Description
The GAM, the Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea, is Turin's museum of 19th- and 20th-century art, on Via Magenta, in the Crocetta district. It holds over 47,000 works including paintings, sculptures, installations and videos, and can be reached by metro at the Re Umberto stop.
The museum is built around the great movements: the 19th century of Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, with Antonio Canova, then the Futurism of Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero, and De Chirico, Modigliani, Klee and Picasso.
The 20th-century route continues with Felice Casorati, Carlo Levi and Pinot Gallizio and arrives at Lucio Fontana and Andy Warhol, with Antonio Mancini, Filippo de Pisis and Mario Tozzi. The rooms change with the displays, organized over the years by theme, like View and Genre, and then by paths like Infinity, Speed, Ethics and Nature.
In the basement important exhibitions are held, and there is a very rich video library. It is part of the Fondazione Torino Musei, with Palazzo Madama and the MAO, the Museum of Oriental Art. The museum also has a library, a photographic archive, educational workshops, a bookshop and a cafe.
Outside, the open-air work Anni Luce by Giulio Paolini, commonly called the Arena Paolini, is at the center of "Parlare alla GAM", a participatory program started in 2016, in which anyone who wants to can present a project of their own for the work.
In 1863 Turin was the first Italian city to promote a public collection of modern art, with the founding of the Museo Civico. The GAM was born from that collection, and from 1895 it was housed in a pavilion on Corso Siccardi.
The pavilion was destroyed by the Anglo-American bombing of the Second World War. On the same ground, at the wish of the director Vittorio Viale, a new building was built, by Carlo Bassi and Goffredo Boschetti, inaugurated in 1959.
In the 1980s the building was declared unsafe and reopened, after long restorations, in July 1993.
The museum is built around the great movements: the 19th century of Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, with Antonio Canova, then the Futurism of Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero, and De Chirico, Modigliani, Klee and Picasso.
The 20th-century route continues with Felice Casorati, Carlo Levi and Pinot Gallizio and arrives at Lucio Fontana and Andy Warhol, with Antonio Mancini, Filippo de Pisis and Mario Tozzi. The rooms change with the displays, organized over the years by theme, like View and Genre, and then by paths like Infinity, Speed, Ethics and Nature.
In the basement important exhibitions are held, and there is a very rich video library. It is part of the Fondazione Torino Musei, with Palazzo Madama and the MAO, the Museum of Oriental Art. The museum also has a library, a photographic archive, educational workshops, a bookshop and a cafe.
Outside, the open-air work Anni Luce by Giulio Paolini, commonly called the Arena Paolini, is at the center of "Parlare alla GAM", a participatory program started in 2016, in which anyone who wants to can present a project of their own for the work.
In 1863 Turin was the first Italian city to promote a public collection of modern art, with the founding of the Museo Civico. The GAM was born from that collection, and from 1895 it was housed in a pavilion on Corso Siccardi.
The pavilion was destroyed by the Anglo-American bombing of the Second World War. On the same ground, at the wish of the director Vittorio Viale, a new building was built, by Carlo Bassi and Goffredo Boschetti, inaugurated in 1959.
In the 1980s the building was declared unsafe and reopened, after long restorations, in July 1993.