Curated by Daniel Birnbaum
T – Turin Triennial Threemuseums
The city of Turin has already earned itself something of a reputation for its contemporary art scene in recent years. The city’s museums and galleries are consolidated in their choice of long and short term exhibitions, public art has now become a familiar part of the urban fabric and the city’s yearly art fair specialises in contemporary art and has expanded to include commissioned works and special projects.
T is the new Turin based triennial exhibition of contemporary art, organised by the city’s three main art institutions - Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and the GAM Galleria Civiva d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino – and set to present ‘what comes next’ in visual arts.
Every edition of T is organised in two parts: the first section shows new, experimental and many site-specific works by young artists from all over the world, while the second part presents solo exhibitions paying homage to two mid-career artists.
T2 - 50 Moons of Saturn
T2 curator Daniel Birnbaum has been inspired by Saturn, the slow and melancholic planet, for this second edition, creating a new geography in the contemporary art world…a constellation of artists who work under the sign of ambivalence.
50 Moons of Saturn is an exhibition about inspiration, assimilation and defiance. It includes fifty artists from every part of the world, working in all disciplines. Although often pervaded by a melancholy tone, the selected works by no means reveal an introspective or apolitical spirit. Finding oneself under the same cosmic influence of Saturn – “star of melancholy” – signifies many different and often conflicting things. The saturnine mind is gloomy and depressed, yet inspired and radiant; passive and fundamentally negative, yet rebellious and magnificently productive. Traditionally linked to the artist’s temperament, melancholy is an ambivalent and baffling state of mind, which gives rise to the feeling that a radical transformation is possible despite everything. It is the state of mind of inspiration.”
The two solo shows will be devoted to Paul Chan at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and to Olafur Eliasson at the Castello di Rivoli Museum.
Participating artists
Meris Angioletti, Rosa Barba, Jennifer Bornstein, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Ulla von Brandenburg, Matthew Brannon, Gerard Byrne, Bonnie Camplin / Paulina Olowska, Valerio Carrubba, Antonio Cataldo & Mariagiovanna Nuzzi, Kerstin Cmelka, Keren Cytter, Simon Dybbroe Möller, Lara Favaretto, Spencer Finch, Ceal Floyer, Anna Galtarossa, Andrea Geyer, Loris Gréaud, Wade Guyton, Haegue Yang, Annika Von Hausswolff, Ragnar Kjartansson, Joachim Koester, Koo Jeong-a, Sandra Kranich, Robert Kusmirowski, Rivane Neuenschwander, Diego Perrone, Alessandro Piangiamore, Giuseppe Pietroniro, Giulia Piscitelli, Pehiman Rahimi, Pietro Roccasalva, Tomas Saraceno, Wilhelm Sasnal, Benjamin Saurer, Alberto Tadiello, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Luca Trevisani, Tatiana Trouvé, Ian Tweedy, Donald Urquhart, Guido van der Werve, Jordan Wolfson and Akram Zaatari.
