The Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli presents the exhibition Mutual Aid – Art in Collaboration with Nature, a major exhibition project dedicated to sustainability, curated by Francesco Manacorda and Marianna Vecellio. The exhibition will be on display from Thursday, October 31, 2024 to Sunday, March 23, 2025.
Image above: Michel Blazy, Le lâcher d’escargots (Il rilascio delle lumache), 2009 (dettaglio), Courtesy l’artista e Art: Concept, Paris © Michel Blazy
The exhibition explores the creative collaboration between humans and the non-human world by including a selection of artists who have explored the theme of interdependence between humans and nature from the 1960s to the present day.
The exhibition traces a path through the different phases of artistic reflection on ecology, culminating in the current climate crisis and the theoretical developments questioning the central role of man in the natural system. The central element of the exhibition project is the actual participation in the creative process between artists and natural elements (animals, plants and inorganic materials), which on this occasion is represented by the works of artists such as Maria Thereza Alves, Michel Blazy, Bianca Bondi & Guillaume Bouisset, Caretto/Spain, Agnes Denes, Hubert Duprat, Henrik Håkansson, Tamara Henderson, Aki Inomata, Renato Leotta, Nicholas Mangan, Yannis Maniatakos, Nour Mobarak, Precious Okoyomon, Giuseppe Penone, Tomás Saraceno, Robert Smithson, Vivian Suter and Natsuko Uchino.
The title of the exhibition is inspired by the concept of mutual support proposed by the Russian philosopher and zoologist Piotr Kropotkin (1842-1921) in his book Mutual Support – A Factor in Evolution, published at the beginning of the last century. Kropotkin hypothesized that the survival of species does not depend solely on competition, as Charles Darwin claimed. According to the Russian philosopher, if a system has few resources and is unstable, survival is more likely if the elements involved work together and pursue a common plan. This mode of operation is iconically highlighted in the exhibition through a selection of artworks that have been completed or co-created through the contribution of non-human elements and actors.
Mutual Aid – Art in Collaboration with Nature invites us to rethink the separation between nature and culture, and instead see them as collaborating elements that should support and nourish each other. The exhibition project proposes to the public an ecosystemic vision and an innovative and urgent approach to important environmental issues based on coexistence, sharing and the value of collective multi-species creativity and planning.
Curated by Francesco Manacorda and Marianna Vecellio.
WHEN?
Exhibition dates: Thursday, October 31, 2024 – Sunday, March 23, 2025
Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday – Sunday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
WHERE?
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Piazza Mafalda di Savoia
10098 Rivoli
Torino
Italy
