Presentation of the annual program 2014

Presentation of the 2014 Programme

On Thursday 10 April 2014 at 5pm, at the Temporary Residence of the Compagnia di San Paolo in Via Clemente Priocca no. 3, Turin, the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte presented its 2014 programme.
Having reached its ninth year of activity, the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte has decided to valorise its heritage acquired in terms of young artists hosted – more than 150 since we first opened our doors – and visiting professors, who have achieved excellent results during their workshops. The usual call for applications will therefore be suspended for the current year with the aim of offering further training opportunities to the generation of artists born in the ‘80s. The Fondazione Spinola will in fact try out a training approach different from that adopted over recent years: the usual workshops, featuring a tried-and-tested experience of comparison between an artist/the young artists or a curator/the young artists, will be substituted this year by the theoretical and methodological collaboration of both the key figures operating in the contemporary arts system: the artist and the curator. For this reason, the 2014 season of the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte is structured somewhat like a return to the origins, starting from the human resources and the theoretical material accumulated up to now.
For the very first time, we shall therefore turn our gaze to the recent past of the Foundation and not to its near future, choosing the participants to attend the various workshops planned from among those young artists already involved in the past. Again with a view to the valorisation of the past, also the workshop masters have been chosen from amongst those who have already been given this role in the past, thus slowly becoming recurrent voices and endless sources of enhancement of the ideals of the Foundation and its dream of free collaboration between creative minds.
Rather than a mere celebration of the past, 2014 for Spinola Banna has been thought of as an ideal platform for all that which has yet to be achieved, in the awareness that many of the young artists of the Foundation will soon be the masters of tomorrow, thus passing the baton between changing generations.
Luca Remmert, President of the Compagnia di San Paolo, stated: “Our support goes not only the major cultural institutions across the territory, but also those organisations that enhance the Turinese contemporary art system and the initiatives capable of favouring artistic creativity, especially among young artists. It is here that the contribution of the Compagnia di San Paolo comes into play, with regard to the residences and the cultural programme of the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte, which today is a widely recognised point of reference in the training of Italian artists. Over recent years, the Foundation has hosted more than 100 young artists who have had the chance to get to know the cultural context of Turin, relate to it, grow their baggage of training experiences and also set up professional collaboration opportunities. Thus in keeping with the goals of the Compagnia di San Paolo, within the lively Turinese contemporary arts context, the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte stands as a subject capable of making an impact in the key area of training, and providing young artists with the chance for growth, exchange and comparison with major national and international figures on the contemporary arts scene.”