News From the Near Future. 30 Years of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

"The timescale of art's discourse is vast and surprisingly intense. In a single work or an entire exhibition, the future and the past converge and come toward us. The 'near future' is the verbal tense of contemporary art, the mode of attention I have dedicated over these thirty years to the research of younger generations of artists." Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Among the first contemporary art foundations established in Italy, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is now a recognized and influential presence on the international art scene. Founded by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in 1995, the Foundation has locations in Turin, Madrid, Venice, and in Guarene, nestled in the hills of the Roero region in Piedmont. This volume documents its thirty-year history of exhibitions, collaborations, productions, and cultural projects-a rich and expansive visual narrative illustrated with artworks, installations, openings, and the faces of the many artists who have exhibited in its spaces, alongside the countless personalities who have gathered there. Taking its title from a video by Fiona Tan, the book is at once a history of contemporary art from the 1990s to today and a catalogue of works, highlighting the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection-featuring artists such as Cindy Sherman, Maurizio Cattelan, Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Nan Goldin, Olafur Eliasson, Shirin Neshat, Hito Steyerl, Vanessa Beecroft, and Michael Armitage. It is a family album that chronicles a story of friendships and affections, and an atlas of art geographies, extending beyond Western boundaries. It is also a collection of essays and conversations, with contributions by Francesco Bonami, Iwona Blazwick, Mark Rappolt, and Larys Frogier, as well as reflections by the Foundation's team and collaborators over the years-such as Francesco Manacorda, Ilaria Bonacossa, Stefano Collicelli Cagol, and Lorenzo Balbi, now directors of some of Italy's most important museums.