Art Nouveau Turin: an exhibition explores the arts of the Belle Ã?poque in the city

Art Nouveau Turin: at the Civic Museum of Ancient Art in Palazzo Madama , an exhibition, from Oct. 26 to June 10, 2024, traces the atmosphere of the city during the Belle Époque. Entitled Liberty. Turin Capital and is curated by Palazzo Madama and SIAT - Society of Engineers and Architects in Turin with the collaboration of MondoMostre.

With a hundred or so works, the exhibition recounts the fundamental role of Turin in the rise of Art Nouveau, an art that in the Savoy capital became the fulcrum of a story that swept over every aspect of life and society, defining an architectural and artistic experience that from Turin’s suggestions would spread throughout the world. This is an important operation for Turin’s entry into the Brussels RANN and its candidacy as a UNESCO World Heritage City for Art Nouveau.

The exhibition aims to address every aspect of the artistic manifestations of Art Nouveau, allowing visitors to fully understand the mechanisms of architectural and aesthetic creation, being able for the first time to perceive the making of works, whether they are architecture, interior design, paintings, sculptures, graphic or decorative works, objects of use, literary texts, poetry or music, all works characterized by the very special structural line of nature, the eternal generator of forms.

In the forty years of the so-called Belle Époque, in the decades of boundless confidence in progress, a world with no more boundaries finds its expression in an artistic-philosophical movement that with exquisite decorative elegance connects everything with gentle, sinuous lines that meet and intertwine harmoniously. It is the birth of a style that finds in Turin its capital and its sounding board in the Valentino Park, the protagonist of the nation’s new values and progress, an ideal setting to showcase Italian production in the industrial, agricultural and artistic fields.

Of this very fruitful European season in its overcoming naturalism in the name of a decorative symbolism, the exhibition at Palazzo Madama aims to account for it with large sections structured around a key word: metamorphosis. The transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries can, in fact, be considered as a great process of aesthetic, social, and geopolitical metamorphosis.

The layout, the exhibition and the catalog - published by Silvana Editoriale - are curated by Beatrice Coda Negozio, Roberto Fraternali, Carlo Ostorero, Rosalba Stura and Maria Carla Visconti who, also as SIAT - Society of Engineers and Architects in Turin, have for decades undertaken a path of protection and deepening of the themes of Art Nouveau culture in Turin, making themselves protagonists of important scientific, editorial and popular initiatives. The exhibition is accompanied by the rich Libertyamo program, geared toward the maximum involvement of the city and its citizens in the rediscovery of their roots and the exceptional architectural context of their everyday life.

Art Nouveau Turin: an exhibition explores the arts of the Belle Époque in the city

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