Officine Grandi Riparazioni of Turin present a personal exhibition of the artist Tino Sehgal (London, 1976), the first of a series of individual exhibitions which will occupy the Track 1 of the North Workshops of the building.from 2 February to 17 March.
For the large spaces of OGR Sehgal – already Leone d'Oro at the Venice Biennale 2013, returning for the first time to Italy with a personal project after having created the exhibition in 2008 with the Nicola Trussardi Foundation and having represented Germany at the Venice Biennale in 2005 – he has created a complex choreography that will see the participation of fifty performers, conceived as a single large movement in continuous mutation during the course of the week.
From what Sehgal defines as a "swarm" of bodiesIndeed, a series of specific “situations” will originate from a choreography that presents movements specifically designed for this occasion. In this presentation, the individual works of the artist – considered as discrete entities that can be separated from each other and from the process of their production – will become scenes or moments, elements that temporarily take shape in a game of encounters that responds to specific circumstances: the number of viewers, their way of interacting, or the time of day when these meetings will take place.
Tino Sehgal is unanimously recognized as one of the most important artists of his generation. His training, which combines dance studies (Essen) and economic sciences (Berlin) is deeply reflected in his research. Criticizing the model based on the transformation of raw materials into consumer goods, Sehgal sees languages such as dance and music as alternative paradigms to current production models. The movement of the human body and singing here become the only expressive materials of a practice that does not produce any object remains. Through these "immaterial" forms and avoiding documenting his works, the artist conveys a profound reflection on the production and distribution of consumer goods.
The OGRs also feature Transnatural shop, a new space dedicated to books, objects and editions, designed by the Catalan designer Martí Guixé, which completes the services to the public of Officine Grandi Riparazioni. Not just a simple bookshop but – as already happened with SNODO for the restaurant area – a concept space to complete the experience of the Officine Grandi Riparazioni: “a place for the spirit, even if populated by physical matter, where books and objects are celebrated as a means of transmitting intangible values, knowledge and culture – explains Guixé -. An enclosed space where the individual is free; a calm and solid room whose volumes are reminiscent of stones and whose light is designed to relate the interior and exterior of the building”
