Monday, March 18, 2024

Remember To Smile

 Just a photo of a motorcyclist with a bunny helmet.

It is Monday, it is not necessary to be blue. Remember to smile!

Location: Via Cernaia

Sunday, March 17, 2024

First Flowers 2024

First batch of flowers have blossomed. These are the ones at the giardino La Marmora, the white magnolia denudata.

Of course they are not the very first to blossom in Turin but in this garden, they are the very first ones to welcome the arrival of Spring.

Location: Giardino La marmora

Saturday, March 16, 2024

View Of Giardino La Marmora

Giardino La Marmora is a small garden located along via Cernaia, it provides a little green space among the palazzi and the traffic.

It is always a joy to walk through the garden, looking at its towering trees and the flowers arrangement on the side of the road.

Location: Giardino La Marmora

Friday, March 15, 2024

Shapinside

The ShapInside exhibition opens to the public on Monday 4 March 2024 at Palazzo Bricherasio, institutional headquarters of Banca Patrimoni Sella & C.. Rabarama sculptures.


The monographic exhibition - curated by Daniela Magnetti, Artistic Director of Banca Patrimoni Sella & C., and created in collaboration with PhilART, a company that promotes art as a driver of cultural growth and social inclusion - hosts 14 sculptures by the artist Paola Epifani, also known as Rabarama, which will be exhibited in the exedras and courtly rooms of Palazzo Bricherasio, in via Lagrange 20. 

The exhibition focuses on the concept of the dynamism of movement - understood as a retaliation for the static nature of matter, which needs to be shaped to transform itself - to offer a new vision of sculpture, the internal one, as also suggested by the title of the exhibition itself ( the neologism ShapINside which, if pronounced softly, produces an effect of sound circularity recalling the internal world of the shape). 

Location : Palazzo Bricherasio


Thursday, March 14, 2024

Pleasant Day

We are having some nice and pleasant days since Monday. The sky is clear, the temperature is warm and the smell of Spring is in the air.

 

A view at the pedestrians walk in the center of Corso siccardi.

Location: Corso Siccardi

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

She Is Waiting

She wa standing there under the arcade looking somewhat pious and a bit solemn. Maybe it was her attire, maybe it was her posture, it was rather interesting to look at. 

What was she waiting for? Perhaps, her turn to enter the pharmacy which was in front of her.

Location: Via Roma

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

The Unofficial Name of A Piazza

There are places that the people of Turin usually call by names different from those they have in reality. For example, Piazza Vittorio stands for Piazza Vittorio Veneto just as Corso Vittorio is the abbreviation of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and there is no risk of making a mistake because everyone knows these names (indeed they often don't know the official one).  
 
One of these places is Piazza Carlina, which is actually Piazza Carlo Emanuele II. Its nickname is so famous and recognized by the inhabitants of the city that a few years ago they started writing it in the maps of Turin instead of its real name.  
 


The square, which is located in the historic center of Turin not far from the Egyptian Museum, was built in 1673, during the second city expansion, designed by the architect Amedeo di Castellamonte.
The nickname, with which it was called already in 1600, was given to it by the people of Turin because it was the one with which Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy was called due to his effeminate ways.

Location : Piazza Carlina ( Piazza Carlo Emanuele II )