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Not that it doesn’t happen at the museum. museums increasingly lose support; so, environment”, explains the director.
At this moment, for example, Castello di I want to be able to go back to teaching, And this “domestic spirit” was
Rivoli is presenting the exhibition Artists from time to time to hold a large exhibition, maintained to avoid the dominant white
in Time of War, conceived by Carolyn but, above all, to think and think together cube in typical 20th century exhibition
herself even before the pandemic – this with artists”, she concludes. spaces. “The museum of modern art
would be the third stage of a series created a white space that generates
called Expressions, and which ended up international interview [pages 70 and 71] value for the work, but which also
coinciding with the war in Ukraine. distances it from its function, which is
The exhibition features artists who ECLECTICISM MARKS THE to elaborate life through the symbolic, to
have experienced conflict situations CERRUTI COLLECTION use a Lacanian term. So I tried to keep
over the last few centuries, whether that domestic spirit”, says Carolyn.
it be Goya, in Spain, or his famous Italian businessman leaves home with 1,300 She compares Cerruti’s house to
series The Disasters of War , from the works, from the 14th to the 20th century another space organized by the Turkish
early 19th century, passing through the writer Orhan Pamuk, in Istanbul, a
photographer Lee Miller, who portrayed by fabio cypriano fictional museum created together with
the liberation of concentration camps the book The Museum of Innocence.
and Hitler’s own house, in Munich, as the history of one of the most The obvious difference is that while in
well as Dinh Q Lê, which brings together impressive collections in Europe is quite Pamuk’s museum the characters he
a series of drawings produced during particular. Francesco Federici Cerruti addresses are in fact fictional, Cerruti,
the war in Vietnam in the 1960s. (1922-2015) was one of the richest despite all the mystery surrounding his
This harmony with the present time is entrepreneurs in the graphics industry story, was himself the one who gathered
due to a method that Carolyn borrows from – he printed telephone directories and the entire collection, buying the works
another director of Documenta, the French made his fortune with them. Despite this, especially in galleries and auctions.
woman Catherine David, responsible for he led an almost monastic life. He lived Castello di Rivoli itself, recalls the curator,
the 10th edition, in 1997. For her, the curator in a modest apartment in Turin, close to also has a similar history, as it was a
must work with “the urgencies”. “While the company. He did not marry or have residence of the Savoy family. “Cerruti
you make an exhibition, you are trying to public affairs with lovers. His hobby was helps me to look at Castello di Rivoli in
understand the world and working with collecting, both rare books, furniture a fresh way,” says Carolyn.
artists who are also trying to understand and art, which he gathered in a country The collection is quite eclectic, with a
the world for people who, when visiting house in Rivoli, built for his parents in the very international tone, without trying to
the exhibition, can try to understand the 1960s, but who refused to live there. On reflect Italian production, especially from
world”, defines the director of Castello the outside, it has a modernist design, the Arte Povera movement, which had
di Rivoli. If it remained at the museum, in but inside it’s like an 18th or 19th century many artists living in the region. Thus,
2024, the urgency would be to deal with palace in miniature. stellar names such as Francis Bacon
the digital issue. In this house, Cerruti slept only once. and Warhol himself are some of the
“I’m very interested in digital artists. But it was in this environment that he most prominent contemporaries, but
That’s why I looked for Beeple (the spent his Sundays reading newspapers the modernists are the vast majority
American Michael Joseph Winkelmann), and appreciating his works, which date in the collection, including Kandinsky,
who is today’s Andy Warhol. What Warhol from the 14th century to contemporary Miró, Renoir, Chagall, Egon Schiele,
was to consumer society, Beeple is to art, whose most famous name is Andy Giacometti, Magritte and Picasso. Of
digital culture, criticizing that time”, he Warhol. In total, it houses 300 paintings course, renowned Italians were also
says, with his usual animation. In fact, and sculptures, 300 pieces of furniture included, such as Morandi, Giorgio de
she already has a YouTube video series and 200 rare books. Chirico, Lucia Fontana, Giacomo Balla
with Beeple, in which she teaches art While he was alive, Cerruti created a and Modigliani. Cerruti’s last acquisition
history and he teaches digital culture. foundation to maintain his collection – was in 1914, five years before his death,
Returning to the tasks of museum since he had no heirs – and the Castello at a Sotheby’s auction, a painting by
director, there is another temporality: “90% di Rivoli was chosen to manage the Renoir, Young Woman with Roses of 1897.
of the work has to do with the collection, house-museum. It was almost four years, While museums should be concerned
which is what nobody talks about, but it between 2016 and 2019, that Carolyn with building collections that deal with
is the most important part, af er all the Christov-Bakarkiev dedicated herself the history of art in a broad and inclusive
collection is today’s narrative which will be to organizing the collection. way, collections such as Cerruti’s reflect
told in the future.” And here, the method “The idea was to keep the works of art the collector’s mind, and visiting the
she borrows from her mother, an Italian as they were in the house, but, at the house is like entering it.
archaeologist: “You have to put yourself in same time, guarantee the safety and
the shoes of tomorrow and look at today climate conditions of a museum”, she reportage choque cultural [pages 72 to 77]
with an archaeological perspective.” explains. Despite being a house, the
However, with increasing funding cuts curator points out a dramatic character CULTURAL SHOCK, 20
for European public museums, Carolyn in its constitution. “This house was a YEARS OF RUPTURES
has increasingly found herself having to kind of theater for Cerruti, he never the gallery emerged in 2004, in the
take care of fundraising, and she wants to lived there, there wasn’t even gas in neighborhood of vila madalena, with
break out of that phase. “To be in charge the kitchen. Regardless of the period, expanded attitudes dialogue with
various media
of the museum is to spend a lot of time which goes from 1300 to the 20th century,
and effort to raise funds, because public the works were exhibited in a domestic by leonor amarante
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