Sound is the new section that Artissima – the International Fair of Contemporary Art in Torino – devotes to artists working with sound. Located outside the institutional spaces of the fair, from 2 to 4 November the section will feature 16 monogaphic sound installations set up in the dramatic exhibition areas of the Duomo and Binario 2 of the OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni.

The section has been created in response to the recent developments of international artistic projects that has seen artists of various generations, challenging many aspects of the logic of visual art through interactive works. Sound, with its intimate and performative manifestations, is used to transform space and its perception, to reactivate memories, to free the imagination, and today it is a major part of many lines of research in a variety of contexts, precisely due to its capacity to evoke and reveal an intangible, always mutable reality.

Sound presents works selected by two curators who focus on contemporary interdisciplinary practices: Yann Chateigné Tytelman, a curator and art critic based in Berlin and associate professor of art history and theory at HEAD Geneva, and Nicola Ricciardi, artistic director of OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Torino.

Starting this year, the OGR Award – the second edition of the prize created for Artissima by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT – has been earmarked for the acquisition for OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni of a selected work from the new Sound section.

In tune with the versatile research conducted by OGR on music, performance and art, Sound reinforces the experimental character of Artissima that celebrates, in 2018, an important anniversary: 25 years of discovery and rediscovery, revolution and passion, beauty and sharing.

Artists and Galleries
DANIEL GUSTAV CRAMER, VERA CORTÊS Lisbon – CHRISTINA KUBISCH + ROBERTO PUGLIESE, MAZZOLI Berlin, Modena – UGO LA PIETRA, STUDIO DABBENI Lugano – CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE, LEVY.DELVAL Brussels – SUSAN PHILIPSZ, ELLEN DE BRUIJNE Amsterdam – LILI REYNAUD-DEWAR, EMANUEL LAYR Vienna, Roma – JAMES RICHARDS, ISABELLA BORTOLOZZI Berlin – ANRI SALA, ALFONSO ARTIACO Napoli – TOMÁS SARACENO, PINKSUMMER Genova – MICHELE SPANGHERO, ALBERTA PANE Paris, Venezia + MAZZOLI Berlin, Modena – CHARLES STANKIEVECH, UNIQUE MULTIPLES Madrid – VOID, MASSIMODELUCA Mestre-Venezia – TRIS VONNA-MICHELL, FRANCISCO FINO Lisbon – FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER, JOCELYN WOLFF Paris – MARZIO ZORIO, RAFFAELLA DE CHIRICO Torino

Sound
2–4 November 2018
Binario 2, Duomo | OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni
More info www.artissima.art/en/