A former automotive racing monitor throughout the roof of certainly one of Turin’s most well-known buildings has been reworked into a brand new exhibition area. La Pista 500 public artwork area—a star attraction on the relaunched Pinacoteca Agnelli artwork hub—is situated on prime of the well-known Twenties Lingotto venue, which as soon as housed the previous Fiat automotive manufacturing facility. Works by seven artists together with Shilpa Gupta, Louise Lawler, Mark Leckey, Valie Export and Cally Spooner are dotted across the alfresco space—lined with greater than 40,000 crops—which is open to the general public for the primary time.
Fiat used to check its vehicles on the rooftop monitor which featured within the 1969 movie The Italian Job with Michael Caine. The artists chosen for the inaugural La Pista 500 show have mirrored on “the historical past of the previous Fiat manufacturing facility and the economic structure of our constructing”, says Sarah Cosulich, the creative director of the Pinacoteca Agnelli.
Leckey’s piece, Beneath My Toes Start to Crumble, includes a 14m projection on the south parabolic curve of the previous Fiat manufacturing facility testing monitor. “Leckey transports the Alps mountains onto the monitor to supply a CGI [computer-generated] imaginative and prescient of their peaks,” a challenge assertion says. The Austrian artist Valie Export is displaying Die Doppelgängerin (2010), a monumental bronze sculpture representing two intertwined gigantic scissors.
“Only a few folks had seen this rooftop space earlier than,” Cosulich says, including that “the brand new programme on the Pinacoteca has a extra worldwide and modern id, which bridges its historic assortment [with contemporary art]”. La Pista 500 kinds a part of the revamped Pinacoteca Agnelli which has been reworked into a significant new cultural centre within the northern Italian metropolis. The area, backed by Fiat, is run by a basis that has members of the Agnelli household on the board. The glamorous Agnelli dynasty, synonymous with Turin, additionally amassed a considerable artwork assortment.
An exhibition held within the Scrigno area attracts on the Giovanni and Marella Agnelli Assortment, consisting of 25 works housed on the Pinacoteca acquired by the late head of Fiat and his spouse; artists featured embrace Canaletto, Matisse and Modigliani. The primary initiative in a brand new sequence, often known as Past the Assortment, juxtaposes Picasso’s portrait—Homme appuyé sur une desk (1915-16) from the Agnelli assortment—with three portraits depicting Dora Maar: La femme qui pleure (1927), Buste de femme au chapeau (1939), and Femme en vert (1944). The three Picasso works are on mortgage from the Fondation Beyeler in Basel.
Sylvie Fleury © Sebastiano Pellion di Persano
One other launch present on the reborn Pinacoteca is devoted to Sylvie Fleury (till 15 January 2023), which is billed as the largest exhibition ever held in Italy on the Geneva-born artist. ”The distinctive website resonates with Flip Me On, Fleury’s solo exhibition,” Cosulich provides. The present, situated on the third ground of the Lingotto constructing, contains objects, symbols and imagery from She-Devils on Wheels, a automotive fan membership open solely to individuals who determine as ladies, which was based by Fleury within the Nineteen Nineties.
