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Gallerie d'Italia, Intesa Sanpaolo's love for Turin

2022-05-17T11:03:00.247Z


(HANDLE) WATCH THE EVENT Great photography and the culture of the image are the protagonists of the Gallerie d'Italia in Turin, opened by Intesa Sanpaolo in Piazza San Carlo, the city's good living room. They were born in the baroque Palazzo Turinetti, the headquarters of the Sanpaolo Banking Institute since 1963 and today the registered office of the group. Spaces completely transformed in record time an


WATCH THE EVENT

Great photography and the culture of the image are the protagonists of the Gallerie d'Italia in Turin, opened by Intesa Sanpaolo in Piazza San Carlo, the city's good living room.

They were born in the baroque Palazzo Turinetti, the headquarters of the Sanpaolo Banking Institute since 1963 and today the registered office of the group.

Spaces completely transformed in record time and of great scenographic effect, in which a cultural hub comes to life, open to the city, with an exhibition path of 10 thousand square meters on five floors, three of which are underground.

It is the fourth seat of the Intesa Sanpaolo museum complex, with those of Milan, Vicenza and Naples.

One of the largest cultural investments in Italy, but also "an act of love for Turin" and a sign of the bond with the city, explain the bank's top representatives.

In the Galleries of

The first exhibition is "The fragile wonder. A journey into changing nature", a hundred shots by Paolo Pellegrin from the Magnum Photos agency.

"The protagonist is the fragile, suffering and always in danger nature", explains Walter Guadagnini, director of Camera-Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, who curated the exhibition with the collaboration of Mario Calabresi.

The other exhibition "From the war to the moon", curated by Giovanna Calvenzi and Aldo Grasso, tells the story of Italy reborn from the rubble of the Second World War up to the dreams linked to the conquest of the moon, through a selection of works from the Publifoto Archive which will have its new headquarters in the Galleries.

An enormous heritage, acquired by Intesa Sanpaolo in 2015, of over 7 million images taken from the Thirties to the Nineties.

On Floor -3,

where the second vault used to be, today there is the 'Immersive Room', a multimedia room that is "a true jewel of technology and innovation, equipped with 17 4K projectors capable of offering the visitor the sensation of being literally immersed in images and videos ".

In the Galleries there are also works from the historical collection of the bank with paintings, sculptures, tapestries, furniture in particular from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

"The opening of the Turin office, with a radical and audacious intervention by the architect Michele De Lucchi, is one of the most important stages in the history of the bank's commitment in the cultural field. In a scenario of dramatic uncertainty, it is a sign of hope and trust in the future "explains Giovanni Bazoli, president emeritus of Intesa Sanpaolo.

"In the rooms where vital decisions for the Bank were made, today you can breathe art, culture, creativity. The future comes from the roots", underlines the president Gian Maria Gros-Pietro. "The commitment to new initiatives such as the one we are inaugurating today is integral part of our Business Plan "affirms the CEO Carlo Messina."

Turin is enriched with a new space that will contribute to making the city more and more a protagonist in art and culture ”comments Mayor Stefano Lo Russo.

"Ours is a fortunate land because it can count on realities that, in addition to being the excellence of our economic system, have always had extraordinary sensitivity and corporate social responsibility", says the president of the Piedmont Region, Alberto Cirio.

Source: ansa

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