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Description - Pantagruel Syndrome: T1 Turin Trienni by Francesco Et Bonami

This is a catalogue of the first edition of the triennial exhibition of contemporary art in Turin, organised in collaboration with the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, and the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation. The title of the catalogue takes its inspiration from the French writer Francois Rabelais' character Pantagruel, the grotesque protagonist at the limits of absurdity. A creature of gigantic proportion and voracious appetities, Pantagruel was an ideal hero for a civilization in transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, who rediscovered the empirical world through the direct experience of his adventures. Here Pantagruel works as a metaphor for contemporary society characterized by a tension toward change and a healthy desire for knowledge, on the one hand, and fragility and fear, on the other.
Featuring works by 75 young artists, as well as an in-depth section which pays homage to two mid-career artists - Takashi Murakami and Doris Salcedo - the volume explores this "syndrome" through paintings, sculpture, photography, installation, video, performance, sound projects and collective and anonymous projects by artists from around the world who explore the excess of our Pantagruelic universe.

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