Espressioni. The Proposition
Group show with works by Cally Spooner
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin
Until May 30, 2021
Espressioni. The Proposition includes the works of 50 artists from different periods and many parts of the the world. The artists in this exhibition share an interest in highly expressive – and sometimes expressionist – forms of art.
The artists range from exasperated individualism to romantic melancholy, from deformed interpretations of the body and of the everyday to fierce social critiques. It is as if they feel the need to verify their own vitality in the face of the world’s difficulties. The exhibition itinerary on the first and third floors of the Castello building as well as in the Manica Lunga, activates unprecedented relationships between the artworks, emphasizing the multiple ways in which artists express emotional and bodily states.
The exhibition displays techniques and materials such as painting, sculpture, collage, video, performance and virtual reality projects.
“Since its origins, art has recorded the great changes of the world, proposed alternative models of knowledge and visions that refuse a passive acceptance of progress as inherently positive,” declares Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.
