Castello di Rivoli

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IIl Castello di Rivoli, was built on the ruins of a castle of medieval exactly the eleventh century, the initial project was to Juvarra for Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy.

It was Carlo Emanuele I, 600, wanting to build in Rivoli (where he was born) a large palace, which had worked on the project Vittozzi Ascanio, but that was actually built by Charles Castellamonte, the castle but not was never completed, was built in the central part of the building, along with the lobby and grand staircase.

Other interventions, although few and inadequate, were later executed in 1793, then in the early nineteenth century the building began to become a burden for the Savoy too big, and was leased to the town of Rivoli, which later acquired the entirely.

The castle was used as accommodation for military garrisons losing for the various military occupations and the various fire most of the furniture.

It 's just that in 1978 the building finally was able to take advantage of a massive consolidation effort, mixing the original structures with structures made of modern material.

The opening was made in 1984 with the inauguration of the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Castello di Rivoli, which has 38 rooms, and every year it hosts important events and exhibitions.

represented artists

Carla Accardi      Franz Ackermann      Mario Airò      Carl Andre      Giovanni Anselmo      Marco Bagnoli      Giacomo Balla      Gabriele Basilico      Lothar Baumgarten      Domenico Bianchi      John Bock      Monica Bonvicini      Candice Breitz      Coosje van Bruggen      Daniel Buren      James Lee Byars      Pier Paolo Calzolari      Maurizio Cattelan      Alan Charlton      Sandro Chia      Francesco Clemente      Tony Cragg      Enzo Cucchi      Nicola de Maria      Wim Delvoye      Jan Dibbets      Luciano Fabro      Dan Flavin      Lucio Fontana      Günther Förg      Frank O. Gehry      Mario Giacomelli      Nan Goldin      Giorgio Griffa      Peter Halley      Rebecca Horn      Roni Horn      Anselm Kiefer      Per Kirkeby      Jeff Koons      Joseph Kosuth      Jannis Kounellis      Bertrand Lavier

Annette Lemieux      Sol LeWitt      Richard Long      Margherita Manzelli      Eva Marisaldi      Fausto Melotti      Mario Merz      Marisa Merz      Mariko Mori      Liliana Moro      Robert Morris      Matt Mullican      Bruce Nauman      Max Neuhaus      Helmut Newton      Maria Nordman      Claes Oldenburg      Tony Oursler      Mimmo Paladino      Giuseppe Penone      Vettor Pisani      Michelangelo Pistoletto      Charles Ray      Gerhard Richter      James Rosenquist      Remo Salvadori      Salvatore Scarpitta      Katharina Sieverding      Ettore Spalletti      Pia Stadtbäumer      Hannah Starkey      Haim Steinbach      Alessandra Tesi      Wolfgang Tillmans      Niele Toroni      Emilio Vedova      Jan Vercruysse      Francesco Vezzoli      Joel-Peter Witkin      Gilberto Zorio