ART CITIES:Turin-Passo Dopo Passo
The exhibition “Passo Dopo Passo” seeks to examine diverse historical and contemporary artworks and artistic practices that reflect on the status of movement, openness and enclosure, fear and expectations. Part of Young Curators Residency programme at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudeng, the exhibition is linked to an Italian perspective that of a country with an intrinsic relationship to questions of migration.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudeng Archive
While the works of “Passo Dopo Passo” are not presented chronologically, instead the exhibition presents the works in their autonomy and reflects. On presentation are several books by Fortunato Depero, an artist and designer affiliated with the Futurist Movement. These notebooks, manuscripts, and published books reveal the artist’s optimism associated with Modernism and his personal transatlantic ambitions, and the potential of new social order despite crippling violence. Shifting ahead to the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s works by Carla Accardi, Luigi Ontani, and Salvo represent a later generation of Italian artists. Their practices each reveal diverging conceptions of and reactions to reality, but share a common aesthetic vibrancy, and even playfulness. In their work, we see the conceptualization of alternate realities and social spaces. Stepping forward into Contemporary practices, the work of Vanessa Alessi, Elisa Caldana, Collettivo Fernweh, Nicolò Degiorgis, Cady Noland, and Turi Rapisarda illustrates a continuation of these themes and furthers the engagement with social space, movement and locality. In relation to issues of migration, the vision of horizon plays a central role. For instance, “Corral Gates” by Cady Noland is drawn from the collection at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudeng, the work is aninstallation that underscores the architectural mediation of space and of the body. The viewer encounters the scene and must pass through metal gates, those typically used to confine livestock. Bullets and a bridle are slung over the partially opened gate, suggesting violence that has occurred or is about to. The ongoing project of Vanessa Alessi “W-HOLE” (2014–ongoing), points to the constructed limitations and borders of space. The site of the exhibition is demarcated by Alessi’s transparent flag. Fixed atop the roof of the institution, W-HOLE (2014–ongoing) presents the attempt to delineate space while evoking personal and spatial identities. Structured as a semi-autonomous didactical activity the Young curators residency programme of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, through a series of a formational courses and part-time supporting activities, functions as trade union between the conclusion of an educational career and the entrance into the professional world.
Info: Curators: Tenzing Barshee, Molly Everett and Dorota Michalska, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Via Modane 16, Turin, Duration: 14/5-16/10/16, Days & Hours: Thu 11:00-20:00, Fri-Sat 1:00-19:00, www.fsrr.org
