Naturecultures Art and Nature from poor art to today. From the Collections of the Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art CRT to the Castello di Rivoli curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Beccaria and Samuele Piazza.

Works by Mario Merz (Milan, 1925–2003), Marisa Merz (Turin, 1926–2019), Michelangelo Pistoletto (Biella, 1933), Giovanni Anselmo (Borgofranco d'Ivrea, Turin, 1934), Jannis Kounellis (Piraeus, 1936 - Rome, 2017), Piero Gilardi (Turin, 1942), Pier Paolo Calzolari (Bologna, 1943), Gilberto Zorio (Andorno Micca, Vercelli, 1944), Richard Long (Bristol, 1945), Giuseppe Penone (Garessio, Cuneo, 1947) , Amar Kanwar (New Delhi, 1964), Agnieszka Kurant (Łódź, 1978).

"From the knots of the wood you can see which side the tree soared in the sky, which side it absorbed the southern light, whether it was born in a crowded wood, in a meadow or on the edge of the wood", wrote Giuseppe Penone in 1970. At the same time to other international artists active since the end of the sixties of the last century, the artists of Arte Povera investigated the reality of physical experience and channeled into their works the invisible energy that flows in the world. They used elementary techniques and common materials to overcome the separation between nature and artifice. With their works, they anticipated contemporary ecology. Skeptical of accelerating economic development, they were aware of the need for a new environmental balance.