New Geometries of Existence (Ivrea/Pozzuoli)
New Geometries of Existence (Ivrea/Pozzuoli)
Performance by Antonio Della Guardia
A performance by Antonio Della Guardia, produced by Studioconcreto in collaboration with OGR Torino, part of the public program conceived in conjunction with the exhibitions *Electric Dreams* and *We Felt a Star Dying*.
The event is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture as part of the Italian Council program (14th edition, 2025), aimed at promoting Italian contemporary art internationally.
Thursday April 23, 2026 | H 6.00 PM
Thursday April 23, 2026 | H 7.00 PM
Duomo | OGR Torino
On the occasion of the event, the exhibitions will remain open until 8 PM
The performance by Antonio Della Guardia at OGR is the first public presentation of the research project New Geometries of Existence, winner of the 14th edition of the Italian Council. The Duomo space hosts two performers who, through a choreographic sequence, interact with images of the Olivetti industrial complexes in Pozzuoli and Ivrea, captured by the artist during the first phase of research and projected in the background as a scenic element. The performative score constructed by Della Guardia from the geometries and rhythms of workspaces establishes a close correspondence between body and architecture.
The performance will be accompanied by an original sound composition, marking the timing and structure of the score. The project is rooted in the artist’s long-standing research focused on the theme of labor, its transformations in the post-Fordist era, and the consequences these have had on the individual and collective body.
Through the project New Geometries of Existence, Della Guardia further develops these reflections by relating them to the Olivetti vision of labor, as expressed in the architectures of Ivrea, Pozzuoli, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo. The dialogue between spaces that embody a concept of work attentive to cultural, social, and human dimensions and the performers’ bodily movements, which reactivate their symbolic dimension, results in a possible reclaiming of the body beyond productive logics.
ANTONIO DELLA GUARDIA
Antonio Della Guardia’s research (b. 1990) has long focused on the constraints imposed by contemporary labor on the body and cognitive processes, with the aim of identifying their traces while simultaneously developing imaginative forms and processes of resistance.
In 2025 he was among the artists invited to the 18th Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma, where he won the Premio Giovane Arte. His work has been presented in various public and private institutions, both in Italy and abroad, including MUNTREF, Buenos Aires; MAXXI, Rome; NMMU, Zagreb; MEC, Córdoba (Argentina); CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou; MACRO, Rome; Triennale Milano; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; Museo Revoltella, Trieste; Palazzo Esposizioni, Rome; Centrul De Interes, Cluj-Napoca; La Caja, Caracas; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Fondazione Izolyatsia, Kyiv; Fondazione Elpis, Milan; Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples; Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como; Italian Cultural Institutes in Zagreb, Krakow, Oslo, Caracas, and Warsaw.