, a.titolo; Claudio Cravero, curator PAV Parco Arte Vivente.
CALENDAR BOOK CORNER
COMPAGNIA DI SAN PAOLO
FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER
12pm
Vertigine del reale
Presentation of the catalogue of works by Cristiano Berti curated by Luigi Fassi, published by Allemandi & C.
The book includes the artists’ work of the last decade.
Speakers: Cristiano Berti; Luigi Fassi, Visual Art curator Steirischer Herbst, Graz.
1.30pm
Francesco Carone
Presentation of the artist’s monograph published by Nero
curated by SpazioA.
Speakers: Francesco Carone; Marinella Paderni, art critic and independent curator; Alberto Salvadori, artistic
director Museo Marino Marini, Firenze.
3pm
Think Twice. Twenty years of contemporary art from the Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Presentation of the catalogue of works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection currently on view at
the Whitechapel Gallery in London.
Speakers: Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, president of the Fondazione; Francesco Bonami, artistic
director of the Fondazione.
5.30pm
Creative generation. An experience in contemporary art
curated by Compagnia di San Paolo.
Speakers: Luca Ballarini, founder & creative director Bellissimo, publisher ITALICnews.it; Luigi Fassi, Visual
Art curator Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria; Cecilia Guida, professor History of Art Accademia di Belle Arti,
l’Aquila and independent curator.
Moderator: Luca Remmert, vice president Compagnia di San Paolo.
SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER
12pm
Luca Bertolo
Presentation of the artist’s monograph published by Cura Books
curated by SpazioA.
Speakers: Luca Bertolo; Davide Ferri, art critic and independent curator; Elena Volpato, curator GAM
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino.
1.30pm
(Not) Everything is Design
Critical, objectionable tools to interpret the production in the year ’00s
published by Espress Edizioni, 2012; curated by Michele Cafarelli.
Speakers: Gianluigi Ricuperati, essayist and writer; and the authors: Michele Cafarelli, Chiara Comuzio,
Marco Ruffino.
3pm
Carol Rama. Casta, sfrontata, stella. Biografia corale di un’artista extra-ordinaria
published by Prinp Editoria d’Arte.
Speakers: Gianna Besson, the author and journalist; Dario Salani, art publisher; Maria Cristina Mundici,
Archivio Carol Rama; Alvise Chevallard, president Associazione Artegiovane; Michele Carpano, legal tutor
Carol Rama; Andrea Guerzoni, artist; Bruna Biamino, photographer and curator for the images of the book.
4.30pm
Re-Immaginare la Città tra Making Space Taking Place e Vessel
a project by Antony Gormley with Galleria Continua.
Speakers: Anna Coliva, director Galleria Borghese, Roma; Mario Codognato, independent curator; Giuseppe
Blengini, architect, Studio Daniel Libeskind; Mario Cristiani, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Le Moulin,
Beijing.
6pm
pubblica-azione
Meeting and working conference for the launch of the catalogue of the exhibition at Cittadellarte
“ARTInRETI. Pratiche artistiche e trasformazione urbana in Piemonte”.
Speakers: 6secondsTO (Torino), a.titolo (Torino), Acting Out (Torino), Asilo Bianco (Ameno), Banca della
Memoria ONLUS (Chieri), Eco e Narciso (Torino), Kaninchen-Haus (Torino), Par coii bsgna semnà/Chi
semina raccoglie (Frassineto Po), PAV Parco Arte Vivente (Torino), Progetto Diogene (Torino), UrbeRigenerazione Urbana (Torino).
Coordinated by Cittadellarte.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 11
12pm
The art book craft. Conversation with Mauro Loce.
Mauro Loce, a star on the international art publishing scene, tells his experience as typographer through
unique art editions, books of inestimable value and the biggest edition of the Koran.
Curated by SGI Torino.
1.30pm
Streaming Blood
Presentation of the publishing project by Loveyourhen on the occasion of the launch of the first book.
Speakers: Claudio Cravero, curator PAV Parco Arte Vivente; Brondius, author of the book’s sound; the
publisher.
3pm
Mainolfi, fare il proprio volo ogni giorno
published by Prinp Editoria d’Arte.
Speakers: Luigi Mainolfi; Gian Alberto Farinella, philosopher; Guido Curto, curator and professor Accademia
Albertina di Belle Arti, Torino; Riccardo Passoni, vice director GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea, Torino.
4.30pm
SVEART 2012 – Saint Vincent European Art – European art meets at Saint-Vincent.
Speakers: Federico Faloppa, curator SVEART 2012; Claudia Trafficante, manager SVEART 2012;
representative Regione Valle d’Aosta.
IT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
Artissima 2012 collateral project
Five projects for Torino: Artissima with Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, GAM
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Fondazione Merz and Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo.
Artissima is presenting in 2012 an exclusive new collateral programme of exhibitions in collaboration with
Torino’s leading contemporary art institutions. It’s Not the End of the World comprises five exhibition projects
by five well-known international artists, selected by each of the participating institutions: Paola Pivi at
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Valery Koshlyakov at GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea, Ragnar Kjartansson at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Zena el Khalil at
Fondazione Merz, and Dan Perjovschi – proposed by Artissima – in the historical premises of Palazzo
Madama. The five projects are connected by a common path: the desire to tackle, albeit in very different
ways, the current artistic, historic and socio-political context.
The project, conceived and produced by Artissima, aims at enhancing the local network for contemporary art
and improving the cultural offer in town. The title It’s Not the End of the World, which is a tongue-in-cheek
reference to the Maya prophecy for December 2012, is also a way to emphasize an optimistic and pro-active
attitude towards the difficult existing economic situation and how this is affecting the cultural world.
Ruin – Politics by Dan Perjovschi at Palazzo Madama for Artissima.
Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi (b. 1961 in Sibiu, Romania) is presenting a new series of drawings made
directly on the floor of the medieval courtyard of Palazzo Madama, a space that features distinctive ruins
from the Roman era. The idea of “ruin” becomes a point of departure for the artist’s analysis of contemporary
society, ranging from global problems to specifically European questions, all the way to the contrasting
facets of Italy.
Tulkus 1880 to 2018 by Paola Pivi at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.
This project by Paola Pivi (b. 1971 in Milan, Italy) presents a photographic survey of all the world’s tulkus
(religious figures in Tibetan Buddhism, considered to be reincarnations of other influential lamas), reversing
the conventional approach to the “foreign” Buddhist world. It was a colossal task which kept a team of
experts busy for two years, working around the world to locate, collect and catalogue thousands of images
that tell the story of the Tibetan diaspora.
Homeless Paradise by Valery Koshlyakov at GAM.
Valery Koshlyakov (b. 1962 in Salsk, Russia) has been invited to create a site-specific installation for the
entrance to GAM. The project involves the creation of a second, temporary entryway, above and below the
overhang leading to the museum, conceived as a conceptual link between everyday life and the art world.
Koshlyakov invites visitors to enter an imaginary city, a shelter that – like Noah’s Ark – people have put
together out of simple, humble materials in order to survive.
Beirut, I Love You – A Work in Progress by Zena el Khalil at Fondazione Merz.
Zena el Khalil (b. 1976 in London) is based in Beirut. The video installation presented by Fondazione Merz is
built around the themes and characters of a full-length film shot in collaboration with director Gigi Roccati,
inspired by the novel with the same title that the artist published in 2008. It is the universal story of the love
between two best friends, set against the backdrop of global conflict, asserting the importance of beauty in
defiance of every looming threat.
The End–Venezia by Ragnar Kjartansson at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
Fondazione Sandretto presents an installation by Ragnar Kjartansson (b. 1976 in Reykjavik, Iceland) that the
artist developed at the 2009 Venice Biennale for the Icelandic Pavilion. It grew out of a six-month-long
performance during which Kjartansson painted the same swimsuit-clad model, day after day. In Torino the
artist will be presenting a new musical performance conceived especially for Artissima.
‘This year the public budget for creating a cultural project connected to the fair has been shared with some of
the area’s leading contemporary art institutions,’ said Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, director of Artissima. ‘In an
era when museums find themselves faced with the challenge of funding cuts, the chance to help sustain their
activity by bringing the energy of a new initiative that supplements their standard programming is an
important way of granting visibility and support to museums, contemporary art, the city, and as a result, to
the fair itself. Moreover, since the projects at the museums will be running longer than the event itself,
Artissima will enjoy greater visibility over time and in multiple spaces, creating a web of connections and links
throughout the city and its territory.’
All of the exhibition projects will be open to the public from Friday 9 November 2012 to 6 January
2013, with the exception of the project by Dan Perjovschi at Palazzo Madama, that will close on 8
December 2012.
With the support of Compagnia di San Paolo
DAN PERJOVSCHI – Ruin Politics
curated by Sarah Cosulich Canarutto
9 November – 8 December 2012
Opening Friday 9 November, 6:00pm. Performance by the artist
Palazzo Madama, Corte Medievale
Piazza Castello – Torino
Tuesday - Sunday 9am-7 pm, closed Monday.
Saturday 10 November (A Contemporary Night): special opening until 11pm
Free entry / INFO: +39 011 4433501 – www.palazzomadamatorino.it
For It’s Not the End of the World, Artissima invited Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi to create a site-specific
project, curated by Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, at one of Torino’s architectural landmarks. Palazzo Madama,
which once housed the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy under the House of Savoy and is now home to the
City Museum of Ancient Art, is the nexus of Torino, and thus the perfect place for presenting an artist whose
practice is based on a critique of society.
Dan Perjovschi is presenting a new series of drawings made directly on the floor of the Palazzo’s medieval
courtyard, a space that features distinctive ruins from the Roman era. The idea of “ruin” serves as a point of
departure for the artist’s analysis of contemporary society, ranging from global problems, to specifically
European questions, to the contrasting facets of Italy.
Perjovschi uses drawings to describe the mechanisms, structures and paradoxes of today’s world with biting
irony and wry spontaneity. Through rapidly sketched images that recall the tradition of satirical cartoons, the
artist constructs a sort of tongue-in-cheek journey through the conflicts of contemporary man. From
economics to politics, religion to the art world, provincialism to globalization, the artist’s drawings have the
capacity to engage viewers through a caustically provocative approach that raises constant questions and
doubts. By dealing with the contrast between history and the present, individual and community, identity and
belonging, Perjovschi’s work sheds light on the stereotypes and contradictions of our time.
The fascinating context of the medieval courtyard at Palazzo Madama creates an unexpected dialogue
between the artist’s work and the past, offering visitors an additional vantage point for interpreting the
message. The choice of this historic building, so important to the city, also stems from the desire to engage a
public not exclusively connected to the world of contemporary art, which will find interesting, stimulating food
for thought in Perjovschi's installation.
Dan Perjovschi Bio
Dan Perjovschi (b. 1961 in Sibiu, Romania) is based in Bucarest. Perjovschi’s exhibitions include the Romanian Pavilion
at the 1999 Venice Biennale. His work was also featured in 2005 at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, in 2006 at Tate
Modern in London and Portikus in Frankfurt; at MoMA in New York and Kunsthalle Basel in 2007 and the Wiels Center
for Contemporary Art in Brussels in 2008, while in 2009 he was invited to the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in
Helsinki, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and the Salzburger Kunstverein in Salzburg. In 2010
Perjovschi created work at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Royal Ontario Museum of Toronto. His group
exhibitions include the Istanbul, Bucarest and Seville Biennales in 2006, the Venice Biennale in 2007, the Moscow
Biennale in 2007 and 2010, the Biennale of Sydney in 2008 and the Lyon Biennale in 2010. In Italy he has exhibited at
MART Rovereto, at the Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art in Udine, at Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli-Turin (2009), and
recently at MAXXI in Rome. Dan Perjovschi won the George Maciunas Award in 2004.
PAOLA PIVI – Tulkus 1880 to 2018
curated by Davide Trapezi
9 November 2012 – 6 January 2013
Opening Friday 9 November, 10am
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Piazza Mafalda di Savoia – Rivoli (TO)
Tuesday - Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10am-7pm, closed Moday.
Saturday 10 November (A Contemporary Art): special opening until 10pm.
Tickets: full € 6.50, reduced € 4.50. Free admission to children under 11; Free entrance for Abbonamento Musei and
Torino Card holders. / INFO: +39 011 9565222 – www.castellodirivoli.org
Contemporary art’s fascination with Buddhist images has grown exponentially over the last few decades.
From exotic fascination in Buddhist iconographic symbolism via more conceptual and philosophical attitudes,
right up to trivial and superficial fascination in its direct market value, artists have been confronted with this
philosophical and religious practice and used it and misused it to turn images into something else: their own
artwork. Paola Pivi’s approach to this distant world of philosophical and religious symbolism takes a very
different and particular trajectory. In her project Tulkus 1880 to 2018, curated by Davide Trapezi, the artist
flips this conventional approach to the “foreign” Buddhist world, creating a complete Buddhist work where her
presence as an artist is distilled and made ephemeral by a work of art without art. It is as if the artist has
appreciated the grandness of the topic, researching and collecting the ‘manifestation’ of her artistic journey
and letting it be what it is without making or expecting to add, take away or mutate the original meaning of
these images. The portraits of Tibetan tulkus – recognized reincarnations of Buddhist masters – that caught
Paola Pivi’s attention are part of the proliferation of Buddhist images that are common to all areas where
Tibetan Buddhism has flourished. The project Tulkus 1880 to 2018 aims to be a summa of photographs of all
the tulkus in the world, from the beginning of photography until today. It is a work of mammoth proportions
that has seen an international team of experts working for two years, collecting, researching and cataloguing
thousands of images all around the world. This will be the first time that such a survey of tulkus from all the
Tibetan Buddhist schools, in many far-flung geographical areas, has been attempted. Moreover, it is a
unique and unprecedented undertaking that connects academic research to the contemporary art world in
the consequential organization and presentation of these images in a contemporary art context.
The collection is being carried in many areas of the world, with images found in temples, museums, archives,
studios etc., but also borrowed from private owners, scanned and returned, or taken by professional
photographers in temples or in private circumstances. These images carry with them the Tibetan diaspora,
which is thus brought together in a seemingly chaotic visual system where the images of the tulkus all talk
with the same power of spirituality beyond the past, present and future.
The first exhibition, at the Castello di Rivoli Contemporary Art Museum, will be made up of approximately
1000 tulkus portraits. The project will then be developed through subsequent exhibitions over the next few
years towards its completion and final goal of 1500 or more portraits. The following exhibition will take place
in 2013 and occupy both floors of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.
Paola Pivi Bio
Paola Pivi was born in 1971 in Milan and is based in Anchorage, Alaska. She won the Golden Lion at the 1999 Venice
Biennale for the best national pavilion, along with Monica Bonvicini, Bruna Esposito, Luisa Lambri and Grazia Toderi.
She has exhibited at renowned museums and galleries such as Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999), P.S.1
MoMA, New York (2000, 2001, 2003, 2007), MACRO, Rome (2003, 2010), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco (2005), White Columns, New York (2005), Kunsthalle Basel (2007), Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2008), Tate
Modern, London (2009), and Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2012). She took part in public art projects in Rotterdam
in 2010-2011 with Sculpture International Rotterdam and in New York in 2012 with Public Art Fund. Her works can be
found in prestigious permanent collections, including those of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Centre Pompidou
in Paris, Castello di Rivoli and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Torino and MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti
del XXI Secolo in Rome.
VALERY KOSHLYAKOV – Homeless Paradise
curated by Anna Musini and Gregorio Mazzonis
9 November 2012 – 6 January 2013
Opening Saturday 10 November, 10am
GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Via Magenta 31 – Torino
Tuesday - Sunday, 10am-6pm, closed Monday.
Saturday 10 November (A Contemporary Art): special opening until 11pm.
Free entry / INFO: +39 011 4429518 – www.gamtorino.it
For It’s Not the End of the World, GAM is presenting Homeless Paradise, a site-specific installation by Valery
Koshlyakov, curated by Gregorio Mazzonis and Anna Musini and located at the entrance to the museum.
More specifically, it is a new, temporary second entryway, a small settlement built over and under the
overhang that leads to GAM, creating a conceptual link between everyday life and the art world. With realism
and poetry, Koshlyakov invites visitors into an imaginary city, a shelter that people have put together in order
to survive, like Noah’s Ark, made of simple, humble materials. An encampment that seems to have sprung
up of its own accord, recording memories of personal history, of a vagabond life, a nomadic state.
Koshlyakov’s work permeates and adapts to each space it finds itself in: the design stage, based on
numerous drawings and sketches, is accompanied by meticulous research into materials – often found
elements like cardboard, iron, wood, plastic, or tape – that he uses to create magniloquent sculptures. The
sense of instability and ephemerally suggested by the works clashes with an iconography rooted in the
classical and modern monuments of the European artistic tradition. The beauty of these vestiges from the
past crops up in simple materials that resemble fanciful ruins, utopian archaeological relics set in an
indefinite place and time. In addition to its obvious re-exploration of ancient, classic and modern art, the
predominant reference in Koshlyakov’s work is to Russian Constructivism, the Suprematism of Kazimir
Malevich, and the drawings and architectural designs of Laszlo Moholy Nagy, El Lissitzky, Antonio Sant’Elia
and Kurt Schwitters, in an alternation between past and future, reality and fantasy, geometric rigor and pure
chance.
Valery Koshlyakov Bio
Born in Salsk, Russia in 1962, he is currently based in Moscow and Paris. In 1987 he joined the “Art or Death” group,
made up of young artists active from 1981 to 1991. The members of the group are now considered some of the most
important Russian artists on the contemporary scene, and in 2009 a retrospective was held at the State Museum of
Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts as a special project for the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
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Valery Koshlyakov has taken part in major international exhibitions such as Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2002); 50
Venice Biennale, Russian Pavilion (2003); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; State Historical Museum, Moscow (2004);
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2005), Bilbao (2006); la Maison Rouge, Paris (2007); River Station Hall,
Perm (2008); Musée du Louvre, Paris (2010-11); Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona (2012). His most recent solo shows
include: ‘Iconuses - Choice of Scale’, National Museum of Architecture, Moscow (2001); ‘Paysage, lieu de vie’, Mairie de
Paris, Hôtel d’Albret, Paris (2004); MACRO, Rome (2005); ‘Iconuses - Dressing the Space’, the State Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg (2005); ‘Golden Age’, Baden-Baden Kunstverein (2007); ‘Sarcophagus’, Museum of Lenin, Krasnoyarsk,
Russia (2008), Fondazione Volume, Rome (2009).
ZENA EL KHALIL – Beirut, I Love You - A Work in Progress
curated by Maria Centonze
9 November 2012 – 6 January 2013
Opening Saturday 10 November, 12pm
Fondazione Merz
Via Limone 24 - Torino
Tuesday - Sunday, 11am-7pm, closed Monday.
Saturday 10 November (A Contemporary Art): special opening until 10pm.
Tickets: full € 5, reduced € 3,50. Free admission to children under 10, over 65, disabled. Free admission for
Abbonamento Musei and Torino Card holders / INFO: +39 011 19719437 – www.fondazionemerz.org
Fondazione Merz presents the video installation Beirut, I Love You – A Work in Progress by artist Zena el
Khalil, as part of the Artissima project It’s Not the End of the World. The work, in collaboration with director
Gigi Roccati, revolves around the themes and characters of a the full-length film yet to be realised and
inspired by the novel/memoir that the artist published in 2008: the video installation reveals the film creative
process through a mise-en-scène and documentary images, personal and family memoires.
The video tells a universal story of love between two best friends, set on the fault line of global conflict in the
twilight of the second millennium; it is an act of resistance that asserts the importance of beauty in defiance
of the constant threat of war. In this project, Zena el Khalil works to break down stereotypes, building
metaphorical bridges between East and West.
During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006, Zena el Khalil began keeping a blog:
beirutupdate.blogspot.com. In it, she wrote a daily account of life under the bombs, and the international
press was soon calling her the Anne Frank of Lebanon. Zena was one of the first bloggers from the Middle
East to gain an extensive following, as if foreshadowing what would later be called citizen journalism and the
use of the internet during the Arab Spring. In her blog, Zena talked not only about the invasion, but her family
and her best friend Maya, who had recently been diagnosed with cancer. “The first night the bombs fell, I
started a blog. If we have to die a senseless death, I want to make sure that the whole world knows how and
why. I didn’t want us to become another number… another nameless statistic. I wrote every day, and like
Sherazade, believed that sharing our stories might keep us alive.” After considerable international pressure,
the invasion ended, but a few weeks later, Maya lost her battle. As part of the healing process, Zena
continued writing and two years later finished the book of memoirs titled Beirut, I Love You. Since then, El
Khalil began working with Italian director Gigi Roccati to adapt her book into a full-length film. In the process,
the pair took part in many international writing workshops, winning all three production prizes of the
prestigious TFL - Torino Film Lab Framework Awards, as well as support from the EU MEDIA programme for
film promotion.
Zena el Khalil Bio
Zena el Khalil was born in 1976 in London and is based in Beirut. A visual artist, writer and cultural activist, she works in
formats that range from painting, to installation, to performance, and from mixed media, to collage, to writing. The central
themes of her work include the issue of violence and sexuality, and she employs materials found in her city, Beirut.
El Khalil has exhibited internationally in New York, San Francisco, Miami, London, Paris, Tokyo and Dubai. With solo
shows in Lagos, London, Munich, Torino and Beirut. Her work has also been shown in institutions such as the Mori Art
Museum, in Japan; Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, the Royal College of Art, London,
the National Gallery of Bosnia and Erzegovina, Sarajevo; the Barajeel Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates, Institut für
Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin, White Box, Munich.
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON - The End–Venezia
curated by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
9 November – 6 January 2013
Opening Saturday 10 November, 11am
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Via Modane 16 - Torino
Opening during Artissima: Friday 9 November, 10am-7pm – Saturday 10 November (A Contemporary Night), 10am11pm – Sunday 11 November, 10am-7pm.
After Artissima: closed Mon-Tue-Wed, Thursday, 8-11pm, Fri-Sat-Sun, 12-7pm.
Free entry / INFO: +39 011 3797600 – http://www.fsrr.org
Ragnar Kjartasson’s work is based on a unique blend of visual art, music and theatre. His performances tend
to be built around the endless repetition of a single formula, be it a gesture, word, aria or pictorial image. This
device leads to works in which duration and resistance play a fundamental role, in keeping with the classic
tradition of performance and body art, but there is also a reference to the exhausting practice of rehearsals.
A fondness for theatricality, staging and acting are a hallmark of his work, with the artist always starring in
roles that span from knight to rock star, and from revolutionary to the incarnation of Death.
The End–Venezia (2009) grew out of one of his most ambitious projects, conceived for the 53rd Venice
Biennale, in which Kjartansson represented Iceland. In a period when his country was at the centre of an
unprecedented economic and financial meltdown, the artist created a decadent, hopeless character who
chooses Venice as the perfect city for fully savouring his own sweet downslide. For the entire duration of the
Biennale – six long months – Kjartansson inhabited the role of this bohemian painter, who in his studio on
the Canal Grande, spent his time painting the portrait of the same young model, day after day. The latter,
played by his friend and fellow artist Páll Haukur Björnsson, wandered languidly around the space dressed in
only a pair of Speedo trunks, smoking cigarettes, drinking beer, listening to music and posing for the artist.
Day after day, the paintings that he made piled up in the space along with the cigarette butts and empty
bottles. The 144 paintings that make up The End–Venezia are a physical trace and artistic documentation of
this experience. The installation looks like an old-fashioned picture gallery, its walls plastered with paintings
from floor to ceiling; this emphasizes the maniacal accumulation and obsessive repetition of the same
subject, although the formal choices are quite varied, ranging from detailed realism to almost abstract
sketches, by way of many citations of well-known styles. For this new exhibition of the piece, Kjartansson will
offer visitors the chance to discover another fundamental facet of his identity: the professional musician. In
Iceland he is a famous rockstar who has been in many bands, including the synth-rock group Trabant. In
Torino Kjartansson will hold a very special concert that brings together a superband made up of some of the
most famous musicians on the Icelandic scene: Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Ros), Thorvaldur Grondal
(Trabant), David Thor Jonsson (The Blue Ice Band), Ragnar Kjartansson (Trabant), Kristin Anna Valtysdottir
(Mum).
Ragnar Kjartansson Bio
Born in 1976 in Reykjavík, Iceland, he is currently based in Reykjavík. Kjartansson's work has drawn considerable
international attention and has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums and biennials. In
2012 the Migros Museum in Zurich presented his first solo show in Switzerland. In 2011 his project for Performa in New
York, Bliss, a live musical performance that lasted twelve hours, won the Malcolm McLaren Award. Also in 2011, the
Carnegie Museum of Art organized a solo show, ‘Song’, later hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami
and the ICA in Boston, and the Frankfurter Kunstverein presented his first major retrospective in Europe, “Ragnar
Kjartansson: Endless Longing, Eternal Return”. In 2009 he represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale. Kjartansson has
taken part in the Torino Triennale (2008), Manifesta 8 (2008) and many editions of the Reykjavík Arts Festival (2012,
2008, 2005, 2004). Essays and reviews about his work have been published in Artforum, Art in America, ArtReview,
Frieze, Modern Painters and The New York Times.
ARTISSIMA LIDO
Artissima 2012 collateral project
curated by Francesca Bertolotti and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto
5x5
Five international alternative spaces in five museums and institutions in the Quadrilatero
Romano district.
Artissima LIDO, which rounds out the cultural programming of Artissima 2012, is presenting a completely
new version of the parallel project dedicated to young artists that was launched during the last fair,
conceived for the evocative setting of the Quadrilatero Romano district. The initiative will continue exploring
the theme of “independent spaces", expanding its scope to the international level and building on the
curatorial and artistic potential of the initiative.
This year, five non-profit organizations, all from outside of Italy, have been invited to create exhibition
projects specifically designed for certain atypical museums and institutions in the neighbourhood: the
Archivio di Stato (National Archives), MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale (Museum of Oriental Art), Museo
Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà (Museum of
Resistance, Deportation, War, Human Rights and Freedom), Museo della Sindone (Museum of the Holy
Shroud) and Museo di Antichità (Museum of Antiquities).
Artissima LIDO, like It’s Not the End of the World , aims to foster a fruitful dialogue between the fair and the
Torino’s cultural institutions. Through the LIDO project, Artissima activates an experimental cooperation
between conservation-oriented museums and production-oriented artist collectives, between the extant and
the envisioned, between different arts and disciplines.
The non-profit organizations which have been invited by Artissima are: 98weeks (Beirut), Auto Italia South
East (London), Irmavep Club (Paris), Public Fiction (Los Angeles), and SOMA (Mexico City).
The programme – organized into a series of site-specific shows, installations, videos and performances in
dialogue with the venues’ peculiar identities – will complement the fair by offering the public structured, yet
dynamic and experimental exhibitions projects.
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Words… Action, curated by 98weeks (Beirut)
Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà
For the Museum of Resistance, Deportation, War, Human Rights and Freedom, 98weeks is
presenting a programme of Lebanese films, never distributed in Italy, centred on the theme of
Resistance, and a writing workshop led by author Christian Raimo on the idea of the Constitution and
the potential forms of democracy.
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MY SKIN IS AT WAR WITH A WORLD OF DATA, curated by Auto Italia South East (London)
Museo di Antichità
For the Museum of Antiquities, Auto Italia South East is collaboratively producing a new film that
explores the paranoiac function of images in our hyperreal, networked society.
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Libretto VI, curated by Irmavep Club (Paris)
Archivio di Stato
At the State Archives, Irmavep Club is creating a show that explores the notions of memory and
transmission, tracing new paths between oral history and writing, in a guided tour of the past within
the present.
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Treating Shadows as Real Things, curated by Public Fiction (Los Angeles)
Museo della Sindone
At the Museum of the Holy Shroud, Public Fiction is dealing with concepts such as alchemy,
symmetry and illusion, presenting works that reflect on the flexibility of perception, the nature of faith
and the realm of the metaphysical.
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A Waiting Search, curated by SOMA (Mexico City)
MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale
For the Museum of Oriental Art, SOMA is working with Mexican artist Daniel Monroy Cuevas to
create a new path through the museum, traced by the light of rediscovery, that turns its architecture
and artefacts into an immersive experience.
The initiative is also meant to boost the visibility of Italian artists and encourage cultural exchange: each of
the alternative spaces invited to participate has been asked to host a project by an artist from this country in
their own cities. With the same goal of fostering international dialogue, interaction and cooperation, Artissima
has struck up a partnership with the project space Cripta747, which also played an active role in the 2011
edition, to create TAXI, a web platform that will become a research tool and meeting ground for curators,
artists, and institutions, and will help the LIDO collectives navigate the emerging art scene in Italy. The
curators involved (so far) are: Simone Bertuzzi, Francesca Boenzi, Michele D'Aurizio, Gianluigi Ricuperati,
Caterina Riva, Guido Santandrea, Marianna Vecellio.
In the middle of the Quadrilatero neighborhood where LIDO takes place, the bar Magnifica Preda, will host
the Artissima Social Club, a temporary bar/meeting place where the art world and visitors to the fair may
gather every evening.
Artissima LIDO has been made possible thanks to the generous support of: Camera di commercio di
Torino, Alliance française, British Council, DuParc Contemporary Suites, and Sound Division.
ARTISSIMA LIDO
Quadrilatero Romano, Torino
8-11 November 2012 – open every day from 10am to 10pm
Opening: 9 November, 7-10pm
Free admission to the Museo della Sindone and the Archivio di Stato
Free admission by presenting ticket to Artissima at the Museo di Antichità and Museo della Resistenza
Reduced-price admission by presenting ticket to Artissima at MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale
Words… Action
curated by 98WEEKS (Beirut)
http://98weeks.blogspot.it/
Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà
C.so Valdocco 4A – Torino
8-11 November 2012 – every day 10am-10pm
Opening: 9 November 7-10pm
free admission by presenting ticket to Artissima
The work of 98weeks is research-oriented, operating primarily at the local level for the specific community of
Beirut, Lebanon. This makes an international project such as Artissima LIDO an interesting challenge for the
collective. How can the concerns that fuel the work of a Lebanese organization be translated abroad? What
audience should be addressed? Who are they working for? 98weeks attempts to answer these questions by
presenting two parallel events at the Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei
Diritti e della Libertà.
The first project is a writing workshop, led by Italian author Christian Raimo, that explores the relationship
between writing and Resistance, examining how writing can become a form of action. Its point of departure
is to take a fresh look at the text of the Italian constitution, which is projected on the mirrors in the last room
of the museum, and reflect on the relationship of responsibility between state and culture. Through a group
exercise, the workshop participants, who have been selected through a public application process, will be
invited to rewrite the document, to reinterpret its meaning and come up with an alternative vision of
government and constitution. On Sunday 11 November at 2 PM, Christian Raimo and 98weeks will present
the results of the workshop in a public reading and conversation.
The second project is a video programme with a series of works by artists from Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait and
Denmark that tell stories of resistance, to reflect on this term and what it means in specific contexts. Featurelength, medium-length and short films by Maher Abi Samra, Basma Al Sharif, Omar Amiralay, Christian
Ghazzi, Ahmad Ghossein, Marwan Hamdan, Joanna Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Ali Kays, Lasse
Lau, Mohammad Malas, Rania & Raed Rafei, Ghassan Salhab, Roy Samaha, Mohamed Soueid, Rania
Stephan, and Akram Zaatari.
98weeks is a research project and artists’ association founded by Marwa Arsanios and Mirene Arsanios in
2007. The initiative tackles a new subject to focus on every 98 weeks, employing many forms of exploration
and investigation, both practical and theoretic, such as workshops, seminars, reading groups, publications
and exhibitions. In 2009, 98weeks also acquired a physical space in which to organize talks, events, and
screenings related to each chosen theme of study.
Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà
The Museum of Resistance, Deportation, War, Human Rights and Freedom is a centre dedicated to fostering
the values of the Resistance, preserving its history and memory, and keeping them alive in connection to the
ongoing story of fundamental human rights and freedoms. The Museum is located in the Quartieri Militari
complex, designed by Filippo Juvarra and built in the first half of the eighteenth century. The same building is
home to the National Film Archive of the Resistance, the Giorgio Agosti Piedmontese Institute for the History
of the Resistance and Contemporary Society, and the Primo Levi International Research Centre. This has
created a crossroads for research and public education that can rely on an extensive film and video
collection, a library of over 70,000 volumes, and an impressive archive of documents on paper, photographs
and audio recordings.
Visitor information: +39 011 4420780 – www.museodiffusotorino.it
MY SKIN IS AT WAR WITH A WORLD OF DATA
curated by AUTO ITALIA SOUTH EAST (London)
http://autoitaliasoutheast.org/
Museo di Antichità
Via XX settembre 88 – Torino
8-11 November 2012 – every day 10am-10pm
Opening: 9 November 7-10pm
free admission by presenting ticket to Artissima
Auto Italia South East has responded to Artissima LIDO’s invitation by producing a new film, MY SKIN IS AT
WAR WITH A WORLD OF DATA, a collaborative enterprise by artists Kate Cooper, Marianne Forrest,
Andrew Kerton and Jess Wiesner.
The film explores the paranoiac function of images in our hyperreal networked-society, utilizing the
communication strategies of motion capture, beauty campaigns, and stock imagery to investigate the
relationship of images to the production of the contemporary body and performance of the self.
Today we re-produce and inhabit new images through the speed of our relations. In the hyperconnectivity
that characterizes our era, this speed also plays a key role in the presentation of the body. MY SKIN IS AT
WAR WITH A WORLD OF DATA explores the inescapable short-circuit produced by the consumption, post
production and distribution that mediate the image in the mechanisms of our everyday experience
economy. As a character says in the film: ‘To produce yourself, you need to know about your own value. My
own interiority is the new factory floor. Industrial strength hormones ensure I am still visibly productive – all
day, every day’.
Auto Italia South East is installing a newly commissioned film in the Museum of Antiquities, contrasting the
showcases of archaeological artefacts with saturated, glossy, constructed images.
Auto Italia South East is an artists’ initiative founded in 2007 with the aim of commissioning and producing
new projects, through an ongoing collaboration with a growing group of artists. Auto Italia South East
provides a framework for developing alternative approaches to practice and experiments with new
opportunities for participation.
Museo di Antichità
The origins of the Museum of Antiquities date back to the mid-sixteenth century, with the collections of Duke
Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, which Carlo Emanuele I later expanded in his new gallery of art. In the second
decade of the eighteenth century, the Royal University Museum was founded at the orders of Vittorio
Amadeo II, King of Sardinia. Over the course of the nineteenth century, almost all of the classical antiquities
were transferred to the Academy of Sciences, where a major Egyptian collection had been assembled: the
result was the Royal Museum of Greco-Roman and Egyptian Antiquities. In the last few decades of the
nineteenth century, greater importance was given to the Piedmont and Liguria section by a new installation
design in the same building. In 1940, the new Museum of Antiquities definitively split off from the Egyptian
Museum; in 1982 it moved to a location of its own in the conservatories of Palazzo Reale, which house the
collections to this day. A new, connected facility, built in 1998, holds the Piedmont section. Soon to be
opened is the Torino section, on the basement level of the new wing of Palazzo Reale.
Visitor information: +39 011 5212251 – www.museoarcheologico.piemonte.beniculturali.it
Libretto VI
curated by IRMAVEP CLUB (Paris)
www.irmavepclub.com
Archivio di Stato (Sezioni Riunite)
Via Piave 21 – Torino
8-11 November 2012 – every day 10am-10pm
Opening: 9 November 7-10pm
free admission
At the National Archives, Irmavep Club is creating a show that explores the notions of memory and
transmission, tracing new paths between oral history and writing, in a guided tour of the “past within the
present”. The visit to the exhibition takes place at regular intervals, like a performance, and visitors are led
from room to room along a pre-established path, wending their way through the labyrinth of symmetries
that makes up the former San Luigi hospital.
The oral aspect of the experience thus takes on a new importance, even though the guide remains in
silence, escorting visitors and stopping every so often so that they can watch a film, listen to audio or look at
an object. The National Archives become the backdrop for a chronicle in which the works are positioned in
the past, arranged within a narrated time frame made up of miles of paper and ink, ancient maps, giant
mechanisms for preserving knowledge. In this shrine to chronological order and mnemonic rationality,
Libretto VI erases all spatial and temporal landmarks, giving perception a new pace and movement.
As Walter Benjamin said, "memory forges the chain of tradition that passes events on from generation to
generation".
Exhibiting artists: Daniel Gustav Cramer, Adélaïde Feriot, Jacob Jessen, and Phillip Sollmann.
Irmavep Club is an artists’ and curators’ collective, an independent, itinerant space hosted by private
galleries or museums. Set up like a club, Irmavep works to forge links and encourage dialogue among its
members – artists, critics and curators – by exhibiting artworks that are not yet known to the public. The first
five installments of group and solo shows were respectively presented in the Paris galleries schleicher+lange
and Art:Concept, at Motive Gallery in Amsterdam, and at the Musée départemental d’art contemporain in
Rochechouart, France. Each “Livret” is conceived as a critical conversation between the works on view,
reflecting the impulse to travel in two directions at once: looking to past decades while exhibiting works by
young artists.
Archivio di Stato (Sezioni Riunite)
The four sections into which the Archivio di Stato di Torino is divided reflect the evolution of the archives over
many centuries of history. The original Tesoro di carte of the Counts of Savoy originated in the twelfth
century. In the Middle Ages, the Archives of the House of Savoy were preserved in Chambéry but was soon
divided into two sections: one Archive preserved titles, documents that were politically and legally important
for the dynasty; The second Archive collected documents related to the State accounts and finances. The
Titles Archive – which had been moved to Turin, the new capital at the request of Duke Emanuele Filiberto –
became Court Archive in the eighteenth century. Comprising the bulk of ancient Savoy Archives and postUnification Archives of the Italian state in the province of Turin, they represent today a source of information
and genuine bridge over history covering 1300 years of life of the Piedmont region, Italy and Europe. The
impressive building that now houses the National Archives was built between 1818 and 1843 as a hospital
and lazaret. Abandoned at the beginning of the nineteenth century, it was assigned to the Archives in 1925
and totally renovated in 1980.
Visitor information: +39 011 4604111 – www.archiviodistatotorino.beniculturali.it
Treating Shadows as Real Things
curated by PUBLIC FICTION (Los Angeles)
www.publicfiction.org
Museo della Sindone – Chiesa del SS. Sudario
Via San Domenico 28, Torino
8-11 November 2012 – every day 10am-10pm
Opening: 9 November 7-10pm
free admission
For believers, the Holy Shroud is a mysterious token of Christ’s reality: an icon – in the most profound,
spiritual sense of the term – that speaks to us of faith, whose presence leads from the visible to the
invisible. The image that it bears of a man who has died in the same manner as the Christ of the Gospels
demands that we make the effort to move past the object in and of itself. That is why Pope John Paul II called
it a “mirror of the Gospels”, emphasizing the expressive and evocative power of the image, which clearly
reflects the true drama of Christ’s Passion. The epiphanic quality of this icon is echoed by the inspiring
context of the Museum, and above all, by the superb Baroque decorations of the church dedicated to the
relic; its vaulted ceiling depicts the theophany of the Transfiguration, which is a change in perception and
substance, a change that is truly disorienting.
Public Fiction – Lauren Mackler in collaboration with Andrew Berardini – sidesteps the theological side of
the question to explore these concepts through a project that – within the field of reality – engages our
sensory, intellectual and spiritual perception, presenting a group exhibition that examines the flexibility of
perception and the realm of the metaphysical. Working from these ideas, with the desire to illustrate and
experiment with the ancient alchemist’s principle of “as above, so below”, Public Fiction has created a show
that functions almost like an optical illusion. On a mirrored floor, whose effect is meant to offset or
unsettle the way the viewer experiences the space, works by artists such as Lucas Blalock, Sarah Cain,
Giorgio de Chirico, Samara Golden, Mark Hagan, Anthony Lepore, Andrea Longacre-White, Carlo
Mollino, and Ry Rocklen have been strategically arranged. The choice of artists and works is based, on the
one hand, on a fascination with the fickle nature of perception, with participation, and with the possibility of
epiphany, and on the other, on the investigation of special effects and the “impossibility of the object” now
found in so much contemporary art.
Public Fiction is a physical space and publishing house founded in Los Angeles in 2010 by curator and
graphic designer Lauren Mackler. Treating graphic design as both an editorial and curatorial adventure,
Public Fiction organizes three-month cycles of exhibitions and events centred on a single theme. The object
of interest and investigation varies with the place and time, but is often linked to the history of Los Angeles,
and the overlap between fiction and reality that characterizes Southern California.
Museo della Sindone
The Museum of the Holy Shroud was founded in 1936 by the Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud and is housed
in the crypt of the church of Santissimo Sudario, its location since 15 April 1998. The museum presents
comprehensive information on Shroud-related research from the sixteenth century to the present, linking
together historical, scientific, devotional and artistic aspects. The objects on exhibit include: the X-rays taken
by G. Enrie in 1931, the coffer in which the Shroud arrived in Torino in 1578, etchings and antique books
from 1500 to 1800, three-dimensional images, electron microscope photographs of pollen, micro-traces of
textiles resulting from experiments aimed at explaining the image. The museum’s most treasured piece is the
sixteenth-century silver reliquary, decorated with precious stones, that held the Shroud until 1998. The visit is
brought to life by a series of virtual frescoes on the theme of Christ’s Passion that are projected on the
vaulted ceiling of the crypt in a slowly but constantly shifting pageant.
Visitor information: +39 011 4365832 – www.sindone.org
A Waiting Search
curated by SOMA (Mexico City)
http://somamexico.org
MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale
Via San Domenico 11, Torino
8-11 November 2012 – every day 10am-10pm
Opening: 9 November 7-10pm
reduced-price admission with ticket to Artissima
SOMA, a space for contemporary artistic training, has decided to collaborate with Mexican artist Daniel
Monroy Cuevas for Artissima LIDO. The video installation that Monroy Cuevas is presenting at MAO Museo
d’Arte Orientale transforms the museum, its architecture and its artefacts into an evocative path of discovery.
The artist manipulates and digitally merges images of dark, isolated corners of the building that he has
photographed, reprojecting them in an evocative “expedition underground” that superimposes different
points in time.
By darkening entire sections of the rooms, the artist guides the visitor's gaze to linger on parts and aspects
of the museum that are often overlooked, while blurring the line beween simulation, documentation and
reality. Monroy Cuevas’s aim is to use the architecture and the works on display to reveal the chronological
and historical manipulation inherent in the process of canonizing art and history. At the same time, by
revealing unfamiliar facets of MAO, the work highlights and underscores the role, position and responsibility
of a cultural institution, even from a metaphoric standpoint.
SOMA is a space for training contemporary artists, founded with the goal of proposing an alternative to the
conventional model of artistic education. SOMA includes three distinct platforms: an academic programme
equivalent to a master’s degree, an international competition for artist residencies, and an annual
programme open to the public. Since its inception, SOMA has offered an important alternative to the
dynamics of the Mexican school system and has grown into a vital centre for the contemporary art scene in
Mexico, providing an interdisciplinary platform for artists, academics and professionals working in the cultural
sphere.
SOMA has chosen to present the work of Monroy Cuevas, a student from the academic programme currently
underway, to emphasize the key importance of its educational mission.
Daniel Monroy Cuevas graduated from the Centro de Artes Audiovisuales of Guadalajara, Mexico, then
studied cinema at the Vancouver Film School. His work is primarily focused on drawing, video and
installation, exploring the physical and virtual boundaries of these media to generate aesthetic experiences
capable of sparking a new kind of emotional, mental and spatial awareness. His works are often conceived
for a specific place, allowing him to take advantage of its physical and spatial features and manipulate the
interaction between reality and fiction. Monroy Cuevas’s work overturns the conventions of film-based
representation, and his video installations focus our attention on the movement and space of the medium,
subverting the sequential approach to the cinematic sphere.
MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale
Inaugurated in 2008, the Museum of Asian Art is housed in historic Palazzo Mazzonis, a building from the
eighteenth century. The collection includes some 1500 of striking beauty and value, some from pre-existing
collections at various local museums, some acquired with the support of Città di Torino, Regione Piemonte
and Compagnia di San Paolo. The exhibition layout is divided into five very different cultural areas: South
Asia, China, Japan, the Himalayas and Islamic Countries, which naturally correspond to five different
exhibition spaces – connected, yet structurally distinct – that house the various sections.
Visitor information: +39 011 4436927 – www.maotorino.it
ARTISSIMA 2012
Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea
Sarah Cosulich Canarutto
Artistic Director
Sarah Cosulich Cararutto (b. 1974 in Trieste) was curator of the Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art in
Udine from 2004 to 2008, curating over 20 exhibition projects.
In the past she has worked in museums in Berlin and London, and in 2003 was assistant curator to
Francesco Bonami for the 50th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
She contributed to the creation of the Cardi Black Box gallery as its artistic director, overseeing its curatorial
programme for the first year of activity.
She has been based in Switzerland since 2010, acting as advisor to several private collections.
She has written about contemporary art for the art press and held seminars in museology and curatorship at
Universities in Italy and abroad. She is the author of the monographs on Jeff Koons (2006) and Gabriel
Orozco (2008) published in the Supercontemporanea series (by Electa Mondadori).
In February 2012 she was appointed director of Artissima in Torino, where she now lives.
ARTISSIMA 2012
International Fair of Contemporary Art
OVAL – Lingotto Fiere
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
9-10-11 November 2012
Open to the public / Every day 11am-7pm
Tickets
Full: € 15,00
Reduced: € 10,00 *
* Ages 12-18. Over 65. University students, upon presentation of university student record book.
Military, in uniform.
Free admission upon presentation of a Torino Musei subscription and Torino Card, from 9 to 11 November.
Free admission for persons with disabilities and one accompanying person.
Catalogue
Euro 18,00
ARTISSIMA is a brand name of Regione Piemonte, Provincia di Torino and Città di Torino. On behalf of
these three authorities, it is promoted by Fondazione Torino Musei, which has been set up by the City of
Turin to foster and promote the artistic and museum heritage of the city. The nineteenth ARTISSIMA is being
put on with the support of the three brand-owning authorities, together with Camera di commercio di
Torino, Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.
The fair is manged by Artissima srl.
ARTISSIMA
via Bertola 34 – 10122 Torino – T +39 011 19744106 – F +39 011 19746106
www.artissima.it – [email protected]
Main Partner:
Partner:
In-kind Sponsor:
Media Coverage:
UniCredit
Fiat, illycaffè, Iren, Lauretana, Lonmart
CarloAngela, Exclusive Brands Torino, Ferrero Rocher, l’Eclettico, Robe di Kappa,
Tisettanta
SKY Arte HD
PRESS CONTACTS
Paola C. Manfredi Studio
Via Marco Polo, 4 – 20124 Milano / T +39 02 87238004 – F + 39 02 87238014
[email protected]
Paola C. Manfredi – M +39 335 54 55 539 – [email protected]
Francesca Buonfrate – M +39 393 46 95 107 – [email protected]
Fondazione Torino Musei
T +39 011 4429523 – F +39 011 4429550
Daniela Matteu – [email protected]
Tanja Gentilini – [email protected]