Marisa Merz. La danza delle ore

Venue: GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. Address: Via Magenta, 31 Torino (TO) On the occasion of the celebrations for the centenary of Marisa Merz's birth, three important institutions, Fondazione Merz, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea and GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, are organizing together an exhibition dedicated to the artist, conceived in three acts and curated by a curatorial team for each exhibition venue. Marisa Merz, the only female protagonist of the Arte Povera movement, used multiple expressive languages: painting, sculpture, drawing, video and installation. The three chapters aim to create a choral and multifaceted portrait that reflects the depth of her contribution to the evolution of Italian and global art. The exhibition at Castello di Rivoli starts from the reconstruction of “E il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare”, an important exhibition project that the artist presented in 1980 at the Turin gallery Tucci Russo and which she then repeated on the occasion of the Venice Biennale of Art the same year. In line with the artist's practice, the installation will constitute the exhibition core from which will branch