The Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea dedicates a solo exhibition to the British artist Ed Atkins, organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. The works Even Pricks (2013), Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths (2013), Ribbons (2014), Counting I & II (2014), Hisser (2015) and Happy Birthday!!! (2014), in addition to several new interventions by the artist, are presented at the Castello di Rivoli, while the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo hosts the work Safe Conduct (2016), which features new sculptural wall elements.
Ed Atkins (Oxford, UK, 1982) makes videos, draws, and writes, reflexively performing the ways in which contemporary modes of representation – from bathetic poetry to computer-generated animation – attempt to do justice to powerfully emotional and embodied experience. Atkins’ work is at once a disturbing diagnosis of a digitally mediated present-day, and an absurd prophesy of things to come. It is skeptical of the promises of technology yet suggests that it is possible to salvage subjectivity through a kind of sincere burlesque of love and hate.
The retrospective, held on the third floor of the Castello, unfolds as a holistic installation via an innovative arrangement of works that join images, space, sound, language and color into one seamless narrative, allowing visitors to have an immersive, hypnotic and hyper-real experience.
In contrast, the contemporary architecture of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo hosts the artist’s most recent work, Safe Conduct (2016).
Opening hours:
Castello di Rivoli
Tuesday to Friday: 10.00 – 17.00
Saturdays and Sundays: 10.00 – 19.00
24 e 31 December 10.00 – 17.00
Closed on Mondays (except Easter Monday) and 1st of January.
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Thursdays: 20.00-23.00 free entrance
Fridays - Saturdays - Sundays: 12.00-19.00
ARTiculation
Are you a teacher looking for an exciting project which can stimulate your students to develop and share their own opinions on art? We have the project you are looking for - it’s called ARTiculation!
The British Council is collaborating with Roche Court Educational Trust to promote their innovative ARTiculation project across Italy. This is an international competition for young people which encourages them to express, in English, the reasons why they particularly love a work of art or architecture.