Nobuyoshi Araki
Matthew Barney
Larry Clark
Saul Fletcher
Nan Goldin
Francesco Jodice
Barbara Kruger
Zoe Leonard
Tracey Moffatt
Shirin Neshat
Sakiko Nomura
Thomas Ruff
Collier Schorr
Cindy Sherman
Hannah Starkey
Thomas Struth
Alessandra Tesi
Jeff Wall
Paolo Bernabini
Cristiano Berti
Luca Campigotto
Daniele De Lonti
Donatella Di Cicco
Gianni Ferrero Merlino
Luigi Gariglio
Tancredi Mangano
Francesca Rivetti
Annalisa Sonzogni
Alexandra Spranzi
Filippo Maggia
Peter Weiermair
Josep V. Monzo'
The exhibition presents the most representative works from the collection of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte in a selection of 58 artists and about 150 photographs, from which one can see the evolution of the history of the collection through the personal choices of its director, Patrizia Sandretto, and the development of the latest trends in the use of writing with light, without the prevalence of any distinction in the material selected, ranging from small, simple photographs in black and white or colour on gloss paper to the most strange manipulations on a variety of large supports.
Curators:
Filippo Maggia, Peter Weiermair and Josep V. Monzò
Organised by:
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern IVAM
The exhibition presents the most representative works from the collection
of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte in a selection of 58
artists and about 150 photographs, from which one can see the evolution of
the history of the collection through the personal choices of its
director, Patrizia Sandretto, and the development of the latest trends in
the use of writing with light, without the prevalence of any distinction
in the material selected, ranging from small, simple photographs in black
and white or colour on gloss paper to the most strange manipulations on a
variety of large supports. An overview of the work of important
contemporary authors who use photography as a tool of artistic expression,
together with the work of Italian authors, with names such as: Nobuyoshi
Araki, Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Saul Fletcher, Nan Goldin, Francesco
Jodice, Barbara Kruger, Zoe Leonard, Tracey Moffatt, Shirin Neshat, Sakiko
Nomura, Thomas Ruff, Collier Schorr, Cindy Sherman, Hannah Starkey, Thomas
Struth, Alessandra Tesi and Jeff Wall. The selection displays the most
recent trends. The illustrated catalogue with reproductions of all the
photographs exhibited contains a text in the form of a conversation
between Filippo Maggia and Patrizia Sandretto, curator and director of the
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, respectively, Peter
Weiermair, director of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Bologna, and Josep
Vicent Monzó, curator of photography at the IVAM.
The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte was created in Turin on
6 April 1995 and received the official recognition of the region of
Piedmont on 2 May 1995. Its activity concentrates on providing new
generations of artists, critics and curators with the support required for
the development of their work. Its interest ranges over all the variants
of the world of contemporary art, the promotion of research and the
diffusion of the most significant works that have marked the successive
changes of recent decades. Its attention is directed towards all the
visual arts: painting, sculpture, photography, video, installations,
performances ? It organises exhibitions, conferences, seminars and
children's workshops, presents publications of all its activities and
holds competitions. For these reasons, the exhibition continues with the
work of the youngest Italian authors, such as Paolo Bernabini, Cristiano
Berti, Luca Campigotto, Daniele De Lonti, Donatella Di Cicco, Gianni
Ferrero Merlino, Luigi Gariglio, Tancredi Mangano, Francesca Rivetti,
Annalisa Sonzogni and Alexandra Spranzi.
The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte has established contacts
with other cultural centres in Italy and the rest of Europe, and in
September 1997 it inaugurated a new space in the Alba de Guarene museum, a
historic building dating from the seventeenth century which has been
transformed into a space for the exhibition of contemporary art,
preserving the volumes and atmosphere of the past with the minimum
architectural intervention necessary for the optimum presentation of
exhibitions.
Among the numerous activities of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
per l'Arte, those connected with photography stand out. In 1996 the
exhibition Passaggi was presented in Turin, a survey of photography in
contemporary Italian
art, devoted to previously unseen photographic work by seven young Italian
artists. Curated by Antonella Russo, it was also presented in Paris and in
the Swiss city of Bellinzona. December 2000 marked the opening in Taormina
(Sicily) of Da Guarene all'Etna, via mare, via terra, curated by Filippo Maggia,
which invited fifteen artists to reinterpret
Luigi Ghirri's Viaggio en Italia (Journey in Italy, 1984) with complete freedom
and in a contemporary key.
The exhibition was presented at the Galleria Civica in Modena and
travelled to Naples and Milan. The most recent exhibition, Strategies, was
presented in 2001 at the Museion, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bolzano,
the Kunsthalle zu Kiel of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität and the
Rupertinum Salzburg, Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst. In
September 2002 the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte
inaugurated its new premises in Turin, a new building designed by Claudio
Silvestrin and built at Via Modane 16, with the exhibition ex IT nuove geografie
della creatività italiana, curated by Francesco Bonami.
The exhibition, organised jointly by the IVAM, the Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo per l'Arte and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, will
travel to Bologna after it closes at the IVAM.
Venues:
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern IVAM
October 2003 - January 2004
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna: January - June 2004
IVAM- Institut Valencià d'Art Modern
Guillem de Castro 118, 46003 Valencia
Telf: +34 96 38 67680
Fax: +34 96 39 21094