Turin welcomes the new Stumbling Blocks by Gunter Demnig

The “Museo diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà” of Turin – in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Turin, the National Association of Ex Deported Persons (Aned) – Turin section and the Goethe Institut Turin – for the ninth year, has brought Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine to Turin, a European project conceived and created by the German artist to remember the individual victims of Nazi and Fascist deportation. The artist produces small brass plaques set on concrete cubes which are then inserted into the pavement in front of the last home freely chosen by the victim. Each plate bears “He lived here…”, the victim’s name, date and place of birth and death/disappearance. More than 90,000 stones have been laid across Europe.
As in previous years, the students of 10 Turin schools of all levels were actively involved in an educational itinerary created by the Museum in collaboration with the Istoreto (Piedmontese institute for the history of the Resistance and contemporary society “Giorgio Agosti” ) and the ANCR (National Cinematographic Archive of the Resistance), whose conclusion is expected in the month of March, with the staging of public events. Also for this edition, the educational path has the support of the Polo del ‘900 as an integrated teaching project.
For the occasion, an important book was produced dedicated to the German artist Gunter Demnig and his stumbling blocks, a widespread and shared monument for Europe. To remember the victims of Nazi fascism, the artist produces small brass plaques placed on stone cubes that are set into the pavement in front of the last home freely chosen by the victim. The Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, after having accepted the candidacy by the Widespread Museum of the Resistance of Deportation, War, Rights and Freedom of Turin, conferred the title of Academician of Honor on Gunter Demnig on 12 January 2022. The volume contains the acts, speeches and essays produced on the occasion of the ceremony and as a reflection on the artistic project.

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Book launch
IL SOGNO. Poesia di Grazia Valente, opere di Chen Li.
Prinp Editore, 2022

With Grazia Valente and Chen Li

“Il sogno” is a real artist’s book created by four hands by the artist Chen Li with poems by Grazia Valente.
“The dream” belongs to our reality, both in relation to psychic activity, which occurs during sleep, and in the more prosaic one of aspiration, desire often relegated to the sphere of the impossible. “The dream” can also be considered as a protected area, an interior space to be guarded and preserved, a place to wait for an event that often appears nebulous and difficult to decipher, but which we do not want to give up.
In these compositions, drawn from various collections published since 2012, the theme of the dream has been declined in various ways, depending on the mood at the time of inspiration. And often with an ironic streak, characteristic of my way of understanding – and doing – poetry.

WHEN: Friday November 4 2022 at 18.00

WHERE: libreria MilleOOLP – Via dei Mille 30 / D, Turin

Teatro provincia dell’uomo si ispira, nel titolo e nel metodo, al libro di Elias Canetti, La provincia dell’uomo. Vengono dapprima presi in considerazione alcuni momenti fondamentali della sto- ria del teatro, come il teatro greco e il teatro elisabettiano, e alcune teorie innovative: da Craig a Stanislavkij al Living Theatre. La seconda parte è dedicata alla ricostruzione del testo e del- l’opera-video di Carmelo Bene, Hommelette for Hamlet, nella quale si riflettono echi dell’Amleto di Shakespeare e di quello di Laforgue.
La ricostruzione è accompagnata da un dettagliato commento di tutte le situazioni, in cui il protagonista, uno strano Amleto cimiteriale attorniato da statue del Bernini che prendono vita e partecipano alla rappresentazione, si trova coinvolto.

Oltre all’autore interverranno
Marco Gobetti, attore
Carla Pagliero, docente di storia dell’arte
Domenico Castaldo, direttore del LabPerm
Ginevra Giachetti, attrice del LabPerm
Dario Salani, editore

Evento parte di E/State in Svincoli
sostenuto dalla Fondazione per la Cultura di Torino
nell’ambito del bando Torino a Cielo Aperto

Evento parte del progetto “Contagi Generativi”
con il contributo del Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali
in collaborazione con Regione Piemonte

QUANDO: 24 giugno 2021
Ore 18.30
DOVE: San Pietro in Vincoli Zona Teatro,
Via San Pietro in Vincoli 28, Torino

Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino

from 19th to 23rd May 2022 Pavillion 2 – Stand K10

On the occasion of the XXXIV edition of the International Book Fair we are waiting for you at our stand with the latest news and a selection of the best publications titles.

– Friday 20 May at 11:00 Albertina Academy of Fine Arts – Hall of Honor. LECTIO MAGISTRALIS BY BIANCA TOSATTI Introduced by Edoardo Di Mauro and Roberto Mastroianni. The ability to get lost is something that man must keep with him, like a medicine is kept at home even if you are not sick. Presentation and analysis of some critical issues in reference to: Naive Art, Psychopathological Art. Art Brut. The ateliers. Irregular art.

– Sunday 22 May at 5.15 pm Silver Room – Pavilion 3 BIANCA TOSATTI “With hindsight. Nothing stands still. Nothing remains ours.” With Edoardo Di Mauro, Roberto Mastroianni, and Tea Taramino. Is there really an insurmountable border between Art Brut and contemporary art that occupies our galleries? On the occasion of her Lectio Magistralis at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, Bianca Tosatti, Italy’s leading expert on Irregular Art, presents her book in which she reports some historical experiences, told as little novels of truth in which doubts and questions emerge. that call us into question.

– Monday 23 May at 1.30 pm CONFLUENCES. Art therapy in integrated care pathways for social withdrawal in adolescence With Antonella Anichini, MariaLuisa Camurati, Pia Massaglia, Elena Rainò and Benedetto Vitiello. The meeting is aimed at art therapists and operators engaged in prevention and treatment with adolescents: child neuropsychiatrists, psychologists, educators, teachers.

Salone Internazionale del Libro 2022 – Cuori Selvaggi – from 19th to 23rd May 2022 – Lingotto Fiere – Via Nizza 280 – 10126 Torino