che sarà sarà

artists: Stefano Arienti, Bartira, Betty Bee, Dafne Boggeri, Monica Bonvicini, Benni Bosetto, Giulia Cenci, Isabella Costabile, Roberto Cuoghi, Enrico David, Gino De Dominicis, Tomaso De Luca, Caterina De Nicola, Chiara Fumai, Marco Giordano, Kinkaleri, Eva Marisaldi, Giulia Piscitelli, RM, Marinella Senatore

with a homage to Gianfranco Baruchello, Marisa e Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto

curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol with Michele Bertolino

23rd September – 19th November, 2023

Palazzo Re Rebaudengo

Piazza Roma, 1 – Guarene

Opening: 23rd September, 5:00 PM

The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is pleased to announce the opening of che sarà sarà on September 23rd – an exhibition that presents a diverse array of works by twenty artists active in Italy, spanning from sculpture, to installation, painting, and video art. Curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol together with Michele Bertolino, the exhibition is realized with the support of the Comitato delle Fondazioni di Arte Contemporanea and opens during the Turin leg of Bel Paese, a project aimed at promoting and internationalizing the Italian art scene, born from the collaboration between the Comitato and the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture. The exhibition is part of SNODI.

che sarà sarà presents the works of artists who have deconstructed the concept of personal or collective identity, instead they have imagined expanded bodies and alternative landscapes, envisioned different and metamorphic times, and crafted stories with changeable outcomes. The title – a blend of the songs Che sarà by Ricchi e Poveri and Que sera sera – alludes to an undefined future, perhaps already occurred or still to come, evoking demobilization, disengagement from the self, and openness to possible events.

What is personal identity? Do we conform to a collective identity which allows us to be visible? Are there strategies to escape categorizations? Can we be opaque, elusive, hidden? The works in the exhibition suggest potential paths beyond the here and now inhabited by the individual body.

Betty Bee, Monica Bonvicini, Enrico David, Marco Giordano, and Kinkaleri situate identity within the body and interpret it as a realm of transformation, a sphere upon which the pressures of the social, urban, or natural context are exerted. It is a dark matter to shape, carve, and manipulate, with desires and urges acting as diversions. The body, both human and non-human animal, is subject to latent tensions: it is a space where a multitude of beings coexist, as elaborated in RM’s work, or it is an organic, shifting object in the creations of Roberto Cuoghi and Giulia Cenci.

Bartira, Dafne Boggeri, and Caterina De Nicola discuss the coercive mechanisms of the political and social context we live in: by reclaiming memories of erased histories, they wear balaclavas to obscure themselves. In other instances, the balaclava becomes a pen through which characters write their own stories – as recalled in Marinella Senatore’s video. In the works of Stefano Arienti, Tomaso De Luca, and Eva Marisaldi, the gaze can deceive, showing us what isn’t there – becoming a means through which to lose oneself, allowing one’s boundaries to disintegrate.

Artists like Benni Bosetto, Isabella Costabile, Gino De Dominicis, Chiara Fumai, and Giulia Piscitelli explore the ritualistic, magical, and transcendent dimension of bodies and objects, showcasing the cosmological inspiration as strategies through which desires, thoughts, and actions are communalized, rewriting the dynamics of time.

che sarà sarà uncovers these themes in the works of Italian artists working between the ‘90s and the present day – attempting to reconstruct a potential scattered geography, hanging upside down by a thread, in which the languages of visual arts reveal their interactions with music, fashion, cinema, poetry, and underground culture. An exhibition where desires and impulses become instruments for getting lost, opportunities for shaping one’s appearance, and mirrors in which to recognize new forms of community.

In addition to the exhibition, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo pays tribute to Marisa and Mario Merz, Gianfranco Baruchello, and Michelangelo Pistoletto, whose works come from the Foundations dedicated to their work which are part of the Committee.

The artwork Urlo by the collective Kinkaleri will be visible throughout the exhibition in numerous public displays spread across the municipality of Guarene. The work was realised thanks to the participation of the citizens of Guarene, in collaboration with the civic library and the Foundation’s education department’.

Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Piazza Roma 1, Guarene

Entrance: Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM (free entry)