The Experience of Art / Special visit and conference of Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
13.07.2023 from 18:00 to 19:30
The Experience of Art
13 July 2023, 6pm* – 7.30pm
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Essere riservati. L’immortalità attraverso l’immortalità della propria collezione. Dalla precisione alla perfezione
Sala delle Orchidee – Villa Cerruti
On 13 July 2023, from 6pm to 7.30pm, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Director of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and of the Cerruti Foundation, will guide the public on a special visit to discover the secrets of Francesco Federico Cerruti and his collection of art and precious objects. The collector’s privileged relationship with the book and the binding will be addressed by examining an important work in the collection: the cusps depicting the announcing the Angel, the Redeemer and the announced Virgin, 1387-1388, by the Florentine painter Agnolo Gaddi.
* Tickets must be collected by 5.45pm at Castello di Rivoli Ticket Office
The conferences, for a maximum of 16 people, are held in the Sala delle Orchidee of Villa Cerruti and include a special visit to the Villa.
Reservation is required on the page https://www.castellodirivoli.org/tickets/#
The cost of the full ticket is € 26.50; reduced ticket € 19.50 (journalists, groups of 3 or more people, Abbonamento Musei Piemonte Valle d’Aosta); € 10.00 for university students up to the age of 26 and equivalent institutions. The ticket includes admission to Castello di Rivoli which can be visited on the same day, before the meeting. The Museum closes at 5.30pm, but it is possible to go to the Ticket Office in the Manica Lunga until 5.45pm.
The shuttle to the Cerruti Collection leaves at 5.55pm from the square in front of Castello di Rivoli.
To collect the ticket, it is necessary to go to the Castello di Rivoli Ticket Office at least 15 minutes before the departure of the shuttle.
[Image: Agnolo Gaddi, Angelo annunciante, Redentore, Vergine annunciata, 1387-88, Collection Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte, long-term loan Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin]
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Writer, art historian and curator. Currently director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte, Rivoli-Turin. She was the recipient of the 2019 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence and the Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University, Chicago (2013-19). In 2008 she curated the Sydney Biennial, followed by dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Banff, Alessandria-Cairo and Bamiyan-Kabul in 2012 and the 14th Istanbul Biennial in 2015. Her major publications include the monograph Arte Povera (London 1999).