page_title: Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art / History
caption_attribution_description: Servizio fotografico&#160;: Torino, 1959 / Paolo Monti. - Stampe: 4&#160;: Positivo b/n, gelatina bromuro d'argento/ carta, 24x30. - ((Al verso delle stampe manoscritti i numeri dei negativi corrispondenti secondo altra numerazione progressiva con cui sono state numerate le buste contenenti i negativi?: 2, 7, 12, 21.; iscrizione didascalica manoscritta a matita; timbro a inchiostro con copyright: "© Copyright/ Credit to/ Paolo Monti/ Corso Sempione [...]/ Milano". - Sul coperchio della scatola iscrizione didascalica manoscritta a pennarello nero: "Archit. Moderna/ Musei". - Il nuovo edificio della Gam venne inaugurato nel 1959. - Occasione: Documentazione per le pubblicazioni: "Zodiac", Milano, Edizioni di Comunità, 1960 ca. - Occasione: Santini Pier Carlo, "La galleria d'Arte Moderna di Torino", pagg.66-79, in "Comunità", Milano, anno XIV, n°76, gennaio 1960. - Fonte: Rubrica di Paolo Monti: Archivio 10x12 (ultimi numerati) - dal G1 al (s.d.), presso Archivio Paolo Monti. - Fonte: Periodico: Zodiac, Milano, Edizioni di Comunità (1960). - Fonte: Periodico di Santini, Pier Carlo: La galleria d'Arte Moderna di Torino, pagg.66-79, in Comunità, Milano, anno XIV, n°76, gennaio 1960 (1960/01). Foto di Paolo Monti e altri
context_page_description: The Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art is an art gallery in Turin, Italy, founded in 1891-1895 and sited at 31 via Magenta 31. With the MAO, Palazzo Madama e Casaforte degli Acaja, the Borgo and the Rocca medioevali, it forms part of the Fondazione Torino Musei. The lower rooms house important reviews and a large collection of video art.
  It houses the city's permanent collections of 19th and 20th century art, which consist of over 47,000 paintings, sculptures, art installations and pieces of video art. Artists represented include Antonio Canova, Giovanni Fattori, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Antonio Mancini, Giacomo Balla, Paul Klee, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Giorgio De Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Nino Franchina and Domenico Valinotti.
context_section_description: The city's collection of modern art began with the founding of the Museo Civico in 1863, making it the first city in Italy to promote a modern art collection. It was housed with the earlier works in a building near the Mole Antonelliana, before being exhibited in a pavilion on corso Siccardi (now corso Galileo Ferraris) from 1895 until that building's destruction by Allied bombing in 1942.
  A new building by Carlo Bassi and Goffredo Boschetti was built on the same site and opened in 1959. The modern art collection was housed on two floors of the new building at the request of director Vittorio Viale. In the 1980s the palazzo was declared unfit for use and only reopened in July 1993 after a long restoration programme. In 2009 the collection was reorganised thematically (Views, Genres, Childhood and Mirroring) rather than chronologically. It was reorganised again around the themes Infinity, Speed, Ethics and Nature in 2013 to mark the collection's 150th anniversary.
caption: Photo by Paolo Monti, 1959.
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