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Come una falena alla fiamma, Like a Moth to a Flameis the title of the great exhibition project realised together by OGR Torino and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, which opens next 3 November at the premises of the two cultural institutes of Turin. Come una falena alla fiamma is an ambitious project, signed by three outstanding international curators, for the first time called to work together and interact with Turin and its important artistic heritage: Tom Eccles, director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at the Bard College of New York, Mark Rappolt, chief editor of the British magazine Art Review, and the artist Liam Gillick.

The exhibition aims at providing a portrait of Turin through the objects that the town and its residents have collected. Come una falena alla fiamma develops as a path through the Collection of Fondazione per l’arte moderna e contemporanea CRT and the Collection of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, interacting with a number of exhibits coming from some of the town’s most important public museums like the Egyptian Museum, Palazzo Madama- Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, MAO – Museum of Oriental Art, GAM – Modern and Contemporary Civic Art Gallery and Castello di Rivoli - Contemporary Art Museum, for the occasion all displayed at Officine Grandi Riparazioni and at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, blending contemporary art works and exhibits from past centuries.

The intersection of different languages will continue in the venues of some of the partner museums: Museo Egizio and Palazzo Madama will become exceptional exhibition spaces for some contemporary artworks. The ensemble of the displays testifies Art’s capacity to continuously renovate ideas and generate new proposals. And with ideas of rebirth and renewal in mind, the exhibition exploits the coincidence of a birth and two anniversaries: the OGR inauguration, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the collection of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and the sixtieth anniversary of the Situationist International, which was founded after a gathering in Alba, not far from Turin. With over 70 works of contemporary art and hundreds of artefacts coming from many collections of Turin, Come una falena alla fiamma provides a reflection over the importance of private bugs and individual obsessions and on the way in which, over time, these find their way into society, becoming part of the town’s cultural life.

The displays are arranged as a journey through space – with works and objects made in the five continents – and time – from Egyptian sculptures of the second millennium b.c., like the huge head of the Pharaoh Tuthmose, a Bible from Bologna of 1280, the II century b.c. funerary statue of a Chinese dame and some installations realised in the last year. Yet, as all the works are part of collections kept in Turin and its surroundings, the impression is that, in spite of its breadth, the journey ends where it began, and that the visitors, like the objects, have always been there.