GAM – QUARTA RISONANZA

The GAM in Turin continues its exploration of the languages of art with QUARTA RISONANZA, examining the themes of drawing, mark-making and line – essential forms of artistic inquiry through which every artist, in an authentic manner, records their visions and develops their studies. The paper becomes the material of choice for these practices, serving as an experimental space in which full expressive freedom can be exercised. In this context, mark and line take on an immediate and spontaneous value, conveying the most direct and vital dimension of the artistic gesture.

As part of the QUARTA RISONANZA programme, Turin’s GAM is dedicating a major exhibition to its collections of 20th-century works on paper, presenting them for the first time in a cohesive exhibition that begins with the early years of the century and moves through the Secessionist movement up to the works of the artistic generation of the 1990s. The selection, curated by Fabio Cafagna and Elena Volpato, comprises over 600 drawings, watercolours, engravings, prints and paintings on paper – many of which were acquired thanks to the support of the Guido and Ettore De Fornaris Foundation and the Fondazione Arte CRT – to reveal a different aspect of the past century, offering the public the chance to engage with the artists’ freest and most

The GAM in Turin presents “Vincenzo Agnetti. Oggi è un secolo”, an exhibition curated by Chiara Bertola with Virginia Lupo, organised as part of the QUARTA RISONANZA programme in collaboration with the Vincenzo Agnetti Archive, to mark the centenary of the artist’s birth; he is considered one of the most significant figures in Italian conceptual art of the late 20th century. The exhibition, which takes place in the space next to the Video Library, begins with the work ‘Photo-graffia’ (1980), part of the GAM Collection and acquired in 2024 thanks to the Fondazione Arte CRT. Building on this work from the Collection, the exhibition brings together a selection of works linked to the artist’s experimentation with the medium of photography, created between the 1970s and 1980s.

The exhibition, curated by Elena Volpato, marks the entry of a body of 15 photographs by Lisetta Carmi into the GAM collection, as part of the project supported by the Photography Strategy 2025, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture. The acquired works, drawn from the series “Eroticism and Authoritarianism in Staglieno” (1966–76), are displayed in dialogue with four sculptures from the GAM collection, selected from the collection of statuary from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.