La photograph of Francesco Cito, Lucia Covi, Michele Miorelli e Stefano Isidoro Radoani together with the drawings of Antonio Stagnoli and to the sculpture of Ciro Roberto Cipollone will be on display from Sunday 22 December 2013 to Sunday 2 February 2014 in the ancient church of San Barnaba in Bondo (Tn), for the cultural event "The man and the mountain. Excursions in the contemporary".
The cultural project is curated by the journalist and photography critic John Pelloso need Mario Zanetti, creator of the event and animator of the Zanetti Art Studio di Bagolino (Bs) – forge of ideas and projects dedicated to the enhancement of the territory and its culture – exhibition space where a selection of the works of the artists involved will be exhibited for the entire duration of the event.
"The man and the mountain. Excursions in the contemporary" is part of a cultural project aimed at discovering art and culture as a means of interaction between territories and communities, conceived with the aim of supporting the profound and concrete rediscovery of the Alpine territory, an increasingly current trend that Studio d'Arte Zanetti interprets cultural artistic paths of international scope, designed for the enhancement and promotion of the local area.
The protagonist of the exhibition, which opens on Saturday 21 December at 17.30 pm in the ancient church of San Barnaba in Bondo, is the mountain, with its valleys, streams and waterfalls, paths, rural units and villages. The cultural event traces a path of rediscovery of the Alpine identity, understood as man's adaptation to the mountain and link between the territory and the communities that have lived there for millennia.
As Giovanni Pelloso points out “the authors on display offer a time for vision and reflection”. The photojournalist Francis Cito in his shots taken in the Trentino Dolomites he “focuses” – as Pelloso explains – “on man, bearing witness to the action of the consumer, more or less aware, of the alp. The black and white of the photograph allows us to distinguish some presences: they are the silhouettes of men and women who furrow the hard earth, but they are also the evident and threatening traces of the exploitation of resources and of the wounds inflicted on a complex and fragile ecosystem". Lucia Covi instead, with his works, he captures fragments of nature, the shape and color of matter, themes dear to his artistic research: here are therefore details of trees and streams, expanses of snow and solitary barns in which "a sublime silence" seems to reign ”.
The other photographic works in the exhibition also investigate the relationship between man and the mountains, each time choosing a different point of view: Michael Miorelli analyzes the current dialogue with nature and the relationship between the environment and its inhabitants, through images of ancient crafts and traditions with the aim of "understanding how much the new millennium still contemplates a culture of dialogue with nature, in the belief that this relationship, for the very survival of man, cannot be resolved in separation, in isolation, in the experience of aggression and domination“.
To the open spaces, to the infinite expanses, between ridges and screes, look with the eye of the cartographer Stefano Isidoro Radoani”, Pelloso explains. The work of the Trentino photographer becomes a story in images, which descends from the mountain ranges to the valleys. “In him resides the desire to explore and document the overall territory, to select and classify, to offer an opportunity for knowledge, to translate the essential and to highlight quality and quantity in photographic form, the relationships of the investigated reality, the memory of a present today more fragile than ever” analyzes the critic. In severe faces and hands marked by fatigue drawn by Antonio Stagnoli, 91-year-old master dean of Brescian artists, we read the effort and tenacity of a people of workers who have always struggled to sweeten the mountainous, impervious and tiring territory.
Ciro Cipollone, with his sculptures created using recycled materials, focuses on the values of the reuse of materials dear to peasant civilization, which is characterized by conservation, safeguarding and the search for balance between human activity and environmental protection.
For the entire duration of the event, thematic meetings, concerts and presentations will take place which will involve the local public and the tourists who will be spending the Christmas holidays in the area (see program attached).
