Monumental sculptures, artworks, installations, videos, and a carousel you can ride — all part of a journey that begins with childhood and explores universal themes.
Starting from July 22, Palazzo Reale will host the largest exhibition ever held of Valerio Berruti, an artist renowned for his poetic and deeply contemporary language, and one of the most significant and powerful voices on the international art scene.
More than kids is a moving journey that begins with childhood and touches on the great themes of existence: memory, identity, transformation.
As the title suggests, More than kids, the protagonists of Berruti's work are not simple portraits of children. They are collective symbols, archetypes of a shared human condition. In his vision, childhood is not just a memory — it is a space of possibilities, of empathy, of a future yet to be written.
A journey through art, dreams, and participation
Amid frescoes, videos, monumental sculptures, and walk-through installations, visitors are invited to create their own personal path — one made of glances, gestures, and still-open possibilities. Berruti’s “children,” suspended in time, are metaphors for a humanity that is both fragile and powerful, and that speaks to us all.
As curator Nicolas Ballario explains, “his works are essential, powerful, because they reveal the pure gaze of children, capable of reading the world with authenticity and without preconceptions.”
Out of your own, 2017, Sixteen frescoes on jute, 220x90 cm each, Courtesy: the artist. Image credit: Mario Pellegrino
At the heart of the exhibition is La giostra di Nina, a full-scale carousel sculpture — which visitors can ride — accompanied by an original soundtrack by Ludovico Einaudi. This work brings together play and poetry, lightness and physical strength, and has already moved audiences at MAXXI, the Reggia di Venaria, and the Church of San Domenico in Alba.
Among the new features debuting in this exhibition:
- Don’t let me be wrong, a monumental installation in the courtyard of Palazzo Reale, with music by Daddy G of Massive Attack and Stew Jackson, accompanied by a short film created with 800 sequential drawings.
- The video animations Lilith (music by Rodrigo D’Erasmo) and Cercare silenzio (with Samuel of Subsonica).
- Works addressing urgent issues such as climate change, as in the case of Nel silenzio, depicting three young girls lying on scorched earth, seemingly waiting for salvation.
“La giostra di Nina”, Church of San Domenico in Alba, International White Truffle Fair, 2018. Image credit: Tino Gerbaldo
Valerio Berruti
Born in Alba in 1977, Valerio Berruti participated in the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, presenting a video made of 600 frescoed drawings with music by Paolo Conte.
In 2011, his video Kizuna, exhibited at the Pola Museum in Tokyo with a soundtrack specially composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, became a charitable project to aid Japan's reconstruction after the devastating earthquake.
The following year, he won the international Luci d’artista award in Turin and created a permanent land art piece at the Nirox Foundation in Johannesburg. In 2018, he began work on the animated short film La giostra di Nina, co-produced by Sky Arte with a soundtrack by Ludovico Einaudi.
The full-scale carousel was exhibited in autumn 2018 at the Church of San Domenico in Alba, and later at MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts and the Reggia di Venaria.
In 2022, his monumental work Alba, a bronzed stainless-steel sculpture over 12 meters high, was inaugurated. It was donated by the Ferrero family to the City of Alba and placed in the central Michele Ferrero Square, named after the local entrepreneur.
In May 2024, he opened Circulating sketch, a solo exhibition in China at the prestigious Teagan Space in YouyiBay, Beijing.
Courtesy: l'artista
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