Flashback 2021, participating galleries and previews of the 9th edition

After announcing the change of venue, namely the former Dogali Barracks just transformed into an exhibition center, and after announcing the theme of the 2021 edition(The Free Zone / La Zona Franca), Flashback, Turin’s ancient and contemporary art fair, today announced the list of galleries that will participate in the appointment number IX with the exhibition-market, from November 4 to 7, 2021.

Thus, 800/900 Art Studio (Livorno); Aleandri Arte Moderna (Rome); Roberto Centrella’s Art Decoratif (Fiumicino); Artemisia Fine Art (Dogana, San Marino); and Benappi Fine Art (London) will alternate between the fair’s pavilions; Biasutti & Biasutti (Turin); Caretto & Occhinegro (Turin); Flavio Gianassi - FG Fine Art (London); Flavio Pozzallo (Oulx); Galleria Alessandro Bagnai (Foiano della Chiana); Galleria Carlo Virgilio & C. (Rome and London); Galleria d’arte Niccoli (Parma); Galleria d’Arte Roccatre (Turin); Galleria Del Ponte (Turin); Galleria dello Scudo (Verona); Galleria Luigi Caretto (Turin and Madrid); Galleria Russo (Rome); Il Cartiglio (Turin); Longari Arte Milano (Milan); Lorenzo and Paola Monticone Gioielli d’epoca (Turin); MB Arte Libri (Milan); Mirco Cattai Fine Art & Antique Rugs (Milan); Miriam Di Penta Fine Art (Rome); Photo & Contemporary (Turin); Schreiber Collezioni (Turin); Secol-Art di Masoero (Turin); Studio d’Arte Campaiola (Rome); Umberto Benappi (Turin); Untitled Association (Rome); White Lands (Turin).

Dedicated to the expressive freedom of artistic research this edition intends to dwell on the freedom of gesture, of form, of the unexpected, of the gaze to open to the future because, as Ursula K. Le Guin, “...we will need voices capable of seeing alternatives to the way we live now, capable of seeing, beyond a society gripped by fear and technological obsession, other ways of being, and even imagining new bases for hope. We need writers who remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, realists of a greater reality.” Here are some previews: starting with Mario Sironi ’s work entitled Periferia, c. 1940, brought to the exhibition by Aleandri Arte Moderna (tempera and oil pastels on paper with razor blade interventions to scrape the surface layer of color and bring out the underlying), we move on to his contemporary Gino Severini with his Nature morte au homard sur plat bleu, c. 1950, mosaic on cement by 800/900 Art Studio, and we come to the master of the informal Alberto Burri with Senza Titolo from 1958, mixed media (acrylic, canvas, vinavil) on panel presented by Artemisia Fine Art, which tells us about the freedom of the unexpected. We continue in the freedom of gesture and form by landing on Medardo Rosso ’s Ecce Puer (Galleria Russo) and the works of Sandro Chia and Mimmo Paladino (Galleria dello Scudo), authors of the Transavanguardia, a current that operates outside obligatory coordinates, following a nomadic and free attitude with a polycentric focus.

Umberto Benappi will bring Aldo Mondino ’s 1992 Tappeti stesi (oil on eraclite), a trompe-l’oeil with which Mondino shows us the possibility of changing the way we see things and their function. The texture of eraclite, poor and coarse, becomes the jaw-dropping simulation of a noble oriental carpet. “Real” rugs, on the other hand, are presented by the Mirco Cattai Fine Art and Antique Rugs gallery such as the mid-17th-century 156 x 114 cm Lotto rug with origins in central Anatolia. Lottos are rugs characterized by a continuous modular composition to form a grid. Also working on the illusion of the gaze is George Rousse, an author capable of creating a deep connection with the places he represents, often abandoned places that are regenerated thanks to his transversal gaze. The work is Shodoshima from 2018, presented by the Photo & Contemporary Gallery. Grasshopper gives us the ability to seize opportunities, to move according to impulse and leap forward with the work Grasshopper, an asymmetrically shaped vase (by Roberto Centrella’s Art Decoratif) in acid etched and fire-polished double-layered glass. Grasshopper decoration then appears among ferns in iridescent wine red tones on a transparent ground (by Artistica Gallè production, 1890s/1894).

A tribute to Dante Alighieri on the seven-hundredth anniversary of his death cannot be missed: so here is a fifteenth-century edition of the Comedy with commentary by Iacomo della Lana and corrections by Cristoforo Berardi, proposed by the antiquarian bookstore Il Cartiglio. Finally, a transversal look at Turin, the venue city, thanks to the work by Marco Calderini, remembered as the most Piedmontese of all artists: The Po in Turin, oil on canvas, from Carlo Virgilio&C Gallery.

For all information you can visit the Flashback website.

Flashback 2021, participating galleries and previews of the 9th edition

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