From Dec. 1, 2024 to Feb. 16, 2025, the Borgo di Vigoleno will host the contemporary art exhibition
Emergenze (Emergence)
When: Dec. 1, 2024 – Feb. 16, 2025, Saturdays 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (last admission) – Sundays and holidays: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (last admission)
Where: Borgo di Vigoleno, castle tower
Giuditta Vendrame‘s exhibition is developed within the project Prospettive. In itinere – Artist Residencies in Emilia Romagna promoted by the Bologna-based exhibition space Adiacenze.
Giuditta Vendrame is an Italian artist, based in Rotterdam. Her multidisciplinary and collaborative research practice explores space and mobility on different scales by highlighting the social and political design behind them, in order to imagine them differently. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Deutsches Historisches Museum and others.
Giuditta Vendrame dedicated herself to researching the Vigoleno and Vernasca area during a week-long residency in October, in which she came into direct contact with the area and its inhabitants.
What particularly fascinated her was the spur of “Pietra Nera,” a rock of underwater volcanic origin that sprouts in the landscape of the Stirone stream valley, which is also visible from the Mastio Tower of Vigoleno Castle. This rock still witnesses the presence of the sea that covered the area millions of years ago, as do the many fossil-rich marine sediments visible in the Piacenzano Nature Reserve and the Geological Museum in Castell’Arquato. Giuditta Vendrame worked on a series of works on paper inspired by the “Black Stone” displayed in the South Tower of Vigoleno Castle along with preparatory sketches, drawings and collages that tell the research process. The room is thus transformed into an observatory on the landscape.
