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The show
artists: Stefano Arienti, Bartira, Betty Bee, Dafne Boggeri, Monica Bonvicini, Benni Bosetto, Giulia Cenci, Isabella Costabile, Roberto Cuoghi, Enrico David, Gino De Dominicis, Tomaso De Luca, Caterina De Nicola, Chiara Fumai, Marco Giordano, Kinkaleri , Eva Marisaldi, Giulia Piscitelli, RM, Marinella Senatore
with a tribute to Gianfranco Baruchello, Marisa and Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto
Edited by Stefano Collicelli Cagol with Michele Bertolino
23 September – 19 November 2023
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Piazza Roma 1, Guarene (CN)
Inauguration 23 September, h. 17
From 23 September to 19 November, at Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene, the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation presents that it will be, an exhibition itinerary structured through the works of twenty artists active in Italy, from sculpture to installation, to painting and video. The exhibition, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol with Michele Bertolino, is part of the planning of the Contemporary Art Foundations Committee and opens on the occasion of the Turin stage of Bel Paese. Promoting Italian art around the world, a project for the valorisation and internationalization of the Italian art scene resulting from the collaboration between the Committee and the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture. The exhibition is part of SNODI.
that will be proposes the positions of artists who have dismembered the idea of personal or collective identity, instead drawing expanded bodies and alternative landscapes, imagining different and metamorphic times, writing stories with changing outcomes. The title - a portmanteau of the songs Che Sara dei Ricchi e Poveri and Que sera sera - alludes to an indefinite future, perhaps already happened or yet to come, recalls demobilization, disengagement from the self and openness to possible events.
What is personal identity? Is there a collective identity to which we conform? What are the strategies with which we can avoid dynamics that pigeonhole bodies and desires? Can we be opaque, fugitive, hidden? The works on display suggest possible paths beyond the here and now occupied by the single body.
Betty Bee, Monica Bonvicini, Enrico David, Marco Giordano and Kinkaleri place identity in the body and interpret it as a space of transformation, an area on which the pressures of the social, urban or natural context are exerted, or dark matter to be shaped, pulped, whose desires and drives act as diversions. The body, whether human or otherwise, is itself subject to latent tensions: it is a space in which multiplicity of beings coexist, as shown in RM's work, or it is an organic, changing object, in the work of Roberto Cuoghi and Giulia Cenci.
Bartira, Dafne Boggeri and Caterina De Nicola discuss the coercive mechanisms of the political and social context in which we live: recovering the memories of erased stories, they wear balaclavas, with which to make themselves dark. In other cases, the balaclava is that pen with which the characters write their stories themselves - as Marinella Senatore's video reminds us. In the works of Stefano Arienti, Tomaso De Luca and Eva Marisaldi, the gaze can deceive, show us what is not there – it becomes a way to get lost, to let one's boundaries fall apart.
Artists such as Benni Bosetto, Isabella Costabile, Gino De Dominicis, Chiara Fumai and Giulia Piscitelli investigate the ritual, magical and transcendent dimension of bodies and objects, showing cosmological inspiration as strategies through which to collectivise desires, thoughts and actions, rewriting the dynamics of the times.
who will be finds these lines in the works of Italian artists active between the nineties and the present - trying to reconstruct a possible disparate geography, hanging upside down by a thread, in which the languages of the visual arts reveal their contaminations with music, fashion, cinema, poetry and underground culture. An exhibition in which desires and impulses are tools with which to get lost, opportunities with which to shape one's appearance and mirrors in which to recognize new forms of community.
Together with the exhibition, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo displays a tribute to Marisa and Mario Merz, Gianfranco Baruchello and Michelangelo Pistoletto, whose works come from the foundations dedicated to them which are part of the Contemporary Art Foundations Committee.
The work Urlo by the Kinkaleri collective will be visible, for the entire duration of the exhibition, on numerous public billboards throughout the municipal area of Guarene. The work was created thanks to the participation of the citizens of Guarene, in collaboration with the civic library and the educational department of the Foundation.
The Foundation organizes a shuttle service to reach the Guarene exhibition space. A bus will leave from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation (Via Modane 16, Turin) at 4.00 pm and will depart from Guarene towards Turin at 7.30 pm. To book, send an email to: press@fsrr.org.
