“Autonomy is an art – Autonomie ist eine Kunst” (L’Autonomia è un’arte – Autonomie ist eine Kunst) will be on display from 5 to 28 April 2024 at the ancient Hospice of San Floriano (Klösterle).
The artistic event was born from the project “The Region outside the glass” promoted by the Regional Councilor Waltraud Deeg to offer everyone the opportunity to admire and enjoy Art through the heritage of works collected over the years by the Region, combining naturalistic, anthropological elements and technological.
“We want to conceive the Region as a network with the capacity for gathering, bonding, belonging, a network of Municipalities, an expanded place of training – explained Deeg – it is a Community Development project aimed at knowledge and valorisation of the Region Trentino Alto Adige, through the artistic heritage of the Institution, to recover and strengthen a territorial and historical identity that can become belonging”.
(IN PHOTO: the Artistic Curator Giuseppe Tasin helps set up the exhibition).
The exhibition “Autonomy is an art – Autonomie ist eine Kunst” (L’Autonomia è un’arte – Autonomie ist eine Kunst) is therefore organized by the Region through the Artistic Curator Giuseppe Tasin, curator of the artistic heritage of the Autonomous Region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, in collaboration with the Municipality of Egna (BZ) and the young but very active in the field of collaboration of the Arts, Social and intercultural Cultural Association Kunst Grenzen-Arte di frontiera aps based in Rovere’ della Luna (TN, IT-38030).
The theater chosen for the precious exhibition of Trentino art is the ancient structure of the Hospice of San Floriano (Klösterle), built at the foot of Mount Madrutta to offer accommodation to pilgrims who set out on their direct journey throughout the Middle Ages until the 14th century towards the Holy See of Rome.
The path, before the “recent” reclamation of the plain, was long and difficult to get around the swamps and one of the possible routes was the one that connected Bolzano to Laghetti di Egna and then required another day’s travel, often on foot, to be able to reach the city of Trento.
The Hospice of St. Florian (Klösterle) is a Romanesque work begun in 1220 AD. and finished around 1300 AD. and today represents one of the few pilgrim hospices entirely preserved in Europe.
The structure began to fall into disuse with the opening of the Egna Market, attracting pilgrims to the new inns, but as late as 1494 AD. however, it maintained its importance, such that the famous German painter, engraver, mathematician and treatise writer Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528, Nuremberg, Germany), considered the greatest exponent of German Renaissance painting, stayed there overnight before making a stop towards the city of Venice. This is why today, in place of the ancient pilgrimage route, there is the Dürer path which, passing through Molti above Salorno, leads to the earth pyramids of Segonzano in Val di Cembra (Trentino).
The San Floriano Hospice (Klösterle) is therefore the prestigious and historic venue of the exhibition “Autonomy is an art – Autonomie ist eine Kunst” ((L’Autonomia è un’arte – Autonomie ist eine Kunst) which can be visited by the wider public from 5 to 28 April.
(IN THE FOLLOWING TWO PHOTOS: the artists of the cultural association Kunst Grenzen-Arte di frontier aps Ilario Dalvit, Gentile Polo and Claudio Cavalieri help the Artistic Curator Giuseppe Tasin in setting up the exhibition “Autonomy is an art – Autonomie ist eine Kunst” at the Hospice of San Floriano (Klösterle) at the Laghetti di Egna).
Among the artists on display, the precious embossed sculptures by Natale Camin, Cirillo Grott, Livio Conta can be admired in the chapel, as well as the paintings by Lucia Sardagna and Paolo Ober; in the semi-underground room the works of Eleonora Mazzaferro, Enrico Zanoni, Fiorenzo Benedetti, Fulvio Cipriani, Giovanni Pergola, Luciana Zecchini, Paolo Lorenzi, Roberto Zendri, Mugdin Cehaic, Sarah Mutinelli are exhibited, as well as the installations “TAA (Trentino-Alto Adige) ” by Claudio Cavalieri and “Beyond the border” which sees the collaboration of artists representing the two provinces (Trentina and Alto Atesina) Gentile Polo and Ilario Dalvit.
The upper rooms of the main building instead host the sculptures of Othmar Winkler, Rinaldo Cigolla, Ignaz Gabloner, the Raku ceramics of Alessandra Tambara and Roberta Zanghellini, as well as important paintings by local and international artists such as Giuseppe Dallabrida, Mario Disertori, Methodio Ottolini, Egon Rusina, Remo Wolf, Agostino Tulumello, Nena Cont, Giovanni Maino, Elena Gramola, Otto Furlani, Giuseppe Sannicol, Paola Gabrielli, Giancarlo Tommasini, Gentile Polo, Tullio Bernard, Cesarina Campi, Paolo Suppan, Zita Ritossa, Giorgio Grai, Uras Marins , Giovanni Maino, Conrad Bergmann, Alberto Graziadei, Pietro Verdini, Renata di Palma, Mili Schmalzl, Annamaria Adessi, Paolo Frizzera, Ernesto Piccoli, Bruno Fanton, G. Schirella, Hubert Mumelter, Gottfried Moroder, Arrigo Svaizer, Ilario Dalvit, Giuliano Povoli , Luigi Marcon, Carlo Kostner, Guido Mattuzzi, Gianpaolo Borgogno, Giuseppe Barina, Emanuel Fohn, Pio Marchel, Maria Antonietta Jung, Regele Rolf, Federica Galli, Lia Levi, Laura Zilocchi, Vittorio Casetti, Rita Vivor, Rita Savino, Sandro Ramani, Fortunato Depero, Elisabeth Frei, Renato Venturini, Margaret Nella, Letizia Jellici, Renato Sclaunich, as well as some anonymous ones.
The inauguration of the event “Autonomy is an art – Autonomie ist eine Kunst” (L’Autonomia è un’arte – Autonomie ist eine Kunst) will take place at the Hospice of San Floriano (Klösterle) in Laghetti di Egna (BZ, IT-39040 Via San Floriano) on Friday 5 April from 6.00 pm in the presence of all the authorities and organizers, while the exhibition will continue until 28th April with the following public opening times (Uhrzeit der Ausstellung):
Friday – Saturday – Sunday: 1pm – 5pm
Exceptional opening Thursday 25 April: 1pm – 5pm
For further information you can call +39 0471 810231 or write to: info@castelfelder.info
(Art. Lucia Martorelli, Gentile Polo Art Studio and Kunst Grenzen-Arte di frontiera aps)