Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
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Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Torino | |
Established | 1895 |
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Location | 31 via Magenta, Turin, Italy |
Type | Art museum |
Collections | Modern and contemporary art |
Director | Riccardo Passoni |
Architect | Carlo Bassi e Goffredo Boschetti |
Website | www |
The Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Italian - Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Torino or GAM Torino) is an art gallery in
It houses the city's permanent collections of 19th and 20th century art, which consist of over 47,000 paintings, sculptures, art installations and pieces of video art.[1] Artists represented include Antonio Canova, Giovanni Fattori, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Antonio Mancini, Giacomo Balla, Paul Klee, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Nino Franchina and Domenico Valinotti.
History
The city's collection of modern art began with the founding of the Museo Civico in 1863, making it the first city in Italy to promote a modern art collection. It was housed with the earlier works in a building near the Mole Antonelliana, before being exhibited in a pavilion on corso Siccardi (now corso Galileo Ferraris) from 1895 until that building's destruction by Allied bombing in 1942.
A new building by
Gallery
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The building in 1959
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Gallery, 1959
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Sculpture by Medardo Rosso
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Entrance to the museum
References
- ^ "Nuovi percorsi delle collezioni GAM - Infinito, Velocità, Etica, Natura" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2014-02-27.
External links
- "GAM Torino" (in Italian).
- "Fondazione Torino Musei" (in Italian).
- "STRANGERS. Tra Informale e Pop dalle collezioni GAM (Torino, GAM, 16 marzo - 10 giugno 2012)" (in Italian).