The Exclusive Dinner at Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s Home Lights Up Torino’s Art Week
An event within the event: the reception and dinner at the home of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, who also heads the Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art CRT, has become a highlight of Torino’s art week during Artissima. The splendid residence, essentially a private contemporary art museum, with its hall, dining room, video room, and spacious lower floor, welcomed some of the most prominent figures from the international art world: artists, curators, and collectors from across Europe. We were there and met, among others, the director of the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation, Arturo Galansino, artist Paulina Olowska, Francesco Manacorda, director of the Castello di Rivoli, Belgian collector Alain Servais, Simon Castets, head of strategic initiatives at LUMA in Arles, curators Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Manuel Segade Lodeiro, director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Susanne Pfeffer, director of the Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Joel Wachs, president of the Andy Warhol Foundation, Carlo Ratti and artists Paulina Olowska, Mark Manders, and Stefanie Heinze.
The cocktail and dinner traditionally accompany the opening of new exhibitions in the foundation’s spaces on Via Modane: Silent Studio by Mark Manders, which explores the relationships between language, sculpture, and fiction; Your Mouth Come Second by Stefanie Heinze, which delves into themes like tenderness and vulnerability, relationships, and the integration of ancient and urban spirituality; and Hearsay by Bekhbaatar Enkthur, showcasing a series of sculptures dedicated to common symbols of superstition and luck.
Text: Germano D’Acquisto
Photos: Ludovica Arcero
