Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art

GAM
Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Torino
Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art is located in Turin
Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Location within Turin
Established1895
Location31 via Magenta, Turin, Italy
TypeArt museum
CollectionsModern and contemporary art
DirectorRiccardo Passoni
ArchitectCarlo Bassi e Goffredo Boschetti
Websitewww.gamtorino.it/it

The Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Italian - Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Torino or GAM Torino) is an art gallery in Turin, Italy, founded in 1891-1895 and located in 31 via Magenta. With the MAO (Museo d'arte orientale), Palazzo Madama e Casaforte degli Acaja (Museo civico d'arte antica), the Borgo and the Rocca medioevali, it forms part of the Fondazione Torino Musei. The lower rooms house important reviews and a large collection of video art.

It houses the city's permanent collections of 19th and 20th century art, which consist of over 47,000 paintings, sculptures, art installations and pieces of video art.[1] Artists represented include Antonio Canova, Giovanni Fattori, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Antonio Mancini, Giacomo Balla, Paul Klee, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Nino Franchina and Domenico Valinotti.

  1. ^ "Nuovi percorsi delle collezioni GAM - Infinito, Velocità, Etica, Natura" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2014-02-27.