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The 'Living Rocks of Sardinia' on show in Warsaw
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The ‘Living Rocks of Sardinia’ on show in Warsaw

Categories: Culture and creativity -Visual Arts -Archaeology and Heritage
An open-air cathedral where nature reproduces itself.
Rocce viventi. Immagine tratta dal sito dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Varsavia
Rocce viventi. Immagine tratta dal sito dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Varsavia

The Italian Cultural Institute of Warsaw is presenting Beppe Fumagalli’s photographic exhibition ‘The Living Rocks of Sardinia’ from 8 July to 18 August.

Between 2020 and 2021, at the height of the pandemic, Beppe Fumagalli took refuge between Capo Pecora and Scivu, in one of the wildest areas of the west coast of Sardinia. And in that moment of absolute isolation, he felt the mute but living presence of stone beside him. Presented as a sequence of black-and-white stone portraits, the exhibition is the account of a visionary journey through the extraordinary rock formations that emerged in the Cambrian era (600 million years ago), which over the millennia have been shaped by water and wind in the image and likeness of the living world. An open-air cathedral where nature reproduces itself, fixing in stone its metaphors, its cycles, the impenetrable and grandiose sense of its trajectories.

Beppe Fumagalli, journalist, and OGGI correspondent since 2007, has travelled the world with notebook in his pocket and camera around his neck. From Bergamo, where he was born, he immediately moved to Milan and from there to London, New York and California. He lived in Dubai, and for six years in West Africa between Ghana, Togo and Nigeria. He first came to Sardinia in 1970, when he was a child, and has never stopped loving it ever since.

The exhibition, curated by Roberta Vanali, produced by Cristian Castelnuovo‘s Cagliari Photographic Centre and post-produced by the Roberto Berné Laboratory in Legnano, is accompanied by a scientific paper by geologists from Cagliari University.

More information at: iicvarsavia.esteri.it.

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