{"id":10935,"date":"2026-06-15T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/evento\/at-play-art-and-play-from-the-risorgimento-to-today\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:58:04","slug":"at-play-art-and-play-from-the-risorgimento-to-today","status":"publish","type":"evento","link":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/evento\/at-play-art-and-play-from-the-risorgimento-to-today\/","title":{"rendered":"At Play: Art and Play from the Risorgimento to Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edited by Ermanno Tedeschi<\/em><\/p>\n

Playing has never been simply a pastime or a recreational activity. Throughout the centuries covered by the exhibition\u2014from the Risorgimento to contemporary Italy\u2014toys have fulfilled functions that history has often overlooked: they have taught obedience and rebellion, conveyed patriotic values, and offered consolation. <\/p>\n

IN PLAY. Art and Play from the Risorgimento to Today<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span> aims to bring this complexity to the public through a journey that brings together historic and rare toys, 19th-century dolls, artifacts from criminal anthropology, animated books, puppets, photographs, and works by contemporary artists. This complexity was intuited by historian Johan Huizinga in the 1930s, when in Homo Ludens<\/em> he argued that culture is born not from reason or work, but from play, and that when it forgets this, it becomes rigid and hollow. <\/p>\n

The Turin exhibition project was born as part of Giocare a Regola d\u2019Arte, a traveling exhibition that has already visited Palermo, the MANN in Naples, the MOMUC in Mondov\u00ec, Tokyo, and Be\u2019er Sheva. In Turin, it takes on a new and more intense form: its location in the spaces of the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento allows for a new dialogue between historical heritage and contemporary life, revealing how actively games have participated in the construction of Italy’s national identity. <\/p>\n

The event poster <\/a><\/strong><\/span>is available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Museo Nazionale Risorgimento Italiano, Palazzo Carignano, Piazza Carlo Alberto 8, Torino – until October 5, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10934,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event_category":[110],"ente":[],"class_list":["post-10935","evento","type-evento","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_category-events-in-turin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evento\/10935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evento"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/evento"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=10935"},{"taxonomy":"ente","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ente?post=10935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}