GAM - LOTTO ZERO

  • Type Museum renovation
  • Location Turin, Italy
  • Date 2024
  • Client Fondazione Torino Musei
  • Size 3200 sqm
  • Status Completed
  • Photography Pino Dell'Aquila, Tommaso Buzzi, Giorgio Perottino
  • Team
    Andrea Veglia
    Giorgi Chachanidze, Giovanni Comoglio, Miguel Salas, Ha Trung Hieu Nguyen, Pelin Uzmez

“Undoing is just as much a democratic right as doing.” – Gordon Matta-Clark

PAT. has curated the Lotto Zero intervention, the first chapter in the renovation of GAM, Turin Modern Art Gallery, working by subtraction: aiming to free the original building from the additions that had accumulated over the years – layers of plaster, plasterboard, false ceilings, disused installations – the intervention transformed a 3,200 square metre surface, according to a circular perspective, fully embracing that “doing more with less” which is an ethical and ecological imperative

The second floor has been opened again to the public after six years: the 1990s grid ceiling has been removed, and the sloping roof and perimeter walls, the glass windows open on the garden and the city, as well as 1,200 full square metres of exhibition space are back. New arrival: the Deposito Vivente (Living Depot), a section where, by reusing the grids from the Gallery’s warehouses, works that would normally be relegated to those same warehouses are now put on display.

In the foyer, ticket office and cloakroom have been rationalised to give the space back its original breath, freeing and unplastering the pillars, bringing back to light the bush-hammered concrete seen in 1959 photos, when the newly inaugurated Gallery, designed by Carlo Bassi and Goffredo Boschetti, was a reference point for avant-garde museum architecture in Europe.