until Sunday January 11 2015

Palazzo Cavour
via Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour, 8
10123 Torino
Italy

In 2013 Artissima presented the first edition of One Torino comprising five independent yet interlinked group shows in collaboration with museums and foundations in the city and Palazzo Cavour, a magnificent historical venue in the town centre. The second edition of One Torino features a singular show rooted in Torino’s social, political and artistic heritage as much as in its contemporary scene and popular representations. The show takes place within a eighteenth century architectural gem: Palazzo Cavour. Artissima has invited a “retired” artist with an inquisitive mind and a talent for discovery and display to act as the ‘non-curator’ for One Torino, namely Maurizio Cattelan. He chose to work in a team with Palais de Tokyo’s Myriam Ben Salah and independent curator Marta Papini.

Taking the city of Torino as its main inspiration, SHIT AND DIE lies on a narrative thread drawn by a series of objects that the curators have sourced from a selection of established yet unconventional institutions and collections in the city. The exhibition is divided into seven sections, each emanating from a specific object that functions as a thematic anchor for the show. From the interior design of Olivetti’s residential units to the execution scaffold of Museum of Criminal Anthropology “Cesare Lombroso”, to the skeleton of Professor Giacomini, once Director of the Human Anatomy Museum “Luigi Rolando” and the special collaboration between Museo Casa Mollino and artist Yuri Ancarani: all these elements throw a singular light on the city’s history, underlining its obsessions, its fetishes, its secrets.