Vertigo: an exhibition on mountains read by 21 contemporary artists in Domodossola

Until Sept. 5, Casa De Rodis in Domodossola is hosting the exhibition Vertigo. Contemporary Visions of the Mountain, curated by Giorgio Caione, a group exhibition to reveal some aspects of contemporary artistic research around mountains through painting, sculpture, photography, video and installations.

The theme is declined in the light of the most recent artistic production, thanks to the works of 21 contemporary artists who analyze, through different media, the multiple aspects related to the imaginary of the mountain. The “vertigo” of the title then refers to man suspended in nature between two infinities of Pascalian memory: ranging from the infinitely large of Alpine peaks to the infinitely small of snow crystals. Two extremes, two opposite and complementary abysses that make us lose our references with the scale of our space. In the exhibition, the public will find works by Fabrizio Albertini, Salvatore Astore, Joseph Beuys, Enrica Borghi, Marta Dell’Angelo and Gohar Martirosyan, Frenzy, Daniele Galliano, Simone Geraci, Daniele Giunta, Marcovinicio, Irene Pessino, Federico Piccari, Laura Pugno, Pierluigi Pusole, Franco Rasma, Turi Rapisarda, Giovanni Rizzoli, Luigi Stoisa, Gosia Turzeniecka, and Velasco Vitali.

The exhibition begins with a tribute to German master Joseph Beuys on the centenary of his birth: a small drawing of him and the original poster of The Revolution is Us, but also two photographs by Turi Rapisarda where Beuys plants a tree in the small village of Bolognano, in the Abruzzo Apennines. The German artist, in search of a more intimate and visceral relationship with nature (and with the mountains), finds there a spiritual and vital tension that guides human beings on a different, more authentic path, far from the one that capitalist development is outlining. A restart from self, a rush that is found in the plurality of gazes of the works of the artists in the exhibition.

The exhibition is free admission and is accompanied by a catalog that includes a text by Michele Bonuomo, an art historian and journalist who, in his long and important career, also knew Beuys, the starting point of this mountain journey. Two free guided tours with the curator are scheduled for Thursday, July 22, and Saturday, August 7, at 6 p.m. (reservations are required).

Vertigo is an exhibition by Collezione Poscio in collaboration with Associazione Asilo Bianco and is part of the Carnet de Voyage project funded by Compagnia di San Paolo as a major supporter and by Fondazione Comunitaria del VCO.

Pictured: Velasco Vitali, Val Darengo (2021, oil on canvas).

Vertigo: an exhibition on mountains read by 21 contemporary artists in Domodossola

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