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T2, Torino Triennale
For about half an hour, Reykjavik’s Ragnar Kjartansson, accompanied by an 11-piece
orchestra, repeatedly intones the languid
verse, “Sorrow conquers happiness”.
The video-installation framed by drapes of violet silk (presented at the Promotrice delle Belle Arti, one of the three exhibition venues together with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rabaudengo and the Castello di Rivoli) produces an atmosphere balanced between the moving and the comical in which the idea of melancholy is realised. This is the notion around which Daniel Birnbaum has organised the second Turin Triennale (open until 18 January 2009), entitled “50 Lune di Saturno” (“50 Moons of Saturn”). Fifty like the artists invited: from (Meris) Angioletti to (Akram) Zantari, plus the two stars Olafur Eliasson and Paul Chan. The astral definition is all the more appropriate since the curator has sought to set out a cosmological system under the influence of Saturn, the planet of melancholy. The artists who have understood that the artistic spiritual condition “is a state of desperation, but also of inspiration”, as Birnbaum writes in the show’s catalogue, are those who shine more inside the celestial-exhibition framework. For example, Lara Favaretto, whose highly coloured anthropomorphic brushes for a car wash in regular rotation surround a room at the Castello di Rivoli; or Alberto Tadiello and his wall installation at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, which consists of a layout of shrill carillons. Two motorised circuits, two planetary systems, two living organisms: diverse but equally dedicated to a desperate and inspired entropic death. Caroline Corbetta
Lara Favaretto, view of the installation
for “T2 – 50 lune di Saturno”, Castello di Rivoli
Alberto Tadiello, EPROM, 2008. Photo Danilo
Donzelli
