Intesa Sanpaolo

Intesa Sanpaolo confirms its support for the new edition of Artissima, as the fair’s Main Partner for the fourth year.

The collaboration continues with the third edition of the exhibition project on images in motion, hosted in the spaces of Gallerie d’Italia – Torino. The exhibition is called The Underground Cinema and is curated by Irene Calderoni. In dialogue with the wider thematic framework of Artissima, the exhibition explores dream images suspended between waking and sleeping, light and darkness, reality and its projection on the screen of the unconscious. Taking its cue from the features of the exhibition space, an immersive underground architecture, the title evokes the reflections of Robert Smithson on cinema as a physical and psychological experience of abandon, torpor, in which memory gets lost in a “forest elsewhere”.

The selection of the works presented in a sequence of kaleidoscopic montages triggers multiple reflections with this near-hypnotic, liminal state, but not as a form of detachment from reality. Instead, it is like a strategy of access to a deeper level of memory, desire, knowledge and action. The program of works, on view until Sunday 3 November, includes artists represented by the galleries participating in Artissima.

Within the framework of this collaboration, La Condizione Umana, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, was presented in 2023, and Collective Individual, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, in 2022.

The dialogue with Intesa Sanpaolo also continues inside the fair with the presentation of an original exhibition project that confirms the value of the partnership with Artissima.