Turin's GAM donates 50,000 euros to cancer research through an exhibition

GAM of Turin has donated 50 thousand euros to the Fondazione Piemontese per la Ricerca sul Cancro Onlus: in fact, a ceremony was held yesterday at theCandiolo-IRCCS Institute during which the president of the Fondazione Torino Musei Maurizio Cibrario handed over a check for that amount to the President of the Fondazione Piemontese per la Ricerca sul Cancro Allegra Agnelli, thanks to the charity collection achieved with part of the ticket proceeds from the exhibition Viaggio Controcorrente. Italian Art 1920-1945, which took place last May at the Turin museum venue to celebrate thirty-five years of the Piedmont Foundation for Cancer Research.

The exhibition, curated by Annamaria Bava, head of the Heritage Area of the Royal Museums, GAM director Riccardo Passoni and Iannaccone collection curator Rischa Paterlini, and realized with the support of the CRT Foundation, with the collaboration of Intesa Sanpaolo and thanks to contributions from sponsor Breeze and technical partner AXA, was precisely designed to support fundraising. It exhibited 130 works between 1920 and 1945 from the GAM and Galleria Sabauda, through the rotation of two public collections around a significant selection of seventy-three masterpieces from the rich private collection of Milan lawyer Giuseppe Iannaccone.

“We are pleased to support the Fondazione Piemontese per la Ricerca sul Cancro Onlus with our contribution,” said Maurizio Cibrario. "The exhibition project was born with a precise civil and social commitment: to concretely support an institute that has always been close to research and care for others, especially in a particularly difficult historical moment. It was and is therefore natural to communicate the operation through key words of strong recognition. Such as Sostieni Candiolo and Art as a cure."

"We are really happy that the art world has chosen to be concretely at our Foundation’s side to send a positive and strong message, capable of exalting the value of research for our future and for the new generations,“ commented Allegra Agnelli. ”Thank you very much to GAM, lawyer Iannaccone and all the organizations and partners who made this exhibition possible, but especially to all those who, by visiting this special exhibition, gave their support to the daily work carried out by the researchers, doctors, nurses and all the staff of the Candiolo-IRCCS Institute, who never stopped during the pandemic."

Turin's GAM donates 50,000 euros to cancer research through an exhibition

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