John Torreano

Published on the occasion of the first retrospective exhibition of the American artist John Torreano at the Museo Ettore Fico in Turin, this catalogue traces the beginning of Torreano’s artistic career, which took shape between the late 1950s and early 1960s within a post-war context marked by intense cultural ferment across the Western world and the emergence of major social and economic transformations. The steady growth of the American gross domestic product during those years, the Cold War and the Vietnam War, the rise of consumerism alongside new forms of prosperity, as well as the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. and the political legacy of John F. Kennedy, form the historical backdrop against which the artist developed his personal artistic vision.

The catalogue includes texts by Andrea Busto and Terrie Sultan, offering an overview of the history and career of the American artist John Torreano (b. 1941).