CRAG

Summer exhibition in Capri
2018-05-30 08:00 - 2018-06-30 17:00 (Europe/Rome)
CRAG GALLERY will be in CAPRI for all the month of June with a selection of the represented artists and new collaborations.
For more info please write to info@cragallery.com

Occurrens - Silvia Argiolas, Enrico Minguzzi e Giuliano Sale
2018-05-03 18:00 - 2018-06-23 18:00
CRAG Gallery is pleased to open the exhibition “Occurrens – Silvia Argiolas, Enrico Minguzzi and Giuliano Sale”, organised as part of the project of the first edition of “Fo.To. Photographers in Turin”, an initiative conceived and promoted by the Museo Ettore Fico (https://www.fotografi–torino.it).
With great enthusiasm, CRAG decided to participate, presenting a project that combines photography and painting, to discover a multi-faceted night time in Turin.
The exhibition period also includes numerous initiatives, including the Notte Bianca and the presentation of artist’s books on the occasion of the off events of the Salone del Libro.

Giacomo Modolo - Project Room #1
2018-04-05 08:00 - 2018-04-30 17:00
Thanks to the Project Room of Giacomo Modolo we can overcome the opposition between the life of the creative process and the loneliness of a single work from which the artist has to part, leaving it alone in the moment of its presentation. No axiom to show and then impose on the viewer. What can be seen is that evidence that otherwise would not be visible, the articulating of a process that is at the same time creative and narrative, a complex system of quantitative and qualitative relations making each work the extension and the same time the contraction of another. We are allowed, going through the different paintings, to follow the artist in the development of his work, the birth of his intuitions and inconclusiveness that let us down or otherwise promise something greater.
We are in a cloud unable to calculate the value of the sum of all the element presented in front of us, for we are mere hosts in a system whose richness on fecundity are still at work. It is up to us to walk through, from the real to the language itself, letting us being transported from the movement of the narrative or rather chasing it, make it and unmake it, letting it go and taking it back again in a completely arbitrary position in space. If every sign is also a symptom, the fruit of a conditioned stimulus, the character of the artist continuously emerges from the paintings, creating, though the small variations of its greys, roses, blues and greens, in an extraordinary refined syntax, the rhythm of a visual path that becomes symphonic. Where is then the fulcrum of the work? This is exactly what is tormenting us, it can be found! It must be sought and this research is a continuous aesthetic urge.
Where are we then? This Project Room is not a simple representation where an object, made in the artist’s studio, can be found. The dimension to prevail is the intimate one. The space is to be considered as something the artist cannot keep out from himself, an inner dimension where the artistic product is continuously growing, where creating means finding an origin in the work itself, dominating the self. The perimeter from where we can understand the work becomes bigger and make the surrounding area a ground for multiple actions, a scenography, a place where the work is constantly struggling between the definition of the single work and the never ending referencing to other works. The wall is not the one of the gallery anymore, a structural element converted into a passive surface whose only aim is to glorify a single painting, but it becomes the ground where the narration proceeds asking the observer to follow, to walk on its same path. If a narrative is indeed present it develops itself not in calligraphic terms, but through the instinct and the ability to stimulate those emotive functions through which the paintings must be translated. It there a text and a precise reading time? No, the chronologic evidence is denied because for the artist, in the moment of its creation, it is not a relentless flowing forward but a continuous that carries discontinuity within, doing and undoing, idleness and action, waiting and inspiration.
His habit of working on multiple paintings at the same time, the polytonal articulation of the composition, refer again to a symphonic structure: the observer is drawn into a tangle of artistic relations, in a myriad of trembles and pauses, of challenges and drawbacks, of resistances and splits, of optical glitches and tonal scores that seems like showing off these beings one after the other, one into another, in a visual path constantly inconclusive.
In Modolo’s painting the situations and the objects are interpreted as moment of pure revelation, letting out a glimpse, through blunt signs, of the underlying composition dynamics, the lyrics leaps and the nervous interruptions of the images, a syncopated and convergent reality, characterised by an instability that shows itself through fragments and mysterious effects, with discontinuities, sequences and mutations, in a disposition showing an intense passion. Everything is kept together by a tense and suffered intensity. The eye of the observer is challenged by this fragmentation, its right to clearly see through it is ignored and the frustration originating from it is exactly what can lead him to the art of Modolo’s art, to this bundle of anger and love that characterises life.

Marco Petrocchi

Project Room #1 - Giacomo Modolo
2018-04-05 - 2018-04-28 | CRAG, via Giolitti, 51, Torino, 10123, Italy
CRAG Gallery inaugura la mostra PROJECT ROOM #1, parte di un più ampio e nuovo progetto che coinvolge giovani artisti e curatori.
Con Project Room #1 CRAG propone al pubblico il lavoro pittorico di Giacomo Modolo (Vicenza, 1988). Sono opere che l’artista ha realizzato al di fuori del proprio spazio atelier e iniziato in galleria direttamente a gennaio. E’ il risultato dell’interazione tra l’artista e lo spazio-galleria, ed una città a lui nuova. E’ un percorso di confronto solitario con se stesso e la sua pittura. Le opere esposte sono figure di uomini e animali decontestualizzate.
Come scrive Marco Petrocchi nel testo che accompagna il catalogo “Attraverso la Project Room nell’interpretazione di Giacomo Modolo superiamo l’opposizione tra la vita del processo creativo e la solitudine dell’opera singola da cui l’artista deve separarsi, alienandola nel momento della presentazione.[…] Questo allestimento non è una semplice atopia in cui si ricolloca un oggetto edificato altrove, ad esempio il suo studio. E’ la dimensione intima che prevale. In questo caso lo spazio va vissuto come ciò che l’artista non può tenere al di fuori di sé, una dimensione interiore in cui il prodotto artistico lievita tanto più egli si digerisce, dove creare significa originare se stessi nell’opera”.

– versione italiana (curatore Marco Petrocchi) ita:testo project room
– versione inglese (curator Marco Petrocchi) english text project room

Christmas Collection - 2017
2017-11-30 00:00 - 2018-01-20 23:59

Enrico Minguzzi - Ricordo di non esserci mai stato
2017-10-26 18:00 - 2017-11-25 21:00 | CRAG, via Giolitti, 51, Torino, 10123, Italy
(For the English version of the press release Minguzzi please have a look at the bottom in this page)
CRAG Gallery apre la stagione invernale con la mostra personale dell’artista Enrico Minguzzi, “Ricordo di non esserci mai stato”, a cura di Karin Reisovà, dal 27 ottobre al 25 novembre, in vista della settimana di Artissima.
Quella di Enrico Minguzzi è una pittura che si dà nel campo della visione, che permette un numero incalcolabile di viste, che dilata lo sguardo e lo scioglie in se stessa. Ed è proprio nello spazio della visione che connette spettatore e oggetto, che la poetica dell’artista lavora sviluppando non solo tutte le possibilità del campo ottico stesso, ma usandolo come la porta d’accesso per arrivare fin dentro quei labirinti calati l’uno nell’altro che sono coscienza e sistema nervoso. Guardando le opere di Minguzzi non ci è possibile distinguere ciò che il nostro sguardo opera su di esse e ciò che da esse è stato ricevuto. Quello che l’artista ci offre non è soltanto un modo di vedere il mondo ma la possibilità di coglierne l’espressività intrinseca, il fenomeno della sua vitalità. E’ così che Marco Petrocchi descrive nel testo in catalogo i lavori inediti realizzati negli ultimi mesi dall’artista ed esposti nella nuova sede di Crag Gallery in via Giolitti 51.

La mostra sarà visitabile nell’orario della galleria da martedì a venerdì 15,30 -19,30
sabato 10-13.00 / 15,30-19,30 – ogni mattina su appuntamento
sabato 4 novembre: performance musicale di Seymour Wright – solo sax ore 21.30 – Notte bianca delle arti

Gotico Sardo e inaugurazione nuova sede
2017-09-15 16:00 - 2017-10-21 19:00 | CRAG, via Giolitti, 51, Torino, 10123, Italy
Inaugurazione 15-16 settembre 2017 ore 16/20.
In occasione dell’apertura della nuova sede nel cuore di Torino in via Giolitti 51, CRAG – Chiono Reisova Art Gallery propone al pubblico torinese la mostra “GOTICO SARDO” a cura di Camillo Langone dal 15 settembre al 21 di ottobre 2017.
La Galleria ha accolto con entusiasmo la proposta artistica del curatore e giornalista Camillo Langone seguendo la predilezione per la pittura che caratterizza la galleria, e proponendo i lavori degli artisti Silvia Argiolas, Antonio Bardino, Nicola Caredda, Silvia Idili, Giovanni Manunta Pastorello, Vincenzo Pattusi, Giuliano Sale, noti nel panorama dell’arte emergente italiana.
Dalla regione italiana geologicamente più antica, i cui vulcani sono spenti da molti milioni di anni, proviene una pittura nuova ed accesa che Camillo Langone definisce per l’appunto Gotico Sardo.
“Si può parlare oggi di pittura lombarda, veneta, toscana? Riferendosi ai secoli scorsi senz’altro, riferendosi al terzo millennio solo se dotati di una notevole capacità di arrampicarsi sugli specchi. L’identità artistica sarda è dunque un’anomalia, una controtendenza, un fenomeno che fra l’altro non ha nulla di folcloristico e di residuale vista l’eccellenza dei risultati, l’ampiezza dello sguardo, la bassa età media dei suoi pittori. Naturalmente l’architettura gotica di tante cattedrali medievali non c’entra nulla. La mia accezione di gotico somma quella di Giorgio Vasari, ossia gotico come barbarico, quella del romanzo gotico inglese (spesso ambientato sulle coste dell’Italia meridionale), ossia gotico come romantico e tenebroso, quella della sottocultura goth sonorizzata da Bauhaus, Cure, Siouxsie & The Banshees, ossia gotico come dark e ipnotico”.

La mostra sarà visitabile nell’orario della galleria da martedì a venerdì 15,30 -19,30
sabato 10-13.00 / 15,30-19,30
ogni mattina su appuntamento

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CHIONO REISOVA ART GALLERY
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10149 Torino

Luca Moscariello - Fasmidi
2017-06-08 17:00 - 2017-07-02 17:00 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
FASMIDI
Solo show of Luca Moscariello
From June 8th to July 2nd 2017
Opening June 8th from 5 – 10 pm
The artist will be present

PRESS RELEASE
From June the 8th to July the 2nd 2017, as last exhibition of the season, CRAG Gallery proposes Fasmide, the solo show of the artist Luca Moscariello with a selection of works on table realised in the last two years.
Since ever the work by Luca Moscariello is link to ancient writing experiences: he moves shapes in a space of synthesis for extracting the stillness and the silence that they guard; he deconstructs and assembles creating different modes and creative novelty. In his work everything in the same time is moving and resting, hugging the eye in a simultaneous way by the proliferation of surfaces that aiming to be a whole. The actual impossibility to penetrate those “eteropics” spaces determines that that “everything” remains suspended in the a temporality of an infinity wait and for this reason absurd.
In this series, where Fasmide is the lead art work, the artist creates a compositional stake, that is the results of the emersion in the image and of his contemporary camouflage.
Moscariello takes inspiration from the “La conoscenza accidentale” by the great historic Georges Didi-Huberman where a chapter speaks about the Fasmidi, insects that Insects that camouflage themselves in the environment feeding themselves and fit undisturbed.
The artist starts from analysis similar to the aforementioned paradoxes and he moves himself thinking about the artwork as a very colourful writing that, through repeated excesses, loses her linearity for opening to an synesthetic impression, In which the user’s perception suffers a contamination of image, colour and sound. In the painted table everything is “hidden in a full view”, as suspended on the surface of memory.

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Mattia Novello "Morfologia dello spazio - Fotografie dal 2008 - 2016"
2017-03-29 08:00 - 2017-05-14 17:00
Morfologia dello spazio
Photographs from 2008 to 2016
Solo Show by Mattia Novello
from April 7th to May 14th 2017
Opening 7th and 8th April from 4 – 10 pm (continued)
The artist will be present

PRESS RELEASE
CRAG Gallery presents the first photographic exhibition of Mattia Novello in the solo show entitled “Morfologia dello spazio – Photographs from 2008 to 2016”.
Mattia Novello (Thiene, 1985), an eclectic and sophisticated artist, studied between Milan and New York. He was a finalist of the Cairo Prize and of the Art Prize CBM, and he collaborates with CRAG Gallery, which has decided to exhibit the photo shoots that the artist has taken during the different and fruitful journeys around the world, especially in the United States, China, Japan, Spain and Italy.
Novello’s work, not only the photographic one, is characterised by an approach free from any prejudice and conformism. The artist is an extremely curious observer who finds inspiration both from the single details of daily life and from the great “obstacles” such as skyscrapers and urban structures.
With irony, he tries to deduce the universality of places and situations through the lens, freeing them and ourselves from a utilitarian and domesticated approach.
In the exhibition the series of skyscrapers Forma cittadina and Pareti Urbane will be supported by two videos that will accompany the visitors throughout the exhibition, showing the human and geographical experience of the artist.
Carolina Lio wrote about Mattia Novello: ” The artist creates a balanced, realistic and at the same time intellectual and practical perspective that connects silence to noise, social relations to isolation, extraneousness to absorption, good to evil.He doesn’t need to belong to an extreme anymore and he lives in a simple purity of clear and strong awareness. “.

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In the middle of something - Jiri Hauschka
2017-02-24 16:00 - 2017-03-26 19:00 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
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CRAG Gallery opens the 2017 with the exhibition “In the middle of something” of the Czech painter Jiri Hauschka (1965) from February 24 to March 26, 2017.
Hauschka belongs to the “Stuckism”, an international art movement founded in 1999 by artists Billy Childish and Charles Thomson in the UK in order to promote an artistic research oriented to figurative painting, in opposition to the conceptual art of the Young British Artists.
The works on display were created in 2016. Woods, roads, mountains, lakes, rivers and architecture are part of a process during which the artist explored his relationship with nature and the environment around him, expressing a painting in balance between abstraction and realism.
Robert Janas, art historian, founder in 2004 of the Stuckism in Prague, wrote about Jiri Hauschka that in his paintings the Neo-Expressionism joins a strong feeling for the composition, based on open spaces bounded by accentuated contours and by the colors used symbolically to give liquidity to the form.
The beauty of his work is therefore what he calls the “story”, his story, that he wants to share in the middle of something with the public. His work brings the viewer in the balance between simple landscapes and the greatness of our surroundings.
The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Cerna Labut Gallery, ArtLine of Prague and has the patronage of the Czech Centre of Culture of Milan.

LONDON ART FAIR 2017 - ART PROJECTS SECTION
2017-01-18 - 2017-01-22 | Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street , London, United Kingdom
CRAG is pleased to take part to the London Art Fair in January 2017 in the Art Project Section, from the 18th to 22nd January 2017.
The artists on display will be Alessandro Cardinale, Zdenek Trs and Mattia Novello, in the project “Is this Reality?”.

Christmas Collection
2016-12-02 15:00 - 2017-01-08 17:00 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
Christmas Collection
3 December 2016 – 8 January 2017

During the Christmas time, CRAG will present a selection of artists represented by the gallery and new collaborations, for closing this new first year of activity.
We are closing the 2016 with the selection of Diego Zangirolami in the “Arte Viva” auction at the Museo di Belle Arti of Mexico City and we will open the 2017 with the participation in the London Art Fair in the Art Projects Section with the artists Mattia Novello, Trs Zdenek and Alessandro Cardinale.
The Christmas Collection is organised in collaboration with Alexandra Alberta Chiolo, founder of the brand “Albertine” that will be presented during the exhibition.

Diego Zangirolami - Studio Labdia
2016-11-24 08:00 - 2017-01-12 17:00 | STUDIO LABDIA – Impresa Edile Servetti, via Alla Villa Quiete 2, Turin, Italy
DIEGO ZANGIROLAMI
The process – The hidden life of things and people
24 November – 12 December 2016 curated by Sergio Manca and Elisabetta Chiono

Studio LABDIA of Architecture in Turin will host the exhibition of Diego Zangirolami – The process – The hidden life of people and things – from the 24th November to the 12th of December in their new venue in collaboration with CRAG.

The artist works in a different temporal dimension than the current moment, as his actions are based on a collective memory where the whole history of art (and not only a specific story) participates to his culture, his way of being, thus making his proposition active and connected to other needs.
(Flash Art n. 326 march-april 2016, extract from the interview to Enrico Castellani, 1986)
I was reading the interview to Enrico Castellani while I was on the train and I immediately thought about the work of Diego Zangirolami, the young artist from Turin that we chose for the first solo show of Chiono Reisovà Art Gallery.
The collective memory told in the artworks on exhibition is jointly made of literature, architecture, mythology and history, wisely combined with the experience, passions and everyday life of the artist.
The series Il processo, already partly exhibited in Cile in the solo show of 2014, is widened and deepened today examining even more the Kafka’s universe that is the base of Diego’s work.
Precious miniatures enclose small worlds, linked to each other, where characters either real or made up live in extemporal contexts.
The creative mind of the artist, anachronistic at a first glance, contains a different temporality that is developed in a totally personal way for the choices both in the composition and the contents. Prof. Bruno Orlandoni, who has been following Diego’s work since the beginning, identifies four clear parameters to describe him as artist (pag. …)
Since the beginning we have seen in his work a quid pluris, a courage to be far beyond the fashion of the moment, that are the founding elements in the path of the Gallery and, as a consequence, of the selection of both the artists and curators. We chose Sergio Manca as co-curator for the sensibility that put him closer to the artist, sharing his thought and understanding what lies underneath his work.
The exhibition becomes an opportunity to go beyond. The artist shares with us his meticulous work that CRAG nourishes and opens to the public.
We invite you, then, to enjoy the hidden life of things and people.
Elisabetta Chiono

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Between the lines - Alessandro Cardinale
2016-10-21 11:00 - 2016-11-27 22:00 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
Between the lines – Alessandro Cardinale
Tra le righe
21 October – 27 November 2016
opening on 21/ 22/ 23 October from 11-22

Alessandro Cardinale is an artist able to combine skills to artistic genius.
Taking a closer look at his production of the last ten years it’s not hard to appreciate the originality, the exquisite technique and the aesthetic taste characterising this latest series of works, titled NU SHU.
The works presented in a solo exhibition at Chiono Reisovà Art Gallery are merely a recent fraction of a much wider work that the artist has been developing over the past three years, first shown at the Biennial Italy/China of Turin and of Beijing, a city, the latter, cherished by the artist after winning in 2012 the 5th Edition of the International Biennial.
The NU SHU series takes inspiration from a secret language born in the Hunan in China. With 1.500 characters, through particular embroideries on cloths and fans, women could communicate to each other through a symbolism represented mainly with verses, then rediscovered and studied during the Fifties, but soon forbidden by the communist party. Today, even though it is taught in some schools in Hunan, there are only three women left able to read it, write it and speak it and the danger is that it could completely disappear.
“Not knowing men’s alphabet they created an original writing system to pass on the songs of their childhood, to confide to their friends their most intimate thoughts and pains. They were helped by the existence of a special solidarity among women: in this region, in fact, the ancient tradition of the Jiebai Zimei existed, the “sisterhood oath”, that since the adolescence was able to create bonds stronger that those of blood. […] Another rare aspect of Nu Shu writing is that it is almost completed expressed in verses, as its oral origin were the songs of women working together at home spinning, sewing cloths, making shoes” (from “The language of women” by Federico Rampini”).
Focusing back again on the artist’s work, apart from his affection for China and its culture, the installations are a clear reference to this secret language: the material recalls the fans and cloths where Nu Shu was written, while the optical illusions and the industriousness of the work reinterpret the complexity and the mystery that characterised it for centuries.
I’ve been following Alessandro Cardinale’s work for years waiting for the right time to finally present it to our public.
This solo exhibition at Chiono Reisovà Art Gallery is the perfect opportunity to present it to new collectors and art aficionados, I’m sure that many will share my enthusiasm.
Elisabetta Chiono

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ArtVerona 2016
2016-10-14 - 2016-10-17
CRAG is pleased to take part to ArtVerona 2016, one of the most important modern and contemporary art fair in Italy.
We will present a dialogue between the young artists Zdenek Trs (Prague, 1985), Tomas Tichy (Prague, 1984) and Giacomo Modolo (Vicenza, 1988) with a project based on figurative paintings.
You can find us at Pavillion 11, Stand A9.
www.artverona.it

CONTEMPORARY ZURICH ART FAIR 2016
2016-09-30 08:00 - 2016-10-31 17:59
CRAG Gallery is pleased to announce the participation to The Contemporary Art Fair Zurich, a popular and well-established art far in Switzerland, since 1999.
The project that CRAG Gallery will present includes works by four emerging artists represented by the gallery: Alessandro Cardinale, Giacomo Modolo, Diego Zangirolami and Tomas Tichy.
The works of these artists are united by a dialogue which includes on one side faces and portraits and on the other side landscapes, sometimes merged.
CRAG will present the works of Alessandro Cardinale (Padua, 1977) and in particular those of its latest production. The NU SHU series is characterised by the representation of Chinese women’s faces inspired by the artist’s last trip to China, a country where he has repeatedly exhibited after winning the International Section of the Biennial of Beijing in 2012. These works, which reveal the formation of the artist as a sculptor, are made of different materials, such as wood, iron and cotton and they are the result of a meticulous hand made work through the cut out of the lines that re-create the images. Observing from afar the works you will notice the faces, but if you look closely you have only the perception of how the structure is made. Then we will propose an installation of small-scale works by the painters Giacomo Modolo (Vicenza, 1988) and Diego Zangirolami (Turin, 1984). We want to combine faces made on canvas, board, paper that are the result of the great compositional and expressive skills of Modolo, as well as his colour research. The artist, oriented towards a figurative painting, gestural, impulsive but in absolut balanced synthesis, is punctuated by two thumbnails of Diego Zangirolami who, in his works that are mainly landscapes, combines literary, poetic, mythological, historical and cultural elements with a new approach and through an interesting integration between painting and architecture.Finally, we will display the works by Tomas Tichy (Prague, 1984), painter, with a work that combines landscape and people, to close the circle. The space in this case is merely a side, sometimes not perceived if it is internal or external, if it is real or if it’s photographic, while the subjects represented in his paintings look at us no longer, they live their present and we face the picture as if we were spying on them from a window. It is an interesting pictorial work, also for the content, combining classicism to modernity.

Misteriosa. Looking for an identity
2016-09-23 08:30 - 2016-10-18 17:00 | Reale Mutua Agenzia Torino Castello, Piazza Castello 111, Torino, 10121, Italy
Misteriosa.
Alla ricerca dell’identità

23 settembre – 18 ottobre 2016
Torino Castello – Agenzia Principale di Reale Mutua
Tower Center – Piazza Castello 111, Torino

COMUNICATO STAMPA
Misteriosa. Alla ricerca dell’identità è la seconda mostra nata dalla partnership tra la Divisione ARTE di Torino Castello, Agenzia Principale di Reale Mutua e CRAG – Chiono Reisovà Art Gallery, nell’ambito del progetto Friendship in the Art.
Dal 23 settembre al 18 ottobre, Torino Castello ART accoglierà nuovamente, nella prestigiosa sede del TOWER CENTER in Piazza Castello 111 a Torino, l’originale connubio tra un’opera antica, proveniente da collezione privata torinese, e le opere di artisti contemporanei, selezionate da CRAG.
Dopo il Narciso, concesso in prestito dalla Galleria Robilant + Voena, l’opera guida che viene proposta è una figura di donna, ipnotica, con sguardo delicato, risalente alla fine del Seicento – inizio Settecento di mano italiana, della quale nulla si conosce e da questo mistero nasce la riflessione in chiave contemporanea della ricerca dell’identità, cara ad artisti del passato e del presente.
Come avviene per la scienza sociale, l’identità, con riferimento alla condizione umana, può essere ascritta, in rapporto agli altri e verso noi stessi. Le difficoltà relazionali e di vita che caratterizzano la nostra società possono rendere anonimi, senza un ruolo e senza una posizione ben definita.
Nella storia, la ricerca dell’identità è spesso riferita all’appartenenza ad un gruppo, ad una Nazione, una religione o una tradizione, tematiche quanto mai attuali in un’epoca in cui si cerca di evidenziare tutto ciò che ci accomuna per garantire l’uguaglianza, anche se parallelamente emergono diversità così profonde da far affiorare quelle che invece sono estreme differenze.
La formazione dell’identità è un processo di ricerca che può consistere nell’imitazione o nell’identificazione in quella di altri, ancor più oggi dove la tecnologia e i social media favoriscono il contatto costante tra le persone, in particolare tra i giovani, che si scambiano punti di vista ed esperienze confrontandosi con tutto il mondo in modo anche anonimo attraverso l’utilizzo di nickname.
Questa misteriosa ricerca dell’identità racchiude in sé inoltre, un altro aspetto strettamente legato all’arte e dibattuto dalla critica non solo italiana: il rapporto tra artista e il proprio paese. Secondo molti, questo legame è spesso abbandonato infatti, pochi sono gli artisti emergenti che fanno riferimento, alle proprie tradizioni, alla cultura a alla storia.
L’entusiasmo di accostare nuovamente un’opera del passato a lavori di artisti emergenti, ci offre la posibilità di esplorare le personalità di questi ultimi, la loro sensibilità verso la realtà che ci circonda, stimolando anche i visitatori, che saranno attivamente coinvolti.
La mostra, che TORINO CASTELLO ART apre al pubblico torinese, è ad ingresso libero e coinvolge i seguenti artisti: Alessandro Cardinale, Carmen Cardillo, Jacopo Dimastrogiovanni, Alzbeta Josefy, Sabrina Milazzo, Giacomo Modolo, Mattia Novello, Tomas Tichy, Jan Uldrych, Diego Zangirolami, Jian Zhou.
Ogni martedì alle ore 18.00 si tengo i 45′ con l’arte: visita guidata alla mostra.

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The Process - Diego Zangirolami
2016-09-16 11:00 - 2016-10-09 22:00 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
The Process – The Hidden life of people and things
Il Processo – La vita nascosta delle cose e delle persone
Diego Zangirolami
Curated by Elisabetta Chiono e Sergio Manca

16 September – 9 October 2016
Opening 16/17/18 September 11-22
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The artist works in a different temporal dimension than the current moment, as his actions are based on a collective memory where the whole history of art (and not only a specific story) participates to his culture, his way of being, thus making his proposition active and connected to other needs.
(Flash Art n. 326 march-april 2016, extract from the interview to Enrico Castellani, 1986)
I was reading the interview to Enrico Castellani while I was on the train and I immediately thought about the work of Diego Zangirolami, the young artist from Turin that we chose for the first solo show of Chiono Reisovà Art Gallery.
The collective memory told in the artworks on exhibition is jointly made of literature, architecture, mythology and history, wisely combined with the experience, passions and everyday life of the artist.
The series Il processo, already partly exhibited in Cile in the solo show of 2014, is widened and deepened today examining even more the Kafka’s universe that is the base of Diego’s work.
Precious miniatures enclose small worlds, linked to each other, where characters either real or made up live in extemporal contexts.
The creative mind of the artist, anachronistic at a first glance, contains a different temporality that is developed in a totally personal way for the choices both in the composition and the contents. Prof. Bruno Orlandoni, who has been following Diego’s work since the beginning, identifies four clear parameters to describe him as artist (pag. …)
Since the beginning we have seen in his work a quid pluris, a courage to be far beyond the fashion of the moment, that are the founding elements in the path of the Gallery and, as a consequence, of the selection of both the artists and curators. We chose Sergio Manca as co-curator for the sensibility that put him closer to the artist, sharing his thought and understanding what lies underneath his work.
The exhibition becomes an opportunity to go beyond. The artist shares with us his meticulous work that CRAG nourishes and opens to the public.
We invite you, then, to enjoy the hidden life of things and people.
Elisabetta Chiono

The exhibition is accompany by a catalogue with critic texts (Italian and English). For more information please write to info@cragalley.com

1 x 1
2016-06-24 - 2016-07-24 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
From the 24th of June to the 24th of July, CRAG is pleased to present a selection of works by the artists of the gallery and other emergent artists we work with: Alessandro Cardinale, Sabrina Milazzo, Giacomo Modolo, Giacomo Montanelli, Mattia Novello, Tomas Tichy, Zdenek Trs, Jan Uldrych, Diego Zangirolami.
1 x 1: one work for each artist!
This is the last exhibition before the summer break and it’s open every day by appointment.

Riccardo Cordero - Sculpture Line
2016-06-01 08:00 - 2016-09-30 17:00 | Scultpure Line, Prague, Czech Republic
SCULPTURE LINE FESTIVAL – PRAGUE
1 June – 30 September 2016
organised by Smart Point Office

CRAG is pleased to take part to the open-air exhibition project Sculpture Line, a unique opportunity to present sculptures and art objects to both citizens and visitors of the Czech capital in an attractive setting.
We present the sculptures by Riccardo Cordero, well known italian artists, who works between Italy, China, Germany and Switzerland.
The City of Prague offers the best exhibition place, be it frequented areas or less-expected locations,
both in the centre and outskirts of the metropolis. Works of art by leading local & international
artists interact directly with the city and invite you for a walk of discovery. The aim of the festival
is to enrich the public space, offer a new view of the architectural context and, hopefully, become
a new tradition. We invite you to take to the streets where art awaits you. Join the Line, enjoy the Line!

Biography of the artist:
Riccardo Cordero was born in Alba, in the Northern Italian province of Cuneo, in 1942. After studying art at school, he graduated in Sculpture from the Accademy of Fine Arts. He taught at Turin´s First Artistic High School until 1984, and from there on he taught at the Accademia Albertina of Fine Arts in Turin, Bologna and Milan. In 1992 he was assigned the Chair of Sculpture at the Accademia Albertina of Fine Arts in Turin, where he was Head of Sculpture Department until 2000. Presently he is the President of the Associazione Piemontese Arte in Turin. Since 1960 he exhibited his works in most important national and international art shows . In 2016 he was commissioned by the City of Kluftern – Germany, to build the monumental sculpture in corten steel Energia Vitale and by the City of Haining – China, to make the big sculpture The wonderful tide in the new Sculpture Park, as winner of the Tide Competition

Narciso - A contemporary myth between life and art
2016-05-19 - 2016-06-18 | Reale Mutua Agenzia Torino Castello, Piazza Castello 111, Torino, 10121, Italy
NARCISO
Contemporaneity of the myth between life and art
Narcissus, May 19 to June 19, is the opening exhibition of the partnership project between the new Art Division of Turin Castello Reale Mutua main agency based in the Tower Center in Piazza Castello 111 in Turin, and CRAG Chiono Reisovà Art Gallery, newborn gallery in Turin, located in the post-industrial Piero della Francesca Center.
Site of exhibition is the Tower Center Turin Castle, in the heart of the City, a versatile and technological work space that, not only represents major brands such as Reale Mutua and Lloyd’s of London, but is now open for exhibitions and events, as deeply desired by the founder of TURIN CASTLE, Giuseppe Ruscica.
The new Art Division was created with the intention of combining the passion for the culture and the love for our city through a real network that allows people to admire important works of art from private collections and works by emerging artists.
The Tower Center Turin Castle, for its strategic location and the type of initiatives that will host, set itself the goal of becoming a meeting point for the people of Turin (but not only …) and artists from around the world. For the launch of this project, at such an important time for Turin as Italian capital of contemporary art, TURIN CASTLE ART chose CRAG that with its style and its proposals will become a point of reference.
The Partnership with CRAG means finding the excellences, combining the skills acquired in their fields of activity with he will to innovate with dedication and attention.
The common thread of the exhibition is the “Friendship in the Art”, meant not only as friendship, but also as generosity and cooperation.
In this first experience a work of art will act as a guide, a Narcissus of the first half of the seventeenth century attributed to Francesco Ragusa, kindly loaned by Robilant + Voena Gallery (Milan-London-St.Moritz) around which Elisabetta Chiono selected the works of emerging artists of his gallery and others with which she cooperates to reflect on the theme.
The result? A way of making art in unusual places, attentive to the quality of the artists, beyond the trends, in the belief that the experience proposed to the public is or primary importance. The exhibition is therefore a journey between meetings, conversations, memories, desires and reflections shared in spaces that are alive with like minded people ready to challenge themselves.
Artists in the exhibition: Jan Uldrych, Giacomo Modolo, Mattia Novello, Diego Zangirolami, Tomas Tichy, Jan Gemrot, Cristina Gori, Marco Maria Zanin, Michele Pierpaoli, Jacopo Dimastrogiovanni, Elvis Spadoni.
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NARCISO
Contemporaneità del mito tra vita e arte
Narciso, 20 maggio – 19 giugno, è la mostra di apertura del progetto di partnership tra la nuova Divisione Arte di Torino Castello Agenzia Principale di Reale Mutua con sede nel Tower Center in Piazza Castello 111 a Torino, e CRAG Chiono Reisovà Art Gallery, neonata galleria in Torino, situata nell’area post-industriale nel Centro Piero della Francesca.
Sede di mostra è il Tower Center Torino Castello, nel cuore della Città, spazio di lavoro tecnologico versatile che, oltre a rappresentare brand importanti come Reale Mutua e Lloyd’s di Londra, viene da oggi aperto a mostre ed eventi, così come fortemente voluto dal fondatore di Torino Castello, Giuseppe Ruscica.
La nuova Divisione Arte nasce con l’intento di unire la passione per la cultura e l’amore per la nostra Città attraverso un vero e proprio network che consenta di ammirare pregiate opere provenienti da collezioni private e lavori di artisti emergenti.
Il Tower Center Torino Castello, per la posizione strategica e la tipologia di iniziative che ospiterà si pone l’obiettivo di diventare un punto d’incontro tra i torinesi (ma non solo…) e gli artisti di tutto il mondo. Per il lancio di questo progetto, in un momento così importante per Torino capitale dell’arte contemporanea italiana, TORINO CASTELLO ART ha scelto CRAG che con il proprio stile e con le proprie proposte diventerà un sicuro punto di riferimento.
La Partnership con CRAG significa fare eccellenza unendo le competenze acquisite nei propri campi di attività alla volontà di innovare con dedizione e attenzione.
Il filo conduttore delle mostre proposte è la Friendship in the Art, intesa non solo come amicizia, ma anche come generosità e collaborazione.
In questa prima esperienza verrà proposta un’opera guida, un Narciso della prima metà del Seicento attribuito a Francesco Ragusa, gentilmente concesso in prestito dalla Galleria Robilant+Voena (Milano-Londra-St.Moritz) intorno alla quale Elisabetta Chiono ha selezionato i lavori degli artisti emergenti della sua galleria e di altri con i quali collabora per riflettere sul tema.
Il risultato? Un modo di far arte in luoghi non usuali, attento alla qualità degli artisti, al di là delle tendenze, nella convinzione che sia importante l’esperienza proposta al pubblico. La mostra è quindi un libero viaggio tra incontri, conversazioni, ricordi, desideri e riflessioni condivisi in spazi vivi con persone che ci credono e si mettono in gioco.
Artisti in mostra: Jan Uldrych, Giacomo Modolo, Mattia Novello, Diego Zangirolami, Tomas Tichy, Jan Gemrot, Cristina Gori, Marco Maria Zanin, Michele Pierpaoli, Jacopo Dimastrogiovanni, Elvis Spadoni.

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immagine: Courtesy Elvis Spadoni, Narciso, olio su tela, 175 x 215 cm.

Opening of Chiono Reisovà Art Gallery
2016-04-29 - 2016-05-01 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
CRAG – Chiono reisovà Art Gallery – Turin
A new gallery of contemporary art.
OPENING: April 29-30 – May 1, 2016-05-15

In an exciting moment for Turin on the cultural and contemporary art scene, we are glad to announce the opening of CRAG – Chiono Reisova Art Gallery, a new concept of gallery based in a post-industrial area of the city.
The newly opened Gallery, a home gallery inside the Piero Della Francesca Centre, promotes Italian and foreign emergent artists, but also already prominent artists, which together can be presented in exhibitions not only in the home gallery but also in different venues.
The Gallery focuses in particular on painting and sculpture, with a great attention to quality and to the artistic path of the artists.
The combination of an exhibition venue and a home, with the desire to share the passion for art and the work, creating a lifestyle, is not new for Karin Reisovà and Elisabetta Chiono.
The two gallerists started their collaborations in 2008 with Areacreativa42 where, in a maison charmant, welcome visitors organising exhibitions, cultural events, the Art Prize CBM, concerts and conferences. Now, with CRAG, in a completely different space, their local and international experiences find a new home and continue to grow.
