The tour can begin with the works of Adolf Vallazza (Ortisei, 1924), one of the first artists to depart from strict tradition: an acknowledged and celebrated master (he has also exhibited in Venice at Ca’ Pesaro, in Florence at Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, at the GAM in Turin and boasts a solo show at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara; moreover, several of his works are in collections around the world), Vallazza sees wood almost as a living being, and his research has undergone various phases and changes of direction, from a more markedly expressionist beginning through a transitional phase in which the figures were broken down, recalling the manner of the Cubists, to an abstraction that is nonetheless never entirely detached from reality and is endowed with a strong spiritual charge.
The tour can begin with the works of Adolf Vallazza (Ortisei, 1924), one of the first artists to depart from strict tradition: an acknowledged and celebrated master (he has also exhibited in Venice at Ca’ Pesaro, in Florence at Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, at the GAM in Turin and boasts a solo show at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara; moreover, several of his works are in collections around the world), Vallazza sees wood almost as a living being, and his research has undergone various phases and changes of direction, from a more markedly expressionist beginning through a transitional phase in which the figures were broken down, recalling the manner of the Cubists, to an abstraction that is nonetheless never entirely detached from reality and is endowed with a strong spiritual charge. In the exhibition it is possible to find other artists who belong to the generations of the early “experimenters,” such as Livio Conta (Monclassico, 1939), present with a work created this year, and Hermann Josef Runggaldier (Ortisei, 1948), a sculptor capable of establishing a sense of strong intimacy with the observer of his works that investigate man’s relationship with his own way of being in modern times.