Marisa Merz – The Dance of the Hours

Curated by Francesco Manacorda with Marianna Vecellio, Chiara Bertola with Chiara Parisi, and Beatrice Merz with Sébastien Delot

October 29, 2026 – April 4, 2027

Manica Lunga, Third Floor

Meret Oppenheim, Traccia, 1972, garage BENTIVOGLIO, Palazzo Bentivoglio, Bologna, ph. Carlo Favero

The exhibition is part of the exhibition project *Marisa Merz – La danza delle ore*, organized in collaboration with Fondazione Merz, Turin, and GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin.

To mark the centennial of Marisa Merz’s birth, three major institutions are jointly organizing an exhibition dedicated to the artist, conceived in three acts and curated by a separate curatorial team for each venue.

Marisa Merz, the only female protagonist of the Arte Povera movement, employed multiple expressive languages: painting, sculpture, drawing, video, and installation. The three chapters aim to create a collective and multifaceted portrait that reflects the depth of her contribution to the evolution of Italian and global art.

The exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli will begin with a reconstruction of “E il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare,” a major exhibition project that the artist presented in 1980 at the Tucci Russo gallery in Turin and later replicated at the Venice Art Biennale that same year. In keeping with the artist’s practice, the installation will serve as the exhibition’s focal point, from which themes and research will branch out.