[:it]Intenzione manifesta. Il disegno in tutte le sue forme

The important Castello di Rivoli event is structured according to different concepts and itineraries: drawing as project practice; drawing as action practice – from performance to video; chiaroscuro, or rather, representation; outlines as paradox, or of infinity; diaries, the story of being an artist; drawing as a political practice; memory through quotation; the procedure paradox; world writing.

Beginning with a core of works by artists who in some way are tied to the Museum’s history – be they present in collections or part of some of the most significant events that have distinguished the Castello’s thirty years of activity – the investigation is broadened to include others who, in the recent past, have proven to be, with their works, decisive for newer generations of artists. Among these, just to name a few, there are key players of art history, like Pablo Picasso, Joan Mirò, Paul Klee, George Grosz, Giacomo Balla, Giorgio Morandi, Osvaldo Licini, and Renato Guttuso alongside contemporary exponents of great prestige such as William Kentridge, Matt Mullican, Francis Alÿs, Hanne Darboven, Matthew Barney (on display with his Drawing Restraint), and Robin Rhode who, for this event, will embark upon a new drawing performance. For Manifest Intention we also present a dialogue between written works and “drawn” ones, diaries or notebooks from Nan Goldin to Mario Merz, traces of Giovanni Anselmo and Giulio Paolini, quotations as memories by Elisabetta Benassi, graffiti by Keith Haring and Mircea Cantor; experimental works beyond drawing from Luciano Fabro to Lara Favaretto, protests by Shirin Neshat through Farsi writing, life stories narrated across wall constellations from Nedko Solakov to Peter Friedl, or projects for works (executed or not) by Chen Zhen as well as the famous explosions of Cai Guo-Qiang.