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WHAT’S ON IN TORINOMarch-November 2011

Esperienza Italia

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(updated calendar as at 16 February 2011)

Organised by the Divisione Cultura, Comunicazione e Promozione (Culture, Communication and Promotion Division) of the Città di Torino

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March 2011Relighting of luci d’Artista17 March - 30 June The works of Daniel Buren, Marco Gastini, Rebecca Horn,Yoseph Kosuth, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gilberto zorio will be once again illuminated.www.contemporarytorinopiemonte.it

Vittorio Emanuele II. Il Re galantuomoPolo Reale di Torino: Palazzo Reale and PalazzoChiablese and at the Castello di Racconigiuntil 22 May This project covers the issues surrounding Italian national unification by looking at the first King of Italy. The exhibition is spread over three locations – two in Torino (Palazzo Reale and Palazzo Chiablese) and one in Racconigi (Castello di Racconigi). The Castello di Racconigi looks at the period beginning with the future King’s adolescence and ending with his ascent to the throne of Sardinia, with particular attention on the people involved in his childhood. Meanwhile, Palazzo Reale di Torino examines the two further aspects of the King’s life: the historical events which led him to the throne of Italy and his private life. Finally, Palazzo Chiablese hosts a section looking at the Italian wars of independence with dioramas of its most important battles as well as exhibitions of weapons, armour, documents and paintings.www.fondazionednart.it

Torino and Venaria get a new “Risorgimento blue” look for 2011 A light blue colour between indigo and lavender, together with the Italian “Tricolore” flag, has been chosen as the theme for the decorations in Torino and Venaria to mark the celebrations for the unification of Italy. Amongst the decorations there will be 4.000 banners and canvases in the main streets and at the sites of the Risorgimento, as well as themed flags and streamers to point out the exhibitions at the Officine Grandi Riparazioni and the Venaria Reale, an iconic totem at the entrance to the Officine Grandi Riparazioni, window stickers for shops and taxis, and a luminous Italian flag that will light up the Mole Antonelliana.Design by Italo lupi, Ico Migliore and Mara Servetto.

Tricolour Night16 March Festival with Museums open all night long, concert and fires of artifice in Piazza Vittorio, events in various cities in Piemonte.live television from Torino, Roma and Firenze, the three capitals of the United Italy.

John McCracken. RetrospectiveCastello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporaneauntil 19 JuneBy Andrea Bellini. First retrospective in a European museum by the artist, an exponent of American art of international fame, an epic and misunderstood figure, minimalist and visionary at the same time. The important retrospective – mounted in the Manica Lunga – is accompanied by the first complete catalogue on the artist’s activities and includes critical essays, an interview and a detailed chronology of his exhibition career.www.castellodirivoli.org

Osvaldo licini: i capolavori (the masterpieces)GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, exhibition Areauntil 20 March This anthological exhibition dedicated to Osvaldo licini (Monte Vidon Corrado, 1894 - Ascoli Piceno, 1958), the 20th century Italian and international maestro and a high profile representative of abstract art, gives visitors a chance to see 100 masterpieces by the artist. The works exhibited will show the artist’s progression from his very early works beginning in the 1910s, right up until 1958, the year in which when Licini died but was also awarded the International Grand Prize for Painting at the XXIX Biennale di Venezia.www.gamtorino.it


March 2011OFFICINE GRANDI RIPARAzIONIThe Officine Grandi Riparazioni (Major Repair Workshops) are a masterpiece of industrial architecture in the heart of the city. Created at the end of the nineteenth century as an avant-garde centre for the repair and servicing of locomotives and railway carriages, they represent a sort of immense cathedral of the work with aisles up to 200 metres in length. Operational until the 1970s. they were completely dismantled at the beginning of the 1990s and, from 2007 onwards, handed over to the Città di Torino which designed the upgrading, transforming the spaces into venues for temporary exhibitions and cultural events. The project comes to a conclusion in March 2011, when the Officine Grandi Riparazioni will become one of the symbolic places of Esperienza Italia: indeed the exhibitions Fare gli Italiani, Stazione Futuro, Il Futuro nelle mani and the Spazio scuole will be housed here. Between one exhibition and another visitors will also be able to use educational workshops equipped with materials and multimedia supports capable of involving and thrilling younger generations, meeting areas that will host debates, conferences and shows. Representations of foreign cities boasting a relationship of friendship or affinity with Torino will be housed in purpose-built spaces. A bookshop will also be set up with publications, objects and merchandising dedicated to Italy and Italians and a coffee shop that will also include an ice-cream parlour, and a focacceria and a250-seater restaurant in which it will be possible to sample the most characteristic tastes of Italian regions, a journey through food with menus inspired by the protagonists of the Risorgimento (Cavour, Mazzini, Garibaldi, Bixio).www.officinegrandriparazioni.it

I Mille di Cioccolatòl’Italia del CioccolatoThe “Thousand” of CioccolatòThe Chocolate Italy Piazza Vittorio Veneto17 March - 3 April This special edition of the Cioccolatò festival is celebrating 150 years of unification by making a model Italy entirely from chocolate. The finished product will be 13 metres long and weigh around 14 tonnes. A surprising work that sees the active participation of an artistic staff of sculptors and first-rate master chocolate manufacturers and the technical cooperation of Italia in miniatura. Twenty of our principal monuments will also be reproduced, including the Mole Antonelliana, the Cathedral in Milan, the bell tower of St. Mark’s in Venice, the Faro in Genoa, the Colosseum in Rome, the Maschio Angioino in Naples. The event is completed by an exhibition itinerary “Gli italiani e il Cioccolato” (Italians and Chocolate) and by the section Choco shop with 1,000 varieties of Italian chocolates.www.cioccola-to.it

Tra il dire e il fare. Unity of Italy and European Unification: open sitesArchivio di Statountil 16 AprilThe exhibition retraces the principal problems of Italian unification, in parallel with the process of construction of the European Union. An exciting “intellectual” journey through seven rooms, in each of which a theme is dealt with (for example cultural roots, economy, civil rights, territory and communications). The part on the Unity of Italy is illustrated starting with original historical documents, the one relating to European unification however is based on lively graphical reconstructions, reproductions of thematic cartography, enlargements of photographs. The exhibition is curated by Maria Gattullo and Maria Paola Niccoli. www.archiviodistatotorino.it

Four new themes for the collections of the GAMGAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporaneafrom 4 MarchThe thematic setup of the collections of the GAM is repeated: four university lecturers and researchers of disciplines different from the history of art have chosen as many new themes represented in some of the works already exhibited and in more than 160 new works. The soul is the theme chosen by the theologian Vito Mancuso. In this section Einschüsse, the masterpiece by Anselm Kiefer recently purchased by the Gallery stands out.Information is the theme chosen by the physicist Mario Rasetti and presents works by Giuseppe Penone, Carla Accardi, Dadamaino, Depero, Mario Nigro and Carsten Höller. The psychiatrist Eugenio Borgna presents the theme of melancholy, which pervades works such as Asfissia! (Asphyxia) by Angelo Morbelli, still lifes by Giorgio de Chirico and Filippo De Pisis, hanging landscapes by Carlo Carrà and the same art in Giulio Paolini. The final theme, language was chosen by the philosopher Sebastiano Maffettone. It ranges from nineteenth-century painting and sculpture of historical fiction (Antonio Canova, Massimo d’Azeglio) to the iridescent permeations by Giacomo Balla, to the expressive figures of Renato Guttuso.www.gamtorino.it


Kara Walker. A project on memory, myth, identity and stereotypesFondazione Merz25 March - 3 JulyThe African-American artist from New York who has shaken up the art world in the last fifteen years, presents in the spaces of the Fondazione cut papers in free expressions on the walls, a video-installation, drawings, collages and tempera paintings. Her exhibition project draws inspiration from the history of the birth of the African-American community in the United States, from slavery to the subsequent difficult racial integration and comes together into a figurative account played out against the shadow and outline of her famous black silhouettes. The event will be enriched by other moments: an international conference on the political and psychological dimension of racial stereotypes (25 and 26 March) and, at Cinema Massimo, a film festival which strongly inspired the work of the artist.www.fondazionemerz.org

March 2011Inauguration of the work by Giuseppe Penone GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea18 MarchThe monumental work commissioned by the Fondazione De Fornaris to Giuseppe Penone for the celebrations of the 150 years of the Unity of Italy, will stand in front of the GAM in future memory of the event. It will be called “In limine” and will be a sort of “portal” composed of a horizontal structure with a bronze melted trunk and a marble base, with the third element consisting of a real tree. The sculpture will serve symbolically as the new entrance to the museum.www.gamtorino.it

Reopening of Museo dell’Automobile 20 March In an exhibition itinerary completely restructured to the design of the architect Cino Zucchi and with the mounting of the set designer François Confino, the evolution of the motor car from means of transport to cult object is related. Over 170 original automobiles, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the 1950s, of 80 different makes. The tour will be animated by sound sets and special effects: the visitors, seated on a type of carousel as if they were components of the motor car under construction, will be able to see an assembly line of the Fiat 500.www.museoauto.it

Making Italians. 150 years of italian history17 March - 20 November A major exhibition on the history of our first 150 years, organised by Walter Barberis and Giovanni De luna.The itinerary unfolds along two parallel guiding principles: the chronological thread, the dates of the most important events in Italian history, and the thematic thread related in thirteen islands dedicated to the phenomena that have most influenced the profile of Italians: from the peasant world to school, migrations to the World Wars, political participation to factories, consumption, means of mass communication. The exhibition thus analyses the process through which “the Italians were made”, while highlighting the moments of inclusion and those of exclusion on the long journey of formation of the feeling of identity.Artistic direction by Paolo Rosa.Multimedia project Studio Azzurro.


I Villaggi Alpini. National identities at Major ExhibitionMuseo Nazionale della Montagna until 20 November Curated by Alessandro Pastore.The national and international “Great Exhibitions” played a crucial role in reinforcing Alpine national identities. Mountain villages were often rebuilt to show visitors what life was like in the Alpine area of their own country. This exhibition, made up of collections belonging to the Museo Nazionale della Montagna, illustrates the phenomenon of Alpine villages in the Great Exhibitions of the late 19th century and early 20th century.www.museomontagna.org

UBS e il territorio. Detail as a codeAccademia Albertina delle Belle Arti24 - 27 MarchOver the last 40 years, Italian photography has rediscovered and reinterpreted the theme of the landscape, thanks to a group of photographers who became famous on the cultural scene between the 1960s and 1980s. The UBS Art Collection now holds the most celebrated works of these photographers, some of whom are now considered amongst the most influential photographers in Europe, such as: Franco Fontana, Gabriele Basilico, Mimmo Jodice, luigi Ghiri, and Massimo Vitali. The exhibition includes a selection of the works of each of these.www.ubs.com

Stazione Futuro 17 March - 20 NovemberThe exhibition – by Riccardo luna – is a journey that starts in the present and proceeds towards the Italy of tomorrow.The future awaiting us is close to realisation and we witness it through the stories of Italians who already today are devising, planning and creating the change in the form of ideas, processes and products that will be part of the lives of all of us.

Il futuro nelle mani. Artians Tomorrow17 March - 20 NovemberInspired by the International Exhibitions of Industries and Work organised in Torino for the fiftieth anniversary and the centenary of the Unity of Italy, the exhibition, curated by Enzo Biffi Gentili, develops the theme of artisan work, and in particular the innovative techniques that emerged in the first decade of the new century. There are three spaces in the exhibition: Il Tunnel del treno fantasma (The Tunnel of the ghost train), le nuove officine (The new workshops), la galleria delle botteghe (The gallery of the workshops).

School Space Seven workshops on two thousand square metres in the picturesque setting of the Officine Grandi Riparazioni (Big Repair Workshops), divided into four themes: Art - Creativity, Science - Technology, Games, Sport - Wellbeing.

March 2011Cavour, genius, seducer, gourmet Palazzo Cavour26 March - 26 JuneThe Palazzo witnessed the birth of Camillo Benso di Cavour, in its rooms the destinies of the new Italy were discussed and important round-table agreements were often concluded. The nucleus of the exhibition consists of an important selection of reception menus that celebrated the unity of Italy. Pass from the ballroom where an elaborate buffet is set up, to Cavour’s study to discover the less known aspects of the statesman, the women in his life, the secret cipher books to communicate with the sovereign.Visit the parlour games’ room and arrive in the courtly dining room where a banquet recalls a gastronomic challenge between Italian and French cuisine. The itinerary concludes with the boudoir of the countess of Castiglione, fleeting and fascinating protagonist of subalpine diplomacy. A second section reveals the “behind the scenes” of the reception: the work places of the head chefs, the recipe books of the most sophisticated chefs of the period and the workshops of suppliers, from the pastry chef to the seamstress to the photographer. www.mostrapalazzocavour.it


Cioccolatò25 March - 3 AprilTen days of overindulgence in the Italian capital of chocolate. The event will have three nerve centres in the historic centre of the city: Piazza Vittorio, Piazza Castello and Piazza Carlo Alberto. There will be present over six thousand chocolate products of excellence subdivided between Piemonte products, to which a special section will be dedicated, products from the rest of Italy and abroad; and also guided tastings, animation and cultural activities, games-educational workshops for children. Naturally the historic chocolate shops of Torino will also be involved and some restaurants that will offer customers an original tasty all-cocoa menu, from the hors d’oeuvre to the dessert.www.cioccola-to.it

MUSEO DEl CINEMAwww.museonazionaledelcinema.it

Noi credevamo. The Risorgimento according to Martone Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Mole Antonelliana10 March - 15 May146 images on exhibition at the Mole Antonelliana on the personalities, places, actions and the most salient moments of the production of “Noi credevamo” (We believed) by Mario Martone, a film that obtained extraordinary public success.

Motore, Ciak, Italia.Our great cinemaOfficine Grandi Riparazioni17 March - 20 November Through the “recreation” of a famous sequence taken from I soliti ignoti (persons unknown) by Mario Monicelli secondary school students experiment with the different professional roles that operate on the set of a film in the educational space of the Officine Grandi Riparazioni. For families and the public a scene from another great Italian film, Il sorpasso (The easy life) by Dino Risi, is recreated using the chroma-key technique.

Il Gattopardo by luchino Visconti. Screening of new remastered versionCinema Massimo24 March A particularly accurate remaster, entirely in digital which availed of the supervision of the director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno.

lA VENARIA REAlE Second location of Esperienza Italia, the restored Reggia (Palace) is a macrocosm that best encapsulates history, art, and architecture. The Reggia will host the exhibitions: la Bella Italia (Beautiful Italy), Potager Royal, Moda in Italia (Fashion in Italy) and leonardo.

la Bella Italia.Arte e identità delle città capitaliReggia di Venaria Reale, Scuderie Juvarriane17 March - 11 September In the imposing setting of the scuderie juvarriane (Juvarra’s stables), over three hundred masterpieces of Italian art trace a cultural journey that travels from Antiquity to the eve of 1861 through the capital cities, Torino, Florence and Rome and the other great capitals of Italian culture, Milan, Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Naples and Palermo. The exhibition presents the image of the different “Italies”, through the numerous identities represented in the works of Giotto, Beato Angelico, Donatello, Botticelli, leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Correggio, Bronzino, Tiziano, Veronese, Caravaggio, Rubens, Tiepolo, Canova, and many others. Curated by Antonio Paolucci, chairman of the Curatorial Committee.Mounted by luca Ronconi with Margherita Palli and Valentina Dellavia and with A.J. Weissbard, lighting design.

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Cene Regali. At table in the Galleria GrandeReggia di Venaria Reale, Galleria Grandefrom March to NovemberThe Reggia plays homage to high Italian cuisine: major chefs of international fame will welcome visitors and gourmet enthusiasts to the Galleria Grande offering ten dinners, each one dedicated to a region of Italy. The opening evening will see as “hosts” the great Piemonte chefs, the “heirs” of Giovanni Vialardi famous for his Trattato di cucina (Treatise of cuisine). In the spaces of the Reggia will be held on bi-weekly basis a market of gastronomic products of excellence.

Borgo Medievale, boats on the Poand Parco del ValentinoIn the historical green oasis of the city it will be possible to visit the restored Borgo Medievale which will host a photographic exhibition on Torino during the years of the Unity of Italy. From Borgo to the Murazzi, and back as far as Italia ’61 it will be possible to navigate on the Po, with the new boats: 80 places and panoramic bow area.www.borgomedievaletorino.it

Screening of the winning films of the Cinematography international Competition prize on the occasion of the 1911 Universal ExpositionCinema Massimo30 March Winning films are presented once again in a remastered version and accompanied on the piano by the Maestro Stefano Maccagno. Due for screening: Nozze d’oro (Golden wedding) by Luigi Maggi first prize in the artistic category, la vita delle farfalle (Life of butterflies) by Roberto Omega based on the story of Guido Gozzano, first prize for the scientific category, Il tamburino sardo (Sardinian drummer), first prize for the educational category. To follow, the projection of very rare images shot during the 1911 Exposition.

Fare gli italiani (Making Italians)Festival: The History of Italy in 25 FilmsCinema MassimoApril - November A series of fortnightly film screenings will run alongside the huge Fare gli italiani (Making Italians) exhibition. The festival offers 25 films that reconstruct the history of Italy, from the Risorgimento to the present day. The films on show include masterpieces from the greatest directors in Italian film history: Visconti, Rossellini, Soldati, Monicelli, Risi, Scola, Fellini, Bertolucci, Bellocchio, Moretti, and Amelio.

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CASA DEl TEATRORAGAzzI E GIOVANI www.casateatroragazzi.it

Carbonara.Comic-strip RisorgimentoSala Grande18 - 20 MarchInspired by the “Storia d’Italia” (History of Italy) by Alfredo Chiappori relates some of the most important episodes of the Italian Risorgimento (Resurgence) through personalities such as Giuseppe Garibaldi, Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour, Giuseppe Mazzini, Carlo Cattaneo, Pio IX, Vittorio Emanuele II.

Pazza storia al Museo (Crazy history at the Museum)Sala Piccola18 - 20 MarchThe show is created in collaboration with the Museo del Risorgimento in Torino. Inspired by the book “Attenti al cane” (Beware of the dog) written jointly by the two famous Torino writers Sebastiano Ruiz Mignone and Guido Quarzo, plays around with the story of the Italian Risorgimento, while fully respecting the historical facts and personalities.

Assaggi di teatro (Tastes of theatre)until May 2011A sophisticated encounter between well-known cuisine and the stage: the performances of Teatro Stabile inspire great chefs – Alfredo Russo, Claudio and Anna Vicina, Marcello Trentini, Pierluigi Consonni, Riccardo Ferrero, Stefano Gallo – to create special dishes, which will be savoured in their restaurants, throughout the duration of the stage performances of the shows to which they are linked.www.assaggiditeatro.it

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Sarà l’Italia. The reconstruction of the First SenatePalazzo Madama, Sala del Senato19 March 2011 - 8 January 2012A rich and realistic set exhibition will faithfully reconstruct the Hall of the first Senate in Italy: the wooden amphitheatre by the architect Ernesto Melano will be recreated with the original measurements. A multimedia journey lasting 20 minutes will relive once again the most important stages of the history of the Senate and some important debates held in the great hall between 1848 and 1864. As in a cinema mega set with a special project for schools, the young people will be “senators for a day”.A series of public lectures and study days given by important historians and journalists, the theme of which will be the major questions of democracy, but readings of the classics, concerts and theatrical monologues will also follow. The project has come to fruition in collaboration with the stage workshops of Teatro Regio and the Fondazione Torino Musei.

March 2011TEATRO STABIlE laboratorio ItaliaA homage to the great classic Italian theatre that also presents a series of performances inspired by contemporaneity. www.teatrostabiletorino.it

Rusteghi. I nemici della civiltàTeatro Carignanountil 6 Marchfrom I Rusteghi (The Curmudgeons) by Carlo Goldoni.Translation and adaptation by Gabriele Vacis and Antonia Spaliviero.Directed by Gabriele Vacis.A comedy that still speaks to our time, to intolerance disguised as moralism, to the difficulty of relating and communicating in an era that makes communication its banner.

Operette Morali by Giacomo leopardi Teatro Gobetti 18 March - 10 AprilDirected by Mario Martone.A collection of 24 works in prose, dialogues and short stories that reveal the deepest spirit of the author. “A text – states Mario Martone – that contemporary dramaturgy shows us today in all of its theatrical potential”.

le bugie con le gambe lungheby Edoardo De FilippoTeatro Carignano 8 - 20 MarchInterpreted and directed by luca De Filippo.Edoardo himself explains the title (The lies with the long legs) as a reversal of the popular proverb: the lies with the short legs are those of children, while those with the long legs are those that “all of us must help to walk in order not to let the structure of society fall down”.


Modernikon.Russian Contemporary ArtFondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengountil 24 AprilGreat exhibition dedicated to Russian contemporary art in collaboration with the Moscow-based Foundation Victoria - The Art of being Contemporary.The exhibition includes 20 artists, some of whom are already known on the international scene while others are still emerging, who work in a variety of mediums, from painting to sculpture, and from video to photography and installations. As well as established works, numerous new productions commissioned for this exhibition are also featured.www.fsrr.org

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MuseoTorinoPalazzo Madama, Corte medievale18 MarchA spectacular multimedia exhibition will complete for visitors, through the places of contemporary Torino, a journey in time to reconstruct the birth and evolution of the city, from prehistory to our times. Videos, interactive totems, mega screens and, with a map in hand, the experience of the clock going backwards will let local citizens and tourists discover how Torino has changed down through the millennia.

l’ingegner Gadda va alla guerraFonderie Limone Moncalieri15 - 20 MarchBy and with Fabrizio Gifuni.Directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci.At the basis of this text (Engineer Gadda goes to war) lies the idea that the engineer Gadda is a sort of twentieth-century Hamlet, aware of his own extraneousness to the world that surrounds him.The Diari di guerra e prigionia (Diaries of war and imprisonment) by Gadda are the outline of the first part of the show, while in the second part the force of the declaration is heightened, with the allegory of power and sex of Eros and Priapus.www.teatrostabiletorino.it

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Fare gli ItalianiFondazione Teatro Stabile Torinountil NovemberThe festival organised by Mario Martone and Giovanni De luna includes performances, debates, in-depth studies relating the one hundred and fifty Italian years while tracing the main thematic areas of the Exhibition Fare gli Italiani (Making the Italians). After the February shows dedicated to the theme of Work and Industry will follow until November twenty events that will bring to the stage the themes First World War, Southern Question (March), Italian Cities (from 30 March to 9 April), Risorgimento (from 19 to 29 April), Second World War (from 17 to 21 May), Political parties and movements (from 24 to 28 May), Postwar period (from 30 May to 23 June), Sport (from 8 to 12 November), Migratory movements (from 15 to 19 November). At the same time as the performances debates and in-depth studies will take place at the Circolo dei Lettori (Readers’ Circle).www.teatrostabiletorino.it

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Darbar. Musica a Oriente (Music in the East)MAO Museo d’Arte Orientaleuntil 21 AprilThe term Darbar indicates the place designated for artistic events in the ancient palaces of the Maharaja. The festival presents a series of concerts of the classical and popular music tradition of various countries of Central and Eastern Asia (Mongolia, Afghanistan, China, Korea, Indonesia) and it is accompanied by encounters of in-depth study with musicians and musicologists illustrating the characteristics of the various sound universes touched on. Completing the programme is a series of cinema screenings and documentaries relating to the theme of the festival.www.maotorino.it

Medieval GardenPalazzo Madama One of the major new additions of Palazzo Madama will be the organisation project of the spaces of the moat and the creation of a Giardino Medievale (Medieval Garden) The project, which has faithfully followed the instructions of numerous medieval documents, reconstructs an example of a fifteenth-century garden at the time of Ludovico Prince of Acaia, with the traditional subdivision of the space into viridarium, vegetable garden and prince’s garden, and with the presence of the traditional furnishings (embrasure, pigsty, hen house, parrot’s cage). The plants and vegetable species mentioned in the ancient papers will be located in the new space.

MUSEO DEl RISORGIMENTOPalazzo Carignano18 MarchThe historic location of Palazzo Carignano is one of the most fascinating baroque constructions, designed in the seventeenth century by Guarino Guarini and extended in the nineteenth century with a new facade towards Piazza Carlo Alberto. Since 1884 it houses the Museo del Risorgimento (Museum of the Resurgence), the oldest in Italy and the only “national” museum. Thirty rooms, each one personalised with a colour. Soft lights alternating with spotlights that illuminate 2,400 works like rays of sun. The set design of the new exhibition was curated by Richard Peduzzi, former Director of the Academy of France.

VERDI AT TEATRO REGIOA season in the name of Giuseppe Verdi, symbol of our cultural unification. It starts with the Vespri siciliani (Sicilian Vespers) (the performance on 18 March will be transmitted live by Rai 5 and Radio 3), followed by Nabucco c’era una volta la figlia di un re (Nabucco once upon a time there was the daughter of a king), Rigoletto and la Traviata.www.teatroregio.torino.it

I Vespri Siciliani18 - 29 MarchDirected by Davide livermore.Conductor Gianandrea Noseda.

Nabucco c’era una volta la figlia di un re25 MarchDirected by Silvia Collazuol.Conductor Francesco Pasqualetti.

Rigoletto12 April - 8 MayDirection, scenes and costumes by the winners by the winners of the “Creativity in the new work” competition from Teatro Regio. Conductors Patrick Fournillier and Ramon Tebar.

la Traviata22 April - 7 MayDirected by laurent Pelly.Conductors Patrick Fournillier.

Inauguration of the new section of underground from Porta Nuova to lingotto6 March

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China Power Station Chinese contemporary Art from Astrup Fearnley collectionPinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelliuntil 27 March The creative explosion of Chinese contemporary art is to go on show in Torino with works from a generation of avant-garde artists such as (to mention the most famous) Ai Weiwei and Huang Yong Ping, as well as post-Mao artists (born between the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s) like Cao Fei, liu Wei, Yang Fudong, Sun Xun, and zhang Ding. The exhibition includes videos, large-scale installations, paintings and sculptures which tell of a vibrant Chinese art scene, uncovering some of the most innovative responses emerging in China – a country which provides a fertile ground for artistic exploration.www.pinacoteca-agnelli.it

KM011 Arti a Torino. 1995-2011Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturaliuntil 3 April An exhibition-event that relates the crossovers between visual arts, architecture, cinema and literature that have characterised Torino from 1995 until today, transforming it from a city of major industry to a capital of contemporary culture. A project “kilometre zero” created by Luca Beatrice, that focuses everything on local artists to promote their production and create a virtuous circle with operators of the Torino and regional artistic system. Also planned are two theme evenings one dedicated to music, the other to fashion.www.regione.piemonte.it/museoscienzenaturali

BROlETTO DI NOVARA19 MarchFour constructions from different eras overlooking a closed courtyard: the thirteenth-century Palazzo d’Arengo, Palazzo del Podestà, of fifteenth-century origin; Palazzo dei Referendari and Palazzo dei Paratici. The restoration and reconstruction project has designated the complex exclusively to the Giannoni collection, while the museo archeologico will be transferred to Castello di Novara, thus rendering usable the considerable artistic heritage of the city: over 900 works of Italian art from the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century.

European diving championships8 - 13 March

Women’s Foil Fencing World Cup11 - 13 March

Turin - Earth. Città e nuove migrazioniMuseo Diffuso della Resistenza23 March - 27 NovemberThe exhibition focuses on the vital connection that unites the city and migrations and the fundamental role of Torino in the construction of Italy and Italians. The materials selected for the exhibition include interviews, statistical data, videos, photographs and objects, gathered according to the principle of research in the field of an ethnographic nature. Ample space is reserved for the reconstruction of the life stories of the immigrants and the presentation of their viewpoint on the urban panorama.www.museodiffusotorino.it

Italian art in the Guggenheim collections Vercelli, Arca, Chiesa di San Marcountil 5 JuneThe exhibition is a homage to the Italian art of the XX century and presents 40 works by Italian artists collected by American patrons of the arts. In the year of the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy the exhibition itinerary starts symbolically in 1961 year of the first centenary, with a painting by Giuseppe Capogrossi. Among the artists Alberto Burri, lucio Fontana, Giorgio Morandi, Filippo De Pisis, Arturo Tosi, Amedeo Modigliani, Arnaldo Pomodoro. Particular attention is given to the work of Mario Sironi present with eight works. The last part of the exhibition itinerary is dedicated to futurism.www.guggenheimvercelli.it

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April 2011Torino ComicsLingotto Fiere8 - 10 AprilA three-day event dedicated to comics with encounters and workshops with the most loved creators of super heroes.www.torinocomics.com

The changing city. Photographs of Turin 1880-1930 Borgo Medievale9 April - 9 October The exhibition enables the general public to get to know and appreciate the historical sources of the photographic archive of the Fondazione Torino Musei and is subdivided into four sections: Esposizioni (Exhibitions), lavoro sport e tempo libero (Work sport and leisure time), Scorci di Torino (Perspectives of Torino) and lungo il fiume (Along the river). Esposizioni will be featured in the exhibition room of the Borgo and will display the precious volumes created for the Esposizioni of 1884, 1898 and 1902 in special showcases, while the most important images of the albums will run on a loop video on a screen. lavoro, sport e tempo libero in the open spaces of the Borgo will present around 25 large-size photographs with subjects of men and women to the forefront through a three-dimensional exhibition. Scorci di Torino and lungo il fiume constitute the most exhibition-style part of the display with a selection of around 35 photos for each theme printed on forex and framed in a special passepartout.www.borgomedievaletorino.it

Biennale Democrazia. Tutti. Molti. Pochi13 - 17 AprilChaired by Gustavo zagrebelsky, the permanent public workshop that discusses politics returns. This year’s theme explores the relationship between oligarchy and democracy. In the Sala del Senato at Palazzo Madama, great dialogues will be read on the democratic system from Demostene to Obama.www.biennaledemocrazia.it

lA VENARIA REAlEPotager Royal. Vegetable plots and orchards in the Garden of the ReggiaReggia di Venaria Realefrom 16 AprilProject Maurizio Reggi and Alessia Bellone.In the splendid setting of the Palace Gardens, surrounded by the woods of the Mandria and the Alps, opens the Potager Royal, ten hectares of vegetable gardens and orchards cultivated with thousands of typical vegetables and grains of the region. The biggest Potager garden in Italy rises up where in the 1800s the extensive cultivations of the farm of the Royal House were concentrated and is inspired by the ancient design of the vegetable gardens at one time present in the courtly Gardens of the Venaria. Cultural and botanical visits – designed by the Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche in collaboration with Slow Food – and many different workshops dedicated to food, an essential feature of the Italian identity, will put the public in direct contact with the variety and the richness of tradition and the Italian gourmet production. To complete the visit it will be possible to sample the regal dinners prepared each month, by great chefs.


Messer Tulipano e Il Tricolore Castello di Pralormo2 April - 1 May XII edition of the large botanical exhibition, with 75,000 tulips in the park. The flower beds will follow the theme with the colours of the Italian flag, just like the installations and the sets.www.castellodipralormo.com

Assembly of the Sardinian Grenadiers15 - 17 April

Regions Basketball Trophy20 - 25 April

Racconto italiano (Italian tale)Casa del Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani, Sala Grande15 - 17 AprilThe Project “Favole filosofiche” (Philosophical fables) brings to the stage the poetic and entertaining story of two brothers and a little isolated village in the middle of the sea, and makes us reflect on the feeling of community that comes to be recognised in a Country united by 150 years of history and stories.www.casateatroragazzi.it

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Ars Captiva. Futuro prossimo/passato anterioreEx Carceri Le Nuove 6 April - 15 MayArs Captiva is a training project aimed at the promotion of youthful creativity, involving students of Piemonte artistic education from the secondary school at the Università dell’Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti. In the cells and corridors of the ex carceri le Nuove in Torino, artists undergoing training present works, installations and performances focused on the themes of rights, of conflict, of imprisonment, and together on the problematic relationship between memory and construction of the future. During the planning phase workshops were organised which were conducted by Torino artists whose work opened up to a dimension of international comparison in recent years (Botto and Bruno, Marzia Migliora, Alessandro Quaranta), to open up a new space of dialogue and comparison between recent generations.www.arscaptiva.it

JamiroquaiPalaolimpico 2 Aprilwww.setup-live.com

Elisa - Ivy Theater TourAuditorium Lingotto9 - 10 Aprilwww.setup-live.com

Dalla&DeGregoriAuditorium Lingotto 13 Aprilwww.setup-live.com

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May 2011Un’espressione geograficaFondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengountil NovemberThrough the eyes of twenty international artists, the exhibition – by Francesco Bonami – will relate, from a new perspective, the variety of the Italian territory, exalting the riches and specific characteristics of each region.www.fsrr.org

Salone Internazionale del libro12 - 16 MayFor the first time the Salone will extend to the Oval Lingotto and the highlight will be the exhibition “Italia dei libri” (Italy of books) curated by Gian Arturo Ferrari and Ernesto Ferrero: 150 years of the Unity of Italy seen through great books, authors and the literary phenomena that have moulded our history. The guest country will be Russia.www.salonelibro.it

Gli eroi (Heroes)GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea12 May - 31 OctoberThe exhibition explores the work of those artists who contribute to history with the strength of their message while becoming heroes because of the courage they express in their creations. The major project, which will occupy, for the first time, both the Exhibition area, and the space of the Underground project is presented as an ideal connection between the institutional approach, more significantly historical, and the exhibitions dedicated to contemporary experimentations. Among the works on exhibition are the large panels of Sean Scully, the expressive figures of Francesco Clemente, the disturbing installations of louise Bourgeois.www.gamtorino.it

Giro d’Italia di ciclismo.150th Anniversary of Unity EditionDeparture from Reggia di Venaria 7 MayThe historic race has chosen the first capital for the inaugural stage, so as to symbolically recall that the difficult course towards a united Italy started here.A Tour through the excellence of Italy, 21 days of racing passing through 17 Italian regions.www.gazzetta.it

Assembly of Alpine troops6 - 8 May

Parco Dora The initiative, created along the river Dora, is the largest town planning project included in the national infrastructural plan for the celebrations of the 150th Anniversary. The transformation of this area, occupied, up to a few decades ago, by the factories of heavy industry, will offer residents, all citizens and tourists, 450 thousand square metres of green area for relaxation, sport and fun. The park will keep alive the memory of its industrial past, by preserving some of the pre-existing structures (tanks, steel columns, chimneys).


Magnum on the set. Cinema seen by the great photographersMuseo Nazionale del Cinema, Mole Antonelliana26 May - 25 September The production of classics of the history of cinema documented by reporters of the biggest photographic agency in the world: 120 snapshots on the set of major masterpieces such as luci della ribalta (Footlights), Seven Year Itch, Rebel without a Cause, The Trial, Moby Dick, zabriskie point and many others.www.museonazionaledelcinema.it

Jovanotti 2011Palaolimpico18 - 19 Maywww.setup-live.com

CorriTorino29 May

National University Championship20 - 28 May

Trofeo delle Capitali. Torino - Firenze - Roma20 - 22 MayVintage motoring.




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June 2011Continuing:Officine Grandi Riparazioni




Venaria Real MusicReggia di Venaria Reale4 June - 31 JulyIn the extraordinary setting of the Reggia (Palace) a programme of concerts and performances – in particular rock and pop – of major appeal.www.venariarealmusic.it

la Cenerentola by Gioacchino RossiniResidenze Sabaude25 - 26 JunePlayful drama in two acts to the libretto by Jacopo Ferretti, transmitted in direct world vision.

Festival delle Colline Torinesi3 - 23 Junewww.festivaldellecolline.it

European tango Championship & festival28 June - 3 JulyThe best dance couples from all European countries competing for the European Title in the categories Tango salón and Tango Escenario. And also a milonga in the piazza, six evenings of milonga with the best of theatre shows, a cinema festival, photographic exhibitions and thematic public lectures.www.european-tango-championship.com

MTV Days30 June – 2 Julywww.extra.mtv.it

Gianna NanniniPalaolimpico4 June www.setup-live.com

Festa della Repubblica. Concert of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai 2 June www.orchestrasinfonica.rai.it

Nabucco at the Stadio Olimpico 25 JuneA 60 metre by twenty stage, 600 walk-ons, an imposing set design with gigantic towers and gates of Babylon for a colossal edition of the work by Giuseppe Verdi. Actors: Dimitra Theodossiou and Francesco Ellero d’Artegna. Directed by Massimo Di Mattia.

Assembly of the aeronautical branch10 - 12 June

National Assembly of the Bersaglieri Riflemen15 - 19 June

Parade of the Cavalry Corps25 - 26 June

BMW Italian Open Royal Park I Roveri 9 - 12 June

Primo Nebiolo Memorial.17th International track and field athletics Meeting10 June

Regions Volleyball Trophy26 June - 1 July


July 2011Teatro a Corte2 - 24 Julywww.teatroacorte.it

Il Regio a Racconigi2 - 31 Julywww.teatroregiotorino.it

Traffic Free Festival13 - 16 Julywww.trafficfestival.com

Inauguration of the new Juventus stadium16 July

Vespitalia1501 - 3 JulyThe 150 years of the Unity of Italy celebrated with one of the most representative symbols: the vespa.Three days during which the famous scooter will enthral the first capital of Italy with a unique and fascinating programme.www.vespitalia150.it

World archery championshipsPalazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi and Piazza Castello in Torino 3 - 17 JulyAfter 35 years Italy hosts the event that for the first time brings together the competitions reserved for non-disabled and disabled athletes.All the competitions will take place in the Palazzina di Stupinigi except for the finals which will be held in Piazza Castello as with the prize-giving ceremonies.

European Twirling Championship6 - 10 July

Arrival in Torino of the Giro d’Italiadi ciclismo femminile10 July

lA VENARIA REAlEModa in Italia. 150 years of eleganceReggia di Venaria Reale, Sala delle Arti23 July - 11 DecemberArtistic Direction by Gabriella Pescucci and Franca Sozzani.Mounting by Michele De lucchi.A journey through the history of high fashion and Italian style from Unity until today: from the clothes of the nineteenth-century nobility to the creations of the major contemporary designers. One hundred and fifty pieces of clothing relating the tastes, ambitions and hopes of our compatriots. The exhibition retraces the stages through which fashion has transformed over the course of 150 years, not only into a unifying element for Italians, but also into a distinguishing feature of Italian excellence abroad. The clothes exhibited belonging to the prestigious collection of the Sartoria Teatrale Tirelli and, for the past fifty years to the principal labels of high fashion, are introduced into picturesque settings that recreate with sounds and images the atmosphere and events of the various epochs.









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August 2011Trofeo della Mole. International wheelchair Tennis Tournament22 - 27 August


September 2011MiTo SettembreMusica3 - 22 SeptemberA special project will involve 15 contemporary composers by asking each one to write a piece for the Unity of Italy. Concerts will also be held in the Sala del Senato in Palazzo Madama, three events dedicated to a repertoire of nineteenth-century music.www.mitosettembremusica.it

Assembly of the Fire Brigade10 - 11 September

Italian language Congress and Italian language week30 September - 2 OctoberEightieth international conference of the Società Dante Alighieri.An opportunity to discuss our language with major linguists as guests, primarily those of the Accademia della Crusca.




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Prix Italia18 - 23 Septemberwww.prixitalia.rai.it

Torino Spiritualità29 September - 2 Octoberwww.torinospiritualita.org

Portici di cartawww.porticidicarta.it


October 2011Word Dance Games 201127 October - 7 November

Euromineralexpo. Mostra mercato internazionale dei mineraliLingotto fiere7 - 9 Octoberwww.euromineralexpo.it

Torino Winterpark. All fitness and sportLingotto fiere14 - 16 Octoberwww.torinowinterpark.it

NegramaroPalaolimpico18 - 19 Octoberwww.setup-live.com

View Conference25 - 28 Octoberwww. viewconference.it

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leonardo. The genius, the legendReggia di Venaria Reale, Scuderia Grande21 October - 8 January 2012An exceptional exhibition recalls the figure of one of the greatest Italians of all time: leonardo da Vinci. His many-sided genius is related through the theme of his representation in the history of Art, between natural portrait and official depiction.The exhibition displays one of the masterpieces of the collections of the House of Savoy the Autoritratto (Self-portrait), a very famous a sanguigna drawing held at the Biblioteca Reale in Torino.Surrounding the work, other drawings by Leonardo centred on the theme of the human face and the Codice sul volo degli Uccelli (Code on the flight of Birds), a collection of exceptional sketches and writings.




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Closing Sleepless Night19 November

Until 19 NovemberOfficine Grandi Riparazioni


Continuing:Reggia di Venaria Reale

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November 2011luci d’Artista

ContemporaryArtwww.contemporarytorinopiemonte.it

Artissima4 - 6 Novemberwww.artissima.it

Club to Clubwww.clubtoclub.it

Torino Film Festival25 November - 3 DecemberWith a retrospective dedicated to Robert Altman.www.torinofilmfest.org

Turin Marathonwww.turinmarathon.it

Dna Italy. Technology culture economy for heritageLingotto fiere3 - 5 Novemberwww.salonednaitalia.it

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