The Visible City. Torino 1988-2012 >>, the changing metropolis stage front
| The International Book Fair was founded twenty five years ago. Perhaps never as in this last quarter century has Torino been the protagonist of epoch-making metamorphosis, extraordinary in all fields. The economic and production identity, the social fabric, the ethnic composition, image and grand events, the forms of socialisation, the recovery of places and urban spaces, creativity and the rediscovery of new and old vocations such as art, cinema, entertainment and tourism. And the very label that Torino has always accepted and adopted willingly – that of the "city-laboratory" – appears too banal and worn to not be worth re-assessing.
To tell the story of these twenty five years in a lively and unconventional fashion, and at the same time give a glimpse of the metropolis that will come, the International Book Fair and the Circolo dei lettori have joined their forces and created the project for La Città Visibile, the Visible City. Torino 1988-2012 >>, in the sense of fast forward. The Visible City is a cycle of seven entertainment meetings at 9 p.m. in the rooms of the Circolo in Palazzo Graneri, two Fridays a month from February to April 2012. A true path to approach the 25th Fair. This is the calendar of events: 10 February 2012, Venticinque anni di Salone del Libro; 24 February 2012, Society; 9 March 2012, Cinema / Theatre; 16 March 2012, Music; 23 March 2012, Contemporary Art; 13 April 2012, Architecture/ Town Planning/ Cultural Heritage; 20 April 2012, Writing. Each meeting will bring together key figures of change: witnesses and emerging talents, protagonists and observers, creative and critical thinkers, in a free exchange of ideas enlivened by the direction of Marco Ponti. The last appointment dedicated to writing will be a reading/happening with a large number of Turin authors in which each one will offer an original page or will read a piece already published, paying attention to changes in the city, with a special eye on the literary panorama: the International Book Fair, the Scuola Holden, the Circolo dei lettori, foreign writers in Torino, and mutant writing... This road map will culminate at the Fair with an exhibition, in the pavilions of Lingotto Fiere, of the twenty five symbolic objects of change: the twenty five possible icons of Turin of the past quarter of a century, chosen and curated by Luca Beatrice, and with a focus dedicated to those who see us from outside: Turin seen through the eyes of others. |
