The Albertina presents for the first time to the public the most precious treasures of its extraordinary collection of historical engravings.
Collected over more than three centuries and normally kept in the vault of the Academy of Fine Arts. The halls of the Albertina Gallery are home to Tiepolo, Piranesi and the other great masters of Graphic Art; the first sixteenth-century engravings of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and other masterpieces of the Renaissance and Baroque. Signs over time that will accompany the visitor to some contemporary variations of the role of graphics among the artistic disciplines.
The exhibition, curated by Antonio Musiari for the historical overview and by Franco Fanelli for the contemporary section, is in fact an opportunity to discover the rich collection of ancient engravings of the Albertina in a game of comparisons and references with significant examples of contemporary production of the School of Graphic Art of the Academy of Fine Arts of Turin. The present and the future of the School animate this section in which the artist's books of the Hbitat series are exhibited, published by Albertina Press and created by a group of students of the Specialist Biennium coordinated by Sonia Gavazza, while in the last rooms the works by Cornelia Badelita, teacher and artist, dialogue with those by Marco Manzolini, her current student.
Where
Via Accademia Albertina 8, Torino (TO)
