On Saturday 8 October 2022 at the Giornata del Contemporaneo, the entry to the Gardens of the Reggia di Venaria is going to be free of charge for the entire day, from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm. This is an opportunity to visit the exhibition of Tony Cragg at the Reggia di Venaria, open to public from 9 June 2022 to 8 January 2023, and curated by Guido Curto in collaboration with Tony Cragg (respectively from art studios: Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea-Torre Pellice/Turin and Skulpturenpark -Wuppertal, Germany), as well as contemporary art pieces in the Gardens. At the Reggia di Venaria, both inside the Reggia itself and in the Gardens, there are several contemporary art works and installations which seem to dialogue with the architecture and history of this place. Works by masters of Arte Povera, Giuseppe Penone and Giovanni Anselmo, coexist with works of Mimmo Paladino, a leading exponent of the Transavanguardia movement. This dialogue with contemporary art started between 2003 and 2007 with the restoration of the Venaria Reale complex, when Giuseppe Penone’s Garden of Fluid Sculptures was created in the Lower Park, in collaboration with Castello di Rivoli-Museo di Arte Contemporanea, and it was set up where the lost 17th-century garden. Over the past few years, Penone has added Anafora to his Garden of Fluid Sculptures, an installation that can be found inside the caves of the wall of Castellamonte. At the other end of the gardens, in the Upper Park, Giovanni Anselmo’s Dove le stelle si avvicinano di una spanna in più (Where the stars come one step closer) (2013) marks the crossroads of the 18th-century Grand Parterre. In 2018, the work Storyboard. Paladino at the Reggia di Venaria, with entrance from the Lower Park: a project by the artist Mimmo Paladino promoted by the Consortium of the Royal Residences of Savoy and winner of the 3rd call of the Italian Council 2018, a competition conceived by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture. The sculptures, Gea, by Luigi Stoisa and Momenti, by Giuliano Vangi, stand respectively in the Cortile della tenaglia and in the Main Courtyard.