Turin, a photo exhibition at GAM on the landscapes of art, between architecture and nature

Turin ’s GAM presents from May 3 to September 1, 2024 the exhibition Expanded. The Landscapes of Art, curated by Elena Volpato, dedicated to a number of photographers who have been able to render the multiple aspects of art and portray in the broadest sense its landscapes composed of works and architecture, the faces of artists and their working moments in the studio or in the natural landscape. The exhibition is part of Expanded, the three-chapter tour of the Photographic Collection of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, which is part of the program of EXPOSED. Torino Foto Festival. The project is completed with Expanded Without, at OGR Turin, and Expanded With, in the rooms of the Castello di Rivoli.

Thanks to the support of Strategia Fotografia 2023, promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, GAM was able to renew its collecting commitment by acquiring 22 photographs by Gianfranco Gorgoni, made between 1970 and 1974. The photos are devoted to the different stages of making Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, works by Michael Heizer, as well as portraits of artists such as Bruce Nauman, Dan Flavin, Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly. Gorgoni’s images allowed for a re-reading of the photographic gaze on art through the continuous emergence of a desire for vertigo. A desire present from the earliest shots taken by photographers such as Nadar and, a little later, such as Mario Gabinio, ascending balloons to capture from above the beauty of their cities and to accommodate within the perspective grid the vital deformation of the convexity of the world and the offset from the plane of the horizon. The most dizzying image in the history of photography is a snapshot of the imagery of one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century: Luigi Ghirri, in front of one of the first images of the Earth seen from the Moon, glimpsing within it all the images of artistic history, one inside the other, telescopically sunken, “graffiti, frescoes, paintings, writings, photographs, books, films,” he wrote. “Simultaneously the representation of the world and all representations of the world at once.”

The works on display are part of a long collecting history that has enriched the museum’s holdings over time, including important specimens such as the daguerreotype of the church of the Gran Madre di Dio made by Enrico Federico Jest in 1839, and the Photographic Archive of the Fondazione Torino Musei, from which come Mario Gabinio’s prints, produced in the late 19th and early decades of the 20th century. GAM’s collections grew in the early 2000s, under the direction of Pier Giovanni Castagnoli and thanks to funds from the City of Turin, with which the museum was able, not only to give extensive representation in its collections of the work of the most important Italian photographers of the second half of the twentieth century, but also to commission extensive reconnaissance and reinterpretation of the city’s landscape values, including, on display, shots by Gabriele Basilico, Olivo Barbieri and Armin Linke. In the same years, the photography collections underwent another important addition thanks to the CRT Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art. These include on display, in addition to works by Ghirri, numerous photographs by Ugo Mulas, Mimmo Jodice, Aurelio Amendola and Claudio Abate.

The exhibition also features a work created by Jacopo Benassi especially for the occasion, Landscape of a Landscape in a Landscape. “The title is already a vertigo,” writes Elena Volpato. “A lunge that has the inexorability of a fall. Benassi, invited to take some photos inside the GAM’s storerooms, chose to crop his shots inside some skies of nineteenth-century paintings, and from such a close viewpoint that the pictorial film took on the presence of epidermis. Devoid of compositional coordinates, with no inkling of where their horizon line fell, they become immense and romantically modern. Benassi made his two shots a sculpture on wheels, disengaging himself from the reassuring coordinates of the wall and letting the work carry its own indefinite otherness around the space in relation to any predetermined idea of photography and art.”

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Turin, a photo exhibition at GAM on the landscapes of art, between architecture and nature

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