Posted By: stefano rollero @ 12/06/2007 11:18:34 AM
Comment: Even Turin, the city where I live and work, was regarded as the "City of car." As Detroit. The presence of bulky FIAT stifled any other initiative. Everything has changed, today, contemporary Turin is a label that represents a number of structures, initiatives and events that were born and have grown and developed in the city, unanimously considered the capital of contemporary art by critics and artists alike. One only has to think that Arte Povera was born here in the 1960s and that internationally famous artists still live and work here.
Turin (Torino) is also the home of 4 major institutions dedicated to contemporary art: Castello di Rivoli (Rivoli Castle), GAM Galleria d???Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l???Arte (the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation for Art) and the more recent Fondazione Merz (Merz Foundation). Art is also business, and an important specialist art fair is held in Turin (Torino), Artissima of november, which features an ever increasing number of Italian and international galleries.
Many of them are Turinese, and have always animated city life with their vernissages, where the most in vogue artists and emerging talents can be found. Art and history are very much at home in Turin (Torino), and this can be seen by the city???s museums and palazzos, its piazzas, courtyards and churches, its urban development works and exhibitions, its historic relics and avant-garde pieces, its traditions and its progress. With more than 40 museums, Turin (Torino) will introduce you to many amazing worlds, while its buildings each tell a significant part of the city???s history. In fact, many great architects, city planners and landscapers have played a significant role in Turin (Torino) development over the centuries and even today, the most important names in architecture are called upon to redesign the city and plan alterations.
Stefano Rollero
Visit art gallery on: http://www.artmajeur.com/catanquader
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