The Experience of Art / Giorgina Bertolino talks about Felice Casorati and Alfredo Casella
22.06.2023 from 18:00 to 19:30
The Experience of Art
22 June 2023, 6pm* – 7.30pm
Giorgina Bertolino, Felice Casorati e Alfredo Casella
Sala delle Orchidee – Villa Cerruti
On 22 June 2023, from 6pm to 7.30pm, the art historian and curator Giorgina Bertolino will present the core of Felice Casorati’s paintings from the Cerruti Collection to the public. The relationship between the artist, an eminent figure of Italian art in the first half of the twentieth century, and the Turin composer Alfredo Casella will also be examined. The heart of the discussion will be the large tempera Mattino (Colazione), c. 1919-1920, which was owned by the musician before entering the Cerruti Collection.
The meeting will be accompanied by six compositions for piano by Casella belonging to the “pictorial musical” cycle entitled …À la manière de… The compositions, performed for the occasion by maestro Mario Calisi, offered Casella many thematic and aesthetic ideas reworked later in the Concerto Romano for organ, timpani, brass and strings op. 43 of 1926 dedicated to Casorati.
* 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: The Staircase at the Cerruti Villa with the painting of Felice Casorati, Mattino (Colazione), c. 1919-1920 © foto antonio maniscalco – milano]
Giorgina Bertolino
Art historian and independent curator. Author of the Catalogo generale delle opere di Felice Casorati. I Dipinti. 1904-1963 and Le sculture (with F. Poli, Turin 1997 and 2004), Pinot Gallizio. Catalogo generale delle opere 1953-1964 (edited by M.T. Roberto, with F. Comisso, Milan 2001) and Nella Marchesini. Catalogo generale. I dipinti (1920-1953) (Cinisello Balsamo 2015). The exhibitions she has curated include: Felice Casorati. Collezioni e mostre tra Europa e Americhe (Alba, Fondazione Ferrero, 2014), I mondi di Riccardo Gualino, collezionista e imprenditore (with A. Bava, Turin, Sala Chiablese – Musei Reali, 2019), Carlo Levi. Tutto il miele è finito. La Sardegna e la pittura (Nuoro, MAN – Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, 2022), Felice Casorati (with D. Ferrari, S. Roffi, Mamiano di Traversetolo, Parma, Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, 2023).
Mario Calisi
Formerly a professor at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Turin and at the Università Statale in Milan, he successfully continues an intense concert activity, both as a soloist and in ensemble music formations. He is also active as a composer, musicologist and conductor.