MILAN.- The four Gallerie d'Italia museums – Milan, Naples, Turin and Vicenza – evoke common distinctive traits, consolidating the Intesa Sanpaolo museum system managed by the Bank's Progetto Cultura, created to enhance the historical and artistic heritage that has flowed into the Group over the years. The premises are historic buildings that were formerly the Bank's offices and that, in the renovation work guided by the new requirements – including opening to the public, protection and preservation of works of art, sustainability and full accessibility – maintain a clear recollection of their past functions.
The autumn 2022 programme presents:
Lisetta Carmi. Playing Loud
Gallerie d’Italia – Turin
22 September 2022- 22 January 2023
Curated by Giovanni Battista Martini with the video contribution of Alice Rohrwacher
The first major solo exhibition dedicated to Lisetta Carmi, one of the most interesting personalities on the Italian photographic panorama, who died recently at the age of 98. The show is curated by Giovanni Battista Martini, the renowned gallery owner and curator of the photographer’s archive, with a precious video contribution created for the occasion by film director, editor and screenwriter Alice Rohrwacher. The exhibition will feature more than 150 photos taken between the nineteen sixties and seventies, including some of the most striking examples of her work: from the extraordinary reportage on the world of transvestites, unique of its kind which, in the nineteen sixties, became a cult book, with its completely original colour version, to the documentation of childbirth, and the photographic works dedicated to the world of work in Italy and abroad and the portraits of Ezra Pound
Gregory Crewdson. Eveningside
Gallerie d’Italia – Turin
12 October 2022 - 22 January 2023
Curated by Jean-Charles Vergne
Gallerie d'Italia Turin will devote the majority of its recently-opened 10,000 square meters of gallery spaces to the internationally-acclaimed American photographer’s work, with the world premiere of a brand new eponymously-titled series of photographs, Eveningside (2021-2022) as the exhibition’s centerpiece. Crewdson’s Eveningside pictures, produced in part as a commission by Intesa Sanpaolo, were envisioned by the artist as the final movement of a trilogy spanning ten years of work. The exhibition is a survey of that trilogy, curated by Jean-Charles Vergne, beginning with Cathedral of the Pines (2012-2014) and An Eclipse of Moths (2018-2019,) as well as Crewdson’s earlier minimalist Fireflies (1996) pictures. Additionally, Making Eveningside, a behind the scenes video projection set to original music by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and Stuart Bogie, the American multi-instrumentalist-composer will be on view in a state of the art multimedia room within the museum, adjacent to the exhibition.
• Gabriella Benedini. Athanor
Gallerie d’Italia – Milan
15 September - 6 November 2022
Exhibition curated by Paolo Bolpagni
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• Pigafetta and the first circumnavigation of the world. ‘Such a voyage will not happen again’,
Gallerie d’Italia – Vicenza
6 September 2022 - 8 January 2023
Exhibition curated by Valeria Cafà and Andrea Canova
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• Artemisia Gentileschi a Napoli
Gallerie d’Italia – Napoli
3 December 2022 - 20 March 2023
Exhibition curated by Antonio Ernesto Denunzio and Giuseppe Porzio; specialist advisor Gabriele Finaldi
