Turin, Italy
September 26, 2025–February, 2026
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea presents, as part of the institution’s 40th anniversary celebrations, the series Inserzioni (Insertions), a new format which commissions contemporary artists to create works specifically for the Castello. The artists featured in the first edition of the project are Guglielmo Castelli (Turin – Italy, 1987), Lydia Ourahmane (Saïda – Algeria, 1992), and Oscar Murillo (Valle del Cauca – Colombia, 1986). Following a visit to the museum, Oscar Murillo chose Room 18 as the setting for his immersive site-specific installation, A see of history, 2025. The piece brings together 48 paintings from Murillo’s Disrupted Frequencies seriesin an expansive painted plane that invites visitors to experience the artwork from below, as though a fallen fresco suspended in time.
Comprising a tapestry of woven canvases - sourced from Murillo’s Frequencies database - the installation explores a tension between vision and vastness imagining new carved territories in a sea of layered marks. Initiated in 2013, Frequencies involved affixing blank canvases to school desks around the world and capturing the conscious and unconscious marks left by students. Conceived by the artist as analogue recording devices, these canvases serve as a fragmented register of a global cultural and social frequency. Atop these fragments, Murillo has worked in varying shades of blue, applying gestural strokes in oil paint and a wash of iridescent pigment recalling both ocean and sky—elements that at once bind and separate geographical space. In this suspended terrain, history and time become fluid, unsettled, and open to reconfiguration.
The installation will be acquired by the Museum at the end of the exhibition. Learn more at Castello di Rivoli.