Nights

From the seventeenth-century research of Galileo and Maria Clara Eimmart to the works of Johann Carl Loth, Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, and Antonio Canova, and through the nocturnes of artists such as Victor Hugo, Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, and Joseph Cornell, to the contemporary cosmic visions of Vija Celmins and Thomas Ruff, this volume brings together over one hundred works from prestigious European institutions and the collections of GAM.

Produced to accompany the exhibition held at GAM Torino from October 2025 to March 2026 - curated by Fabio Cafagna and Elena Volpato - Nights. Five Centuries of Stars, Dreams, Plenilunes explores the night as a space for technical experimentation, scientific inquiry, and poetic introspection, from the early 17th century to the present day. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the allure of the nocturnal as a realm of ambiguity, mystery, and discovery, in a continuous dialogue between rationality and emotion, science and visionary imagination.