Special projects in town

The collaboration between Intesa San Paolo and Artissima continues with the third edition of their moving image project, The Underground Cinema, curated by independent curator Irene Calderoni. The exhibition will be held at Gallerie d’Italia – Torino. This exhibition of video works, many exhibited for the first time in Italy, will feature artists represented by galleries participating in Artissima.

The installation Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear by Julian Charrière and Julius von Bismarck, in collaboration with the gallery Sies + Höke, will be on view during Artissima at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino. The work investigates the relationship between geological time and human time, the impact of climate change and the necessity of critically rethinking the man-nature relationship. The work activates an original dialogue between Artissima and the Museum, sector of Direzione Cultura e Commercio della Regione Piemonte.

Artissima, in collaboration with Città di Torino, presents Raised in the Dust, a video project by artist Andro Eradze (Georgia, 1993), at the former Zoo of Torino – Parco Michelotti, in collaboration with SpazioA gallery.
The film, produced in 2022, is inspired by the conclusion of the classic Georgian poem The Snake Eater (1901) by Vazha-Pshavela.
Eradze's film takes place in a forest where taxidermized animals appear one after another, disturbed by the noise of New Year's Eve fireworks.

Artissima curates the production of Euridome, a luminous installation supported by Consulta per la Valorizzazione dei Beni Artistici e Culturali di Torino and Unione Industriali Torino, created by Erik Saglia (Torino, 1989), Thomas Brambilla gallery. The installation joins the circuit Costellazione of Luci d’Artista 27. Euridome will be installed on the façade of the headquarters of the city’s business associations (Via Fanti 17) starting on 25 October, the opening day of Luci d’Artista, and it will continue to be visible to the public over time.

Thanks to the renewed dialogue between Artissima and UNA Esperienze, a UNA Group brand, the Salone delle Feste of the historic Hotel Principi di Piemonte | UNA Esperienze in the centre of Turin is hosting Afasia 1, by Arcangelo Sassolino, in which the artist us to reflect on the power of gesture and the emotional tension of waiting. The work addresses themes of change and time, revealing how what appears definitive can suddenly and unexpectedly transition into a new reality. This project is in collaboration with Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Havana, Roma, Sao Paulo, Paris, Dubai).

The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo hosts Hearsay, the solo exhibition of Bekhbaatar Enkhturz (Matèria, Rome), winner of the 2023 edition of the illy Present Future Prize. The exhibition presents a new series of works by Enkhtur that investigate the symbolic and metonymic potential of animals and humans to examine the relationship between visual and linguistic representation. Here, fantastical creatures appear in metal bas-relief as both images and forms, representing figurative beings and figures of speech.

VANNI exclusively launches EMBRACE, a capsule collection of artist-designed eyewear created by Elisa Alberti, the winner of the VANNI #artistroom Prize at Artissima 2023. Alongside the eyewear collection, the VANNI showroom will also feature a selection of Alberti’s artworks in collaboration with Krobath Gallery (Vienna). The collection comes to life from the inspiration that drives Elisa Alberti’s paintings and sculptural works, showcasing their distinctive characteristics: purposeful use of color, play with forms, spatial composition, and tactile surface quality.