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Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 15 March to 19 November
Over eight rooms, each dedicated to either one specific war or a cluster of conflicts, 'Artists in a Time of War' brings together 140 works by 30 artists responding to a war they have lived through. Obviously there has never been a time when artists were not responding to war, and curators Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marianna Vecellio rightly do not offer a grand theory of war and its causes. Instead, the focus remains on two current wars: Russia's depraved invasion of Ukraine and the aftermath of the failed 'war on terror' in Afghanistan.
The walls of each gallery are painted in a different colour, for example a dark grey covers the room featuring works by Fabio Mauri that reference the local tragedy of the bombing of Turin. Contrastingly, two rooms feature a wan pale yellow that obliquely suggests a link between the Napoleonic invasion of Spain (featuring works by Francisco Goya), the Second World War (Anton Zoran Mušič, Lee Miller, Alberto Burri), the Spanish Civil War (Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí) and the Six Day War (Bracha L Ettinger). A room featuring Dinh Q Le's installation Light and Belief: Voices and Sketches of Life from the Vietnam War, 2012, is painted orange to remind us of the US Air Force's use of the cancerous...