Four exhibitions
29 May–5 August 2012
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Via Modane 16
Torino 10141, Italy
From 29 May to 5 August 2012, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents four exhibitions that continue its long-term commitment to the promotion of Italian contemporary art worldwide and to the research and discovery of young emerging talent from all corners of the globe.
Underneath the Street, the Beach
Final Exhibition, Young Curators Residency Programme
Curated by Benoit Antille, Michele Fiedler, and Andrey Parshikov
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino and VICTORIA – the Art of being Contemporary, Moscow, with Compagnia di San Paolo, Torino present Underneath the Street, the Beach.
Underneath the Street, the Beach is inspired by the protest slogan “Sous les pavés, la plage,” used during the French May 1968 protests. The exhibition presents works by artists who experiment with disruptive strategies and counter-narratives in order to create new dynamics and conditions for visibility within the socio-political, cultural, and urban Italian context of today. By drawing on both the vitality and poetic content of the featured works, the exhibition suggests imagining new aspects of life beyond the obvious surface.
Artists: Yuri Ancarani, Francesco Arena, Ludovica Carbotta, Angelo Castucci, Danilo Correale, Luca De Leva, Tomaso De Luca, Giulio Delvè, Tony Fiorentino, Helena Hladilova, Renato Leotta, Beatrice Marchi, Liliana Moro, Maria Pecchioli, Alessandro Quaranta, Andrea Romano, Mirko Smerdel, Nico Vascellari, Valentina Vetturi
The Young Curators Residency programme organised annually by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo aims to develop young curators’ intellectual and professional capabilities and to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide. Every year three young foreign curators are invited to Italy for a four-month residency that culminates in the curation of a final show. The programme is coordinated by London-based curator Stefano Collicelli Cagol.
Greater Torino
Double solo show: Rä di Martino and Laura Pugno
Curated by Irene Calderoni and Maria Teresa Roberto
Special projects curated by Giorgina Bertolino
Greater Torino is an annual exhibition showcasing the work of two artists based in Turin. The artists invited to this third edition are Rä di Martino (b. 1975, Rome) and Laura Pugno (b. 1975, Biella). Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo will present recent works by the two artists who, despite using different approaches and means of expression, both focus their research on the theme of landscape (natural and architectural), viewed as a space for physical and mental experience, as a cultural construct, and as the object of visions and representations containing multiple poetic and political connotations.
ARTLAND Series
Chao Kao
Curated by Francesco Bonami
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents the first edition of ARTLAND, a new series of exhibitions focusing on emerging artists from all over the world.
The first artist in the series to be presented at the Fondazione’s centre for contemporary in Turin is Chao Kao, an artist of Chinese origin who lived in Jonkowo in Poland for many years and who currently lives and works in Oregon, USA. Chao Kao presents a series of still life paintings, which reveal his fascination with anonymous objects and spaces, such as corners, pipes, and shoelaces. Although he has been actively working for many years, this will be Chao Kao’s first exhibition in an arts institution.
Julien Creuzet
Standard & Poor’s, on the Way, the Price of Glass
Curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, in collaboration with École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA – Lyon), presents the first ever solo exhibition in Italy by Julien Creuzet, a participant of the Postgraduate programme promoted by ENSBA – Lyon. Julien Creuzet was born in France in 1986, lived in Martinique, and is currently based in Lyon.
Standard & Poor’s, on the Way, the Price of Glass brings together a series of works inspired by glass and the role it played in the process of colonisation. As harmless as they may look at first sight, these works, and the detail in them, are pervaded by tension and instability, thus exposing the violence inherent in the power relationships that have governed humanity since the beginning of time.
