Pass the Alps

DI-Se Artoteca moves outside with the third edition of the DI-Se outdoor exhibitions.

PASS THE ALPS

The great traveling exhibition that tells of overcoming borders, of explorations, crossings and smugglers. The Alps are the most important mountain range in Europe, they draw the borders of Italy, Switzerland, France, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, Slovenia. They have always been crossed, climbed, flown over and explored, a crossing point for people, ideas, goods and traditions. Today the idea of border is increasingly linked to that of barrier, of limit (from the Latin word limes: if you think about it, the limes par excellence was that between the Roman world and the Germanic world of the "barbarians"). Borders, on the other hand, from cum + finis, literally the place where we end up together, transform and transform us, are made to be crossed, overcome, violated, welcomed. They become a frontier, a fundamental space where one meets the other, an opening that creates an opening, a connection, a passage. It is from this idea that the traveling exhibition "Passare le Alpi" kicks off, open from Saturday 30 July to Sunday 28 August in the historic centers of Macugnaga (VB), at the foot of Monte Rosa, and in the Ponte di Formazza hamlet, in the homonymous valley, extreme northern tip of Piedmont that wedges into Switzerland. A path built entirely in the open, thanks to the reproductions of the works on large panels exhibited in the villages involved, and dedicated to highways of communication, the Alpine passes, means of transport and travelers between Val d'Ossola and Canton Valais. 28 illustrators and artists: Bahar Avanoglu, Sara Bernardi, Davide Bonazzi, Matteo Capobianco - Ufo5, Nicolò Canova, Maya Christensen, Chiara Dattola, Enrico De Paris, Lorenzo Duina, Caterina Ferrante, Elisabeth Fux, Silvia Fux, Giulia Gentilcore, Caterina Gomirato, Bernd Kniel, Andrea Legnaioli, Irene Lupia, Elisa Macellari, Paolo Metaldi, Pinaki, Ale Puro, Chiara Raineri, Luca Soncini, Alena T, Daniela Tieni, Ilaria Urbinati, Elisa Vendramin, Helga Zumstein. They worked on multiple and different themes: landscapes of the passes between Ossola and Valais, the Vigezzina railway, the Simplon tunnel, Geo Chavez and the first crossing of the Alps, someggiatura (the transport of goods with mules and beasts of burden), stagecoaches to horse and post on the Simplon, emigration from Vigezzo and chimney sweeps, smugglers. In parallel and in dialogue with contemporary works, Enrico Rizzi, historian of the Alps, has selected a series of nineteenth-century prints from the Romantic age that reflect on the same themes. Works by Bartlett, Blechen, Gozzi, Guérard, Hering, Jentsch, Koch, Koller, Lory Fils, Ruskin are exhibited. "Passare le Alpi" was born within the Interreg Italy-Switzerland project "Di-Se - DiSegnare il Territory", three years dedicated to drawing and art by Associazione Musei d'Ossola, Museumzentrum La Caverna di Naters and Asilo Bianco Association. The activities of the third year of "Di-Se" are dedicated to moving in the mountains. The catalog of “Passare le Alpi”, the third in the series after “Herbarium Vagans” and “Defending from above”, collects all the works and accompanies them with texts dedicated to the themes narrated in images by the artists. It will be freely distributed in the municipalities involved. The exhibition, according to its itinerant nature, will arrive in September in Omegna, the city of Gianni Rodari on Lake Orta, and in winter in Naters, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. Many of the original works are already part of the rich catalog of the Di-Se Artoteca, a space created to promote the home loan of original works of art | artotecadise.it

Inauguration Saturday 30 July, 11 am, Formazza (VB) - Dorf Platz, center of the Ponte district, 5 pm, Macugnaga (VB) - from the town hall square to the Dorf district.