Atlante Energetico

Final publication of the annual project ATLANTE ENERGETICO, collaboration with Fondazione Spinola e GAM Torino
“In questa terra d’acqua io sono nata (…) Per tanti anni le risaie per me erano state solo uno sfondo, anzi una cornice allarmante, con quella confusione degli elementi, terra cielo acqua mescolati in un unico orizzonte, il cielo che entra nella terra, la terra che si raddoppia e si increspa nell’acqua, l’alto e il basso che si rivoltano e non significano più nulla (…) Me n’ero andata senza averla conosciuta, questa terra d’acqua (…), forse per sbaglio, perché quell’orizzonte senza limiti, che era tutto e niente, spingeva a sognare.”
(pp.24–25) da Le stagioni dell’acqua di Laura Bosio (Longanesi 2007, Finalista Premio Strega)
Curated by Elena Mazzi

Catalogue
Maryam Fanni / Graphic designer
Ben Bazalgette / translator
Laura Bosio/ Proofreader

Texts
Alice Benessia
Leone Contini
Carolyn Cristov-Bakergiev
Vincenzo Guarnieri
Carolin Malmstrom
Elena Mazzi
Stéphane Verlet-Bottero
Elena Volpato

Print
Grafiche Antiga, Italy 2017

Acknoledgements
IRIS – Istituto di Ricerche Interdisciplinari sulla Sostenibilità
Laura Bosio
Andrea Caretto
Alice Cerutti, Cascina O’Schiena
Leone Contini
Christopher Crimes and NA!Fund
Hans Grassmann
Igiea Adami
Signe Johannesen and Art Lab Gnesta
Ling Kuang Sung
Marianna Sasanelli, Ecomuseo del Freidano
Riseria Padana

“Atlante Energetico is the first stage of a three-year itinerary which, thanks to the fundamental support of the Compagnia di San Paolo, brings together two institutions of quite different natures: the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Turin and the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte. The former has a largely conservational and expositive vocation, while the latter has always focused on training activities. We wanted to bring these different aims into a single path, entrusting a young tutor, the artist Elena Mazzi, with the aim of guiding the theme of the project in the broadest and most innovative manner.

Five young artists thus had the chance to interact with their tutor in an extraordinarily rich exchange of great affinity, within an itinerary which over a time span of just eight months foresaw workshops, meetings, performances and an exhibition.
Elena Mazzi, drawing on various stimuli and the opportunities offered by the collaboration between a public and a private institution, decided in turn to open up the perimeter of experience, intertwining her own paths of reflection, observation and study with those of figures from different realities, whose voices may be found in this book in a polyphony of interests ranging from literature to philosophy, from physics to the natural sciences. While observing the work in progress, we noted that the theme chosen – energy, analysed in relation to the Piedmont territory and one of its key resources, namely rice – offered a rich sublayer of further stimuli, fostering multiple artistic elaborations which may be traced through the exhibition which will conclude our project.

To Elena Mazzi along with Chiara, Nadia, Paola, Silvia and Fabio, we wish the bright future that they all deserve. To all those who have taken part in this project, making it special with their art, science and experience, our most heartfelt thanks are due.”

Gianluca Spinola, President
Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte