In Turin the seventh edition of Flashback, this year dedicated to "Wanderers"

It will be held at the Pala Alpitour in Turin, from October 31 to November 3, 2019, the seventh edition of Flashback - art is all contemporary, the exhibition-market of ancient and contemporary art, small in size (there will be less than fifty galleries selected this year), but of very high quality and highly appreciated by critics, collectors and insiders. The fair, born in 2013 from the intuition of Stefania Poddighe and Ginevra Pucci, aims to build a place for visual culture that unites culture and the market in a single solution, without constraints of space and time: the intent is to propose a more versatile approach to art, to allow an increasingly wide audience to enjoy works no longer perceived as distant because they are “ancient” but as documents in our lived experience.

The event’s motto, “art is all contemporary,” is inspired by Gino De Dominicis ’ conceptual research on the theme of the immortality of the work of art: Flashback thus aims to transport the past into the present by removing temporal and artistic form labels, relying exclusively on the experience of enjoying the work and its timelessness.

For the 2019 edition, Flashback has chosen as its theme The Wanderers, which with its previous titles The Enigma of Time, The Labyrinth, The Energy, In Reverse Sense, New Syncretism and Shores of Another Sea are chapters of a single narrative. “The characters are us,” reads the presentation, "chrononauts of art and in art, wanderers in its eternal present, wandering users, mysterious people who have the habit of meddling in the history (past and future) of all peoples. The title of this seventh edition takes its cue from a sci-fi novel dated 1986 by the Soviet writing duo Arkadij and Boris Strugackij. For Flashback these Wanderers in and of Time are The Wanderers/The Wanderers.

There will be many artistic offerings during the days of the fair: from Flashback sound, the palimpsest dedicated to music that spans past and present, to Flashback storytelling, a project that promotes, through storytelling, the active relationship between the public and art, and Flashback talk, a program of meetings with themes that span time, fromantiquity to modernity and vice versa; Flashback video, a program dedicated to the moving image, from video art to documentary; and Flashback art class, lectures on “all contemporary” art history. One of this year’s novelties is Flashback food & drink, curated by Elisa Avataneo, the latest challenge that declines the theme of each edition in a gastronomic key.

Then there are three Flashback exhibitions: the wall painting of Sergio Cascavilla’s The Wanderers, with its narratively surreal sign; Eva Marisaldi and Hidetoshi Nagasawa’s double solo exhibition, Changing Dwelling: Steps in Time, a project by Michela Casavola that compares two generations of artists both fascinated by the passage of time, the motif of travel and temporal suspension; the exhibition Gli anni 80 dedicated to Marco Gastini, one of the most appreciated Italian artists of the Second Postwar period, an opportunity to observe the wandering matrix of the artist in the subjection of the most disparate materials.

The “living artwork” is back again this year, and for the 2019 edition the Flashback special project Opera Viva Barriera di Milano is the urban art project conceived by Alessandro Bulgini and curated by Christian Caliandro that, with the succession of five 6x3m posters in Bottesini Square in Turin, marked the countdown to the fair. In addition to the works by Rebecca Moccia, Laura Cionci and the final one by Alessandro Bulgini, the works by Emanuela Barilozzi Caruso and Nero / Alessandro Neretti (winners of the Open Call) also translate into an advertising-like poster that denies the language of advertising at the very moment it is used and transforms viewers into explorers of an unknown world in the belief that art should leave institutional spaces and integrate into the dimension of everyday existence.

For all information you can visit the Flashback website.

In Turin the seventh edition of Flashback, this year dedicated to "Wanderers"

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