NEWS FROM THE NEAR FUTURE

NEWS FROM THE NEAR FUTURE
30 years of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Allemandi
English
2025

“The times of art’s discourse are expansive and surprisingly intense. In a single work or in an entire exhibition, the future and the past concentrate and come toward us. The “near future” is the verbal form of contemporary art, the form of attention that over these thirty years I have dedicated to the research of younger artistic generations would be replaced with: The title of this book evokes the idea of the near future, a dimension that often recurs in the works and discourses of contemporary art and that, moreover, also evokes the momentum and the attitude of exploration and inquiry required of those who, like me, work with new artistic generations.”
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Among the first contemporary art foundations established in Italy, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is now a recognized and influential presence on the international art scene. Founded by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in 1995, the Foundation has locations in Turin, Madrid, Venice, and in Guarene, nestled in the hills of the Roero region in Piedmont. This volume documents its thirty-year history of exhibitions, collaborations, productions, and cultural projects—a rich and expansive visual narrative illustrated with artworks, installations, openings, and the faces of the many artists who have exhibited in its spaces, alongside the countless personalities who have gathered there. Taking its title from a video by Fiona Tan, the book is at once a history of contemporary art from the 1990s to today and a catalogue of works, highlighting the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection—featuring artists such as Cindy Sherman, Maurizio Cattelan, Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Nan Goldin, Olafur Eliasson, Shirin Neshat, Hito Steyerl, Vanessa Beecroft, and Michael Armitage. It is a family album that chronicles a story of friendships and affections, and an atlas of art geographies, extending beyond Western boundaries. It is also a collection of essays and conversations, with contributions by Francesco Bonami, Iwona Blazwick, Mark Rappolt, and Larys Frogier, as well as reflections by the Foundation’s team and collaborators over the years—such as Francesco Manacorda, Ilaria Bonacossa, Stefano Collicelli Cagol, and Lorenzo Balbi, now directors of some of Italy’s most important museums.