TURIN - The new Agnelli Art Gallery is born, where art and landscape interact in a symbolic place in Turin.
No longer just the museum, with unpublished exhibitions and a new set-up of the precious collection of Giovanni and Marella Agnelli, but a wide-ranging artistic project, signed by the director Sara Cosulich flanked by an all-female team.
The strong point is the space dedicated to sculptures and installations by international artists on the legendary Pista 500 on the roof of the Lingotto, which in the Fiat factory was used for testing cars.
Here today is the highest roof garden in Europe with 40,000 plants and the test drive route of the new Fiat 500, the symbolic car of Stellantis.
"Everything starts from the project of the electric 500, it was the
an opportunity to make this track, which was an important symbol of architecture in the world, more alive "said John Elkann commenting on the new course of the Pinacoteca, chaired by his sister Ginevra." With the initiative to integrate art with nature we had the opportunity to create a track projected into the future, through the Fiat brand which has a history and is the most progressive of the group.
It is a brand deeply rooted in Turin, where there is great vitality. "The new Pinacoteca kicks off tomorrow, May 27, with installations on Pista 500 by contemporary artists - Nina Beier, Valie Export, Sylvie Fleury, Shilpa Gupta , Louise Lawler, Mark Leckey and Cally Spooner - and with two exhibitions. One is 'Turn Me On', a solo show by Sylvie Fleury, curated by Sara Cosulich and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti:
60 works in seven rooms, the most complete exhibition in Italy dedicated to the artist to date.
The other is' Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar.
A dialogue with the Fondation Beyeler ', curated by Sarah Cosulich, Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Beatrice Zanelli, where some Picasso masterpieces and shots by Maar are exhibited.
The starting point is the portrait of Pablo Picasso Homme Appuyé sur une table of the Pinacoteca Agnelli which is related to three other portraits by Picasso from the 1930s depicting Dora Maar: La femme qui pleure, Buste de femme au chapeau, Femme en vert.
Twenty years after the inauguration of Renzo Piano's exhibition, the project foresees that each time we start from a different work of the Scrigno to establish a dialogue and reflect on the presences as well as the absences of the collection.
