AMACI Giornata del Contemporaneo 2024
12.10.2024 from 11:00 to 18:45
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea joins AMACI Giornata del Contemporaneo
Saturday, 12 October 2024 11:00 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Free entry
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea joins AMACI Giornata del Contemporaneo, a major event promoted by the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums.
On Saturday, 12 October, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., visitors can access Castello di Rivoli, the Collection, and the current exhibitions free of charge, while also taking part in numerous activities organised to celebrate the day. In line with this year’s theme for Contemporary Art Day, accessibility in its broadest sense, the Museum offers specific activities that promote inclusion.
AMACI Giornata del Contemporaneo is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and under the patronage of the European Commission Representation in Italy, the Chamber of Deputies, the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces, UPI – Union of Italian Provinces, ANCI – National Association of Italian Municipalities, and ICOM Italy.
PROGRAMME for AMACI Giornata del Contemporaneo
11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Guided tours
Tours of the Collection and exhibitions raise awareness of sensory themes, enhancing the synaesthetic nature of a selection of artworks, both indoors and outdoors.
3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Living Museum. Erratic Bodies II
The Living Museum. Erratic Bodies II programme promotes experimental forms across different disciplines through events that combine visual arts with the various languages of contemporaneity, such as cinema, dance, and music. The programme explores the dual nature of the word ‘live’, emphasizing the inseparable connection between art and audience participation within the Museum’s spaces.
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Manica Lunga Garden
What it will take to flock the wings of freedom again?, a participatory performance by Mohammad Al Faraj
Mohammad Al Faraj presents a participatory action titled What it Will Take to Flock the Wings of Freedom Again?. The audience is invited to join the artist in awakening the bird of prayer, wishing for a better tomorrow, using palm leaves as wings, with words and poetry as the wind.
3:30 p.m.
First, second, and third floors of Castello
The signs of art
A guided tour of the Collection and temporary exhibitions open to all, including deaf, deafblind, and hearing individuals, curated by the Education Department in collaboration with the Institute for the Deaf of Turin. This journey through the Museum includes a visit and workshop for families with LIS (Italian Sign Language) interpretation. The signs used to discuss art will be shared with hearing visitors, creating a moment of collective awareness and learning, in line with the theme of the Twentieth Contemporary Art Day: cultural accessibility as a valuable opportunity for mutual enrichment.
4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Castello Theatre
Half Memory, screening of Ufuoma Essi’s film with a live sound performance by Shamica Ruddock
Inspired by Toni Morrison’s text The Site of Memory, Ufuoma Essi’s film Half Memory will be presented for the first time in Italy at Castello di Rivoli, featuring a live soundtrack by Shamica Ruddock. The film is a profound meditation on memory, isolation, and contemporary narratives, oscillating between years, cities, and evolving images, exploring the present as an artefact of the past.
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Cafeteria
Special aperitif with a menu created by artist Moza Almatrooshi
The museum’s café will offer a special aperitif, providing an opportunity to enjoy food and drink. The menu is conceived by artist Moza Almatrooshi, whose artistic and culinary practice draws on ancient and modern mythologies of the Arabian Peninsula, influencing both her recipes and her political research on food in the region.
4:00 p.m.
Villa Cerruti
Living Museum / Live Collection
SPECIAL TICKET – €10: Villa Cerruti tour
On the occasion of the Black Med sound performance at Castello di Rivoli, there will also be a special afternoon visit to the Cerruti Collection, hosted at Villa Cerruti and guided by art historian Fabio Cafagna. The visit will focus on the representations of the Mediterranean across centuries, starting with the 17th- and 18th-century atlases from Francesco Federico Cerruti’s collection. It will also offer an opportunity to reinterpret some works from the Collection from an alternative perspective, highlighting the connections between the regions bordering the Mediterranean.
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Room 22, second floor of Castello
Clarenza Catullo presents the book Il Registrar. Professionista dell’arte
The event is dedicated to the presentation of Il Registrar. Professionista dell’arte, the first theoretical-practical guide published by Nardini Editore (Florence), dedicated to this professional role, recently recognised by the Ministry of Culture and present in most museums. The event is moderated by Clarenza Catullo, former Registrar of major Italian cultural institutions. Speakers include Gabriele Vigilante, one of the five authors, as well as Giuseppe Dardanello, Professor of Modern Art History at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Turin, Sofia Biondi, Registrar of Castello di Rivoli, and Luisa Mensi, Conservator, who has collaborated for years with Castello and many artists in the Collection. The event is part of the CRRI – Research Centre of Castello di Rivoli’s programmes, which in 2018 and 2023 held two workshops on the role of the Registrar, both coordinated by Clarenza Catullo.
6:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Castello Theatre
Sound performance Black Med by Invernomuto
Invernomuto presents Black Med for the first time at Castello di Rivoli. This project originated as a digital archive of sounds collected from various sources, inspired by the insights of scholar Alessandra Di Maio on the Mediterranean Sea. Based on the identification of this fluid space marked by migratory crises, Black Med leverages themes of mobility, intersection, and exchange, constants throughout the Mediterranean’s history and present.
These events are organised on the occasion of AMACI Giornata del Contemporaneo
Image: Tomaso Binga for the Twentieth Contemporary Art Day, Donna in gabbia, 1975 – 2024