Exhibition
Flashback Habitat Art Park
Vivarium [der. from the Latin Vivo] is the permanent exhibition that inhabits the external space of Flashback Habitat. The idea of also populating the powerful green area of 9000 square meters and transforming it into a real art park in metamorphosis and constant becoming was born in 2022, as soon as we entered what has become Habitat for Contemporary Cultures. The works of art are inserted into the space, to stay and "put down roots", giving life to a harmonious fusion where everything that is uniform comes from the dialogue between the artist and the habitat. In the natural environment composed of history and people, Flashback adopts the works that the artists leave in trust to the ecosystem.
After the large light installation Mater, on the occasion of Flashback Art Fair 2024, Flashback Habitat's artistic director Alessandro Bulgini also enriches Vivarium with Light of the Apocalypse, a work that weaves personal memory, history and universal reflection through powerful symbolism and intense colours. A large beech tree - dead, but present not only as memory - painted bright red and made extraordinary by lights and luminous spheres is the symbol of a historical and present time in which we are constantly immersed. Each of Bulgini's creations draws from the pre-existing to revive in the present and, as in a flashback, brings past time and present time into dialogue. Red, omnipresent in his works from 1993 to 2000, becomes a colour of universal connection: a symbol of passion, war, life and blood, it brings together the deepest meanings of the human condition. The centuries-old tree, dead due to climatic imbalances, becomes the beating heart of the work: the artist decides not to ‘cut it down’, but to transform it into a sculpture, evoking a crown or the effect of an object falling into water and generating splashes. Dyed red, it becomes a symbol of an alien or nuclear explosion, with orange luminous spheres crystallising the contradictions of our time. Night adds a mystical dimension to the work: the light it emanates evokes the eclipse, an event that in popular belief was a source of terror and magic.To complete the work, exhibited at
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Opera Viva Barriera di Milano, The billboard
10° edition, CAMOUFLAGE
The exhibition
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A project byAlessandro Bulgini
PAD. B, stairs
Artists: Francesca De Angelis, Marina Arienzale, Charlotte Landini, Monica Podda e Stefano Budicin, Cocis Ferrari, Giuseppe Fittipaldi e Davide Dormino
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Opera Viva Barriera di Milano, The Billboard is a public art project born in 2015 that uses a municipal advertising space in Piazza Bottesini in Turin (Cimasa 56530). As in much of his poetics, the creator and artist Alessandro Bulgini, tells and acts on laterality, diversity, physical and cultural periphery.
A pretext to say something else: the theme chosen for the 2024 edition of Opera Viva Barriera di Milano, the Billboard is in fact CAMOUFLAGE. Camouflage or camouflage refers to any method used to preserve oneself from enemy attacks. The manifesto thus becomes a space to expose a need, a personal belief, by disguising it in plain sight. This year's exhibition is a choral operation that aims to express discomfort through the public manifestation of its opposite.
The 2024 edition encourages the possibility of dissent without exposing oneself. This year, therefore, Opera Viva Barriera di Milano, The Billboard is a choral operation that aims to express discomfort through the public manifestation of its opposite. Seven artists and their posters that together make up a collective denunciation, a single work of dissent, a perfect camouflage.
Frammenti di Storie dell’Istituto per l’Infanzia della Provincia di Torino
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Artwork by Alessandro Bulgini
in collaboration with Città Metropolitana di Torino
PAD. B, 3° floor
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The exhibition, conceived by Alessandro Bulgini, tells intimate and personal stories, but incredibly universal because they are linked to concepts and themes that touch us closely, such as birth, family and identity. Through original fragments, collected thanks to the collaboration of those who were there at the time, documents recovered from the historical archives of the Province of Turin and direct testimonies, Bulgini orchestrates a choral work where history, emotions, art and life are interwoven.
Alessandro Bulgini
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Artisti's light / Costellazione / Città di Torino
PAD. C, rooftop
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Usually works are gifts, this one even more so. Alessandro Bulgini
Installed on the roof of Pavilion C, the tallest building in Corso Lanza 75, mater is visible from Porta Nuova station all along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in Turin. Alessandro Bulgini's artist's light is a vision in the dark, a gift dedicated to those who were born more than forty years ago in the current location of Flashback Habitat, the former Institute for Children of the Province of Turin. Mater is a tangible sign of an invisible presence, the imprint of the mother left in the short time she was here, and represents for those who were born here, the space in which to find themselves. It is a work that gives light to a desire, and from the roof of the oldest and highest villa of the former Institute, it has become a beacon, a sign, a polar star to follow.
I nostri antenati
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Pad. C Area Lab
Friday 1 November
Saturday 2 November
Sunday 3 November
h. 15:30
6 y.o. +
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In connection with the theme of the fair Equilibrium?, the workshop tells of Octavia, a spider's web city ‘suspended over the abyss’, in which the inhabitants live perpetually on the edge, then populated by unbalanced characters such as the Baron rampant, who chooses to live in the trees, without ever coming down, such as the Viscount Dimitled, who, due to a war, is forced to transform himself into 2 halves that defy the laws of physics, or such as the non-existent Knight, who exists only as empty armour.
These then are Our Ancestors.
Of course, the title of Calvino's trilogy also introduces the theme of memory, both private and collective. Flashback Lab is an educational programme that promotes beauty and wellbeing through knowledge of cultural heritage, involving Turin's youngest citizens who live in conditions of marginality that prevent them from accessing culture and art. The workshops are for boys and girls aged six and up.
booking required​​​
Talk & Guests
Guest Talk
Friday 1 November h. 16:30
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Cosa diciamo quando diciamo restauro? Un dialogo aperto tra conservazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio
BY KEART - Keep an eye on art
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In line with the theme that accompanies Flashback 2024, the search for balance, KEART will illustrate its shared commitment to establish a dialogue between the preservation of historical heritage and the issues of contemporary artistic practice: the search for funds for conservation work, a reflection on the current value of the artistic heritage and new modes of communication.
Speakers:
Giovanni Vagnone di Trofarello, vice-president KEART+ moderator;
Paolo Gili, restorer and founder of KEART;
Benedetta Bodo di Albaretto, conservator and KEART communication manager; Lisa Parola, art historian and curator;
Valentina Foggini, director of Villa Cimena
Flashback Talk
Saturday 2 November h. 12.00
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Brenva
Stefano Cerio
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A dialogue between Angela Madesani and Stefano Cerio on the video installation Brenva on show at Flashback Art Fair in PAD. C, 3rd floor. Stefano Cerio places a large inflatable wall where the end of the glacier at the foot of Mont Blanc once stood. All the lost ground was sampled metre by metre with the use of a drone. The author's choice to place an artificial, lightweight object like the inflatable within this scenario evokes precisely this contrast: the precariousness of what we have built against the majestic, yet threatened, solidity of the mountain and the ice.
Moderator: Ginevra Pucci, Director of Flashback Art Fair
Guest Talk
Saturday 2 November h. 17.00
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Di materia in materia. Presentation of the art monograph on sculpture by Luigi Stoisa
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The monograph ‘di materia in materia’ represents the first study entirely dedicated to the sculptural production of the artist Luigi Stoisa. Edited by the artist himself as a catalogue raisonné, the volume collects the main sculptural projects realised with various mediums, from terracotta to unfired earth, up to bronze, stone and steel.
Speakers include:
Luigi Stoisa, artist and author of the monograph;
Mario Turetta, Secretary General of the Ministry of Culture;
Filippo Masino, Director of the Royal Residences of Savoy, Regional Directorate National Museums Piedmont;
Antonio Grulli, Art Critic and curator of Luci d'Artista;
Roberto Mastroianni, philosopher, anthropologist, curator and art critic
Flashback Talk
Sunday 3 November h. 16.00
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Opera Viva Barriera di Milano, the Billboard 10° edition CAMOUFLAGE
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This is the tenth edition of the project by Alessandro Bulgini, artistic director of Flashback Habitat. This year's theme is CAMOUFLAGE. From June to October, the artists took turns responding to their own artistic idea of ‘camouflage’. Camouflage or camouflage refers to any method used to make oneself less detectable to enemy forces. The selected artists were invited to create a work that is antithetical to what they would actually like to express and denounce. A mimetic and impermeable work, a perfect camouflage. The works exhibited in Piazza Bottesini are returned to Flashback Art Fair.
Moderator: Alessandro Bulgini, artist and creator of the project.
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Speakers: the artists:
Francesca De Angelis, Marina Arienzale, Charlotte Landini, Monica Podda and Stefano Budicin, Cocis Ferrari, Giuseppe Fittipaldi and Davide Dormino
Sound
'sta cosa del JAZZ
Friday 1 November
h. 20.30
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DANILO PALA 4tet
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On the occasion of Flashback Art Fair, an evening in the series ‘Sta cosa del jazz’, the festival revolving around jazz. On the stage of the Circolino di Flashback Habitat, the habitat place that combines art and conviviality, Danilo Pala (sax), a saxophonist with a strong Parkerian imprint, Elia La Sorsa (double bass), Giorgio Diaferia (drums) and Nino La Piana (piano) will perform.
Danilo Pala has ventured naturally into all the main forms of modern jazz, from hard bop to free to contemporary-jazz. His intense concert activity, in which he performs in various ensembles - but also in solo saxophone or ‘walking band’ performances - is strongly inspired by his passion for bebop, his favourite language, often ‘contaminated’ in search of new sounds. Elia La Sorsa, a double bass player from Turin, played for many years with Gli Accordi Disaccordi. In addition to numerous festivals, he has performed in Italy and abroad in various jazz clubs, accompanying Italian and foreign soloists with his own trio.
Nino La Piana is a pianist, composer and arranger. Among the many artists with whom he has collaborated are internationally renowned names such as Enrico Rava, Flavio Boltro, Gianni Coscia, Antonella Ruggiero, Fabrizio Bosso, Demo Morselli, Gianpaolo Petrini Big Band, Miroslav Vitous, Mariano Deidda and Matteo Brancaleoni.