{"id":11230,"date":"2021-05-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italics.art\/?post_type=tip&#038;p=11230"},"modified":"2021-05-03T19:37:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T17:37:39","slug":"la-venaria-reale-landscape-history-and-contemporary-art","status":"publish","type":"tip","link":"https:\/\/italics.art\/en\/tip\/la-venaria-reale-landscape-history-and-contemporary-art\/","title":{"rendered":"La Venaria Reale: Landscape, History and Contemporary Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just outside Turin, there is a place where landscape, history and contemporary art co-exist in extraordinary harmony, an embodiment of the principle that inspired me to co-found <em>Italics<\/em>. La Venaria Reale: an immense, spectacular palace built for hunting and enjoyment, commissioned at the end of the 17th century by the Dukes of Savoy and then expanded \u2013 when the family took the royal crown \u2013 by some of the greatest architects of the age, including Filippo Juvarra (1678\u20131736).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2.-PENONE_082_Tra-scorza-e-scorza_c73_dig\u00a9Archivio-Penone-689x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Venaria Reale\" class=\"wp-image-11131\" width=\"345\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2.-PENONE_082_Tra-scorza-e-scorza_c73_dig\u00a9Archivio-Penone-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2.-PENONE_082_Tra-scorza-e-scorza_c73_dig\u00a9Archivio-Penone-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2.-PENONE_082_Tra-scorza-e-scorza_c73_dig\u00a9Archivio-Penone-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2.-PENONE_082_Tra-scorza-e-scorza_c73_dig\u00a9Archivio-Penone-768x1142.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><figcaption>Giuseppe Penone, Tra scorza e scorza, 2003-07. <em>Garden of Fluid Sculptures<\/em>, Lower Park of the Venaria \u00a9 Penone Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenaria.it\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">important palace<\/a> and village, it also includes an extraordinary park which has been home since 2007 to the <em>Garden of Fluid Sculptures<\/em> by Giuseppe Penone, an artist whose work I\u2019ve had the luck to get to know up close and who never ceases to amaze me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.-PENONE_188_Disegno-d-acqua_c7_dig\u00a9Archivio_Penone-1024x511.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11137\" width=\"768\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.-PENONE_188_Disegno-d-acqua_c7_dig\u00a9Archivio_Penone-1024x511.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.-PENONE_188_Disegno-d-acqua_c7_dig\u00a9Archivio_Penone-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.-PENONE_188_Disegno-d-acqua_c7_dig\u00a9Archivio_Penone-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.-PENONE_188_Disegno-d-acqua_c7_dig\u00a9Archivio_Penone-768x383.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Giuseppe Penone, <em>Disegno d\u2019acqua, <\/em>2003-07. <em><em>Garden of Fluid Sculptures<\/em><\/em>, Lower Park of the Venaria \u00a9 Penone Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the leading figures of Arte Povera \u2013 an Italian movement of international prominence that emerged at the end of the 1960s, led by the now legendary curator Germano Celant \u2013 Penone has spent more than fifty years exploring the relationship between humankind and nature. Fourteen of his sculptures, many of which monumental in scale, are installed on the palace grounds. They seem to exist in symbiosis with the surrounding landscape, mapping out a vital poetic path focused on that endless dialogue, a recurrent theme in his work, that has led him to show in major museums all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4.-PENONE_Aerialview-Venaria\u00a9Archivio_Penone-860x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11140\" width=\"430\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4.-PENONE_Aerialview-Venaria\u00a9Archivio_Penone-860x1024.jpg 860w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4.-PENONE_Aerialview-Venaria\u00a9Archivio_Penone-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4.-PENONE_Aerialview-Venaria\u00a9Archivio_Penone-126x150.jpg 126w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4.-PENONE_Aerialview-Venaria\u00a9Archivio_Penone-768x915.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><figcaption> Giuseppe Penone<em>, <em><em>Garden of Fluid Sculptures<\/em><\/em>,<\/em> 2003\u201307, Lower Park of the Venaria \u00a9 Penone Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just outside Turin, there is a place where landscape, history and contemporary art co-exist in extraordinary harmony, an embodiment of the principle that inspired me to co-found Italics. 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