An Itinerary in Contemporary Sculpture, curated by Gabriele Lorenzoni and organized by the Mart (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto) in partnership with the Museum Ladin Ciastel de Tor in San Martino in Badia and the Doris Ghetta Gallery in Ortisei.
Wood sculptures by the most up-to-date and original contemporary Ladin masters are on display this summer at the Trento Civic Gallery (June 2 through September 17, 2017) in an exhibition with a trilingual title, in Italian, Ladino and German: Legno | Lën | Holz. An Itinerary in Contemporary Sculpture, curated by Gabriele Lorenzoni and organized by the Mart (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto) in partnership with the Museum Ladin Ciastel de Tor in San Martino in Badia and the Doris Ghetta Gallery in Ortisei. The exhibition, open daily except Mondays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. (with two-euro admission and free for Mart Membership, children under 14, and every first Sunday of the month), showcases works by fifteen artists, among the most influential in contemporary wood sculpture, belonging to different generations, and all trained in Val Gardena, but almost always strong in high-level international experience as well. This is, moreover, the first exhibition in Italy dedicated to contemporary wood sculpture: the primary objective is to present what to all intents and purposes is, as we read in the presentation, an art form that has landed “in its own right in contemporary art,” of which it represents “a minority but authoritative voice, capable of garnering increasing interest and attention from critics, museums and collectors, both public and private,” and which sees in the Gardena school its point of excellence. The most innovative production of contemporary Ladin sculptors, which often arrives at surprising and unexpected results, is shown to the public through a selection centered around research on the human figure: there are about forty works on display, all made with the manual technique of wood carving and many of which are new works made especially for the Trentino exhibition.