ART AND CULTURE AFICIONADOS WILL DELIGHT IN TURIN

GREAT VARIETY OF ART EXHIBITS THIS SPRING AND SUMMER

NEW YORK - May 5, 2009 - Well known on the world stage for its contribution to contemporary international design, Turin, the Piemontese capital, is also fast climbing the ranks as one of the prominent Europeans cities on the arts and culture scene. Home to numerous museums and great cultural history, Turin offers visitors the chance to enjoy art in all its variations. A host of innovative exhibits scheduled for this spring and summer seasons will provide visitors with a wide range of art from different periods - from ancient Egyptian treasures to avant-garde creations. Following are some of the exhibits that art and culture aficionados can enjoy.  

Adel Abdessemend: The Wings of God - Through May 24, 2009

This French-Algerian artist has been labeled as an enfant terrible because of his shocking and controversial works, often centered around "neuralgic" topics - such as sex, religion and politics - which he confronts with a language that is both spare and direct. His works depict an image of contemporary society dominated by abuses of power and aggressiveness. Videos, photos and installations make up the exhibit with powerful content and subversive messages.

Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation - www.fondsrr.org

Rudolph Valentino: The Seduction of the Myth - Through May 24, 2009

This photographic exhibition pays tribute to the Italian-American immigrant by means of a journey through his private life and film career. Photos, posters, film-story books and gadgets are accompanied by sequences of film. During the 1910s, the young Italian with the magnetic gaze was to become the first authentic star of silent films. In the collective imaginary, he is tied to the myth of the Latin Lover, in part thanks to his tragic and premature death, which transformed him from a mere creature of the silver screen into a social phenomenon. The exhibit is held in the Mole Antonelliana, Turin's symbolic building and is part of the National Cinema Museum, one of the most important ones of its kind in the world - www.museocinema.it

 Egypt's Sunken Treasures - Through May 31, 2009

A special exhibition of over 500 underwater archaeological artifacts from Alexandria, Heracleion and Canopus, all ancient towns in the Nile Delta which sank 20 feet under the level of the Mediterranean in the first centuries of the Christian era, are on view through May 31, 2009 at Juvarra's Royal Stables in the Venaria Reale, the former stables of the hunting residence of the Savoy family. This exclusive exhibit is designed by Robert Wilson and curated by underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio who discovered the remains and their legends -

www.lavenaria.it

Wolfgang Laib - Through June 7, 2009

Wolfgang Laib makes art from natural resources. The one-man exhibition takes place in two parts: in the first part hundreds of small mountains of rice and pollen plus a big Zigurrat mountain of beeswax will be set up. The second part of the exhibit, from June 1 to 7, will include a fire ritual, which will be officiated every day by about 70 Indian Brahmins. The exhibition symbolizes the world, the universe and the existence of human beings. The pollen represents the Creation and the beginning, the rice mountains and the Ziggurat mountain of beeswax symbolize nutrition and the link between the sky, earth and the fire represent the end and eventual re-creation of the world. Merz Foundation - www.fondazionemerz.org

Akhenaton, the Sun Pharaoh - Through June 14, 2009

This exhibit retraces the historic-cultural events of Egypt between the reigns of Amenoffi III and Ramesses II, focusing on the figure of Akhenaton, the pharaoh who governed Egypt for 17 years and established the cult of Aton, the sun transformed in a full divine entity. The exhibit is held in the Palazzo Bricherasio -

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