Lothar Baumgarten retrospective at Galleria Franco Noero in Turin

Galleria Franco Noero in Turin hosts a posthumous solo exhibition of Lothar Baumgarten (1944–2018), conceived by the artist before his death. The show traces his career, highlighting the continuity of his conceptual research. Central to the exhibition are three major sculptures: 'Caimán, Nariz Blanca' (1989–2010), a SAAB 900 used by the artist that contains recordings of Yãnomãmi voices and forest sounds; '[Arché]_(Ark)' (1969–2016), a wooden ark covered in red and blue macaw feathers resting on an imaginary river of branches; and 'Ascheregen' (2017), part of a series reinterpreting the Prometheus myth. The gallery walls feature photographic works and mural paintings in dialogue with the sculptures. Baumgarten's practice merges exploration, anthropology, and ethnology, often focusing on the Yãnomãmi people with whom he lived in the upper Orinoco region on the Brazil-Venezuela border in the late 1970s. The exhibition runs at Galleria Franco Noero in Turin.