5 august ’23 – nuovo spazio di casso – Of forests and water opening

Of Forests and Waters
New Venue of Casso
August 5 – December 31, 2023

an analytical and poietic apparatus of Contemporary Dolomites on some desired, and ongoing, transformations of the Dolomite territory

Opening of the exhibitions: Saturday, August 5, 6 p.m.

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Exhibitions:

Forest Neoformations
a contemporary art collective
curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis

The Critical Forest (Radical Renewal)
a series of transformative projects for the territory:

Anatomy and dynamics of a territory
edited by G. D’Incà Levis, T. De Toni, S. Collarin, G. Barrera
a photographic-critical exhibition with the Bauer School of Milan
that maps the territorial transformations related to Olympiad Milan-Cortina 2026
In collaboration with: University of Padua, Bauer School of Photography of Milan, AFOL Metropolitana

The Alien Forest / Alien Forest
curated by G. D’Incà Levis, A. Di Raimo, T. De Toni, S. Collarin, G. Barrera
In collaboration with:  Portsmouth School of Architecture – University of Portsmouth

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now in casso

For summer/autumn 2023, Dolomiti Contemporanee is proposing two exhibitions at the New Space in Casso, both centered on the guiding theme Of Forests and Waters.

In general, since DC reopened the former Casso Schools together with the Municipality of Erto and Casso and other partners (September 2012), the exhibitions have offered alternating content.
A contemporary art exhibition has often been followed the following year by an exhibition that has included content of another nature, often related to the themes of research and design on Landscape and Heritage, and their regeneration, in a transformative vision of the Vajont area.

These are some of the main themes that DC works on in all the sites where we are active, together with the Research Institutes we collaborate with (Universities, Schools, other Institutions, companies), often creating relationships between the sites themselves, in an aggregative logic of openness and dissemination, of visions as well as practices.
We can define this approach as a critical geography program for Interconnected Landscapes (Alpine Archipelago).

In 2022, the exhibition Who Killed Bambi?, featured 96 artists.
A large group show of international scope, chock full of stimuli, ideas, research, territorial investigations, plastic intelligence, related to the identity, resources, insipiences, of the contemporary mountain. In 2023, the Casso Space will host two exhibitions, different and linked by the guiding theme, Of Forests and Of Waters.
The contemporary art exhibition, Forest Neoformations, will be housed on the two upper floors, and will see some 20 artists grapple with the proposed themes through the mediums proper to the contemporary (painting, sculpture, installation, video).

On the other hand, the research developed on the territory with universities and other Schools, will find its place on the two lower levels of the Exhibition Space, and will be divided into several subsections.
Title of this exhibition The Critical Forest (Radical Renewal). The subsections are: Alien Forest (Alien Forest) and Anatomy and Dynamics of a Territory.

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the contemporary art exhibition:

for(a)est(hetics) Neoformations
a collective exhibition of Dolomiti Contemporanee
curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis
New Space of Casso
August 5 – December 31, 2023

Exhibiting artists: Marta Allegri, Ariele Bacchetti, Lorenzo Barbasetti di Prun (Prometheus Open Food Lab), Giorgio Barrera, Nuvola Camera, Fabiano De Martin Topranin, Nicola Facchini, Silvia Listorti, Marco Mastropieri, Corinne Mazzoli, Vanja Mervič, Francesco Ronchi, Caterina Erica Shanta, Alan Silvestri, Silvia Vendramel, Xueqing Zhu

Table of Forests and Waters (Cadavre Exquis): Ariele Bacchetti, Luisa Badino, Mattia Barbieri, Giulia Maria Belli, Giorgia Cereda, Nicola Facchini, Riccardo Giacomini, Silvia Giordani, Anna Marzuttini, Marco Mastropieri, Sebastiano Pallavisini, Filippo Rizzonelli, Alan Silvestri, Riccardo Vicentini

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A selection of more than twenty artists is installed on the two upper floors of the New Space in Casso. The themes of forest and water are treated through painting, sculpture, installation, and video.
All a stream between the round concrete columns, we intercept a small leak that descends into the Space from the flat roof, that drop on the black rubber on the ground imprints the crush that insect sole.