CURATED EXHIBITIONS
Assembramenti, exhibition at Paratissima International Art Fair, 23 October – 3 November 2020, Turin.
First personal exhibition of Belgian artist David Delruelle (Brussels, 1988) in Turin.
Press release (in Italian)
Press release (in French)
Contaminazione, exhibition at the Covid Hospital - OGR, Officine Grandi Riparazioni Museum, 24 June - 15 July 2020, Turin.
With: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti & mvt/architectes - Marc Angeli - ANTILIA gallery (Fabiana Dicuonzo and Giuseppe Resta) - Pascale Barret - Florent Bellamy - Barbara Bergaglio - Melania Berlen - Valerio Berruti - Big Mountain County - Benedetta Bodo di Albaretto, Project Marta - Giulio Caresio - Ermanno Cavaliere - Noëlle Clou - Céline Cuvelier - Lieven De Boeck - Hannah De Corte - Gian Giacomo Della Porta - Enrico Ferrarini - Maurizio Ferraris - Michel François - Mario García Torres - Régis Gonzalez - Francesco Granieri - Ezio Gribaudo - Paola Gribaudo - Giorgio Griffa - Lotta Hannerz - Marie Hume - Paolo Inverni - Dominique Loreau - Astrid Malingreau - Gianluigi Maria Masucci - Maxime Matthys - Selçuk Mutlu e Lola Zefi - Nero/Alessandro Neretti - Elena Pelosi - Marie-Françoise Plissart - Barbara Polla - Paolo Robino - Fabrice Samyn - Fabrizio Santona - Alessandro Saturno - Agnès Thurnauer - David Tremlett - Fabio Viale - Dario Voltolini - Peter Wüthrich - Silvio Zamorani
Press release: Italian
Aurora Eterna, exhibition at the Officina della Scrittura Museum, 31 May 2019 – 31 January 2020, Turin.
The exhibition confronts the centenary history of the famous Aurora company (within whose walls also stands the Officina della Scrittura Museum) to the course of political, cultural and artistic events in Italy and the world from 1919 to 2019. For each decade, a mischievous dialogue is implemented between two lines of time, with a space shared between ten iconic pens and works of art, design objects and historical records. Each part of the exhibition is meant to stand for a single dawn, made of events and objects noteworthy due to the mark they have left in the world.
A portrait of Marilyn by Philippe Halsman chats with a reduced model aircraft made by Carlo Mollino, the Pipistrello of Gae Aulenti illuminates the Panton Chair of Verner Panton, a lithography by Giorgio De Chirico meets a manifesto of Sol LeWitt and an object holder by Joe Colombo; Bruce Nauman’s paintings look at the Tempo libero of Bruno Munari. There are also works of BHQF, David Delruelle, Peter Downsbrough, Lotta Hannernz, Albert Peppermans, Kelly Schacht and Nari Ward, together with letters and documents of Gabriele d’Annunzio, Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia and Gio Ponti.
Many historical photographs and particular objects complete this extensive collection, made possible thanks to the cooperation of various Italian cultural organisations. The last decade, ending in 2019, is marked by letters sent to the Museum on the occasion of this exhibition by international artists and authors, like Emilia Azcárate, Paolo Babbiotti, Pascale Barret, Louise Bellamy, Leonardo Caffo, Lieven De Boeck, Hannah De Corte, Gian Giacomo Della Porta, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sébastien Fayard, Fred Forest, Michel François, Régis Gonzalez, Francesco Granieri, Ezio Gribaudo, Giorgio Griffa, Arturo Herrera, Emilio Isgrò, Pierre Jourde, Selçuk Mutlu, Giulio Paolini, Fabienne Radi, Stéphanie Roland, Rayyane Tabet, Agnès Thurnauer and David Tremlett.
Ekphrasis, l'art de Roger Pierre Turine, exhibition at the NH Bloom hotel, 6 – 20 December 2018, Brussels.
Roger Pierre Turine manages to take up a difficult challenge: that of exemplifying, with his words, a huge amount of myths related to the figure of the artist. It is to salute this new talent – illustrative of a certain type of art critic and a certain way of interpreting works of art – that we chose his texts as the primary material of this exhibition. Roger Pierre Turine gauges the art of others: it is his own art of ekphrasis that is now submitted to the artists for appreciation. 29 excerpts from the author's texts published in the "Arts" section of the Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique throughout the years have been grouped under themes echoing, in our opinion, the current conception of art, marked with "romantic" connotations.
These themes are moreover topics about the artist, presenting him as a craftsman at the service of shapes and materials (1); an authentic creator (2); an "enlightened" solitary wolf (3) obsessed with his artistic "mission" (4); an ultra-sensitive being able to reveal and express the intimate and the hidden (5). Singing seemed to us to be the most appropriate form to pay tribute to the lyricism inspired by the Belgian critic. In 1972, Californian conceptual artist John Baldessari sang the famous "Paragraphs on conceptual art" of his counterpart in the Northeast of the United States, Sol LeWitt; in this exhibition, 19 contemporary artists or collectives will interpret the (almost) equally famous paragraphs of art critic Roger Pierre Turine.
With: Ysemetrics (Stephan Balleux & Yvan Vankeer), Pascale Barret, Louise Bellamy, Sergio Beercock, Céline Cuvelier, Lieven De Boeck, Hannah De Corte & Alice van den Berg, David Delruelle, Joséphine de Weck, Bernard Gigounon, Régis Gonzalez, Elsa Guénot, Aurelio Mattern, Selçuk Mutlu, Bill Noir, Fabienne Radi, Évariste Richer, Gianni U’rss & Gió Cialone.
Press release (in French)
Exhibition booklet (in French)
OTHER WORKS
Un tasto italiano – Remington e Cesare Verona a Torino, exhibition coordinated at the Officina della Scrittura Museum, 31 May 2019 – 31 January 2020, Turin.
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Dialogo letterario tra Dario Voltolini e Gian Giacomo Della Porta, literary lunchtime conversation organised at the Officina della Scrittura Museum, 6 October 2019, Turin.
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