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Piedmont Events Archive 2008
Gino De Dominicis
A retrospective dedicated to the work of Gino De Dominicis. A rare opportunity to admire live about forty of the most impressive masterpieces of this celebrated artist
8 November 2007 - 6 January 2008
Fondazione Merz, Via Limone 24, 10141 Turin
Mon: closed; Tue - Sun: 11:00 - 19:00
Full price: €5.00
Collage/Collages. Dal Cubismo al New Dada
The Exhibition will present the public a historical interpretation of the collage technique, originated from experiments by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and widely accepted by other avant-gardes
9 October 2007 - 6 January 2008
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea – GAM, Via Magenta 31, 10128 Turin
Mon: closed; Tue - Sun: 10:00 - 18:00; Thur: 10:00 - 22:00
Full Price: €7.50
The Lombards
This exhibition is dedicated to the Lombards and focuses on the period 400 to 700 AD - from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the creation of a new nation
28 September 2007 - 6 January 2008
Palazzo Bricherasio, Via Lagrange 20, 10123 Turin
Mon: 14.30 - 19.30; Tue - Sun: 09:30 - 19:30; Thur & Sat: 09:30 - 22:30
Full Price: €7.50
Stop & Go. Nuovi video della Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
New videos from the Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
23 October 2007 - 6 January 2008
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Via Modane 16, 10141 Turin
Mon: closed; Tue - Sun: 12:00 - 20:00; Thur: 12:00 - 23:00
Full Price: €5.00
Astronave Torino, Turin Spaceship Company
The first of the cultural events of the exhibition “Afterville” - officially linked to the XXIII Congresso Mondiale degli Architetti UIA Torino 2008
6 October 2007 - 6 January 2008
Museo Internazionale delle Arti Applicate Oggi – MIAAO, San Filippo Neri, Via Maria Vittoria 5, 10123 Turin
Mon: closed; Tue – Fri: 16:00 – 19:30; Sat and Sun: 11:00 - 19:00
Free
Christmas Crafts
An original way to attract people in the world of Applied Arts through Christmas shopping
1 December 2007 - 6 January 2008
Museo Internazionale delle Arti Applicate Oggi – MIAAO, San Filippo Neri, Via Maria Vittoria 5, 10123 Turin
Mon: closed; Tue – Fri: 16:00 – 19:30; Sat and Sun: 11:00 - 19:00
Free
Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition
Offering the public the opportunity to retrace the entire career of the two artists Gilbert & George. This major exhibition is the most extensive retrospective of their art that has been organized to date
17 October 2007 – 13 January 2008
Castello di Rivoli, Piazza Mafalda di Savoia, 10098 Rivoli
Mon: closed; Tue - Thur: 10:00 - 17:00; Fri – Sun: 10:00 - 21:00
Full Price: €6.50
Il Presepio nel Mondo nell’Arte e nella Tradizione
This exhibition will exhibit about a hundred Christmas cribs from all over the world
25 November 2007 - 13 January 2008
Castello di Govone, Govone
Mon – Fri: 15:00 - 21:00; Sat and Sun: 10:00 - 22:00
Full Price: €5.00
Luci d’Artista 2007
For the last ten years the “Luci d’Artista” have lit up the winter nights in Turin like an open air museum. These creations by important artists can be admired in the city centre streets
6 November 2007 – 13 January 2008
Turin
Daily
Free
20th International Balloon Meeting
Hot air balloon festival
4 - 6 January 2008
Mondovi Parco Europa, Mondovi
Fri: 19:00 Night Glow; Sat: 09:00 First Flight / 14:30 Second Flight; Sun: 09:00 Third Flight / 14:30 Fourth Flight
Free
Piccoli Principi
The apartments of the little princes and princesses can be seen in their original splendour at the time when Jolanda, Mafalda, Umberto, Giovanna and Maria (the children of Vittorio Emanuelle III and Elena di Montenegro) used to spend their the summer holiday. On certain days the gardens are open for a spectacular evening light show (from 17:30 - 23:00)
22 December 2007 - 24 February 2008
Castello di Racconigi, Piazza Carlo Alberto 3, 12035 Racconigi
Mon: closed; Tue - Sun: 09:00 - 18:30
Full Price: €3.00 (€2.00 for the light show in the gardens)
Arman
Arman (Armand Pierre Fernandez) - the French-born American artist, one of the founders of the group Nouveaux Réalistes (1960)
25 January 2008 - 24 February 2008
Palazzo Bricherasio, Via Lagrange 20, 10123 Turin
Mon: 14.30 - 19.30; Tue - Sun: 09:30 - 19:30; Thur & Sat: 09:30 - 22:30
Full Price: €7.50
Why Africa? La Collezione Pigozzi
A very particular exhibition by a business man of Italian origin, Jean Pigozzi, who in 1989, seeing “Les Magiciens de la Terre” in Paris, fell in love with African comtemporary art
6 October 2007 - 3 February 2008
Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli – Lingotto, Via Nizza 230, 10126 Turin
Mon: closed; Tue – Sun: 10:00 – 19:00
Full Price: €7.00
Antonio Calderara – L’opera astratta
About ninety works - oils and watercolours by Antonio Calderara (1903 - 1978)
10 November 2007 - 10 February 2008
Museo del Paesaggio – Palazzo Viani-Dugnani, Via Ruga 44, 28922 Verbania
Mon: closed; Tue – Sun: 10:00 – 12:30; 16:00 – 19:00
Free
Tel. +39 0323556621
Dal Duecento a Caravaggio a Morandi
More than 70 works of art from the Roberto Longhi Collection (a historian and art critic from Alba)
14 October 2007 - 10 February 2008
Fondazione Ferrero, Strada di Mezzo 44, 12051 Alba
Mon - Fri: 15:00 - 19:00 (Thur till 22:00); Sat & Sun: 10:00 – 19:00
Free
201 edizione Storico Carnevale di Ivrea
This 201st edition of the Carnival of Ivrea brings together history and legend in which the main protagonists are the Vezzosa Mugnaia, heroine of the event (icon of the freedom won by the people revolting against a feudal tyrant), il Generale and his staff, il Sostituto Gran Cancelliere, il Podestà, il corteo(procession) with the flags, and the Pifferi and Tamburi (pipers and drummers).
The highlight of the carnival is the spectacular Battaglia delle Arance, Orange Battle. The traditional orange throwing has its roots in the middle of the XIXth century. Originally beans were used in this battle. The feudal lord used to give a pot of beans to the poor families who, out of disrespect, threw them into the streets. These were also used at the carnival as fun ammunition, thrown at unsuspecting adversaries. Eventually, girls started to throw oranges from their balconies onto the parade carriages together with confetti, lupins and flowers. The targets of these were the boys by whom the girls wanted to be noticed. From the carriages the boys started to answer and little by little, the gesture of homage became first a duel and then a real fight between the throwers on the balconies and those in the streets. Only after the Second World War did the battle become the present contest following fixed rules. Today the contest is still enacted in the main squares of the town where teams in carriages (symbolising the tyrant’s guards) battle against the orange thrower teams on foot (the rebellious commoners) which consist of hundreds of throwers. This fight for liberty is the symbol of the Ivrea Carnival. The orange throwing is also the event with the greatest collective participation: anybody can take part by enlisting in one of the nine teams on foot or becoming a member of a carriage crew.
2 - 5 February 2008
Ivrea
Check programme on website for details
Free (except the Orange Battle)
CioccolaTÒ - La Grande Festa del Cioccolato
The 6th Great Chocolate Festival - the sweetest event in the world! - takes place in Europe's largest porticoed square. The theme this year is 'Design', coinciding with Turin's year as World Design Capital.
22 February - 2 March 2008
Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 10123 Turin
Fri: 11.00 - 23.00; Sat: 10:00 - 23:00; Sun: 10:00 - 20:00; Mon - Thur: 11:00 - 20:00
Free
Il Secolo dell'Avvocato - Gianni Agnelli, una vita straordinaria
Set within the Mole Antonelliana, the home of the National Cinema Museum, the exhibition follows the life of Gianni Agnelli in pictures. He is best remembered as the owner of FIAT but he was also an important publisher, collector of art and sportsman. Encounters with many of the world's leading figures are on display.
After visiting the exhibition one can see Turin in all its glory by taking the marvellous panoramic lift.
14 February - 16 March 2008
Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Via Montebello 20, 10124 Turin
Mon: closed; Tue - Sun (except Sat): 09:00 - 20:00; Sat: 9:00 - 23:00
Full price: €6.50 (€8.00 including panoramic lift)
Le Corbusier. Dipinti e disegni
The work of one of the most important architects of the 20th century seen from a new angle
1 December 2007 - 30 March 2008
Palazzo Monferrato, Via San Lorenzo 21, 15100 Alessandria
Mon: closed; Tue - Sun: 09:30 - 19:30
Full Price: €9.00
Peggy Guggenheim e l’immaginario surreale
More than 50 masterpieces, reuinited for the first time, from the the Venetian and New York Guggenheim collections
10 November 2007 – 2 March 2008
ARCA - ex Chiesa di San Marco, Piazza San Marco 1, 13100 Vercelli
Mon – Fri: 14:00 – 19:00; Sat - Sun: 10:00 – 20:00
Full Price: €8.00
Tel. +39 0161596333