Curated by Francesco Bonami

Turin has more museums of contemporary art than any other Italian city, and now it can add another feather to its civic cap. “Exit,” the debut exhibition in the circa 38,000-square-foot building, is a sprawling survey of young comers in a variety of cultural pursuits in Italy. Organized by artistic director Francesco Bonami, the show focuses on the visual arts—with sixty-two participants, most of whom have yet to receive much international exposure—while other disciplines (video, cinema, animation, design, and music) are examined in the catalogue.

— Marco Meneguzzo

Curated by Ida Gianelli

In the early ’80s, with a new interest in things non–New York School, the Transavanguardia—critic Achille Bonito Oliva’s catchall word for the return to figurative painting—was a big deal. Francesco Clemente’s portable frescoes, Sandro Chia’s great Palio restaurant murals, and Enzo Cucchi’s weird, elongated anatomical drawings were the ones to beat in the go-get-’em atmosphere of the moment. This show, curated by Ida Gianelli, backed by advisers Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, David Ross, Nicholas Serota, and Rudi H. Fuchs (who heavily promoted the three C’s), looks at the period 1979–85 with more historical detachment. Nicola de Maria, always more abstract, and Mimmo Paladino, always more folksy, may turn out to be the dark-horse winners among the original Transavanguardia crew.

— Brooks Adams