The exhibition, curated by Francesco Poli , focuses on a fundamental phase for the renewal of Turin's artistic scene which opens up to international trends, becoming one of the centers of the great Informal season. In the 1950s, as throughout Europe, a new language of free subjective expressiveness was established in Italy too, which opposed the twentieth-centuryism of the previous twenty years and went beyond the heated debate between realism and geometric abstractionism of the immediate post-war period.

In 1952 the French critic Michel Tapié defined this new trend as "Informal" precisely to underline the fracture with previous art. The vehement energy of the gesture (as in American Action Painting) and the direct vitality of the pictorial material represent the main aspects of European Informel.

Turin , together with Milan, Rome and Venice, becomes one of the driving centers of contemporary art, which finds its roots in the dynamism of artistic research and exhibition activity of this period.

Over seventy are on display in the exhibition works by around fifty Italian and foreign artists .

Among the painters and sculptors active in the Turin area there are the abstractionists of the MAC (including Albino Galvano, Filippo Scroppo, Carol Rama, Paola Levi Montalcini) and the protagonists of the Informal movement such as Luigi Spazzapan, Umberto Mastroianni, Mattia Moreni, Piero Ruggeri, Sergio Saroni, Giacomo Soffiantino, Mario Merz, Pinot Gallizio and Piero Simondo.

The wide selection of international artists, who exhibited in those years in Turin, includes great artists such as Lucio Fontana, Afro, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, Jean Fautrier, Pierre Soulages, Georges Mathieu, Hans Hartung, Antoni Tapiés , Jean-Paul Riopelle, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Imaï and Onishi.