From April 29, Rivoli Castle becomes anti-Covid vaccination center

Starting April 29, 2021, the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art will become an anti-Covid19 vaccination center: vaccine administration point (Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) will be the rooms of Claudia Comte ’s exhibition set up on the third floor of the museum.

Information about the Covid-19 vaccination and to join the vaccination campaign will require accessing the regional website www.ilpiemontetivaccina.it and filling out the pre-adherence form or contacting your family doctor. You can also access via this link.

As already announced in January 2021, the Rivoli Castle in collaboration with the City of Rivoli and Asl To3 has defined a pilot project to allocate the museum venue for vaccinations in support of the Covid-19 National Vaccination Plan, in synergy with Cultura Italiae, which had proposed the reopening of cultural venues as new garrisons to protect citizens’ health. The Rivoli Castle is the first contemporary art museum in the world to allocate exhibition rooms as a vaccination venue.

Art has always also been a cure, an experience that includes and involves, able to be a therapy that processes trauma and a place where art combines cultural well-being with physical well-being. The museum aims to be a place of choice for a community-facing service by housing a Covid-19 vaccination site in its spaces.

The vaccination site is set up in the rooms on the third floor of the museum where the Claudia Comte exhibition is underway. How to Grow and Always Have the Same Shape. Starting from the observation of nature and its changing patterns, Claudia Comte (Grancy, 1983) develops large-scale environmental installations that incorporate the world from the perspective of digital experience. For the exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli, the artist has created monumental site-specific wall interventions that unfold according to repeated geometric modules in space through which Comte creates an enveloping and vibrant optical environment. Comte has specially created a new sound work that will be diffused throughout the spaces. While in the rooms that house the vaccine site, vaccinandi will be able to listen to the sound work The Pattern That Connects, 2021 composed by the artist with the collaboration of Egon Elliut.

Francesca Lavazza, President of Castello di Rivoli, said, “I am delighted that Castello di Rivoli has made some of its spaces available as a vaccine hub for its territory. An initiative initiated by Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev with the assent of the Board of Directors, which underscores the civic value of places with public functions such as our museum in putting themselves at the service of the community, conveying a message of closeness in a still difficult time such as the one we are living through.”

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, director of the Rivoli Castle, says, “The project is the result of an effective collaboration between many people. I am happy with the positive outcome. Art has always contributed to the healing of society-it is no accident that some of the world’s first museums were previously hospitals. We would now like to return the favor, so to speak, by making the rooms of the Rivoli Castle available for the national vaccination plan. Our spaces are large enough to accommodate a safe immunization center; our custodians are welcoming and well-trained in monitoring the public. Most importantly, it is a commitment to creating a place that is accessible and serves the community. Our buildings fulfill our mission - Art cares. We invited artist Claudia Comte to walk this journey to health with us. I thank her for her sensitivity and creative generosity.”

Artist Claudia Comte added, “For the vaccination center at Castello di Rivoli, our goal, with composer Egon Elliut, was to create an audiovisual experience similar to a daydream, something that was above all calming and welcoming. There are several chapters that make up the soundscape, and each represents, rhythmically, the natural realm of flora and fauna. The process involved the creation of sounds that give the impression of a sentient entity, such as the hum of a jellyfish moving through seawater and the gentle roaring of a herd of deer. Oscillating between electronic sound and more classical influences, the soundscape also incorporates field recordings taken from nature, for example the sound of the ocean can be heard at varying depths and pulsations. The patterns in the wall paintings that visitors will experience in unison for the first time mimic the soundscape. The immersive works thus envelop all twelve walls of the halls. I sincerely hope that people feel that they are entering an inviting and relaxing environment, and that even a little joy can be experienced by seeing and experiencing this work in anticipation of receiving this vaccine that is so important to all of us.”

Image: Claudia Comte, How to Grow and Always Have the Same Shape, 2019-2021, exhibition view. Courtesy Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea

From April 29, Rivoli Castle becomes anti-Covid vaccination center

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