Mount Rosa between photography and science: an exhibition at the Fortress of Bard with unpublished photos

At the Fortress of Bard, the photographic exhibition L’Adieu des glaciers is on view until January 6, 2021. Monte Rosa: photographic and scientific research, a journey to discover the glaciers of some of the best-known peaks in the Alps and the changes taking place in terms of climate. But that’s not all: it is in fact an exhibition that combines photography, scientific research and art, in an iconographic dialogue between past and present. All this is L’Adieu des glaciers, a four-year project that, in 2020, starts from the Italian glaciers of Monte Rosa.

The photographic aspects of the exhibition, set up in the fortress’s Cannonworks, are curated by Enrico Peyrot, a photographer and historical-photographic researcher, and the scientific aspects by Michele Freppaz, a professor in the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences at the University of Turin. The glacial identity of Monte Rosa is presented through a corpus of one hundred unpublished photographs depicting natural and man-made environments, historical and cultural contexts and associations, and scientific enterprises. The project makes use of works by authoritative authors and selected photographs taken over the past 150 years and offers an opportunity to appreciate the material-photographic quality of both historical and contemporary prints, the result of specific procedures, instrumentation, and materials put in place in the high valleys that spring from Monte Rosa.

The contribution of the scientific content was conducted in collaboration with the Italian Glaciological Committee, the Cabina di Regia Regia dei Ghiacciai Valdostani, the Fondazione Montagna Sicura, Arpa Valle d’Aosta, the Scientific and Technological Archives of the University of Turin (Astut), the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences (Disafa) of theUniversity of Turin, the Interdepartmental Center on Natural Hazards in the Mountain and Hill Environment, the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Turin, and with Professor Marco Giardino, secretary general of the Italian Glaciological Committee, and Professor Piergiorgio Montarolo, director of theAngelo Mosso Scientific Institute. The Centro Addestramento Alpino also collaborated.

The exhibition enjoys the Patronage of Mountain Partnership.

For all information you can visit the official website of the Fortress of Bard.

Mount Rosa between photography and science: an exhibition at the Fortress of Bard with unpublished photos

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