Lligmas
The family, the primary nucleus of the structure of society, is a realistic expression of the social changes under way. The word lligams – bonds of endearment, love – refers to the ties that keep people together. If the national laws prove to be short-sighted before social transformations, photography genuinely reflects rituals and mechanisms. In these portraits of the families of a new generation, what emerges is the multifaceted nature of its transformation.
Curated by Fondazione Alghero Progetto Atelier# - Nuove Narrazioni Contemporanee
Texts: Conversation between Sonia Borsato and Gianpaolo Arena/Sonia Borsato/Nicolas Martino
La famiglia, nucleo primario della struttura sociale, è un’espressione realistica dei cambiamenti sociali in atto. Il termine lligams – legame d’affetto, amore – fa riferimento ai legami che tengono unite le persone. Se le leggi di stato si dimostrano miopi davanti alle trasformazioni sociali, la fotografia si interroga autenticamente su riti e meccanismi. In questi ritratti di famiglie di nuova generazione, emerge il carattere plurale delle sue metamorfosi.
A cura di Fondazione Alghero Progetto Atelier# - Nuove Narrazioni Contemporanee
Testi: Conversazione con Sonia Borsato e Gianpaolo Arena/Sonia Borsato/Nicolas Martino
CALAMITA/À. An investigation into the Vajont catastrophe
On the night of 9 October 1963, 270 million cubic metres of rock, earth and detritus detached from the slopes of Monte Toc to which they had been clinging since prehistoric times. A gigantic landslide, over two kilometres long and one of the most destructive in human history, fell into the lake formed by the damming of the Vajont River. The water exceeded the safety limit of the reservoir, sweeping away the surrounding towns and villages: an enormous wave of 60 million cubic metres of water and mud overtopped the dam and poured onto the valley floor. According to the estimates in the expert’s reports submitted in the court proceedings the energy of the shockwave produced by the blast and by the abnormal mass of water channelled into the valley of the Piave was equivalent to two atomic bombs of the kind dropped on Hiroshima, or around 40 kilotons of TNT. The dam, completed in 1959 and at the time the tallest in the world, suffered no major damage. The valley of the Piave was transformed into a dismal lunar landscape, an immense mass of mud and debris. Nothing and no one was able to resist the fury of the catastrophe. The power of the blast and the flooding destroyed numerous villages, killing around two thousand people.
CALAMITA/À involved more than fifty authors and researchers asking them to reflect on the topics of the representation of the catastrophe. This happened with site specific projects and by promoting critical thinking on issues such as: the transformation of the landscape, the exploitation of energy resources, the relationship between man, nature and power, the social marginalization of minorities and individual and collective identity.
The project is possible thanks to the support of Provincia di Treviso and with the collaboration of FAST – Foto Archivio Storico Trevigiano della Provincia / The project is supported by Strategia Fotografia 2023, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
ARTISTS
Céline Clanet
François Deladerriere
Petra Stavast
Jan Stradtmann
Gianpaolo Arena
Marina Caneve
ESSAYS by
Olga Smith
Alessandra Prandin
Marcelline Delbecq
Perrine Lamy-Quique
Roberta Agnese
Eugénie Shinkle
Gianpaolo Arena and Marina Caneve
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A Folktale from Vietnam: Speeding Motorcycles and Roasted Lemongrass
A Folktale From Vietnam: Speeding Motorcycles and Roasted Lemongrass is the result of eight years of research and the production of a series of photographs taken in 2013, 2015 and 2018 during Gianpaolo Arena’s travels through Vietnam. Both the photographs and the essays examine the complex bond between landscape and human civilization. In this sprawling sequence of urban growth, places and portraits we find continual antitheses of periods and customs that sometimes clash, at others meld. This project captures fragments of different rituals and ways of life of the contemporary Vietnamese society. The author offer a glimpse of Vietnam’s present and future cities between time and decay, culture and capitalism, folklore and propaganda.
“A FOLKTALE FROM VIETNAM: Speeding Motorcycles and Roasted Lemongrass” è il risultato di 8 anni di ricerca e la produzione di una serie di fotografie realizzate in Vietnam nel 2013, 2015 e 2018. Sia le fotografie che i saggi esaminano il complesso legame tra paesaggio e civilizzazione. In questa sequenza ramificata di espansione urbana, luoghi e ritratti possiamo incontrare la compresenza di periodi e culture che a volte si scontrano, a volte si mescolano tra loro. Questo progetto cattura frammenti di rituali e di modi di vivere diversi della società vietnamita contemporanea. Il mio sguardo si sofferma sul presente e sul futuro delle città, tra memoria e decadenza, cultura e capitalismo, folklore e propaganda.
The Valley Between Peaks and Stars
Osservatorio Cortina 2021 is an artistic research project in which the territory and the events planned for the 2021 Alpine Ski World Championship in Cortina were examined through photography. In their artistic research, which took three years, two artists, Gianpaolo Arena and Marina Caneve, documented the key moments in the construction of the sports event, while at the same time observing the territory and its history with an open, inquisitive, and exploratory attitude, seeking links between sports and the territory. Cortina’s shared imaginary often reproduces iconic expectations that support the wishes of its visitors, rather than offering new keys to interpretation for its territory and society. Can this approach be offset by offering renewed attention to a landscape that has become a sort of crystallized icon within an image?
This study involved the work of the creative agency Vulcano that supported the project from the start. Its intention was to trigger a new process of cross-pollination, aimed at developing a more complete gaze over Cortina and its territory, through contemporary photography.
Giulia Ticozzi in conversation with Gianpaolo Arena and Marina Caneve
The Valley between Peaks and Stars
Archive: Endless Portrayal | Winter | Summer | Infrastructures | Lifts | Champions
Essays: Benedetta Cestelli Guidi, The Image and the Mountain: The Long Duration of a Possible Abstraction | Francesco Bergamo, Mountain Song | Stefano Munarin, Searching for the landscape that we’d like to be | Antonio De Rossi, The Road in the Dolomites. The Quintessence of Alpine Modernity | Davide Maffei, The Legacy of Edoardo Gellner’s Thinking | Giovanni La Varra, The Upcoming Future. Archipelago Cortina | Fondazione Cortina 2021: Dialogue with Valerio Giacobbi, Marco Follador / Nicola Menardi, Susanna Sieff
Osservatorio Cortina 2021 è un progetto di ricerca artistica in cui, attraverso l’uso della fotografia, sono stati investigati il territorio e l’arco temporale ove sono andati costituendosi i Campionati del mondo di sci alpino di Cortina 2021. Nella ricerca artistica, durata tre anni, due autori, Gianpaolo Arena e Marina Caneve, da un lato hanno documentato i momenti chiave della costruzione dell’evento sportivo, dall’altro hanno guardato al territorio e alla sua storia con un atteggiamento aperto, curioso ed esplorativo, ricercando le tracce del legame tra sport e territorio. Di Cortina, l’immaginario comune riproduce spesso aspettative iconiche che assecondano i desideri dei visitatori, piuttosto che fornire nuove chiavi di lettura del territorio e della società. È possibile contrastare questo atteggiamento prestando una rinnovata attenzione a un paesaggio che è quasi diventato un’icona cristallizzata all’interno di un’immagine? Questa indagine ha visto il coinvolgimento dell’agenzia creativa Vulcano che ha sostenuto fin da subito il progetto con l’intenzione di innescare un nuovo processo di contaminazione, finalizzato a sviluppare uno sguardo più completo su Cortina e sul suo territorio, attraverso la fotografia contemporanea.
Giulia Ticozzi in conversazione con Gianpaolo Arena e Marina Caneve
La Valle tra le Cime e le Stelle
Archivio: Infinite rappresentazioni | Inverno | Estate | Infrastrutture | Impianti | Campioni
Saggi: Benedetta Cestelli Guidi, L’immagine e la montagna: la lunga durata di una possibile astrazione | Francesco Bergamo, Mountain Song | Stefano Munarin, Alla ricerca del paesaggio che vogliamo essere | Antonio De Rossi, La strada delle Dolomiti, quintessenza della modernità alpina | Davide Maffei, L'eredità del pensiero di Edoardo Gellner | Giovanni La Varra, Un futuro a venire. Arcipelago Cortina | Fondazione Cortina 2021: Dialogo con Valerio Giacobbi, Marco Follador / Nicola Menardi, Susanna Sieff
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The Walking Mountain
Clalamita/à, The Walking Mountain
Self published, 2016
Edition of 300
Edited by Gianpaolo Arena e Marina Caneve
Book design by SYB
Text by Calamita/à & Olivia Casagrande, François Hartog, Emiliano Oddone
30 × 23 cm
148 pages
Photography by Andrea Alessio, Gianpaolo Arena, Sergio Camplone, Marina Caneve, Céline Clanet, Scott Connarroe, François Deladerriere, Marco Lachi, Michela Palermo, WOM – Max Rommel & Marissa Morelli, Gabriele Rossi, Petra Stavast, Jan Stradtman, Zuijderwijk/Vergouwe, Cyrille Weiner, Giaime Meloni
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