txt from: Turin accelerates into the future - Guardian Unlimited blogs
There was so much going on in Turin last week that the modest city felt close to cultural combustion. Art and music journalists filled hotels in anticipation of the electronica and performance extravaganza Club to Club, and Artissima - Italy's main art fair supposedly whipped into a smaller, more contemporary art focused shape by its new director Andrea Bellini. But the packed programme also looked set to shuttle us around every major museum and gallery space, via the extraordinary ruins of the Officine Grandi Riparazioni re-development, in just two days. [...]
[...]A new cultural exhibition centre will gradually emerge from the derelict Officine Grandi Riparazioni - vast industrial workshops built on a nave formation. Visiting this old monument to Turin's industrial past is curiously moving. Taking in the decaying architectural details alongside evidence of the buildings' recent rave-cultural history, you hope that as this city continues on its major building offensive, the baby isn't thrown out with bathwater.img from: Lucia Forte challenges Renzo Piano saying: "Lego" my name to Turin - by udronotto on flickr
