GIORGIO GRIFFA, Tribute for his 90th birthday

GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino Collections, 1st Floor From 21 May 2026

On the occasion of the opening of the GAM’s new exhibition season, THE FOURTH RESONANCE, several rooms within the permanent collection have also been newly reinstalled. Among them, one gallery space is dedicated to the work of Giorgio Griffa, a central figure in contemporary painting research.

The initiative is part of a broader programme promoted by the Giorgio Griffa Foundation, in collaboration with major national and international institutions, celebrating the artist’s work on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday.

With particular attention to the city of Turin and its territory, throughout 2026 both the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and the GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino are dedicating a room to the artist within the reinstallation of their permanent collections, acknowledging the importance of the groups of works held in their collections.

The gallery at GAM presents five works, including Impronta del pollice (1969), Due spugne (1969), and Linee orizzontali (1973) from the GAM collections, alongside the large-scale canvas Campo giallo, campo azzurro (1986), on loan from a private collection.

Giorgio Griffa, Due spugne, 1969, acrilico su tela, 145 x 145 cm

The works document some of the key moments in Griffa’s artistic research beginning in the late 1960s, when the artist initiated a radical reflection on the language of painting.

His work is distinguished by a practice that entrusts the pictorial gesture with a processual and open dimension: signs, lines and fields of colour unfold across raw canvas according to essential rhythms, revealing the temporality of execution and embracing incompletion as a structural principle. In dialogue with the analytical and conceptual practices of the second half of the twentieth century, his painting emerges as an investigation into the making of the image, where the surface becomes a space of relation between rule and variation, order and possibility.

The dedication of a gallery room to Giorgio Griffa within the permanent collections of GAM thus aims to reaffirm the continuity and contemporary relevance of a practice that, originating in Turin, has contributed decisively to the renewal of contemporary painting.

In June 2026, in the United States, the Clark Art Institute will open a major monographic exhibition dedicated to Giorgio Griffa, featuring more than 20 monumental works spanning nearly sixty years of his career. The project is also supported by the American Academy in Rome and is a recipient of the Italian Council grant – 14th edition, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

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Albergo Pietrasanta Presents ARTE IN VACANZA

An exhibition project developed in collaboration with Viasaterna gallery, which presents around 20 photographic works in the hotel’s 18th-century spaces, dedicated to nature as a field of exploration, transformation and connection.

From 23 May 2026, with works by Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Teresa Giannico, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, Leonardo Magrelli and Carolina Sandretto.

Opening: Friday, 22 May, 6.30 pm

Pietrasanta, 14 May 2026 — In 2026, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Albergo Pietrasanta promotes a series of celebratory initiatives, including ARTE IN VACANZA, a summer exhibition programme that, within the spaces of the 18th-century Palazzo Barsanti Bonetti, brings contemporary photographic works into dialogue with the hotel’s permanent collection.

Organised this year in collaboration with Viasaterna gallery, the exhibition brings together around 20 works by eight artists — Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Teresa Giannico, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, Leonardo Magrelli and Carolina Sandretto — united by a reflection on Nature, understood not as a static element, but as a mutable organism, a space of relation and a field of visual research.

The exhibition stems from the desire to investigate nature not as a fixed subject of representation, but as a dynamic field of exploration, transformation and relation. The selection brings together artists who, through different languages and practices, share the use of photography as a research tool capable not only of recording reality, but also of reinterpreting, deconstructing and reconstructing it, offering a multiplicity of perspectives on landscape and its transformations.

In this journey, nature emerges as a mutable and complex experience: in the works of Takashi Homma and Carolina Sandretto, nature reveals its transformation over time; in the works of Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Teresa Giannico and Leonardo Magrelli, the natural image is deconstructed and reinvented; while the photographs of Guido Guidi and Giovanni Chiaramonte explore a more abstract and contemplative dimension, entrusted to light, shadow and the depth of the gaze.

With ARTE IN VACANZA, Albergo Pietrasanta becomes a space of layers and crossings: rooms, corridors and common areas host the works as presences capable of changing the perception of the spaces and the daily relationship with them. The photographs coexist with visitors, accompanying moments of stillness and passage, entering the private dimension of the hospitality experience.

The works of Guido Guidi and Giovanni Chiaramonte invite a slow and contemplative gaze on the landscape. Guidi focuses on the more marginal aspects of everyday reality, giving poetic depth to what often escapes the eye. For Chiaramonte, the landscape is instead a complex structure of relationships, in which natural and architectural elements become signs to be observed and interpreted.

Takashi Homma and Carolina Sandretto explore nature through time and transformation. While Homma observes the sea as an image of continuous change and impermanence, Sandretto, with her double-exposure Polaroids created during the Covid period, offers a poetic vision of the landscape, suspended between closeness and distance, waiting and change.

In the research of Stefano Caimi and Leonardo Magrelli, photography becomes a tool for transforming the visible. Caimi digitally reworks natural images and forms to reveal hidden rhythms and connections, while Magrelli challenges perception through lenticular works in constant metamorphosis, changing with the movement of the viewer.

Teresa Giannico and Alessandro Calabrese reflect on the construction of the contemporary photographic image. Giannico creates new compositions from visual fragments found online, evoking painting and collage, while Calabrese investigates the relationship between photography and painting, altering and rephotographing the image to redefine the boundaries of the photographic medium.

The entire project stems from an idea of coexistence between art and life, a defining feature of the hotel’s identity since its foundation. The works inhabiting the spaces of the hotel are not conceived as elements to be displayed according to a museum-like route, but as presences to be shared, naturally integrated into spaces of living and everyday life. In this sense, Albergo Pietrasanta emerges as a hybrid place, suspended between home, collection and exhibition space.

It was in 1996 that Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto transformed the historic palazzo into a place open to encounter and relationship, where the collection — built from the 1980s onwards between Italy and international contexts — found space according to a spontaneous logic of coexistence, far from any traditional arrangement. In recent years, the involvement of Carolina Sandretto, photographer and development manager, has further expanded this vision, strengthening the dialogue between hospitality, photographic research and contemporary projects.

InformationAlbergo Pietrasanta presents ARTE IN VACANZAAn exhibition project developed in collaboration with Viasaterna gallery, featuring photographic works by Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Teresa Giannico, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, Leonardo Magrelli and Carolina Sandretto.

From 23 May 2026 at Albergo Pietrasanta.

Som Supaparinya Mo num en ts. Museion presents MO NUM EN TS

15.05.–14.06.2026Opening & talk with Som Supaparinya and Han

Nefkens: 14.05.2026, 6.00 pm

In collaboration with Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024

Bolzano: Museion presents MO NUM EN TS (2025), a film by Thai artist Som Supaparinya, a work that interweaves historical research and fieldwork.

The film was produced as part of the Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024, dedicated to the memory of artist Dinh Q. Lê, and developed in collaboration with Jim Thompson Art Center (Thailand), The Outpost Art Organisation (Vietnam), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark) and Rockbund Art Museum (China).

Following its presentations at the partner institutions, the work will enter the Museion collection.

For over twenty years, Supaparinya has investigated the landscapes of Southeast Asia as places where political ideology, ecological transformations and historical memory intersect. In MO NUM EN TS (2025), the artist focuses on the still-perceptible impact of infrastructures built in the Mekong region during the Cold War. Dams, roads and electricity networks emerge not only as symbols of modernization, but also as persistent “monuments”, capable of continuing to shape territories, communities and environments.

The film takes the form of a single-channel video projection, combining footage shot during fieldwork with archival materials from publications and propaganda produced during the Cold War era. Through a fragmented visual structure, often making use of split screen, Supaparinya brings together different times and perspectives, resisting a single narrative and presenting history as a layered, partial and constantly negotiated process.

The Han Nefkens Foundation supports artists through international production programmes and long-term institutional collaborations, with a particular focus on video art and transcultural exchange. The Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant was established in ongoing dialogue with artists and partners across the region.

“I am particularly attached to the Southeast Asia Grant, created thanks to the encouragement and support of a Vietnamese artist who was also a dear friend, Dinh Q. Lê. Dinh was a pioneering artist, helped found Sàn Art, and was a central figure in the Vietnamese art community. His ability to connect people and ideas, his generosity and our shared commitment to supporting video art were fundamental in shaping this programme.”— Han Nefkens

For Museion, this project represents a significant example of the importance of international collaboration in contemporary artistic production:

“Our collaboration with the Han Nefkens Foundation allows us to engage directly in the production of new works and to connect local audiences with artistic perspectives of global relevance. It is one of the many initiatives through which Museion has become part of an international network of institutions fostering the exchange of ideas, artists and research across different cultural contexts. These collaborations extend the life and visibility of artistic projects beyond a single exhibition and help build lasting relationships between institutions. Partnerships of this kind are essential to understanding what we believe the role of a contemporary museum is today: to be an active participant in a transnational dialogue that connects local excellence with global discourse.”— Bart van der Heide

With MO NUM EN TS, Supaparinya proposes a reading of the landscape as a living archive, in which political decisions, ecological transformations and human experiences settle and remain inscribed over time.15.05.–14.06.2026 Inaugurazione & talk con Som Supaparinya e Han Nefkens: 14.05.2026, 18.00 In collaborazione con Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024Bolzano: Museion presenta il film MO NUM EN TS (2025) dell'artista thailandese Som Supaparinya, un’opera che intreccia ricerca storica e lavoro sul campo. Il film è stato realizzato nell’ambito del Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024, dedicato alla memoria dell'artista Dinh Q. Lê, e sviluppato in collaborazione con Jim Thompson Art Center, (Tailandia), The Outpost Art Organisation (Vietnam), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Giappone), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Danimarca) e Rockbund Art Museum (Cina). Dopo le presentazioni presso le istituzioni partner, l’opera entrerà nella collezione di Museion.

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