T1-La Sindrome Di Pantagruel
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 will be organised in two parts: the first section for this first edition will show new, experimental and many site-specific works by 75 young artists from all over the world, while the second part will present solo exhibitions paying homage to two mid-career artists.
T1 - The Pantagruel Syndrome
Curated by Francesco Bonami and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
Pantagruel was the main character in novels by the 16th century French writer François Rabelais. He is a creature of gigantic proportion, with a voracious appetite and incredible strength. Pantagruel could well represent contemporary society, which diverges between the tension towards change, fragility and fear, between a healthy ‘voracity’ and the sense of an imminent, out of control explosion. Pantagruel alludes to the omniphagous tendency of knowledge and to the incorporation of ‘everything’.
This first edition of T, curated by Francesco Bonami and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, reflects on the Pantagruel syndrome through the presentation of pictorial, sculptural and photographic works, videos, installations, performances, workshops, sound pieces, web projects, collective and joint projects.
A network of ten Correspondents – a group of young curators, independent or from a diverse range of international institutions – are also working closely with the curators to shape the body of work for the first edition of T. The correspondents for the first edition are Sofia Hernàndez Chong Cuy, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Raimundas Malasauskas, Francesco Manacorda, Anna Matveyeva, Pi Li, Ralph Rugoff, Kathryn Smith, Trevor Smith and Adam Szymczyk.
Participating artists
Saâdane Afif, Allora & Calzadilla, Carlos Amorales, Armando Andrade Tudela, Andreoni_Fortugno, Magnús Árnason, Artemio, Micol Assaël, Fikret Atay, Tamy Ben-Tor, Fernando Bryce, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Ian Burns, Andrea caretto/Raffaella spagna, Alessandro Ceresoli, Paolo Chiasera, Choi Hochul, Roberto Cuoghi, Oskar Dawicki, Massimiliano e Gianluca De Serio, Sebastián Díaz Morales, Rä di Martino, Brian Fridge, Christian Frosi, Ryan Gander, GAZEaBOut, Daniel Guzmán, Chala Hadimi, Jeppe Hein, Richard Hughes, Marine Hugonnier, Christian Jankowski, Tom Johnson, Hassan Khan, Thomas Köner, Jin Kurashige, An-My Lê, Christelle Lheureux e Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Justin Lowe, Nalini Malani, Angelika Markul, Melissa Martin, Jesús [Bubu] Negrón, Yoshua Okon, Damián Ortega, Ulrike Palmbach, Park Sejin, Jorge Peris, Susan Philipsz, Wit Pimkanchanapong, Shannon Plumb, Riccardo Previdi, Ana Prvacki, Michael Rakowitz, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, David Ratcliff, Porntaweesak Rimsakul , Miguel Ángel Ríos, Sterling Ruby, Aïda Ruilova, Hans Schabus, Markus Schinwald, Ahlam Shibli, Katrín Sigurðardóttir, Mikhael Subotzky, Javier Téllez, Avdei e David Ter-Oganyan, TV Moore, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Chen XiaoYun, James Yamada, Ed Young
Solo-shows Doris Salcedo and Takashi Murakami
In addition, T1 will present solo shows by the Columbian artist Doris Salcedo (at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea) and the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami (at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo).
Doris Salcedo (Bogotá, 1958) creates sculptures and installations of profound emotional impact, combining found and raw materials, and exploring themes tied to personal and collective memory. The artist has chosen to continue to live in her native city in Colombia, attributing profound ethical and political significance to this decision, which is constantly reflected in her art.
Takashi Murakami (Tokyo, 1963) is one of the leading figures in contemporary Japanese art. In his work, which includes painting, sculpture, design, and graphic illustration, Murakami gives a personal interpretation to the principal elements of Japanese pop culture, such as manga comic strips, removing them from their context and imbuing them with new, provocative meanings. Murakami is interested in how American and Western culture have had an influence on contemporary postwar Japanese civilization.
Other Venues
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino
Fondazione Merz, Torino
PalaFuksas, Torino
Casa del Conte Verde e Chiesa di Santa Croce, Rivoli
