Castello di Rivoli, mostre d'arte contemporanea, collezione permanente arte contemporanea mostre per bambini, giovani artisti Liliana Moro, , Alessandra Tesi, Grazia Toderi, Alighiero Boetti

In 1999 the CRT Foundation began a project to strengthen the modern and contemporary art system in the Turin metropolitan area, focusing on the two major institutions in the sector, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin.
From the outset, the project’s principal goal has been the acquisition of works of art, particularly Italian works, in order to expand and enrich the collections of the two museums, and to enable these institutions to provide an exhaustive and qualitatively high selection of the figurative arts in our country, beginning with the postwar period.To ensure that this activity has the requisite continuity and flexibility, in late 2000 the CRT Foundation established the Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art CRT, which operates with the advice of a Steering Committee whose members are Rudi Fuchs, David Ross, and Sir Nicholas Serota, and the Directors of the two Turin museums, Ida Gianelli and Pier Giovanni Castagnoli. Over the years, funds have been provided for various acquisition campaigns, the focus of which has ranged from the Arte povera movement, to the Transavanguardia, to Italian painting from the 1950s and early 1960s, to Italian sculpture beginning with the postwar period – without, however, neglecting the acquisition of particularly significant individual pieces of Italian art from the second half of the 20th century.
A new phase recently began, which calls for the expansion of the scope of acquisitions to include foreign artists, the dedication of more space to recent works by young artists, and the acquisition of works on the occasion of temporary exhibitions, as well as, particularly for Castello di Rivoli, funding for the creation of works designed expressly for the Museum. The latter developments have been carried out in conjunction with the exhibition Concetto, Corpo e Sogno /Concept, Body and Dream, with the acquisition of seven works, including two installations designed specifically for the Castello.
The work accomplished thus far has allowed the two museums to avail themselves of a collection – theoretically shared – of nearly 180 works, of which approximately half are stored at the Castello, corresponding to an overall investment of 16.8 million Euro.
We believe that the CRT Project for Modern and Contemporary Art can now be considered a venture that is well-established, but whose specific characteristics are continually evolving. For example, the CRT collection stored at the Castello is now available for viewing on the Internet. This represents an invaluable and widely accessible learning tool for all those who are interested in contemporary art.

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