Turin, GAM hosts an exhibition dedicated to GRASSO magazine

Turin ’s GAM is hosting the exhibition GRASSO, dedicated to the first seven issues of the magazine conceived in 2016 by Giuseppe Gabellone and Diego Perrone, until March 16, 2025. The name responds to the unusual size of the magazine, a true oversize, which must be able to unfold in its two-meter base by three meters high in order to be read.

Thanks to the support of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, it was possible to create the seventh issue titled Amedeo Special, the name of a cocktail invented in the 1940s by Amedeo Gandiglio, bartender at the historic Turin bar Chatam, and revisited for the occasion by Marco Torre, of Bar Cavour, at the invitation of the two artists.

“The cocktail stands out in full size in the magazine,” writes curator Elena Volpato, “as the equal and opposite of the photographic language of advertising. The exaggerated dimensions of pop remain, but gone are the eye-catching glitter and vital energy. In their place slip into the image dusky penumbrae of pinks, greens and browns, as shaded by absinthe vapors in old cafes. Each issue of GRASSO devours a related but different language of the visual arts. Issue 02 arrested and embedded the narrative flow of a performance in a mosaic of photos, issue 04 turned a long interview into a tapestry, enhancing it to the point of illegibility, issue 06 is occupied by a drawing where the iron iconographic and stylistic rules of Japanese manga were intertwined with Judeo-Christian culture and a certain desire for painting... GRASSO is beautiful, like paradoxical projects, like all things huge and fragile, a giant with paper feet.”

The exhibition is part of the collecting commitment that GAM and the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT have been making to artists’ books and magazines since 2017 with the establishment of the Fund named after Giorgio Maffei.

GRASSO is a project by Giuseppe Gabellone and Diego Perrone, curated by Elena Volpato, with art direction by Studio Fludd, photos by Massimo Bianchi, with the support of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and GAM in Turin, with advice from Corrado Beldì, the slipcase designed by Dallas, printed byArtistica Savigliano and coordinated by Federica Panelli.

For all information, you can visit GAM’s official website.

Turin, GAM hosts an exhibition dedicated to GRASSO magazine

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