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From the Electronic Eye. Works from the Video Collection of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art
Curated by Marcella Beccaria September 21 – October 16, 2005 The exhibition From the Electronic Eye presents a selection of the videos the Castello di Rivoli has collected up to today. Like the collection, the exhibition includes works that…
Arte Povera in the collection
Curated by Ida Gianelli, Marcella Beccaria, Giorgio Verzotti Arte Povera, which developed during the second half of the ‘Sixties simultaneous to analogous international movements such as Process Art and Conceptual Art, proposed an artistic working methodology that, establishing a…
Franz Ackermann. B.I.T. New Generations
Curated by Marcella Beccaria A restless voyager, Franz Ackermann (Neumarkt St. Veit, Germany, 1963) nurtures his artistic research through long displacements. Brief stays in the city of Berlin, where his studio is located, alternate with numerous trips that have…
Paola Pivi. A project for the castello
Curated by Marcella Beccaria For Paola Pivi (Milan, 1971) the work of art is an expression of a form of reality liberated to its greatest expressive potential. Each piece by the artist, who always works with different materials, represents…
Roni Horn
Curated by Marcella Beccaria Intentionally open to different interpretations, the works of Roni Horn (New York, 1955) investigate the subtle processes that lead to the construction of identity. Through installations, sculptures, photographs or texts the American artist captures the…
Hannah Starkey. A project for the castello
Curated by Marcella Beccaria Narrative fiction set in contemporary reality, each photograph by Hannah Starkey (Belfast, 1971), is a different exploration of the life of women and their daily interactions. To execute her photographs the artist uses professional actresses…
Elizabethe Peyton. A rpoject for the castello
Curated by Marcella Beccaria Personalities taken from history, the news, rock stars and friends from the art world are the protagonists of the eclectic gallery of portraits created by Elizabeth Peyton (Danbury, Connecticut, 1965). The portraits are executed from video…
Alessandra Tesi. A project for the castello
Curated by Marcella Beccaria Alessandra Tesi (Bologna, 1969) investigates the hidden aspects of reality, creating installations, videos and photographs that stage what is invisible, absent or forgotten. Like a world covered by a veil of painting, in the artist’s…
Olafur Eliasson. A project for the castello
Curated by Marcella Beccaria Olafur Eliasson (Copenhagen, 1967) interrogates the possibilities of human perception. His installations, created using intentionally simple technology, evoke natural phenomena or those that belong to everyday experience. They place viewers at the center of defined…
Grazia Toderi
Curated by Ida Gianelli, Marcella Beccaria The videos of Grazia Toderi (Padua, 1963), atemporal images with pictorial qualities, are characterized by the use of a fixed video camera and by a circular structure that contradicts the narrative possibilities of…
