Turin presents the exhibitions to visit in the city in 2022: history of cinema, photography, ancient civilizations, the art of drawing, and modern art, there are no more excuses not to take advantage of it.
Dario Argento The Exhibit from April 6 to January 16, 2023 – National Museum of Cinema in Turin
Dario Argento, undisputed master of cinema, screenwriter, and producer, is at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, located in the stunning setting of the Mole Antonelliana, until January 16, 2023 with “Dario Argento – The Exhibit” curated by Domenico De Gaetano and Marcello Garofalo.
“Dario Argento – The Exhibit” chronologically retraces the entire production and career of Dario Argento, from his debut with the film The Bird with the Crystal Plumage in 1970, to his latest work Dark Glasses in 2022.
Dario Argento, a director straddling auteur cinema and avant-garde, is presented in the exhibition through a summary of the themes that recur in his works, thanks to curiosities, quotes, photographs, film sequences, sketches, posters, costumes, mechanized creatures, and soundtracks.
“Dario Argento – The Exhibit” examines the aspects that over the years have contributed to defining the unique aesthetic that has made him a standout in the world of cinema.
Also on display are some of the works from high fashion houses that created costumes and jewelry for Argento, along with creations from Italian masters of special effects.
“Dario Argento – The Exhibit” takes us into the spectral and macabre world of the king of nightmares.
Masterpieces of Modern Photography 1900-1940 until June 26, 2022 – CAMERA Italian Center for Photography
CAMERA – Italian Center for Photography presents “Masterpieces of Modern Photography 1900-1940. The Thomas Walther Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.”
Turin hosts the exhibition until June 26, 2022 and features an extraordinary selection of over 230 photographs from the first half of the 20th century, considered absolute masterpieces created by 121 legendary photographers.
Masterpieces of Modern Photography 1900-1940 brings together names and iconic images of American photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, and Edward Weston and Europeans like Karl Blossfeldt, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, and August Sander.
The Walther collection, from which the exhibition takes shape, also collects and highlights the work of female photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Marianne Breslauer, Claude Cahun, Lore Feininger, Florence Henri, Irene Hoffmann, Lotte Jocobi, Lee Miller, Tina Modotti, Germaine Krull, Lucia Moholy, and Leni Riefenstahl.
In addition to the masterpieces of Bauhaus photography (László Moholy-Nagy, Iwao Yamawaki), constructivism (El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodčenko, Gustav Klutsis), and surrealism (Man Ray, Maurice Tabard, Raoul Ubac), we also find the futurist experiments of Anton Giulio Bragaglia and the abstract compositions of Luigi Veronesi, two of the Italians present in the exhibition along with Wanda Wulz and Tina Modotti.
Invitation to Pompeii until August 29, 2022 – Palazzo Madama
Palazzo Madama presents the exhibition Invitation to Pompeii, curated by Palazzo Madama and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.
The exhibition is a true invitation to visit the houses of Pompeii, imagining what they might have originally been like and capturing the atmospheres, furnishings, everyday objects, and even the most fashionable decorations.
The exhibition path unfolds within the Senate Hall and then through the most representative environments of the most luxurious houses of Pompeii in the 1st century AD.
Visiting the exhibition is an opportunity to dive into the past, back to 79 AD, the year when Vesuvius brought an end to one of the most prosperous civilizations of antiquity.
Today, only a part of Pompeii remains, which, despite its invaluable historical value, is the skeleton of its ancient splendor. Invito a Pompei manages to stop time, allowing us to relive what daily life was like at the foot of the Vesuvius.
The exhibition path opens with the model from the late 19th century of the House of the Tragic Poet, a work that has inspired the imagination of travelers and artists of the Grand Tour for centuries.
The exhibition features over 120 works, including furnishings, statues, jewelry, bronzes, glassware, and decorative apparatuses.
It is presented to the visitor in a journey through domestic spaces such as the atrium, the triclinium, the peristyle with the garden, and the bedrooms. The exhibition concludes with the dramatic casts of some victims.
Invito a Pompei is a 360-degree visit to the last days of life in the city at the foot of Vesuvius.
IN THE SIGN OF RAPHAEL Drawings of the Italian Renaissance from the collections of the Royal Library until July 17, 2022 – Royal Museums of Turin
The Royal Museums of Turin host, until July 17, 2022, the exhibition IN THE SIGN OF RAPHAEL Drawings of the Italian Renaissance from the collections of the Royal Library.
The exhibition spans a remarkable 70 years of Italian drawing history.
It begins with Perugino, under whose guidance Raphael studied, and continues with the artistic contributions of other names from the Renaissance such as Giulio Romano, Parmigianino, Peruzzi, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Bandinelli, Girolamo da Carpi.
IN THE SIGN OF RAPHAEL is the result of an in-depth study of the materials and drawings belonging to the Library to identify those that can be traced back to Raphael’s circle.
This exhibition allows for a deeper understanding of the art of drawing, a more intimate yet equally expressive medium compared to other more well-known techniques.
Naturecultures Art and Nature from Arte Povera to today until September 22 – OGR Turin
Naturecultures. Art and Nature from Arte Povera to today. From the Collections of the Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art CRT to the Castle of Rivoli, it is on display at the Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin until September 22.
The exhibition showcases works by artists belonging to the Arte Povera movement, active in Italy since the late 1960s and which included many Turinese and Piedmontese representatives, such as Mario Merz along with his wife Marisa and Michelangelo Pistoletto.
In addition to them, we also find Giovanni Anselmo, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Piero Gilardi, Amar Kanwar, Jannis Kounellis, Agnieszka Kurant, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giuseppe Penone, and Gilberto Zorio.
The arte povera movement was characterized by the use of elementary techniques and equally common materials, becoming somewhat of an anticipation of contemporary ecology.
These are free artists, not confined within defined artistic expressions but ready to experiment through the free crossing of different mediums such as painting, sculpture, performance, film, and photography in the broadest possible conception of installation.
Thanks to the synergy between the Museum and the Foundation, Turin and Piedmont have been able to build, in just over twenty years, one of the most significant collections of contemporary art in the world, shared publicly.
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