Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

“Luci del teleschermo”(lights of the TV screen)- Palazzo Carignano- Turin
“Luci del teleschermo. 50 anni di televisione italiana”
(Lights of the TV screen – 50 years of Italian television)
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of RAI television
broadcasting, an exhibition “Luci del teleschermo.
50 anni di televisione italiana” dedicated to cultural,
educational and public service television was held in
Turin, native city of the television in Italy. Designed to
provoke reflection on the role played by television in the
last half century and set up in an extremely picturesque
fashion in Palazzo Carignano in the Cinema Museum
respectively by the Architects Isola and Laganà, and by
F. Confino, the initiative was edited by Peppino Ortoleva
and Gian Paolo Caprettini of Turin University and Alberto
Barbera for the National Cinema Museum. The exhibition
was supported by the Compagnia with a grant of
€ 375,000 and in addition to offering a exhibition
backdrop and “state of the art” of such an important
medium, sought to enhance a tendency for typical
innovation of the City based on advanced professional
skills, which are returning to characterise the area with a
high concentration of initiatives in the cinema and in
Information and Communication Technology.
50
Cinema and Photography
The relationship with the National Cinema Museum remains central in this field of interest and the
Compagnia supports it in its institutional activities and by extending its role as one of the city’s
fundamental resources. In fact, it is a cultural workshop committed on several fronts – from the
conservation of film collections to the promotion of selections – and also providing, in true
Compagnia custom, the feasibility study necessary for acquiring new premises for the “Cineborgo”
(cinema district). Part of the exhibition “Luci del teleschermo” (Lights from the TV screen) for the
RAI’s fiftieth anniversary took place there.
In 2004, special attention was given to cinema exhibitions, such as Turin Film Festival, Genova Film
Festival, Cinemambiente Artecinema, Valsusa Filmfest. Such exhibitions are now increasing both in
size and quality, exploiting the appeal of film to transmit complex meanings and knowledge.
In line with its growing commitment to photography both as an art form as well as witness, the
Compagnia’s attention to photographic initiatives has intensified. They offer convincing historical
substance and artistic quality, through pre-emptive action of regenerating valuable collections –
such as the Parisio Historical Archive in Naples – or theme exhibitions, such as “Infinitamente al di
là di ogni sogno – alle origini della fotografia di montagna” (infinitely beyond all wildest dreams – at
the origins of mountain photography) produced by Turin’s National Museum of the Mountains.