Finis Valtellinae? The identity of the Valtellina in contemporary art

Finis Valtellinae? Provocative questions about the persistence of the idea of ​​identity and the future, therefore reflect a, and artistically transform, on the roots and essence of the concept of identity, between now become a precarious general condition, rhetoric also, and uncertainty about developments of existing common as a typical characteristic of our times. Not only that but provocation stimulus creative and cultural, beyond self-celebration and ceremony, but also discarding a critical end itself, to rethink and rebuild together a living sense of shared experience and its identity traits, between the urban landscape and everyday microscene, models between returnees and new languages ​​territorial. Valtellina art and read art. Inside and outside the Valtellina same.

Fine which limit. End which border. Door and gate, and host defense. Plurality of meanings and values. Con-fine. Common purpose, participated. (Giacomo Maria Prati – Paolo Lesino)

Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition "Finis Valtellinae? The identity of the Valtellina in contemporary art " (10 June – 6 August 2011) at Praetorian Palace, Sondrio.

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