On the occasion of Contemporary Art Day, Saturday, 12 October 2024, 17th anniversary of the Reggia di Venaria, there will be free entrance to the Gardens for the whole day (opening hours 09:30-18:30).
It will be possible to visit both the exhibition Mainolfi/Sculture. Bestiario (Mainolfi/Sculptures. Bestiary), curated by Guido Curto and Clara Goria (21 June-10 November 2024), with the worksset in the Court of Honour, the Loggia of the Hall of Diana and the Grand Parterre of the Gardens, and the permanent installations of contemporary art in the Lower Park and the Upper Park of the Reggia of Venaria. In fact, the Venaria Reale presents several contemporary works and installations, from the interiors to the Gardens, in dialogue with the architecture and history of the complex. A dialogue with the contemporary opened in the context of the restoration of the Venaria Reale complex, with the Giardino delle sculture fluide (Garden of Fluid sculptures) by Giuseppe Penone, created from 2003 to 2007 in the Lower Park, in collaboration with the Castle of Rivoli - Museum of Contemporary Art, in the area of the lost seventeenth-century garden completed in recent years by the same artist with Anafora (Anaphora) in the caves of the Castellamonte wall. To the other pole of the gardens, in the Upper Park, Dove le stelle si avvicinano di una spanna in più (Where the stars come one span closer) by Giovanni Anselmo (2013) marks the crossroads of the eighteenth-century Grand Parterre of Juvarra. It follows the Storyboard. Paladino alla Reggia di Venaria (Storyboard. Paladino at the Reggia of Venaria), with entrance from Lower Park: a project by Mimmo Paladino promoted by the Consorzio delle Residenze Reali Sabaude and winner of the III edition of the Italian Council 2018 call, a competition conceived by the Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea of the Ministero della Cultura. Along the way, you will also find the sculptures Gea by Luigi Stoisa and Momenti by Giuliano Vangi. The park also hosts site specific interventions made by Hilario Isola, including La Mantide (The Mantis), recently included in the collections of the Reggia of Venaria, and Venaria Green Art,Festival in the Gardens of the Reggia, curated by Alessia Bellone and Cecilia Serafino (13 May - 13 October 2024), with installations by Rodolfo Casati, Erika Inger, Marco Nones, Ars Ruralis, Rumen Dimitrov, Tim Norris, Rodolfo Liprandi, Berit SkjØttgaard Laursen.