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GE(SCHICHTE)
50 years! It was beyond my capabilities, in a single exhibition, to summarise the story of a lifetime, of experiences lived, and of how art has been able, since Pier Paolo Calzolari’s first exhibition in 1975, to change my way of seeing the world and my thinking. Hence the idea of spreading out the visions that I summarised in the three group exhibitions entitled Vue d’ensemble: imaginaries in dialogue (Part I) (Part II) and (Part III) over the past three years, right up to the present.
The works have interacted with each other in varying ways across these exhibitions, always offering a glimpse of a different moment in the work of each individual artist.
At the same time, solo exhibitions were organised both in Torre Pellice and in Turin, in chronological order, by Jan Vercruysse, Conrad Shawcross, Robin Rhode, Marisa Merz, Daniel Buren, Alfredo Pirri, Gilberto Zorio, Richard Long, Christiane Löhr, Gianni Caravaggio, Mario Airò – currently on display in Turin – and Tony Cragg with the exhibition GE(SCHICHTE), opening on 5 October, in conjunction with Part III of Vue d’ensemble.
I have vivid memories of the first exhibition with Tony Cragg in 1984, when Tony arrived for the first time at the then gallery site in Corso Tassoni after a long and very fast car journey. I like to think that the title chosen by the artist for the current exhibition is also a tribute to the gallery on this special occasion. In German, the Ge- prefix often refers to a collection of things, and SCHICHT means layer, a set of layers, metaphorically an overlapping of events, things that have happened, becoming a story: GESCHICHTE. [...]
Lisa (Tucci) Russo
Opening
Sunday, 5 October 2025
From 11 am to 5 pm
At 3 pm and 4 pm:
Variations on “Different trains” by Steve Reich
curated by Avant-dernière pensée
Roberto Galimberti | violin and direction
Marco Pennacchio | cello
Marco Ventriglia | audio director and technical supervision