The Family office confirms its support to Artissima, promoting, during the Turin art week, a series of initiatives dedicated to art and economics.
On Saturday, November 2, the Tosetti Value Photography Award will be awarded to the artist whose photographic work is considered most effective in understanding the socio-historical and economic situation of our globalized world. The Prize, now in its fifth edition, is in close relationship with “Perspectives. The Economy of Images,” a project on contemporary photography created in 2014 and curated by Tosetti Value for Art with the aim of fueling debates and reflections on our globalized world through exhibitions and talks in synergy with the Family office’s macroeconomic research.
Always as part of the Project “Perspectives. The Economy of Images,” the talk Another day of life. Stories of journeys, nations, borders, and words. will be held on Saturday, November 2 at 12:30 p.m. at the Fair Meeting Point.
Some people embark on a journey in search of something, while others are compelled to leave. There’s a time to go, a time to stay, and a moment when neither is possible. The talk Another Day of Life begins with an artwork and a book. The artwork is “75” by Kiluanji Kia Henda, winner of the 2023 Tosetti Value Photography Award, a series of 75 frames taken from the video “Concrete Affection” flanked by drawings in Chinese ink currently installed in the Celeste Lounge at the fair. The book is Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuściński, in which the renowned Polish journalist chronicles the last days of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola in 1975. Kapuściński vividly portrays the chaotic exodus of Portuguese citizens fleeing the country, juxtaposed with the arrival of thousands of Angolans forced to migrate from rural areas to the capital, Luanda. This movement, shifting metaphorically between fullness, emptiness, and renewal, sparks the core theme of Tosetti Value’s talk at Artissima 2024.
From a different lens, Lorenzo Vitturi delves into Africa and the theme of migration with two compelling projects. One is Money Must Be Made, created during his time in Lagos, Nigeria, a country with one of Africa’s highest population surpluses. In this vibrant metropolis, the relentless pace of global capitalism collides with a fierce internal dynamism, governed by a singular unwritten rule: “money must be made.” This project has already become part of the Tosetti Value corporate collection. Vitturi’s second project, Caminantes (2017-), draws on his own mixed heritage and a pivotal family story: a journey that led to his parents’ meeting. In the 1960s, Vitturi’s father crossed the Atlantic to open a Murano glass factory in Peru, where he met his mother. In Caminantes, travel becomes not only a means to reconnect with personal roots but also a conduit for exchanges that reveal diverse narratives. For both Vitturi and Henda, these different trajectories and stories – each journey a promise of an undefined future—become central to their art. In the end, every journey requires leaving something behind to create space for something new.
Speaker:
- Marcella Beccaria – Art historian, curator, and author. She serves as Deputy Director of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and heads the CRRI – Research Center of the Museum. Since 2012, she has also been Chief Curator and Curator of the Collections at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art.
in dialogue with:
- Kiluanji Kia Henda – Visual artist and winner of the 2023 Tosetti Value Photography Award. He is also an invited artist at the 60th Venice Biennale curated by Adriano Pedrosa (Foreigners Everywhere / Stranieri Ovunque).
- Lorenzo Vitturi – Visual artist, with exhibitions in Italy and internationally. His work includes Money Must Be Made at the MAST Foundation in Bologna, Nothing is Pure at the Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, Materia Impura at the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, and Dalston Anatomy at the Photographers’ Gallery in London. His work has also been featured at MAXXI in Rome, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Palazzo Reale and the Triennale in Milan, BOZAR in Brussels, K11 Art Museum in Shanghai, and the Barbican Centre in London.
The 31st edition of Artissima, will be held from thursday October 31 to sunday November 3, 2024, under the Dirction of Luigi Fassi and will feature the participation of 189 Galleries from 34 different countries e 4 continets. Among these galleries 66 will propose monographic and curated projects to better present the work of their artists to the public and to demonstrate that Artissima, in addition to being the only Fair in Italy entirely dedicated to contemporary art, is also the Fair that has been most successful in combining the commercial dimension with that of research and curating.
The theme of this year edition is The Era of Daydreaming centred on daydreaming as a spontaneous manifestation of thought, a practice of creation projected into the future. A topic of widespread reassessment on the part of neuroscientists, philosophers and artists, daydreaming is an everyday experience known to us all: the ability of the mind to generate its own inner dialogue and to develop a life story through constantly evolving forms of visual thinking. Decisive for creative reverie and artistic production, daydreaming is a spontaneous force that activates hopes, emotions and imagination, shaping the world to come and orienting it towards our expectations.
