September 10, 2014

In Casso, Friday September the 12th, the exhibit meteor in the garden (meteor in ambient) is launched. The opening concert will involve the cellist luca magariello and willy merz. Meteori in the Garden is an Exposition of visual arts and contemporary music which the Merz Foundation of Turin has been histing for seven years, by now. It is an important appointment, during which some of the best Italian visual artists meet contemporary composers and musicians with an international profile. The musical schedule is curated by Willy Merz, nephew of the great artist Mario Merz, and President of the Merz Foundation.This
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August 31, 2014

Jeremy Laffon is one of the artists involved in the Piano-alto project, which is contained in the cultural-artistic exchange platform Piano. Jeremy has spent the past three weeks in Dolomiti Contemporanee‘s residences of Casso and Borca di Cadore, working to two artistic projects that will be completed during the next few weeks.Jeremy‘s work has essentially consisted of the construction of a series of relationships of meaning between his own experience and practice as an artist and the socio-cultural and environmental contexts of Casso and Borca. In both cases, the artist has worked directly on the identity of the territory and the
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July 29, 2014

Dolomiti Contemporanee expands  international collaborations.the Real Academia de España en Roma is a new cultural partner in DC.the 3rd  august 2014, the spanish artist Begona Zubaro willl go in residence in Villaggio Eni of Borca di Cadore, where are going first french artists of piano
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July 21, 2014

On Tuesday July the 22nd, at 9:30 pm, at the Merz Foundation of Tourin, will take place the performance “Something uncovered can’t be covered again”, by Michael Fliri.The event is part of “Il meteorite in giardino 7″. The Merz foundation is a partner of DC: “il meteorite” will be launched next September the 12th, in
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July 19, 2014

the international artistic contest “twocalls“ is now part of the “Piano” operating system: the D.C.A., french art centres association, is reintroducing it to the beyond-the-Alps
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July 10, 2014

The cover of artribune magazine‘s summer issue  was given to DC, with the title viaggio in Italia (i.e.: journey in Italy). The photo is an orgy of nature, in which the Dolomitic jungle, out of control, cannibalistic, literally devours one of Edoardo Gellner‘s 280 cottages, which are found inside the former eni village of Borca di Cadore, the new big experimental “constuction site” that DC is launching. Inside the magazine, an interview with Gianluca D’Incà Levis, curator of  the project. Soon the dedicated website for Borca will be on-line at
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June 24, 2014

New article by Massimo Mattioli about Dolomiti Contemporanee published on cult veneziepost Saturday, 21st of July 2014. read the article in English
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June 15, 2014

On the 12th of June, the International Artistic Contest that will involve the Vajont area, location of the Vajont tragedy of 1963, has been launched.The Contest undertakes the task of finding, from now to the end of October, two artworks of public art, that will be realized on two emblematic places that to this day represent Tragedy and death: the Vajont Dam and the southern façade of the former elementary school of Casso, now Nuovo Spazio di Casso.The Contest has a very qualified Jury, and is supported by around twenty institutional partners, and by some private partners; among them,
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June 9, 2014

Grappa Nonino is one of the new partners of Dolomiti Contemporanee which, from 2012, ever since the re-launching of the Nuovo Spazio di Casso, has spread its action in the Friulan territory, where the web of the project’s supporters is extending itself more and more each day.Grappa Nonino is an innovative company in Italy and in the world, in terms of product, example and strength. The working culture is made of knowledge, passion, experimental drive, innovation, quality and dedication.Grappa Nonino is, therefore ,also an important producer of meaning, a producer of culture. That is why, from now on, it
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May 14, 2014

On the number 64 (may-august 2014) of the TICCIH Bulletin an article by Simona Politini about dolomiti contemporanee revitalizing the industrial heritage through contemporary art. The TICCIH is the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage, an organization active worldwide to preserve and enhence the industrial heritage.  read the article here
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cristopher (for an ungulate curatorship)

June the 9th 2015
suddenly, as soon as lee was buried, the new vampire raised (blessed kid: he sucks even when there’s nothing to suck): cristopher.
Also known as christo.
His mum, whom I’ve known for a year, and knows me very well too, isn’t coming back.
A first-time-birther abandonment? I don’t know, I don’t know anything at that point.
I begin to learn the first things about deers in that exact moment.
I’m the curator, absorbed by many cultural and artistic projects, I don’t have time for anything else.
But I live in these woods (in borca di cadore, inside the former eni village).
And here, for at least 10 months, I’ve been feeding the fox, in the exact spot where he’s now lays on his belly.

 

If, then, at the end of that first day, I’d decided not to take him in, the little one would never have reached the second one.
Thus, for those who believe in life, and not death, there wasn’t a choice to make, but rather a thing to do.
All the other peculiar knowledge (and ingnorance) come AFTER.
All that knowledge and ignorance, of those who have felt the need to explain to me (often without knowing anything about it) what is nature and what is animal, was going to come after death, in this case:
These claims where belated, short-sighted, and even irresponsible.
Nature isn’t certainty of death, but possibility of life.
Reality isn’t a scheme, or a notion.
And history is an action (in duration: few historians know this: few historians are in-action).
In this particular story, when faced with the factual truth that I have now summarised, every other consideration is secondary, schematic, childish.
Life is an adjective, wild in an adjective.
The choice is care. Curatorship.

We will tell the whole story, eventually, further down the line, and we’ll tell it well.
And we could call it: a way of curating.
Seeing as it won’t be a cute bambi tale.
(there are more than enough little, trivial books on animals and woods, we’re on the other side, the opposite one).
Rather, it will be an essay on war. The war of fixed opinions.
A metaphor of curatorship, of an idea of curatorship.
We’re working on it.
But, like always, this will, too, is up to Cristopher.
Who is, now, nine months old.

gianluca d’incà levis, march 2016, borca di cadore