Dolomites. A preserved landscape

A book and an exhibition by Marsilio Arte in co-edition with the Veneto Region.

An archipelago of peaks complex and majestic, as imposing as it is fragile, that draws the gaze to amazement, wonder, and enchantment: these are the Dolomites.

• The word as geography of experience.
  To complete the visual narrative, the words of Antonio G. Bortoluzzi do not illustrate, but tell. And in the storytelling, the landscape becomes experience

The exhibition is a symphony in two voices: on one side, the photography of Manuel Cicchetti, capable of listening to the landscape more than representing it; on the other, the writing of Antonio G. Bortoluzzi, which restores to the valleys and peaks of the Dolomites their dimension of storytelling, of history, of civilization. Together, they build a cultural device that questions our way of looking at the mountain — and more generally the Italian landscape — at a time when everything seems to reduce to surface and consumption.

• Photography as a form of listening
  In Cicchetti's images, the mountain is stripped of all rhetoric. No postcard seduction, no grandeur of a tourist poster. Each shot is an act of attention.
  The images are the result of a patient and thoughtful work, built over a year of shots in the nine sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Dolomites, a journey through the seasons, the silences, the light, and the invisible imprint of humanity.

Widespread exhibition visitable in these venues: Museum of Modern Art Mario Rimoldi, Alexander G. Hall, Libreria Sovilla, Grand Hotel Savoia, Paoletti di Follina 1795, Magamaison