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videogame art and beyond

From 22 July to 15 January 2023

Palace of Venaria

Palace of Venaria

Piazza della Repubblica, 4, Venaria Reale

Closed now: open at 09:30

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La Venaria Reale is organizing a major exhibition that investigates video games as a "tenth form of art" practiced by 3 billion people around the world, recognizing the profound impacts on contemporary society of a creative sector still often perceived as a world of playful and mere escapism. hobby. But is it really so?

Video games represent a creative outpost where ideas and visions are born, a meta form of art in which architecture, painting, sculpture, music, performing arts, poetry, cinema, comics coexist, giving life to layered collective worlds.


Along the twelve rooms of the Sale delle Arti exhibition path, the digital canvases of the great masters of video games enter into dialogue with famous masterpieces of the past and present, inviting us to reflect on the new aesthetics, cultures, languages, politics and economies of the 21st century.

For the first time in the world it will be possible to admire the influences of the great masters of the past - such as De Chirico, Hokusai, Calder, Dorè, Savinio, Piranesi, Kandinsky, Warhol but also Hellenistic vases of the sixth century. BC - on the aesthetics of video games such as Ico, Monument Valley, Rez Infinite, Okami, Apotheon.


The convergence between static image, moving image and interactive image is at the center of the PlayArt space that leads the visitor to relate to living artists such as Bill Viola, Banksy, Invaders, Cao Fai, Jago, Tabor Robak, the AES + F collective, Federico Clapis, who drew on the language of the (video) game to give life to some of their material and digital works.

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Piazza della Repubblica, 4, Venaria Reale, Italy

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Opening hours

opens - closes last entry
monday Closed now
tuesday 09:30 - 17:00
wednesday 09:30 - 17:00
thursday 09:30 - 17:00
friday 09:30 - 17:00
saturday 09:30 - 18:30
sunday 09:30 - 18:30

The Reggia di Venaria is temporarily closed until 11 March 2023

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